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Events

EVENTSFEBRUARYFeb. 1-3National Center for Alternative CertificationFirst Annual ConferenceRiverwalk MarriottSan Antonio, TexasContact: David T. ChesterPhone: (202) 822-8280Web: www.ncei.comFeb. 1-5Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers Institute for Facilities ManagementTampa Marriott WatersideTampa, Fla.Web: www.appa.orgFeb. 8-10American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)Academic Affairs Winter Meeting 2004“Embracing Change: Universities In a New Era”Wyndham Harbour Island HotelTampa Bay, Fla. Web: […]

January 28, 2004

How We Use Information Technology

How We Use Information TechnologySurveys can be tedious affirmations of what we already know. Sometimes survey authors extrapolate conclusions from raw data that you wouldn’t necessarily agree with.Yet at their best, surveys can reveal new or only partly recognized truths about our collective behavior, which can cause us to re-examine our individual behavior and possibly […]

January 14, 2004

Finalists Named in DVD Production Competition

Finalists Named in DVD Production CompetitionLONG BEACH, Calif.Student teams from three higher education institutions have been named finalists in Project Pioneer 2880, an extreme DVD production competition that challenges participants to go from script to final DVD in 48 hours or less using high-speed DVD burners. Pioneer Electronics Inc., the sponsor of the national competition, […]

December 31, 2003

Community Colleges

Institutes Provide Program for IT Faculty Development

Institutes Provide Program for IT Faculty DevelopmentWASHINGTONMcGraw-Hill Technology Education is sponsoring the 2004 Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institutes. The 10 institutes were co-founded by the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET), the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and Microsoft. The institutes provide a program for IT faculty development at community colleges.“We are […]

December 31, 2003

Study to Examine Influence of Globalization on Engineers

Study to Examine Influence of Globalization on Engineers URBANA, Ill.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign officials have commissioned a new research study to understand what it means to be an engineer in the 21st-century global economy. The university is inviting participation from researchers and engineers in the E2010 Project, largely to examine the influence of globalization […]

December 17, 2003

Getting Online With a Discounted Internet Service Provider

By Reid GoldsboroughBroadband may be the cutting edge in Internet access, with cable and DSL modem users surfing the Net at blazing speeds. But you pay more for this privilege.Many Internet novices are America Online subscribers. AOL is the world’s largest Internet service provider (ISP) and succeeds by offering new users with an easy way […]

December 3, 2003

Catching Up With Today’s Technology

Catching Up With Today’s TechnologyIf you don’t keep up with the latest in PC hardware, will you get left behind? Or should you follow the maxim, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”?How to best decide when it’s time to replace your PC, or those in your office or company, is always tricky. Spending on […]

November 19, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Educause Study Highlights IT Security in Higher Education

Educause Study Highlights IT Security in Higher EducationDENVERThe Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) has released a major research study on information technology security. The study examines how higher education is dealing with the growing cost of IT security and the tension of preserving confidentiality, ensuring data integrity and maintaining an academic environment in which […]

November 19, 2003

Hewlett Packard Gift Boosts Black Public Colleges

Hewlett Packard Gift Boosts Black Public CollegesNEW YORKIn an effort to boost information technology resources at historically Black public colleges, the Hewlett Packard (HP) company has awarded the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and its 45-member schools equipment and services valued at more than $2.1 million. The donation of HP ProLiant servers, notebook PCs, and other […]

November 19, 2003

Federal Grant Boosts Berkeley’s Environmental Outreach Efforts

Federal Grant Boosts Berkeley’s Environmental Outreach EffortsAs Mark Spencer sees it, students at the University of California-Berkeley have had too little guidance and resources to help them join community organizations in the San Francisco Bay area that are involved in environmental education and restoration projects. Spencer, a Ph.D. candidate in Forest Ecology at Berkeley’s College […]

November 5, 2003

Arming Yourself in the Virus War

Arming Yourself in the Virus WarThey’re a scourge upon our land. It’s difficult not to catastrophesize the virus problem. Computer viruses, worms and other forms of malicious code have become so prevalent that the government, which typically acts only in response to disasters, has begun to act.One of the latest threats involves the release of […]

October 22, 2003

Surviving After the Dot-Com Collapse

Surviving After the Dot-Com CollapseBy Reid GoldsboroughHow can you make money on today’s lean-and-mean Web? Ever since the dot-com collapse of 2000 and 2001, with thousands of Internet companies shutting down their sites and billions of dollars lost in new-economy investments, people have been asking this question. Many have tried to answer it.Some of the […]

October 8, 2003

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