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A comprehensive IAM strategy could be the best defense against cybercrime targeting higher ed institutions, but without proper governance and insight into users and their identities, university IT departments could leave themselves vulnerable to threats.
When Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion striking down race-conscious admissions, he said in a footnote that military academies were exempted from the ruling because they had “potentially distinct interests” from civilian colleges.
A typical response was “Hmm … that’s a good question,” “I’m not familiar with that program” or “I’ll have to ask my supervisor.” Many administrators had detailed knowledge of institutional policies governing AP or CLEP exams but were wholly unfamiliar with the GED college-readiness designations.
Customers are parties who are viewed as needing to be appealed to by vendors who seek to understand what a group of people are interested in and then set out to, ideally, offer a product at an attractive cost (i.e., price) to gain market acceptance and patronage.
In the program, students may view video-based instruction on Chromebooks in a lab, with an instructor present to answer questions, or spend time opening and closing circuits to direct power in a ballroom the school converted into a data center training facility.
"Opportunities now exist to pivot to alternative approaches to DEI that deemphasize person-level identities and experiences and put the focus on policies at the institution-level — for example, programs for dramatically increasing numbers of low-income students — that have a strong track record of making a real difference," he wrote.
He wrote to Kotlikoff just two days after Torres’s post, saying the course description’s assertion of there being “settler colonialism” in Israel/Palestine is a “false premise” that “seeks to delegitimize the State of Israel” and “justify Palestinian terrorism.” Rosensaft said it’s “safe to assume” that Cheyfitz would portray the atrocities of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack in “a positive light.”
Toward determining the logic skills, analysis ability, context awareness and readiness of current models to serve as assistants, I ran a simple, short test as one might do with a human agent who is drafting reports and responding to email and inquiries on your behalf.
“Higher completion rates are welcome news for colleges and universities still struggling to regain enrollment levels from before the pandemic,” Doug Shapiro, the research center’s executive director, said in a statement dated Wednesday.
“In alignment with the court ruling, employees receiving increased pay in November and December will revert to their original salary in January,” the university said in an emailed statement.
The issue has pervaded campus discourse since the start of the current pro-Palestinian protest movement over a year ago, with some harshly condemning phrases like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as a call to eradicate Israel and its people, while others argue it’s simply a cry for peace and Palestinian self-determination.
Craig Lindwarm, senior vice president for governmental affairs at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, added that it’s “overly simplistic” to view the sole function of state funding as keeping tuition prices low.