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RE: Fraudulent Student Battle

Posted By George Abraham 10-06-2024 05:48:44 PM
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Updating this list: Socure AMSA S.A.F.E Persona Id.me Mitek Systems Plaid George George Abraham, Chief Information Officer Greenville Technical College Greenville, South Carolina 1-864-236-6447

RE: Fraudulent Student Battle

Posted By George Abraham 09-25-2024 12:29:05 PM
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So far in this discussion, I've read the following purchasable solutions: Socure AMSA S.A.F.E Persona Which others are relevant? Thanks, George George Abraham, Chief Information Officer Greenville Technical College Greenville, South Carolina 1-864-236-6447

RE: Fraudulent Student Battle

Posted By George Abraham 09-25-2024 11:37:10 AM
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Our college has started to see some (not in any meaningful number yet) fraudulent applications. As Julie mentioned, the vectors are many for a community college, since there is generally no application fee. We have started to do some post-hoc reporting (after matriculation, but before add/drop dates) ...

RE: Have you attended Gartner's Data & Analytics conference? Worth the price of admission?

Posted By George Abraham 08-26-2024 03:46:31 PM
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I attended about 5 years ago and found it extremely useful and very helpful, both from a governance perspective and from a tools/platform perspective. George George Abraham, Chief Information Officer Greenville Technical College Greenville, South Carolina 1-864-236-6447

RE: ChatGPT is Bullshit

Posted By George Abraham 08-22-2024 08:07:10 PM
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Hehe, definitely a provocative thesis. May be useful in engaging a section of the populace that might not be engaged in these discussionsb otherwise. George George Abraham, Chief Information Officer Greenville Technical College Greenville, South Carolina 1-864-236-6447

RE: AI & Wellness

Posted By George Abraham 08-14-2024 12:13:53 PM
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This survey is centered on students, but perhaps some aspects could be extrapolated to the general population. Survey of 1006 students using Replika (AI Companion) 30 participants stated that Replika stopped them from attempting suicide Many students reported that it helped them increase social interaction ...

RE: Student point of view re GenAI - new open-access publication

Posted By George Abraham 06-26-2024 09:33:23 AM
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Thanks for sharing this. Very helpful to see the students' perspective. Is there a dataset that might be available from student surveys or similar? Just curious. Regards, George George Abraham, Chief Information Officer Greenville Technical College Greenville, South Carolina 1-86 ...

AI twist to Pell Running fraud

Posted By George Abraham 06-17-2024 07:36:42 AM
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Hi folks, I was trawling the interwebs (as you do) when an Ethan Mollick LinkedIn post pointed me to this Medium post about a very clever twist to a financial aid scam. The scam has apparently been somewhat successful in California Community Colleges for at least a few months. Here's what the ...

New tool - Inflection's Pi AI

Posted By George Abraham 03-07-2024 02:04:00 PM
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Inflection just released their entry into the space of AI tools - https://pi.ai/ which purports to be more of a conversational sidekick. Interesting and definitely engaging. George George Abraham, Chief Information Officer Greenville Technical College Greenville, South Carolina ...

RE: Higher Ed AI Capability Maturity Model (request for feedback)

Posted By George Abraham 02-20-2024 12:52:00 PM
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Thanks for putting this forward. Definitely food for thought. Would lower levels in the Research & Innovation category penalize non-research-oriented institutions like mine? George George Abraham, Chief Information Officer Greenville Technical College Greenville, South Carolina ...

RE: AVD AppStreaming

Posted By George Abraham 02-01-2024 08:53:00 AM
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Interested in this as well, if the information can be shared here. George George Abraham, Chief Information Officer Greenville Technical College Greenville, South Carolina 1-864-236-6447

RE: No FAFSA Data Until March

Posted By George Abraham 01-31-2024 09:32:00 AM
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Thanks for opening a discussion on this, Jarret. My FA folks (who are a magnificent bunch) are going to be burnt out with this. To compound our specific problem, we are in the midst of an ERP transition; it promises to be a wild ride! Regards, George George Abraham, Chief Information ...

RE: Struggling to understand Power apps

Posted By George Abraham 01-26-2024 09:48:00 AM
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We have used PA911 also as a 'helper' with developing Power Apps. Very good to work with and their mentorship tier is, I think, a good one. I just wish they were on South Carolina State Contract! George George Abraham, Chief Information Officer Greenville Technical College ...

RE: AI Comments by Musk

Posted By George Abraham 11-03-2023 09:02:00 AM
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At least based on the toolsets available to us peasants, the ability of robots (specialized or generalized) to do all work (however you want to define work) seems a way off. LLMs are not AGI, so even the intelligence seems to be a way off. The proliferation of tools and toolsets around these LLMs and ...

MS365 Copilot - any idea about EDU pricing?

Posted By George Abraham 10-26-2023 12:02:00 PM
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Colleagues, It doesn't seem like there has been any information about pricing for A3 or A5 folks for MS365 Copilot. I know that it hasn't rolled out yet to EDU customers other than a couple of pilot (ha!) institutions. Does anyone have any clue? Thanks, George George Abraham, Chief Information ...

RE: Provisioning faculty and staff in Teams

Posted By George Abraham 09-27-2023 09:15:00 PM
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* looks at wall of text (with references and further reading) * single tear rolls down cheek Well, this is going to be amazingly helpful! Thanks for the time and effort in putting this down, Joe. Now on to the task of analyzing our situation to see what Hot Mess we need to create here in my institution! ...

Provisioning faculty and staff in Teams

Posted By George Abraham 09-27-2023 08:47:00 AM
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Hi all, I am a bit outside my comfort zone on the infrastructure side of things, so I apologize if I am getting any nomenclature wrong. I assume that the way most institutions are provisioning their employees in MS Teams is by using groups in Active Directory. In our institution, we ...

RE: Question about Solutions Provider

Posted By George Abraham 09-11-2023 06:27:00 AM
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We work with SIG on security and non-security engagements; they are on State Contract here in SC. Brian Kirk (from their Cybersecurity Services) is on this list and frequently posts on security policy and compliance issues. No complaints from our side. Regards, George George Abraham, Chief ...

RE: O365 vs Google

Posted By George Abraham 07-25-2023 09:16:00 AM
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Some of the respondents have given you some excellent points to think on. I would add one more aspect – licensing. Whichever decision you decide to make, you may have to devote a lot of brainpower to figuring out what licensing for the platform or associated integrations/bolt-ons looks like. It tends ...

RE: Student Emails

Posted By George Abraham 06-01-2023 09:13:00 AM
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In talking with our staff about similar ideas, one piece of the calculus around this is the cost/effort currently being expended to maintaining a system that provides edu email to students. A large portion of institutions have moved to products like Google Workspace or M365 where email for students is ...