You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. As conversations swirl about how to improve higher education’s return on investment for students ...

Earlier last week I read the article "Student data systems going south." I was struck by the similarity to my own post from a couple months ago (Scheduling (enough said)), in which I actually called ...

The 2020 list of EDUCAUSE’s Top 10 IT Issues provides evidence that the higher education IT community is increasingly focused on using technology to better understand students and rethink systems, ...

Rich Rediker, CEO of Rediker Software, developer of the popular student information system, Administrator's Plus, responded this evening to my last post on trends in Web-based SIS applications. As a ...

Imagine you are at a higher education conference and several attendees from IBM take the stage. They have big news. They announce that they have developed something called the University and College ...

As student data moves online, concerns from some parents and teachers are mounting around the safety of protecting the data from getting in the hands of corporations. At the root of the angst ...

When I talk to people about the importance of data security in education, I’m often asked, “Why does securing students’ information matter?” While it’s true that most adults and even teenagers ...

Back in the fall of 2020, a few staff members from the Philadelphia public school system’s central office brought a vexing problem to Sarah Galbally, the district’s lobbyist in the state capital of ...

Area school districts might have been impacted by the cyberattack of a nationwide education software cloud-based platform called PowerSchool, used to store sensitive student data. PowerSchool, the ...

A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers' personal data – including some Social Security Numbers and medical info ...