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How the Patton Building Project Team Applied Computational Design to Overcome Aggressive Inflation

Clark Nesxen

Completed in 2022, Blue Ridge Community College’s Patton Building features an appealing, complex façade designed using computational tools to overcome the pandemic’s rapid price escalation without sacrificing design quality. Computational design is more than a process shift. It has the greatest impact as a change in how we think.

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Creating Pathways for Students in Cybersecurity: The Inspiring Journey of Josiah Alexander

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Josiah Alexander, a computer science major with a concentration in network security at the New York Institute of Technology, serves as an exemplary example of how such pathways can be established. Additionally, his involvement in robotics during middle school further solidified his interest in technology and problem-solving.

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These are the top 10 colleges for cybersecurity education

University Business

Educational institutions are in dire need of cybersecurity professionals as criminal organizations continue to set their sights on the education sector. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently announced the expansion of its cybersecurity education initiative to all 50 states. But what about higher ed?

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Resolving bias: 4 ways higher education can create responsible AI for societal good

University Business

It’s no secret that the commercialization of generative AI tools is deeply impacting higher education. Its ability to reduce workloads to a fraction of what it once was for students and faculty and administrators alike is invigorating forward thinkers to leverage the technology even more.

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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. In this cat-and-mouse game, some computer scientists are working to make AI writers more humanlike, while others are working to improve detection tools. Academic fields make progress in this way.

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K-12 Education: Design Strategies for Successful Magnet Schools

Clark Nesxen

Magnet schools emerged on the K-12 scene as early as the 1960s to establish a public education option that met multiple goals: attracting a diverse student body from across a school district, supporting students with specific interests, and offering equitable opportunities resulting in high levels of academic success.

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AI and Assessment in Student Affairs

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Henning While most people in higher education have likely heard of generative AI, it is useful to start any discussion of it with a brief introduction to what it is and why it is causing such a stir. Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can produce or generate text, images, and audio.