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Higher Ed IT Professional Development Boosts Staff Retention and Business Continuity

Leverage training and upskilling as part of technology purchases, optimize staff augmentation for knowledge transfer and implementation, and rethink internal approaches to staff retention.

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How Marshall University Is Preparing Students for an Evolving Cybersecurity Workforce

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Artificial Intelligence

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Security

How Universities Can Manage Vendor Risk After the Canvas Breach

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Security

Higher Ed Institutions Ramp Up Defenses Against Deepfakes

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Security

The New Campus Reality: Building Cyber Resilience Against Ongoing Threats

The interactive media lab is totally becoming a point of marketing and differentiation for the college, a tool for recruitment and retention.”

Professor Dan Cuffaro, Industrial Design, Cleveland Institute of Art

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Management

Data Governance Is Just the Beginning: Why University IT Leaders Must Also Master These Data Disciplines

Artificial Intelligence

Why Data Readiness Is the Foundation for AI Readiness in Higher Education

Artificial Intelligence

How Ventura College Scaled Faculty AI-Readiness Through Communities of Practice

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What Can Higher Ed IT Do About the Agentic AI Cheating Crisis?

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Artificial Intelligence

College of Charleston AI Challenge Encourages Innovation

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Cybersecurity ROI in Higher Education: How To Win the Budget Conversation

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Cleveland Institute of Art's Interactive Media Lab Redefines What an Art School Can Be

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Data Literacy Is Key to AI ROI for Higher Education

Management

Higher Ed IT Plays an Essential Role in Reducing Workday Friction

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How Marshall University Is Preparing Students for an Evolving Cybersecurity Workforce

Real-world work experience in a security operations center helps students build their résumés before graduation.

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Security

How Universities Can Manage Vendor Risk After the Canvas Breach

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Higher Ed Institutions Ramp Up Defenses Against Deepfakes

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The New Campus Reality: Building Cyber Resilience Against Ongoing Threats

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Cleveland Institute of Art's Interactive Media Lab Redefines What an Art School Can Be

Part community hub, part creative lab, the college’s Interactive Media Lab puts some of the most innovative and boundary-pushing creative tools in the hands of faculty and students.
EDUCAUSE 2025: Make it Simple, Make it Scalable

Higher education institutions can design learning environments that evolve with student and faculty needs by emphasizing flexibility, scalability and inclusivity. All are essential to supporting both in-person and hybrid learning.
Higher Ed Strengthens Incident Response With AI and Practice

At EDUCAUSE 2025, CDW experts Jeff Falsetti and Pat Sullivan shared how higher education leaders can modernize security operations, use artificial intelligence-driven forensics and make tabletop services routine to build faster, smarter incident response strategies.
EDUCAUSE 2025: Inside the CIO Playbook – Trust, AI and Incident Response Readiness

University CIOs share practical approaches to incidence response planning in the face of cybersecurity threats that are growing in complexity and frequency.
EDUCAUSE 2025: From Cloud to AI: How Higher Ed Leaders Are Building Communities of Excellence

University IT leaders work together to share knowledge and draw on existing frameworks of established community-based organizations to address collective IT challenges in higher ed.

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