The United University Professions (UUP), SUNY's labor union, has defended funding for public higher education—which has decreased nationwide by about 25 percent since the Great Recession. (Only two states, Alaska and North Dakota, have increased funding.) "Funding impacts classroom sizes, ability for students to afford college—it means that because states aren't investing, there is less […]

As institution leaders plan out campus-wide AV projects, what are the top strategies for successful implementation of maintainable systems? At my institution, we strive to meet three design principles when completing all AV projects: Simplicity: We want a user interface that is easy for faculty and end users to operate with little to no learning […]

In the 1990s, Al Gore warned the public about the consequences of global warming. Though Gore may not have been the father of campus recycling nor the Internet, he and other like minded politicians placed the environmental public policy ball in play within the executive and legislative branches of Federal and State governments. At first, some […]

Payment solution providers were asked: What is the biggest vulnerability you see when it comes to PCI compliance at colleges and universities? "The biggest vulnerability is a lack of awareness across a distributed and diverse environment. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards cover everything related to processing credit card transactions, including software, hardware, networks […]