EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Higher education institutions are vulnerable to cyberthreats because of the valuable data they store, including student records, research and financial information. The open nature of academic environments amplifies the risk. Zero trust is a cybersecurity paradigm shift, operating on the principle of “never trust, always verify” instead of assuming that everything behind the firewall is safe.

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Higher Education Whisperer

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Greetings from the Climate Update 2024 at the Australian National University (ANU) where Genevieve Bell, the new Vice-Chancellor reflected on Nugget Coombs, who took her ten pin bowling. Dr Coombs is better know as one of the founders and early VCs of the ANU.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

An administrator at University of North Carolina at Greensboro is stepping down to protest the way the public institution is going about eliminating 19 academic offerings. In a resignation letter made public, Charles Bolton, associate dean of UNCG’s College of Arts and Sciences and interim head of its anthropology department, accused university officials of not being transparent in how they determined which programs they plan to cut.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

My friend John Hyatt, who has died aged 65 after a long illness, was an artist, musician and educator. John taught for many years at Manchester Metropolitan University, initially as head of fine art, from 1991, before being appointed professor in 1994. While there, he set up Miriad (Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design), since dissolved due to restructuring.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Carnegie Mellon University leaders said the institution was hit by a cyberattack over the summer that impacted more than 7,300 people. The global research university, which is in Pittsburgh and has a student population of about 14,000, revealed the news in a statement last Friday.In the statement, a spokesperson said the university suffered a data breach to its computer system last Aug. 25, potentially compromising the personal information of former and current students, employees, applicants an

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

AI and Assessment in Student Affairs Natasha A. Jankowski and Gavin W. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

America is at a crossroads. Our nation must choose one of two alternative futures. We will either choose to become the world’s first truly multiracial democracy, or we will choose to sustain or even strengthen existing patterns of segregation and inequality. At the center of this national future-choosing is urban public education Dr. Curtis L. Ivery In my recent book, Detroit and the New Political Economy of Public Education (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022), I use Detroit as a national template to exp

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