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Can Application Modernization Keep Higher Ed Cyberattackers at Bay?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

In 2014, a vulnerability was discovered in a critical security library used by a massive number of systems worldwide. The Heartbleed Bug exploited a lack of bounds checking in the Transport Layer Security heartbeat protocol, and when an exploit was published in April 2014, millions of systems were immediately vulnerable.

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NIST Cybersecurity Framework Gets First Refresh

Campus Technology

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an update to its Cybersecurity Framework — the first since the guidance document was issued in 2014.

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Undergraduate institutions of doctoral recipients

Higher Ed Data Stories

For some, it could be 2014; for others, 2000. One answer to that question you're wondering about: No, I cannot normalize this to show the percentage of graduates of any institution who go on to get a doctorate, because I'd have to guess about when the people in 2018, for instance, graduated from college. Let me know what you find.

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Howard University Rescinds Sean "Diddy" Combs Honorary Doctorate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Howard University said that it has rescinded the 2014 honorary degree given to rapper and hip-hop mogul, Sean "Diddy" Combs. The university made the announcement on June 7, several weeks after Combs was seen on a 2016 hotel video assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassandra "Cassie" Ventura. "The

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Scaling Up: Expanding Entrepreneurship Across Campus

Inside Higher Ed

the Kogod School of Business launched an entrepreneurship initiative in 2014 that has grown over the past decade to include an undergraduate minor, business incubator and regular campus-wide programming. Like any good startup, a college’s entrepreneurship program requires time, resource investment and creative thinking.

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How Colleges Leverage Data to Retain Students as the Enrollment Cliff Looms

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

In 2014, the Florida Board of Governors, the governing body for all of the state’s public universities, adopted changes to the system for funding higher education. Student performance has always been a key indicator of higher education institutions’ success.

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One in six at English unis studying overseas

The PIE News

In its latest insight brief, OfS said that in 2021/22, 455,000 students were studying at overseas campuses, doing distance learning or learning with partner organisations, up significantly from 2014/15, and over 40,000 more than 2020/21. However, it isn’t just China and Sri Lanka with growing TNE populations.