Community College League of California

MAY 18, 2023

Action Alert: May Revision to 2023-24 California State Budget The Community College League of California is a strong advocate for the California Community Colleges. The League continues to meet with state lawmakers and representatives of the Administration to maximize support of our institutions and we need your help in this process.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

By Francie Diep An email from the University of California at San Diego's vice chancellor for research alerted the campus to the situation on Tuesday. The scientist says he got no warning before that day.

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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A federal judge ruled the Ivy League institution failed to properly alert an insurer about the case.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2024

Delays in processing financial aid applications could threaten the credit or viability of small private colleges that serve students who are low income or come from underrepresented groups, Fitch Ratings warned in an alert Wednesday.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Alert to administrators seeking student success solutions: the needs of today’s incoming students do not resemble those of past generations. Administrators should recommit to a multi-semester process of fully activating their early-alert system.

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Campus Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A joint Cybersecurity Advisory released by the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center warns that Vice Society threat actors are disproportionately targeting the education sector as recently as this month.

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University Business

APRIL 10, 2024

These two-year degree programs in energy management, renewable energy solar and building automation systems will be discontinued by fall 2024, as Dean of Instruction John Buckley alerted to some of the college community via email last month. Read more from Deleware Online.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A dossier of evidence revealed that 97% of all international students who took a Home Office-approved English language test between 2011 and 2014 were suspected of cheating.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2024

It will produce a similarity grade and alert the professors of this grade. Turnitin has an AI detector embedded in its website to detect when students have used generative AI and/or AI tools. When students submit assignments to Turnitin, the site compares their work to other sources to see how similar it can be.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Too many student success strategies rely on responding to early alerts. While an early alert is helpful, by that point, a problem already exists. Those working in student success need a tool that can identify support needs before the early alert is triggered. The key word is proactive. That tool is artificial intelligence (AI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Cornell University has suspended fraternity parties and social events after campus police alerts about an alleged sexual assault and alleged incidents of drug-laced drinks, CNN reported. Campus police issued a crime alert on Nov. 7 letter to students. 4 about at least four alleged incidents of drug-laced drinks Sep. and 4:30 a.m.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

8) Set a Google alert on your name so you’ll know promptly if people are talking badly about you. Yes, there may be modest costs involved, and you’ll need to pay close attention to university policies about conflict of interest and external compensation, but the payoff could be substantial. (7) 7) Take walks. Feed yourself.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2023

The buttons will send an alert to the campus police and, in rooms with electronic locks, lock the door, enabling people to exit but not enter the room. The University of Pittsburgh in installing panic buttons in about 400 classrooms, the university announced Friday.

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University Business

AUGUST 21, 2023

“SMS text messaging alerts are sent out all at once, but depending on someone’s phone carrier, their service at the time would impact when that alert actually went through,” said Dana Whyte, communications manager at Michigan State University Department of Police and Public Safety, State News reports.

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University Business

JANUARY 29, 2024

Maybe a PayPal alert or a Venmo deposit, perhaps just a check in the mail — certain UD students have seen payments from their university this month. University of Delaware has seemingly begun issuing cash reimbursements to thousands of current and former students in line with last year’s $6.3

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Campus Technology

APRIL 10, 2023

Since April 3, CISA has published alerts on seven known exploited vulnerabilities — two of which pose immediate risks for a long list of Apple devices — ordering federal agencies to remediate the identified vulnerabilities immediately and encouraging all organizations to do the same.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

A letter from the school urged community members to monitor bank accounts, consider fraud alerts or credit freezes with major credit bureaus, be wary of phishing attempts, and sign up for credit monitoring. The Johns Hopkins community were notified Wednesday that their personal information may be at risk.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Campus Pride issues a ‘red alert’ warning to prospective students and families that the excluded universities’ 5 star rating will inevitably go down. New laws in Texas and Florida effectively require colleges and universities in those states to cease LGBTQ+ inclusive programs, services and policies.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to the alert, Cuba ransomware attacks are targeting critical infrastructure, financial services, healthcare, information technology, government services and more. The alert notes that despite the name, the ransomware gang doesn't have any connection to the country of Cuba.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 22, 2023

As of August 20, UBC’s Okanagan campus was downgraded from an evacuation order to an alert. ” The city’s Okanagan College also issued alerts to students and employees, but remained open. Around 400 people were evacuated from the campus on August 18 and scheduled exams were cancelled.

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MindMax

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Spoiler alert—a lot of the same topics that dominate higher education discussions: microcredentials , AI , and the impending demographic cliff.) You might be wondering why someone like me, whose company focuses on higher education marketing and enrollment , would attend a K-12 conference.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In an alert issued by the FBI earlier this year, the nation’s top law enforcement agency warned that agents have identified U.S. Higher education institutions are in a vulnerable position when it comes to cybersecurity. college and university credentials advertised for sale on the dark web and publicly accessible internet forums.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

On Saturday, Loyola University Campus Police sent out an alert, advising that three students were robbed outside Marquette Hall before 4 a.m. From the University of Illinois Chicago to DePaul University and Loyola University, Chicago has recently seen an uptick in armed robberies on or near college campuses at all different times of the day.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The college urged students and faculty to promptly leave the campus in an alert posted to its website and social platforms. CUNY City College of New York shut down its campus on Tuesday due to a threat, according to the institution. CCNY closed at 1 p.m. out of an abundance of caution” after receiving an unspecified threat.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The software, called Student Success & Engagement, uses data to send alerts to success coaches about when they might need to reach out to a student. If [I] had my way, every college in our system would have an early-alert platform engaged in some kind of preventative student success coaching model,” he said.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

According to UNC-Chapel Hill officials, the alert was issued because of reports that a person brandished a weapon at the student union. In just 16 days, UNC-Chapel Hill sent out a second report of an ‘armed and dangerous person,’ causing thousands of students, faculty and staff to shelter in place on campus.

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University Business

AUGUST 29, 2023

Following a brief moment where the wrong person was arrested – an unsuspecting individual who missed the shelter-in-place alerts – campus police confirmed that the gunman had been taken into custody around 10 minutes from the scene. The suspect, identified as graduate student Tailei Qi, has now been charged with first-degree murder.

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University Business

MAY 5, 2023

Hackers hijacked a Virginia university’s emergency alerts system this week and, in what appears to be a first, used it to issue threats to students and faculty: The university must pay up or their files would be leaked online.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The University of Dayton’s Department of Public Safety sent out an alert to the campus Monday stating that the student was in custody and that a criminal investigation was underway. “University of Dayton Public Safety personnel discovered a potential threat to campus posted on social media today,” the alerts said.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The University of Greenwich’s trigger warning (TW) is for undergraduates, but since the original intention of such alerts was to prepare readers for some possible reminder of upsetting experiences, it’s older ones who should be most grateful for this vigilance.

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Dr. Josie Ahlquist

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The spoiler alert. That’s the tweet. What is the current state of student affairs marketing and communications? It is segmented, stretched, and misunderstood. For over 10 years, I have been supporting and strategizing marketing and communications across campus, especially in student affairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

The investigation also found that Troy’s Title IX coordinator did not consistently or timely intervene when alerted of issues with certain classes and that the lack of available information on getting pregnancy-related adjustments contributed to Troy’s uncoordinated response.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Depending on the mentee’s need, alerts can be raised. If a student, for example, wants to switch majors, an alert can get the attention of administration or advisors who can help the mentee navigate that decision. After each conversation with their mentee, mentors use Mentor Collective’s software to share what was discussed.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2022

CSIRT services typically fall into three categories: reactive, which involves vulnerability alerts and incident handling; proactive, which includes… A CSIRT is a group of experts established by an organization to identify, document and respond to cybersecurity-related incidents.

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HEPI

MARCH 5, 2024

It isn’t a new claim that the UK’s social sciences are world-leading (buzzword alert again!), Within the social sciences specifically, which forms the focus of this blog, the report’s findings emphasise very clearly the strength and breadth of the UK’s social science research base.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

“Like you, we are outraged and saddened by the Cornell University Police Department crime alerts issued this weekend,” said a letter from Martha E. The Interfraternity Council made the decision, which was endorsed by Cornell administrators. Pollack, the president, and Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Officers were alerted to the shooting around midnight Sunday, and at the scene they found four women and three men with gunshot wounds. Violence in Norfolk, Va., killed at Norfolk State University student and another person and injured five others, said The Virginian-Pilot.

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