Higher Education

The university is still working on network outages after shutting down its systems in late February in response to a security incident. Officials are unsure if personal information was compromised.

Northern Essex Community College in Massachusetts shut down its Haverhill and Lawrence campuses Monday while it worked with law enforcement and conducted a full systems audit to assess the damage.

Starting in September, ed-tech companies that handle programs funded by Title IV, such as student recruitment, will be subject to reporting and audit requirements established by the U.S. Department of Education.

Three HBCUs in Virginia will receive nearly $10 million in federal funding from the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program to close the digital divide and provide students with additional tech job training.

As part of a paid partnership with the company, star gymnast Oliva Dunne recently promoted the use of Caktus AI to help students automate their classwork. LSU warned students to be careful how they use AI tools.

The State Board of Higher Education has yet to make a decision on whether or not to ban access to the social media app on college networks, but students and staff say they're aware of the information security concerns.

A private liberal arts college in New York has added five new technology-oriented hybrid learning programs including cybersecurity, data analysis, web design, game development and digital marketing.

Adam Garry, senior director of education strategy at Dell, says in a Q&A that schools could better prepare students by developing an ideal portrait of a graduate and moving to portfolio assessments instead of tests.

The State University of New York's Adirondack campus says the first Black woman to graduate from its cybersecurity program will do so this year. It's a field that has historically included few women and Black students.

University officials say they've identified the recent problem with Internet connectivity across campus, and they have no evidence it was due to a cybersecurity incident or that personal information has been compromised.

The university is still without network services after shutting them down last week due to a possible cyber attack, leaving students without access to study materials and forcing professors to reach out on Facebook.

Colleges and universities in Pennsylvania have partnered with technology and aviation companies, engineering firms and other industry leaders to fill vacant positions in direly understaffed fields like cybersecurity.

A public tribal land-grant community college in Minnesota will use federal grant money to upgrade Internet service and security, learning software and computers, and provide service plans for students on and off campus.

Iowa's public universities are issuing guidance, forming committees, crafting assignments and churning out research on how best to take advantage of ChatGPT and how to guard against its limitations and potential harms.

An all-female Catholic high school in Ohio is trying to give its students a leg up in health sciences with immersive 3D virtual reality software that visualizes the human body at different scales and positions.

Stanislaus State is bringing networks back online after shutting them down last week due to suspicious activity, which caused major disruption across campus. It's still investigating and has not specified what happened.

Northern Essex Community College is one of seven in Massachusetts to participate in a pilot program giving students access to digital textbooks, courseware, and materials on the Lumen Learning platform.

Some students thought it was callous of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion to use ChatGPT to write an email about community and understanding in the wake of a shooting at Michigan State University.