technology Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/technology/ A Blog by ACE Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:10:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png technology Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/technology/ 32 32 The Advantages of Being a New President in a Virtual World https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/06/02/advantages-new-president-virtual-world/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:31:20 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17572 By Cathy Sandeen On January 4, 2021, I arrived at my position as the new president of Cal State East Bay. The parking lot was virtually empty, and not just because we were returning from the winter break. The San Francisco Bay Area was on lockdown, and there were at most 100 people on a campus with a student enrollment of ...

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]]> Learner Records: If You Build It, Will They Use It? https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/09/29/learner-records-build-will-use/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:16:31 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17006 By Louis Soares This post is presented as part of ACE’s Education Blockchain Initiative, which aims to identify ways that blockchain can improve connections between education and employment. Apply by Oct. 30 to be part of the Blockchain Innovation Challenge, designed to explore both the opportunities and the risks of using blockchain in higher education. Today’s students stop and restart their ...

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]]> Lessons Learned from Rural Community Colleges’ Response to COVID-19 https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/06/22/lessons-learned-rural-community-colleges-response-covid-19/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:07:57 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16769 By Suzanne Wilson Summers Suzanne Wilson Summers is writing about her year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts on how community colleges can build internal cultures that support student success. Read her first post here. Rural community colleges represent over 3.4 million students spread across 800 campuses nationwide and serve as “centers of educational opportunity,” according to ...

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]]> We Need to Talk About Learning Continuity https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/04/22/need-talk-learning-continuity/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:16:50 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16526 By Louis Soares As colleges and universities across the country activate their business continuity plans, campuses are closed and all but essential in-person services and administrators have moved business and teaching online. The practices and processes outlined in those plans will be essential for navigating the next few months and, perhaps, the fall. But I can’t help thinking about what comes ...

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]]> Guideposts for the COVID-19 Learning Transition https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/03/30/guideposts-covid-19-learning-transition/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:23:54 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16464 By Louis Soares In a recent op-ed for The New York Times, higher education scholars Richard Arum and Mitchell L. Stevens raised fundamental and intriguing questions about how the COVID-19 crisis could drive a move to online instruction and perhaps signal deep changes coming to higher education’s business and academic models. Their focus on residential and selective institutions provides both ways ...

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]]> Transforming Professional Learning and Building a New Higher Education Community https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/11/transforming-professional-learning-building-new-higher-education-community/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:00:43 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14507 By Philip Rogers and Louis Soares ACE believes that the power to sustain and renew American higher education lies in the creativity, commitment, and expertise of the thousands of leaders who work every day to educate students on the nation’s college campuses. Philip Rogers and Louis Soares discuss the Council’s efforts to develop affordable, scalable, professional learning opportunities to make institutions ...

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]]> Five New England Colleges Open Solar Plant to Offset Energy Use https://www.higheredtoday.org/2018/05/07/five-new-england-colleges-open-solar-plant-offset-energy-use/ Mon, 07 May 2018 09:00:10 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=12763 Five ACE member institutions in New England are teaming up to build a solar power facility to help offset their use of electricity. Amherst College, Hampshire College, Smith College, and Williams College in Massachusetts and Bowdoin College in Maine partnered with NextEra Energy Resources to build the plant and will purchase zero-carbon electricity from it when it is completed. The solar ...

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]]> Study Abroad (At Home) https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/04/20/study-abroad-home/ Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:07:55 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=9073 By John O’Brien, president of EDUCAUSE. Originally posted on EDUCAUSE Review.  The ACE COIL Leadership Academy is scheduled for April 27-28 in Washington, DC. Registrations will be accepted through April 21. Discounts are available to representatives of HBCUs. I count myself among the luckiest in the world. I grew up in a small town, and for the first two decades of my ...

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]]> Hiram College as the New Liberal Arts: Integrated Study, High-Impact Experiences, Mindful Technology https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/04/05/hiram-college-new-liberal-arts-integrated-study-high-impact-experiences-mindful-technology/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:50:26 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=8893 By Lori Varlotta Starting this fall, Hiram College—a liberal arts institution in northeast Ohio—becomes one of a small number of colleges and universities throughout the country to roll out a 1:1 campus-wide mobile technology program. This 1:1 program issues all full-time traditional college students, faculty and staff a state-of-the-art technology package. As a longtime educator, I know that mobile technology plays ...

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]]> Access, Accessibility: The Future of Technology on Campus https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/11/09/access-accessibility-future-technology-campus/ Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:31:17 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=6885 By Jon Fansmith In higher education, we tend to think of “access” in terms of a very specific set of issues. Predominantly, we use the term to talk about how low-income students or students from underrepresented groups enter higher education. But increasingly, there’s another kind of access that is drawing the attention of policymakers: access to postsecondary education for students with ...

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]]> Georgia Gwinnett College Strengthening the STEM Pipeline, One Student at a Time https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/09/21/georgia-gwinnett-college-strengthening-stem-pipeline-one-student-time/ Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:59:47 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=7276 Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) is putting its ideas into practice through a bold initiative designed to both improve retention in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields and prepare STEM students for life post-graduation. This commitment is born from a 2014 White House initiative that GGC signed onto, led by president Stanley “Stas” Preczewski, ACE Fellows Class of 2003-04. As ...

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]]> To Solve Real-World Issues, Purdue University Northwest Takes to Virtual Reality https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/08/03/to-solve-real-world-issues-purdue-university-northwest-takes-to-virtual-reality/ Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:46:12 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=5407 Purdue University Northwest’s (PNW) Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) is taking its commitment to the community to a new reality through its work producing innovative solutions to industrial and research challenges across Indiana and the nation. CIVS is an interdisciplinary applied research center that combines advanced simulation techniques with 3-D visualization technologies. The Center is recognized around the ...

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