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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.
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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.
How can higher ed fix troubling gaps in student support?
There exists a significant gap in critical student support services for at-risk and minority students at their institutions, according to a survey from Blackboard Inc., conducted in consultation with Qualtrics.
How to choose the best third-party solution provider for your school
More institutions are turning to third-party payment solution providers for processing and PCI compliance, which is a set of guidelines businesses must follow to protect customers and cardholders as credit card transactions are processed.
Leveraging digital testing to build student confidence
Year after year and in study after study, we see the same thing: Confident students are better students. But, as one student pointed out in a 2019 survey, that confidence is easily shaken.
Post-pandemic, where do education leaders go?
Education institutions have remained admirably fluid over the past year and a half through the rollercoaster of remote and hybrid learning and teaching environments–scaling systems, devices, and processes for a learn-from-anywhere structure.
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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.
