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Drawing a Roadmap: Barriers and Challenges to Designing the Ideal Virtual World for Higher Education

ckeller — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:41:40 -0500

When using a roadmap, one can take many different paths to reach a desired destination. Similarly, institutions can take many different turns along the road to implementing an ideal virtual world for higher education.

Responding to Compulsory Legal Requests for Information

drupal — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:13:15 -0500

The author discusses the need for schools to provide consistent institutional responses to requests for information. Suggestions include establishing a single point of contact to receive compulsory legal requests.

Social Networking Technologies: A "Poke" for Campus Services

drupal — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:57:34 -0500

Although advances in social networking technologies allow for new and perhaps more efficient means of learning and communicating, they also pose some significant challenges in higher education, especially for those campus professionals who provide student and academic services.

A Unified Approach to Information Security Compliance

drupal — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:55:05 -0500

By adopting a unified approach to information security compliance, higher education institutions not only can effectively satisfy the requirements of the growing number of state and federal laws and industry regulations but also can address identified risks and improve the security of their information assets.

Privacy Protection and Compliance in Higher Education: The Role of the CPO

drupal — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:23:56 -0500

Privacy management in higher education, a uniquely challenging effort, depends on senior management support, strategic partnerships, collaboration, and most important, the necessary skill set and the appropriate organizational placement of the Chief Privacy Officer or other privacy professional.

Civil Privacy and National Security Legislation: A Three-Dimensional View

drupal — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:14:28 -0500

Higher education in general and IT professions in particular join with all of American society in an attempt to understand the divergent legislative imperatives of privacy and security.

New Responsibilities in the Post-September 11 World

drupal — Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:14:47 -0600

The author discusses how new federal laws passed since September 11th effect the higher education IT community.