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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

For this work, Cerf and Kahn won the Turing Award—the so-called Nobel of computing. These luminaries are concerned about how to teach computer science today, given the breakneck pace of developments, faculty shortages and an unrealized need to integrate ethics into the curriculum. Missing Seats at Important Tables.

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New Technology and Attitudes Emerge from the Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In general, it’s really opened conversations about flexibility and thinking about how we can use technology to be more inclusive to provide opportunities.” Dr. Felesia Stukes, an associate professor of computer science at Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU), taught Introduction to Network Science spring semester 2020.

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These are the top 10 colleges for cybersecurity education

University Business

These are three of the six must-have modules for a cybersecurity course, and these 10 colleges have them all. Since the pandemic, the increased reliance on digital technology, such as virtual meetings and online learning, has created additional pathways enabling bad actors to access confidential student and employee data. .

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Stanford academic freedom event proceeds amid controversy

Inside Higher Ed

Co-organizer John Cochrane, economist and Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, in his opening remarks said that event’s critics had failed and that “Stanford’s leaders have supported us, for which we are grateful, so we are still here.” Let’s avoid.

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Survey on Campus Technology: Student Priorities and Problems

Inside Higher Ed

62% of students surveyed worry little (or not at all) about their college being targeted by cybersecurity breaches or cyberattacks, even though they could jeopardize their personal data. Yet, on many campuses, technology dollars are limited, with a wide variety of initiatives competing for that funding.

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

Inside Higher Ed

The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Biomedical Sciences Enrichment Program: Mentorship and Workforce Development Charles R.