The Student Freedom Initiative (SFI) announced a new $150 million grant program to help Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) achieve compliance with Federal and state cybersecurity regulations, among other IT modernization initiatives.
Columbus State University (CSU) in Columbus, Ga., announced that it has made significant changes to its IT leadership by appointing both a new CIO and CISO. The university has appointed Theodore Laskaris as CIO and Nicol Lewis as CISO.
The Department of Education has launched an outreach campaign to alert K-12 and higher education students that they are eligible for a monthly discount on broadband internet service.
As part of its campuswide digital transformation efforts, Loyola University New Orleans is partnering with Ellucian, a higher education technology solutions provider.
National University, a California-based nonprofit that caters to adult learners, has turned to an AI-driven chatbot to help improve student retention.
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.
