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Year-Round Education Requires Year-Round IT Support

Self-service, artificial intelligence and human support supplemented by managed service providers all help deliver around-the-clock assistance.

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What Could Brain-Computer Interfaces Mean for Students With Disabilities?

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Artificial Intelligence

Are Colleges Ready To Support the AI Workforce?

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What Shadow IT Can Teach Higher Ed Tech Leaders About the Faculty Experience

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AWS Program Gives College Students Access to AI and Cloud Resources

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Artificial Intelligence

Why Trust Matters as Higher Ed Adopts AI Tools

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Why Higher Ed CIOs Should Embrace a Federated Data Governance Strategy

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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Technology Powers University-Industry Research Partnerships

Artificial Intelligence

How Can AI Agents Support Lean Higher Ed Security Teams?

Data Analytics

Why Higher Ed CIOs Must Own Enterprise Data Strategy

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How Campus IT Leaders Can Innovate Despite AI Pushback

Artificial Intelligence

Higher Education’s Technology Shift Serves Up Food Service Cost Optimization

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What the Workforce Pell Grant Launch Means for Community College IT Leaders

Management

AI and Enrollment Pressures Are Reshaping Higher Education

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Virtual Tech Tools Fuel Higher Ed Robotics Research

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Centralized Cybersecurity Operations Keeps Community Colleges Protected

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How Universities Are Turning Their Connected Campuses Into Smart Cities

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Centralized Cybersecurity Operations Keeps Community Colleges Protected

Community college systems move IT and cybersecurity systems out of siloes and into centralized hubs of efficient, cost-saving operations, bolstering defense along with their bottom line.

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Security

AI-Enabled Ghost Student Fraud: How IT Leaders Are Fighting Back

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Why Higher Ed IT Can't Afford To Wait on Quantum Security

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Translating Higher Education Cybersecurity Into Business Value

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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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