Q&As

Here you'll find interviews, panel discussions, and other articles in Q&A format. 


Dana Brunson facilitates a roundtable discussion with research and higher education IT leaders

Internet2: Closing the Access Gap for Research Cyberinfrastructure

Internet2's Research Engagement Team brings CIOs and other campus technology leadership together with research computing and data facilitators, forming a community that enables research cyberinfrastructure at institutions of all types and sizes.

robots organizing stacks of papers

An AI Adoption Imperative: Centralized Sources of Governed Truth

Strategies for enterprise teams who aim to build a data foundation to move the institution from AI experimentation to real-world execution.

Illustration of campus building with wireless symbol

Campuses Ready Their Wireless Infrastructure for the Future

Universities aim to be ready to turn new technologies and practices into opportunities for innovation and ultimately, ROI on the institution's investment in wireless infrastructure.

workshop participants discuss sustainability in open science and research

Open Source: Advancing Our Digital Commons

IT leaders are recognizing the benefits of a return to open strategies. CT asked Jack Suess, VP of IT and CIO at UMBC, for his views on returning to the digital commons of open source.

large group of college students sitting on an academic quad

Student Readiness: Learning to Learn

Melissa Loble, Instructure's chief academic officer, recommends a focus on 'readiness' as a broader concept as we try to understand how to build meaningful education experiences that can form a bridge from the university to the workplace. Here, we ask Loble what readiness is and how to offer students the ability to 'learn to learn'.

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AI and Our Next Conversations in Higher Education

Ryan Lufkin, the vice president of global strategy for Instructure, examines how the focus on AI in education will move from experimentation to accountability.

Santa Clara University law professors share in the creation of High Tech Law Institute programs

HTLI: Legal Experts Examine 50 Years of Change in Intellectual Property Law in the Digital Age

A Jan. 30 event offered by the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University convenes legal experts on intellectual property and IP law to consider the past 50 years and the future of IP in light of emerging technologies.

Santa Clara University School of Engineering

"Engineering and the Good Life" at Santa Clara University

An ethics across the curriculum program at Santa Clara University's School of Engineering supports ethical reflection in engineering design and encourages each student to consider what it means to them to be an engineer.

InCommon Academy in action with an Advance CAMP unconference activity at the Internet2 Technology Exchange

Community-Driven IAM Learning with Internet2's InCommon Academy

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.

Jasper Halekas, instrument lead for the Analyzer for Cusp Electrons (ACE), checks final calibration. ACE was designed and built at the University of Iowa for the TRACERS mission.

TRACERS: The University of Iowa Leads NASA-Funded Space Weather Research with Twin Satellites

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.