Ghost students are viewed primarily as a financial aid problem. In reality, it is an institutional cybersecurity challenge that begins during enrollment and affects every system that depends on digital identity.
Third-party software has become essential to modern university operations, but it has also created new threats. Proper data governance can protect colleges from the next attack.
Engaging in quantum computing is less about betting on a particular future and more about ensuring institutional preparedness for a changing computational landscape.
Scenarios are stories about the future, not predictions, that present what could happen in the future in a way that is coherent, plausible, and consistent.
Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million to restore $750 million in federal funding that was suspended over government allegations of "unlawful discrimination."
Recent economic headwinds and policy changes have led to proposed or enacted cuts to public university and college funding across at least 15 states this year.
