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North Park University and the University of Illinois Springfield are expanding their workforce-focused virtual offerings, consistent with a trend in higher education to fill jobs by meeting students where they are.
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Information and security officers from Oregon educational institutions shared insight on making people within their organizations more cognizant of cybersecurity and developing appropriate cyber defense strategies.
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Amid all the possibilities and ethical questions raised by the growing trove of artificial intelligence tools at the disposal of professors and students, the technology's true impact will depend on how they use it.
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A community college in California was hit by a cyber attack two days before the start of its fall semester. Most of its systems and services are back online, and a third-party firm is conducting a forensic investigation.
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The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free speech advocacy group, has dinged the University of Massachusetts Lowell for banning students from sending or viewing "offensive" material online.
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Focused on autonomous vehicle research, the University of Maine's Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction Lab created a ride-hailing app that assists older adults and visually impaired passengers.
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After discovering last month that ransomware had infiltrated its information systems, a private Christian university in Washington is still investigating the incident and adding new layers of security.
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The NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars program challenged community college students to design a mission to the moon or Mars, including cost calculation, engineering work and studying the surface.
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The university’s Media and Innovation Lab worked with digital mental health company Neolth on a platform that assesses students, then customizes curricula and suggests resources according to their mental health needs.
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As part of a consortium of research facilities overseen by the U.S. Department of Energy, a new Regional Test Center will study technologies that can increase electrical generation from photovoltaic systems.
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For fiscal year 2021, UC San Diego and San Diego State University used $1.64 billion in research funding to integrate different sources of energy into power grids, to improve lab tech on research vessels and to study COVID-19.
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The U.S. Department of Education is wiping out debt for 208,000 former students of the for-profit ITT Technical Institute, which shut down in 2016 after misleading about job placement, accreditation and other matters.
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Recognized at the AWS IMAGINE 2022 event in Seattle earlier this month, the AWS Education Champions’ first cohort includes infrastructure and IT managers, cloud engineers, program directors and administrators.
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A survey from the Texas-based tech company SecureLink shows that educational institutions are struggling to manage or monitor third-party technology vendors that have access to student data.
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Germanna Community College and the University of Mary Washington in Virginia are exploring the potential for college preparatory laboratory schools focused on subjects such as business technology and cyber training.
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Since its launch in 2021, a network of educators, experts and IT security advocates has become a forum for dozens of institutions to learn from one another and establish their own cybersecurity training "clinics."
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Colleges and universities across the U.S. are seeing declining enrollment, but digital engagement tools could be part of attracting a generation of digital natives, meeting them where they are, 24/7, in any time zone.
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Recent federal legislation gives the National Science Foundation $10 billion to create roughly 20 regional technology hubs, which could mean STEM funding and scholarships for institutions like Columbus State University.
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Former television news reporter Danny Rubin created an online curriculum of assignments, videos and quizzes focused on writing and speaking, used by more than 100,000 K-12 and college students in 35 states.
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Working with ed-tech companies like Full Measure Education, universities are crowdsourcing photos and videos on social media to build virtual campus tours, supplementing information packets that cost thousands to mail.
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The online university will use a grant from the tech industry consortium Reboot Representation Tech Coalition to support more Black, Latina and Indigenous women to complete IT degree programs.
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