Amid a school year marked by modernizing education technology to enable distance and hybrid learning, Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management had a technology-driven graduation ceremony featuring commencement speeches delivered via hologram.
Mississippi State University (MSU) announced significant changes to the leadership of its Information Technology Services (ITS) team, including creation of a chief technology transformation officer (CTTO).
Learning won’t stop at the end of the spring semester for incoming Clarkson University students.
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is building its first new classroom building since 1967 and is planning on using state-of-the-art technology throughout.
Stanford University and the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) announced they were victimized by the Accellion data breach, joining a growing list of schools. Reports indicate the CLOP ransomware group contacted the universities and demanded $10 million in bitcoin or the attackers would publish the stolen data.
With tax season upon us, the IRS has issued a warning regarding an impersonation email scam targeting university students and staff.
Belmont University has invested more than $2 million in technology upgrades for the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. The upgrades will enable virtual access to the school’s resources whether learning on campus, remotely, or in a hybrid model.
In a move to help support student success, Valdosta State University is partnering with Civitas Learning to more effectively use student data. Valdosta State said the partnership will allow the school to focus “even more on solving challenges and providing resources to students from enrollment to graduation.”
Moving beyond basic online learning, Morehouse College is now offering two classes held in virtual reality (VR) for the spring semester.
Higher education institutions are increasingly facing more sophisticated cyberattacks targeting – not only targeting their networks and private information, but also ongoing university research.
