Campus Technology: Academic Data Breaches Miniscule Compared with Government, Private Industry

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8/6/2013

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iPad Suffers Significant Decline as Android Strengthens Tablet Position
Apple held onto the No. 1 slot among all tablet manufacturers worldwide, but its share continued to slip in the second quarter of 2013 as Samsung, ASUS, Lenovo, and Acer all saw triple-digit gains.
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DOJ Settles with Louisiana Tech over ADA Violations Stemming from Online Homework and Assessment Tool
The United States Department of Justice has settled with Louisiana Tech University and the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System to remedy alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Gonick: Embrace 'Creative Destruction'
IT leaders are in danger of becoming mired in irrelevancy, according to Lev Gonick, former vice president for information technology services and chief information officer at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. In order to avoid that fate, he told attendees at the annual Campus Technology conference in Boston Tuesday, IT leaders need to embrace "creative destruction."
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Academic Data Breaches Miniscule Compared with Government, Private Industry
Academia has taken considerable heat over some high-profile data breaches in the last decade. However, a new visualization tool puts those breaches into perspective. Against the background noise of data breaches in government and the private sector, breaches in academic institutions are for the most part invisible.
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New Research Grants Offered for Study of Online and Flipped Classroom Learning
The Adaptive Learning Research Grant Program has launched its second phase, offering up to $40,000 for institutions to examine adaptive learning principles that result in measurable learning outcomes in large-scale online and blended learning courses.
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One Microsoft: The Impact of the Reorg on Education
Microsoft isn't talking publicly yet about what the company's reorganization means for its education customers. Is no news good news?
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Vincennes U Promotes Sustainability, Cuts Costs With 3D Printing Technology
Vincennes University has deployed a paper-based 3D printer cut costs while providing fabrication students with unlimited access to 3D modeling technology.
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A Quarter of Higher Ed Transmits Unencrypted Student Data
Should colleges and universities be insisting on the use of encryption for the transmission of sensitive information among its student applicants? That's what one security firm is recommending after doing an informal audit of 162 American institutions, including schools that are part of the Big 10, the Big 8, the Ivy League, community colleges, and technical institutes.
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Student Security Competitions Help Lock Down Careers
To woo young people to the field of cyber security, local, regional, and global competitions give students a chance to test their knowledge and skills in front of the experts.
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165 University Leaders Recommend Closing 'Innovation Deficit'
Presidents and chancellors from 165 United States universities have issued an open letter to President Obama and Congress, urging them to close the "innovation deficit."
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NSF Awards $24 Million in Grants To Promote STEM Workforce
The National Science Foundation has awarded $24 million in grants for science and engineering researchers to look at infrastructure improvements in Maine, New Hampshire, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, South and North Dakota, Vermont, Delaware, and Rhode Island.
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Creating a Culture of Innovation
In a world where knowledge is available with a few clicks of the mouse, colleges and universities must find new ways to give students the skills to succeed.
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Kentucky Selects e-Transcript System To Reduce Costs, Streamline College Admissions
The Commonwealth of Kentucky will adopt an electronic transcript sharing system designed to reduce costs and make it easier for high school students to complete the college admissions process online.
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New Hampshire U Lab To Develop Unified Communications Interoperability Test Tools
To improve the interoperability of its members' software and hardware environments and meet government certification requirements, the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, a non-profit alliance dedicated to helping companies achieve unified communications, has enlisted the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory to develop a suite of session initiation protocol test tools.
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Penn State's Smeal College of Business Deploys CRM To Automate Admissions Processes
The Pennsylvania State University's Smeal College of Business has deployed a new constituent relationship management platform to help with recruiting efforts.
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Small College Upgrades ERP After 2-Year Search
A small private college in Kansas City, MO has upgraded its enterprise resource planning system.
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Smart Phone Growth Accelerates Worldwide
The worldwide smart phone market hit a new high in the second quarter of 2013 as manufacturers shipped one new unit for every 30 human beings in the world over the course of three months.
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Stanford U Tells Users To Change Passwords after Hack Attack
Stanford University is working with law enforcement and security consultants to investigate a data breach in its IT infrastructure that appears to have divulged user names and possibly other information.
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U Delaware Hack Hits 72,000 Staffers
The University of Delaware is attempting to make contact with 72,000 people whose information was vacuumed up during a recent server hacking.
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University of Tennessee Inks New e-Procurement Contract
The University of Tennessee has completed a new procurement deal intended to streamline the institution's online procurement processes.
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Utah State U Adopts UC System To Streamline Production, Cut Costs
Utah State University has replaced its obsolete communication system with a low-cost, Web-based unified communication system designed to automate campus-wide operations.
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Wayne State U Upgrades Engineering Labs
The College of Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI has received a $500,000 grant to aid in upgrades to its facilities.
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Carnegie Mellon Shifts Emergency Messaging to e2Campus
Starting this summer, Carnegie Mellon University is shifting to a new emergency notification service.
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Emory Law Adds Real-Time Dashboard Reporting from InetSoft
Emory University's law school has ramped up its use of dashboard reporting to share data-based indicators among its decision-makers.
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Hawai'i Pacific U Chooses E-Commerce System To Cuts Costs, Streamline Purchasing
In an ongoing effort to cut purchasing costs and streamline their procure-to-pay process, Hawai'i Pacific University plans to implement a cloud-based e-procurement and management system.
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National University Implements Financial Aid Management Solution
National University, a private, non-profit university in California, has implemented a financial aid management solution that works with the school's non-traditional enrollment model.
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Sony, Panasonic Address Long-Term Storage with Next-Gen Optical Media
Sony and Panasonic have signed a basic agreement to jointly develop a next-generation optical disc for professional use. The companies' goal is to develop an optical disc with a recording capacity of at least 300 GB by the end of 2015.
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