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Technology Partnerships and Higher Education

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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Two-year colleges strain to hire instructors in technical fields

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A new automotive technology program at Coconino Community College, launched last fall, is on pause as campus leaders struggle to hire a full-time faculty member to keep it afloat. The college offered four automotive technology classes last fall and five courses in the spring, serving 46 students.

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Is a 4-Year College Degree Still Necessary?

MindMax

Moreover, the rapid pace of change in technology means that learners may be better off dividing their investment in education over a period of years to keep up with the latest trends. After spending years in the Greater Boston area, a hub of academia teeming with colleges and universities, I relocated to upstate New York.

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The Luddite Chronicles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robots 

Faculty Focus

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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The Luddite Chronicles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robots 

Faculty Focus

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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The Ethics of “Ethical Hacking”

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

Unlike malicious hackers, ethical hackers use the same type of skills and knowledge to protect an organization and improve its technology rather than damage it. Both academia and security experts add that schools must emphasize law and ethics so students "don't cross the line" and misuse their hacking abilities.

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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite being immensely privileged with respect to other K-12 teachers, whose ranks I left to join academia, and to the growing number of non-tenure-track colleagues at UPR, my teaching and activist commitments leave me very little time for scholarly production.