C-Level View :: July 25, 2007 -- Campus Technology

Making the Case for Student Lifecycle Management: By Mike McLean, senior director, Information and Applications Services, California State University; In today's increasingly competitive higher education environment, we face rising demands to attract and keep the best students, improve the quality of education, and keep costs down. These are lofty goals, but they are attainable if institutions learn to examine their business processes and leverage technology to manage the entire student lifecycle -- helping improve service to students, from recruitment through graduation and beyond. If higher education institutions do not embrace this concept and start nurturing these valuable relationships, they risk disconnection from students and the loss of competitive edge....

Northwestern U’s Open Source Bridge between Blackboard and Xythos: Northwestern University has developed an open source File Bridge Extension to facilitate content exchange between Blackboard and Xythos applications. The software is available for download freely by colleges and universities....
Who is Where on the Network?: Coppin State University (MD) now has an automated, centralized view of their network that facilitates both long-term planning and real-time problem solving....

New DSpace Foundation Names Executive Director: Michele Kimpton will lead the new DSpace Foundation, formed by MIT and HP, as its executive director....

Elon University and AAC&U Release Student Guide to AI

A new publication from Elon University 's Imagining the Digital Future Center and the American Association of Colleges and Universities offers students key principles for navigating college in the age of artificial intelligence.
NIST's U.S. AI Safety Institute Announces Research Collaboration with Anthropic and OpenAI

The U.S. AI Safety Institute, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has formalized agreements with AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI to collaborate on AI safety research, testing, and evaluation.
Microsoft Intros Open Source Multi-Agent AI System

Microsoft researchers have unveiled a new open source multi-agent AI system, Magnetic-One, aimed to help enterprises automate complex tasks typically requiring human intervention.
New Research Confirms AI Can Exploit Image-Based CAPTCHAs, Alternatives Needed

Advanced AI can defeat CAPTCHAs designed to prove web actions are being performed by humans instead of machines, new research indicates.