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Creating safe data and reliable networks on your campus
COVID closed campuses and also gave a boost to cyberthreats to IT networks. As data security breaches–including ransomware attacks, phishing, and unauthorized disclosures–show no sign of slowing, higher-ed IT leaders need to be ready.
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How creating personalized experiences can help colleges retain students
With a sharp two-year decline in undergraduate enrollment and a dropout rate that stands at around 40 percent for four-year institutions, colleges are urgently searching for new and creative ways to retain their students.
Top of Mind: Finding Solutions to Higher Ed’s Biggest Edtech Issues
In the latest episode of Getting There: Innovations in Education: Three tips to help your institution prioritize cybersecurity, staging the best network defense, and new STEM learning strategies.
3 benefits of a strategic partnership
The landscape of higher education is shifting rapidly. The COVID19 pandemic accelerated an already shifting milieu. As colleges and universities seek to dynamically respond to a changing context, there is…
5 reasons password protection is paramount
Although no password is uncrackable, increasing the complexity of the password can make the process more difficult and has proven an effective method for dissuading hackers, ultimately keeping your accounts and information protected. Check out these five tips to inform a more secure password strategy.
Is your campus ready for the bookstore of the future?
Campus bookstores are changing. The traditional bookstore is quickly evolving into one that strives to meet students’ needs and preferences.
Creating the next generation of data scientists
Thanks to algorithms, predictive text, billions and trillions of bytes of data, cookies, and the like, we’re used to searching for a needle in a haystack and Google returning the exact needle we’re looking for. We’ve been tricked by the fallacy that our answer will be in the top 10 results.
Design thinking can help build cross-university partnerships
Discussions of the redesign and reinvention of higher education are abundant. Inspired by the challenges of this past year, leaders across higher education seem preoccupied with two sets of issues: 1. In the short term, how do we address the immediate issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of the public health crisis on our core programs and services? 2. In the long term, how do we rethink the work of our institutions to ensure the viability and relevance of our institutions and promote the common good?
Higher education is facing an equity crisis
Financial mismanagement and the student debt crisis are dominating headlines. The pandemic brought most classrooms off campus and into student, educator, and family homes.
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Modernizing Campus Communications From the Middle: It’s Complicated
College and university IT directors are increasingly finding themselves in a dilemma. They are trying to balance the high-tech aspirations of their students and staff without eclipsing the pace of change that the rest of the organization can assimilate.
