Higher Education
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To turn the disruption of generative artificial intelligence into an opportunity, higher education leaders should focus on four important variables: policy, principles, strategy and collaboration. -
Wichita State University's new Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine and Assistive Technology intends to accelerate the development of new assistive technologies and open clinical trials to rural residents.
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Shippensburg, Kutztown and Pennsylvania Western universities are now using Niche, an online service where prospective students can upload their high school information and test scores in exchange for admissions offers.
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As part of its Connected Learning initiative to help address the digital divide, AT&T donated laptops through the nonprofit Human-I-T to be distributed to pre-selected college students in need.
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An annual competition gives students a chance to earn scholarship money, and industry professionals a chance to find workers and to highlight the national shortage of automotive technicians.
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A private research university in Georgia agreed to pay damages to students and an instructor, as well as implement new data security measures, in order to resolve a lawsuit over a hack in February 2023.
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From hornbooks to projectors, televisions, ARPANET and remote learning, history is full of technological innovations that changed education, and we have something to learn from them.
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As part of its new Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium, the university will offer a first-of-its-kind master’s program to prepare nurses for leadership roles in health care technology.
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Being designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity, the University at Albany offers a scholarship for cybersecurity students willing to work for the Department of Defense after graduation.
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A $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant will help train a cohort of 60 Mississippi State University students to develop artificial intelligence systems capable of analyzing digital images.
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Through an initiative called the Michigan Electric Vehicle Jobs Academy, state leaders reviewed 400 courses at community colleges across Michigan to ensure they meet employer needs for a workforce that can build EVs.
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A webinar this week by the nonprofit CAST explained how AI tools might help students with conditions such as dyslexia, ADHD and autism strengthen critical skills, such as time management, comprehension and communication.
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Major new projects approved last week by the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees include an 80,000-square-foot, four-story applied research lab with space for interdisciplinary research and computing.
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The annual Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis recognized the University of Wisconsin-Stout's Holly Yuan with the Visionary Academic Leadership Award for her work building the university's cybersecurity program.
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Thanks to a new telehealth platform at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, patients with opioid use disorder can administer methadone doses at home while remaining under the supervision of a care team.
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As increasingly sophisticated education tools use AI to do cognitive labor, some professors are concerned that new features are making it harder for teachers to encourage students to use AI in helpful ways.
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The Texas A&M University Space Institute will be a four-story building on 32 acres at the entrance of NASA's Johnson Space Center, with room for robots and vehicles, lab spaces, offices, classrooms and an auditorium.
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Texas A&M University is seeking approval to sell land to nuclear energy companies as a solution to power-supply problems in Texas. It may become the first U.S. university to have a commercial nuclear reactor site license.
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Albuquerque Public Schools and Central New Mexico Community College shifted to online courses Thursday in light of a winter storm warning, while the University of New Mexico canceled classes altogether.
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A Thursday afternoon event at a public university in Oklahoma invited female students to visit stations around campus featuring various STEM subjects, from cybersecurity to nursing.
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Generative AI, cyber threats, TikTok and phone bans are some of the major issues that impacted ed tech in 2024. In the new year, school boards need to determine how to move forward.
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