Paul Nagy, Hillsborough Community College’s vice president for strategic planning and analysis, says the school’s “near grad” effort is connecting with students who are just a few credits shy of completing a credential.

Nagy is a winner of a 2022 EdScoop 50 Award.

https://edscoop.com/list/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2022-edscoop-50-awards/

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Higher education technology leaders need to continue to align their work with the business and strategic goals of the university, Melissa Woo, chief information officer of Michigan State University, says on the Cutting EDge podcast.

https://edscoop.com/list/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2022-edscoop-50-awards/

In the news this week:

Edtech services provider Zovio offloaded Fullstack Academy, its coding bootcamp, to online course platform Simplilearn.

https://edscoop.com/zovio-liquidates-final-asset-ahead-of-company-closure/

George Mason University is working with Amazon Web Services to develop a streamlined platform for people looking to transfer colleges.

https://edscoop.com/george-mason-aws-college-transfer-platform/

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As higher education leaders continue to dive deeper into hybrid learning experiences, faculty training on learning management systems and tools is becoming even more essential, John Baker, CEO of D2L, says on the Cutting EDge podcast.

In the news this week:

Higher education IT managers are running into pushback and dissatisfaction from employees who say they don’t need to be on campus to do their jobs.

https://edscoop.com/higher-ed-work-flexibility/

Online learning company 2U is starting to see the benefits of its acquisition of edX, its CEO said on an investor call.

https://edscoop.com/2u-leans-free-degree-pipeline/

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Higher education IT leaders are preparing for changing federal reporting requirements on cybersecurity, data privacy and web accessibility, Jarret Cummings, Educause’s policy lead says on the Cutting EDge podcast.

https://edscoop.com/new-federal-it-requirements-coming-to-higher-ed-educause-says/

In the news this week:

A top official from the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office is pleading with higher education institutions to report cyberattacks and data breaches the moment they’re discovered.

https://edscoop.com/cyber-incident-reporting-ed-dept-federal-student-aid-office/

The Federal Trade Commission is suing edtech vendor Chegg for exposing tens of millions of users’ personal information after four major data breaches since 2017.

https://edscoop.com/ftc-sues-homework-aide-chegg-over-multiple-data-breaches/

Campus tech leaders are continuing to look to play a greater role in overall institutional strategic planning, according to the new list of 10 lT priorities released by Educause.

https://edscoop.com/educause-priorities-list-gives-it-leaders-a-seat-at-the-table/

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The higher education IT workforce is “never going back to the 8-5 body in the chair in the building” way of operating, Lois Brooks, CIO of the University of Wisconsin says.

In the news this week:

Hybrid learning has the potential to make higher education more flexible, accessible and efficient — but not without concerted effort, according to a new report from Educause.

https://edscoop.com/educause-hybrid-learning-plan-university-college/

Enrollment numbers have yet to recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

https://edscoop.com/university-enrollment-declining-2022/

Colleges and universities are under pressure to attract more students due to low enrollment numbers — and they’re willing to spend more money on technology to do so, according to survey data from student information system provider Jenzabar.

https://edscoop.com/colleges-raise-tech-spending-enrollment-decline-survey-jenzabar/

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The founders of the Robotic Process Automation Initiative at George Mason University join the Cutting EDge podcast to explain how their new RPA community of practice effort has the potential to expand to a nationwide network.

https://edscoop.com/george-mason-u-establishes-statewide-academic-automation-community/

In the news this week:

A former technology manager at Northeastern University’s Immersive Media Lab was arrested in Texas and is charged with falsely conveying a bomb threat and lying to federal agents.

https://edscoop.com/northeastern-university-bomb-hoax-virtual-reality/

Universities are struggling to connect with their students, according to new survey results published by Salesforce.

https://edscoop.com/colleges-struggle-connect-students-salesforce-survey-2022/

Students are adjusting to online learning, but technology challenges persist, according to survey results from Educause.

https://edscoop.com/half-college-students-stressed-out-tech-research/

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Georgia Institute of Technology CIO Daren Hubbard joins the Cutting EDge podcast to talk about how the university’s “data excellence” initiative will improve operations at the Atlanta institution.

In the news this week:

Google’s philanthropic arm will invest $3 million in funding over the next three years in a University of Texas at Austin computer science education initiative.

https://edscoop.com/google-gives-university-of-texas-3-million-computer-science/

Yale University’s CIO is being promoted to be campuswide vice president of IT.

https://edscoop.com/yale-cio-john-barden-vice-president/

The California State University system has a new CIO.

https://edscoop.com/ed-clark-cio-california-state-university/

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Michigan State University CIO Melissa Woo and Virginia Tech CIO Scott Midkiff join the Cutting EDge podcast to talk about the role of IT modernization in student experience initiatives.

https://edscoop.com/admin-user-experience-key-it-modernization-university/

StateScoop & EdScoop's IT Modernization Summit On Demand:

https://upgather.com/it-mod-sled/live

In the news this week:

QuickLaunch, a higher education identity and authentication platform, says systems are back to operational after the platform experienced a distributed denial of service attack last week.

https://edscoop.com/quicklaunch-university-outages-havoc-first-day-campus/

San Diego State University has a new mobile safety app that includes campus safety alerts and gives users the ability to share their location with another person or university police.

https://edscoop.com/san-diego-state-launches-safety-app/

TimelyMD, a mental health telehealth company that offers its services to universities, will give student users the ability to interact with each other in a new update.

https://edscoop.com/student-mental-health-timelymd-peer-to-peer/

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Chris Misra, chief information officer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, joins the Cutting EDge podcast to talk about how the university’s hybrid new student orientation program is driving data and information to help students even before they get to campus.

In the news this week:

Educause’s director of cybersecurity programming has left his post.

https://edscoop.com/educause-brian-kelly-cybersecurity-director/

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona says that lists of college rankings are “a joke.”

https://edscoop.com/miguel-cardona-college-rankings-joke-data/

The New York State Division of Consumer Protection is warning college students against the threat of scams from cybercriminals.

https://edscoop.com/college-university-scammers-nys-warns-students/

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Sam Segran, chief information officer of Texas Tech University, joins the Cutting EDge podcast to talk about how the university’s latest enrollment and student success data effort is bringing more students to the school.

In the news this week:

Online education provider 2U is planning major payroll and marketing budget cuts to counter declining enrollment in online learning.

https://edscoop.com/2u-layoffs-spending-cuts-edx-focus/

A migration to a hybrid-cloud data center is underway at the University of South Carolina.

https://edscoop.com/university-south-carolina-cio-hyrbid-cloud-data-center/

Southern University and A&M College System is moving its learning management system to Canvas.

https://edscoop.com/southern-university-system-moves-to-canvas-lms/

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