George Chacko, senior manager for AV services at Pace University in New York, will be speaking at UB Tech® 2019 on “Seasoning Your Online Collaboration With Web and Video Conferencing.”
When Ashley Podhradsky became the first woman to earn her doctorate from Dakota State University in South Dakota in 2010, little did she know the impact she would have nationally on the lives of girls and women in the male-dominated field of cyber sciences. She spent five years at Drexel University in Philadelphia before returning […]
Curtis Carver likes to keep things simple. Not that he isn't invested in the latest technologies, but he says technology should be without roadblocks to the user experience. Toward that end, as vice president and CIO at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Carver spearheaded numerous improvements, including unlimited email, unlimited storage, greatly enhanced connectivity, […]
Recent decisions by the highest courts of two states, California and Massachusetts, offer important guidance as to when a college or university can be held liable for money damages when one student harms another student by an assault, or harms themselves by committing suicide. Although these cases come from states whose courts are among the […]
As a society, we have succeeded in communicating the economic payoff that a college education can offer. At present, the value of lifetime earnings for a person with a bachelor's degree is $500,000 more than a high school graduate. We have not, however, succeeded in helping many of our students understand how to pay for […]
Colorado College launched a popular esports program that competes in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. The Division III team will play “Overwatch” and “League of Legends” video games in the first SCAC conference championship this April. Brian Young, vice president for information technology and chief technology officer at Colorado College, was instrumental in getting the […]
