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California State University pilots direct admissions program

California State University pilots direct admissions program

Late last month, Cal State East Bay said it would send letters to high school seniors in two K-12 districts, San Leandro and Hayward Unified, informing them that they will be guaranteed acceptance if they meet the university’s admissions requirements.


Appeals court backs Sweet v. Cardona settlement

Appeals court backs Sweet v. Cardona settlement

A majority of the three-judge panel supported a lower court’s ruling that the colleges did not have a “significantly protectable interest” and, as parties not participating in the settlement to the long-running Sweet v. Cardona lawsuit, lacked a particular form of legal standing needed to challenge it.


How Personhood Credentials Could Impact Higher Education

How Personhood Credentials Could Impact Higher Education

The idea behind personhood credentials is to solve these problems by creating something to prove that the online user is a unique human, not AI, and not on multiple accounts in the same platform.


Judge greenlights pro-Palestinian students’ free speech lawsuit against Texas colleges

Judge greenlights pro-Palestinian students’ free speech lawsuit against Texas colleges

U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman wrote Monday that the groups are "likely to succeed" at proving the institutions’ executive order-informed policies chilled free speech and violated the First Amendment.But he dismissed the claims against some of the defendants, including the governor.


What Is Self-Sovereign Identity, and Could It Impact Higher Education Cybersecurity?

What Is Self-Sovereign Identity, and Could It Impact Higher Education Cybersecurity?

That username and password are attached to some internal identifier, and that’s linked — directly or indirectly — to the entire spectrum of information that the university has about the person.


EDUCAUSE 2024: How Automated Cloud Monitoring Promotes Accountability

EDUCAUSE 2024: How Automated Cloud Monitoring Promotes Accountability

As higher education institutions continue to discover the benefits of hosting data in the cloud, these environments are becoming increasingly complex.


As election looms, undocumented students worry

As election looms, undocumented students worry

The vice president frequently refers to the immigration system as “broken” and told the Democratic National Convention in August that “we can create an earned pathway to citizenship and secure our border.” She’s also championed DACA in the past.


Through education partnerships, Johnson Controls looks to get its ‘fair share’ of technical talent

Through education partnerships, Johnson Controls looks to get its ‘fair share’ of technical talent

The academy’s talent pipeline begins with three Lincoln Tech recruiters working on Johnson Controls’ behalf to identify and build relationships with students at the technical college’s 14 — soon to be 18 — training campuses, Feilen said in an interview.


What Are Ghost Students, and How Do They Operate?

What Are Ghost Students, and How Do They Operate?

And once colleges are aware of the problem, the process of closely scrutinizing applications and monitoring students’ behavior once enrolled can cost an enormous amount of time and effort for admissions officials, faculty members, IT teams and others.


Webster University to close its military campuses

Webster University to close its military campuses

As of Oct. 31, Webster continued to highlight its physical offerings, which combined with its online coursework makes the university “uniquely positioned to serve the educational needs of active-duty military.”


Harris needs to finish the job on for-profit college loan discharges

Harris needs to finish the job on for-profit college loan discharges

Our client, Jaime Maldonado, remembers nearly ten years ago when Harris, then her state's attorney general, announced findings of significant misconduct against thenow-defunct Corinthian Colleges.


EDUCAUSE 2024: Lessons from a Data-Driven Institution

EDUCAUSE 2024: Lessons from a Data-Driven Institution

Some of that was out of necessity, because there is no in-person interaction with students at WGU, but some was by design as the university’s early leaders took a technology-forward approach.