Software access is a strategic priority — not a technical afterthought. Success depends on faculty engagement, institution-wide collaboration, and a clear focus on student outcomes.
Artificial intelligence is transforming workplaces and emerging as an essential tool for employees across industries. The dilemma: Universities must ensure graduates are prepared to use AI in their daily lives without diluting the interpersonal, problem-solving, and decision-making skills that businesses rely on.
Internet2's InCommon Academy Director Jean Chorazyczewski examines how the academy's community-driven identity and access management learning opportunities support CIOs, IT leaders, and their IAM teams in R&E.
The most concerning issue with artificial intelligence may not be in the tools themselves, but in how quietly they're being used without oversight.
Academic environments face heightened risk because their collaboration-driven environments are inherently open, making them more susceptible to attack, while the high-value research data they hold makes them an especially attractive target. The question is not if this data will be targeted, but whether universities can defend it swiftly enough against increasingly AI-powered threats.
We've followed Stephen Laster's career through more than two decades at organizations leading significant directions and change in technology and education markets. Here, we ask Laster for an update since taking the helm as CEO at Panopto this past May, 2025.
In recent years, colleges and universities have faced an evolving array of cybersecurity challenges. But one threat is showing signs of becoming both more frequent and more politically charged: hacktivism.
As colleges and universities expand online offerings, the goal now is clear: Build environments where students actively participate, not passively attend.
Working in tandem, the recently launched TRACERS satellites enable new measurement strategies that will produce significant data for the study of space weather. And as lead institution for the mission, the University of Iowa upholds its long-held value of bringing research collaborations together with academics.
Surprisingly, on many of our campuses, even the IT leadership responsible for the lion's share of technology deployments doesn't realize the extent to which the institution is dependent on open source. And that lack of awareness can be a threat to campuses.