Q&As

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


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Data Fluency as a Strategic Imperative

As an institution's highest level of data capabilities, data fluency taps into the agency of technical experts who work together with top-level institutional leadership on issues of strategic importance.

Training the Next Generation of Space Cybersecurity Experts

CT asked Scott Shackelford, Indiana University professor of law and director of the Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance, about the possible emergence of space cybersecurity as a separate field that would support changing practices and foster future space cybersecurity leaders.

From the Kuali Days 2025 Conference: A CEO's View of Planning for AI

How can a company serving higher education navigate the changes AI brings to ed tech? What will customers expect? CT talks with Kuali CEO Joel Dehlin, who shared his company's AI strategies with attendees at Kuali Days 2025 in Anaheim.

Anton Spiridonov, a senior at Bentley University majoring in Computer Information Systems, demonstrates his chatbot at a recent technology projects open house.

Project-Based Learning in an AI-Inspired Era

Exploring the sweet spot between project-based learning and the latest in powerful AI tools at Bentley University.

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A Sense of Scale

Gardner Campbell explores the notion of scale in education and shares some of his own experience "playing with scale" — scaling up and/or scaling down — in an English course at VCU.

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Digital Leadership Must-Haves for 2025: A CDO's Picks

Now that he's more than a year and a half into his chief digital officer role at NJIT, we've asked Ed Wozencroft to reflect on his areas of concentration: What work must digital leaders "own" in 2025?

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Internet2: Network Routing Security and RPKI Adoption in Research and Education

We ask James Deaton, vice president of network services, about Internet2's initiatives and leadership efforts to promote routing security and RPKI adoption in research and higher education networks.

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Scalable Cloud Strategies: Values for Higher Education

From a massive, 23-campus cloud-and-security transformation, to a small college's "lift and shift" entry into the public cloud, Unisys Higher Education Strategist Christopher Wessells knows how higher education leverages the cloud. Here, he examines some of the values scalable cloud strategies offer our institutions.

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Delightful Progress: Kuali's Legacy of Community and Leadership

CEO Joel Dehlin updates us on Kuali today, and how it has thrived as a software company that succeeds in the tech marketplace while maintaining the community values envisioned in higher education years ago.

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Free access to advanced computing and HPC resources for your researchers and education programs? Check out NSF's Jetstream2 and ACCESS.