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Amid the burgeoning interest in and use of academic and learning analytics through learning management systems (LMS), the implications of big data and…
It’s short-range tracking for attendance, not GPS.
Cybercriminals attacked Regis University last August, crippling the campus’ IT network, phones and email. Despite paying an undisclosed ransom, school officials say day-to-day operations are still affected.
But students don't care about their privacy!
Facial recognition: one of the few ways college kids aren't always tracked. Yet.
I gave a talk at Cornell Tech at their To Code & Beyond: Rising to Equity Conference on Jan 10, 2020. Here are a few slides from that talk. The slides are at There was a modest increase in AP C…
A new national campaign wants to stop facial recognition from invading U.S. college campuses.
The exposed information from company Front Rush included physical evaluations, post-injury reports, and performance reviews from specific teams for particular players.
This week, hacktivist and security engineer Lance R. Vick tweeted an enticing proposition along with a gut-punch headline: “Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands,” read the Washington Post link. The report revealed nearly instantaneous and…
The systems highlight how widespread surveillance has increasingly become a fact of life: Students “should have all the rights, responsibilities and privileges that an adult has. So why do we treat them so differently?”
Faced with an ever-shrinking pool of potential applicants, admissions officials are increasingly turning to tracking software to hit enrollment targets.
Tom Nash made this request to Virginia Commonwealth University of Virginia.
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The school is 'interested in improving student success.'
New University Archives Initiative Seeks to Preserve Terp Organizations’ Past
If a college has only one available slot and receives two applications from students who appear to be equally qualified on paper, should the college admit Student A, who has never shown any interest in attending that particular college? Or should it choose Student B, who has opened every email, thoroughly explored the college’s website, and contacted the admissions office […]
The biggest challenge in the University of Arizona's efforts to consolidate its digital assets was getting organized.