When it comes to underserved student populations, one group is often left out of the conversation: American Indians and Alaska Natives. The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) has launched a new consortium to address the needs of these populations, powered by a three-year, $990,000 Lumina Foundation grant. Angela Rochat, coordinator for evaluation policy and […]
Sharing resources among campuses makes sense for more than economical reasons, as colleges are finding these opportunities can better serve busy students. Students at neighboring Cornell University and Ithaca College can now borrow materials from the libraries on either campus. It is a natural extension of the institutions' long-standing interlibrary loan program, says Wendy Wilcox, access services librarian at […]
"The company will make an initial investment of $50 million in a new and ongoing education program specifically designed to cover tuition costs for hourly employees—a result of the recently enacted tax reform and representing a total allocation of more than $175 million in this fiscal year." Continue reading. —The Walt Disney Company "Good news: […]
The finalized version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that President Trump signed into law poses less of a perceived threat to higher ed than the bill that passed the House. Proponents say that people who use education-savings accounts will benefit from deductions in student loan interest. Critics, however, predict that the doubling of […]
Like many other institutions, Cornell University participates in an interlibrary loan system for faculty, staff and students. Borrow Direct (borrowdirect.org) went live in 1999 after founding institutions Columbia, Penn and Yale partnered with the Research Libraries Group to develop the program for "Ivy Plus" institutions. Besides the three initial universities and Cornell, participants are Brown, […]
Editor's Note: University Business welcomes the insights and opinions of educators and administrators on all topics. If you would like to contribute a guest column, please contact Tim Goral at [email protected]. Joanne Martin was a witness to and participant in the development of what we know now as the internet. As the former chief information security […]
At the Internet of Things Village of the DEF CON security conference in 2016, hacking contests revealed nearly 50 vulnerabilities in 23 devices from 21 manufacturers. Security flaws were exposed in smart door locks, padlocks, thermostats, refrigerators, wheelchairs and even solar panel arrays—all items that can be found connected to an institution's computer network. Improperly […]
Q: What can higher ed institutions do to best protect themselves from technical vulnerabilities that most people would not expect are vulnerabilities (for example, wireless printers)? "The most important thing organizations can do is ensure they have visibility into every layer of their IT environment—from the network perimeter all the way down to the endpoints. […]
Describe how higher education HR is run today and how it should be run in the future. Brad Saffer: It is very fragmented. There is a unique range of employees in higher education. Within some of these groups—tenured faculty, adjunct staff, administrators and office staff—are both union and nonunion employees. The hiring and onboarding processes […]
When adjunct faculty assembled in November 2017 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, it wasn't for curricula conversation. Instead, after voting to form a union earlier in the year, they were rallying for better pay. The instructors called for more advancement opportunities and greater recognition of their contributions to the institution. Adjuncts made headlines […]
