Today's campuses are complex ecosystems of sensitive financial data that can be difficult to secure, and higher ed institutions have increasingly become targets for hackers and cybercriminals. Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards were developed to regulate security measures for merchants that process, store, or transmit credit or debit card transactions. Compliance is not optional, and […]

Indiana’s public colleges and universities are slated to increase tuition and fees over the biennium—up to 4.9% per year—despite pushback from some state lawmakers and budget officials. CHE commissioner Chris Lowery emphasized that at Indiana’s public four-year colleges, in-state tuition and mandatory fee rates fell by an average of 2.1% annually over the last decade—the […]

A university janitor accidentally turned off a super cold laboratory freezer after repeated “annoying alarms,” resulting in the destruction of $1 million worth of scientific research, according to a lawsuit filed in the New York. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a private research university in Troy, New York, is suing Daigle Cleaning Systems after one of its […]