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Higher Ed Framework Places Emphasis on Placement, Earnings
Education agency Entangled Solutions released a new framework of quality assurance standards around student outcomes and are now seeking public comment through July 31.
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Embry-Riddle Receives $1 Million from Feds for Phase II of Intelligent Aerial Systems Project
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida Wednesday received a $1 million grant from the United States Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as part of the second phase of a project to build a specialized flight control system capable of navigating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in unknown environments.
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P-TECH 9-14 Schools to Blossom to 80 by Fall
Six years after the launch of the first Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) school in Brooklyn, yet another cohort of students is graduating — each walking away with a high school diploma, an associate's degree in a STEM field and related work experience. Graduates have already joined IBM, working as front-end web developers, organizational developers, coders and analysts. Many are also continuing college in pursuit of bachelor's degrees.
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Q1 VR Headset Shipments Display a Bright Future
Oculus Rift is out, but Oculus is in. Even as Facebook's virtual reality system had just 99,000 shipments during the first quarter of 2017, the Oculus deal with Samsung drove the latter company's shipments to five times as many units over the same period.
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ClearScholar Deploys Content Targeting Tech in Mobile Platform
Student engagement and safety platform ClearScholar Friday launched a new feature set for institutions that leverages student data to deliver targeted content to individual students. ClearScholar Align, as the solution is called, works by combining data from disparate college systems to build individual student "personas" that enable administrators to broadly and narrowly deliver content to students.
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Instructure Partners with Cerego to Bring Adaptive, Personalized Learning Tools
Instructure today revealed a new partnership with Cerego, bringing the latter's advanced personalized learning platform to the Canvas learning management system.
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Upcoming Grants, Funding & Award Opportunities
- NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund
  Sponsor: NCWIT with support from Microsoft Research
  Award: Up to $10,000 per project funded plus travel expenses to annual summit
  Number of Awards: TBD
  Application Deadline: Oct. 30, 2017
  Note: Applicant's institution must be an NCWIT member. (Membership is free.) The award focus is on programs "to develop and implement initiatives for recruiting or retaining women in computing and IT."
- VentureWell Faculty Grants (developing curriculum for promoting STEM entrepreneurship)
  Sponsor: VentureWell
  Award: Up to $30,000
  Number of Awards: TBD
  Application Deadline: Nov. 8, 2017
  Note: Applicant's institution must be a VentureWell member. See list of member institutions here.
- ACM Athena Lecturer Award
  Sponsor: ACM and Google
  Award: Up to $25,000 plus travel expenses to ACM conference
  Number of Awards: 1
  Application Deadline: Nov. 30, 2017
  Note: "This award celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to Computer Science."
Upcoming Events
- Innovative and Creative Education and Teaching International Conference
  June 21–23
  Badajoz, Spain
- ALA 2017 Annual Conference
  June 22–27
  Chicago, IL
- SCUP-52 Annual Conference
  July 8–12
  Washington, DC
- Campus Technology 2017
  July 17–20
  Chicago, IL
- Serious Play Conference
  July 18–20
  George Mason University Science and Technology Campus, Manassas, VA
- APPA/PCAPPA/BayAPPA 2017
  July 21–23
  San Francisco, CA
- SANSFIRE 2017
  July 22–29
  Washington, DC
- Educause Learning Technology Leadership Institute 2017
  July 24–28
  Long Beach, CA
- SIIA Education Impact Symposium
  July 25–27
  San Francisco, CA
- 2017 Clute International Conference on Education (ICE)
  July 30–Aug. 3
  New York
- TDWI Anaheim Conference
  Aug. 6–11
  Anaheim, CA
Call for Nominations, Papers & Proposals
- Blackboard Hackboard 2017
  Submissions Due: June 19, 2017
Upcoming Webinars
- West Chester University Innovates with BYOD Initiative to Expand Distance Learning Program
  Date: June 8
  Time: 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET
  Sponsor: Citrix
- Are You Prepared for the Latest Cybersecurity Challenges?
  Date: June 21
  Time: 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET
  Sponsor: Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Achieve Institutional Excellence by Harnessing Campus-wide Intelligence
  Date: June 22
  Time: 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET
  Sponsor: Splunk
Webinars on Demand
- Collaboration Wins the Day with Mobile Strategies
  Sponsor: Guidebook
- Better Prepare Your Campus Against the Evolving Threatscape
  Sponsor: Duo Security
- Managing The Integrated Student Cloud
  Sponsor: Oracle
- Meeting Student Needs with Day One Access to Digital Materials
  Sponsor: VitalSource
- Oregon State University Accelerates Virtual Learning Labs & 3D Graphics for Students Around the World
  Sponsor: NVIDIA and Citrix
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