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Can Application Modernization Keep Higher Ed Cyberattackers at Bay?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

In 2014, a vulnerability was discovered in a critical security library used by a massive number of systems worldwide. The Heartbleed Bug exploited a lack of bounds checking in the Transport Layer Security heartbeat protocol, and when an exploit was published in April 2014, millions of systems were immediately vulnerable.

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Howard University Rescinds Sean "Diddy" Combs Honorary Doctorate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Howard University said that it has rescinded the 2014 honorary degree given to rapper and hip-hop mogul, Sean "Diddy" Combs. The university made the announcement on June 7, several weeks after Combs was seen on a 2016 hotel video assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassandra "Cassie" Ventura. "The

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NIST Cybersecurity Framework Gets First Refresh

Campus Technology

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an update to its Cybersecurity Framework — the first since the guidance document was issued in 2014.

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Undergraduate institutions of doctoral recipients

Higher Ed Data Stories

For some, it could be 2014; for others, 2000. One answer to that question you're wondering about: No, I cannot normalize this to show the percentage of graduates of any institution who go on to get a doctorate, because I'd have to guess about when the people in 2018, for instance, graduated from college. Let me know what you find.

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How Colleges Leverage Data to Retain Students as the Enrollment Cliff Looms

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

In 2014, the Florida Board of Governors, the governing body for all of the state’s public universities, adopted changes to the system for funding higher education. Student performance has always been a key indicator of higher education institutions’ success.

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Celebrating 10 years of higher education digital marketing insights

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We've been writing about higher education digital marketing since 2014. It's our birthday! Over the next few weeks, we'll take a look back at some insights into what trends stuck around and which didn't. Today, we're looking back at the 10 most popular articles of the decade!

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Baylor Alumna Awarded $270,000 for University’s Negligence

Inside Higher Ed

A jury awarded a Baylor University alumna $270,000 in a federal civil lawsuit alleging that the institution’s negligence put her at risk of assault and that employees didn’t respond appropriately to her 2014 reports that a football player had physically assaulted her three times,