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02/25/21 The Campus Technology Insider podcast explores current trends and issues impacting technology leaders in higher education. Listen in as Executive Editor Rhea Kelly chats with ed tech experts and practitioners about their work, ideas and experiences. Ransomware, Zero Trust and the Impact of the Pandemic on Higher Ed IT Security Stephen Heath One unintended impact of the pandemic in higher education is the strain that remote work and learning has put on IT security. Decisions made out of necessity in the heat of the moment, to preserve the continuity of teaching and learning, can poten...

By Dian Schaffhauser 02/26/21 The University of Toledo just received a five-year, $12.5 million grant from the U.S. Air Force to develop flexible solar cell sheets for space. The photovoltaic energy sheets will be used to collect solar energy for powering Earth-based receivers or other orbital or aerial instrumentation, such as communications satellites. Physicists at the institution will develop flexible solar cell sheets, each about the size of a piece of paper, which can be assembled and connected into considerably larger structures. A single space-based array could use tens of millions of...

Des Moines University, a medicine and health sciences institution in Iowa, has received a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to outfit a planned state-of-the-art simulation center on a new campus. Goals of the project include enabling healthcare providers and students to train on simulated and live patients, to advance their clinical skills, and to boost the addition of telehealth as a permanent feature of the state's healthcare system. Besides simulation labs, the equipment will incorporate the use of artificial intelligence and virtual reality. The university, which broke ground...

Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology Unity College in Maine, which frames itself as “America’s Environmental College,” has opened up debate about whether small institutions really need to have flagship campuses to survive. In a recently updated FAQ, college leaders wrote that for the time being, the school planned to “continue to offer face-to-face, experiential, environmentally-focused programs” on its 240-acre campus — once the campus reopens. At the same time, they noted, “If it is no longer financially viable, the college leadership has the ability to explore selling the ma...

By Dian Schaffhauser 02/23/21 What would students give up if they could head back to college in person? Seven in 10 would relinquish their AirPods for a month if it meant a month back on campus. Sixty-five percent would trade fast food and 56 percent would trade workouts for the whole semester for an equal amount of in-person time. More than half (51 percent) would forego their smartphones for a month in order to go back on campus for a month. And 54 percent would skip spring breaks for the rest of their college careers in order to remain on campus over the same period.