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The Role of Campus Leadership in Ensuring IT Accessibility

“Everyone should have an opportunity to participate in higher education.”

With those words, Michael K. Young, President of the University of Washington, opens a new video from his institution’s AccessComputing Project, IT Accessibility: What Campus Leaders Have to Say. Developed with support from the National Science Foundation, this video presents university presidents, chief information officers, and other higher education leaders who stress the importance to higher education of accessibility for persons with disabilities, and of having campus technology environments that support it.

Posted by Diana Oblinger

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SHEEO State Authorization Resources Updated

May 10, 2013 | Jarret Cummings

Sharmila Mann, a senior policy analyst at the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) association, issued the following announcement this week on SHEEO's freshly updated state authorization resources, including its guide to the authorization regulations, processes, and contacts for...

ED Kicks Off Information Management Week with a Data Privacy Panel

May 7, 2013 | Rodney Petersen

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of the Chief Privacy Officer kicked off Information Management Week (May 7-9, 2013) with a keynote panel discussion on "Big Data, Small Data, Apps & Analytics: Can We Transform Education Without Sacrificing Privacy?" CPO Kathleen...

Two Copyright Items of Note

May 7, 2013 | Joan Cheverie

On April 24, 2013, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) announced that the Committee would conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. copyright law over the coming months. The goal of these hearings will be to determine whether the current law is still workable in the...

NTIA Broadband Adoption Toolkit Unveiled at SHLB Conference

May 6, 2013 | Rodney Petersen

The Department of Commerce used the occasion of the annual conference of the Schools, Healthcare, Libraries and Broadband (SHLB) coalition to announce the release of a new NTIA Broadband Adoption Toolkit. Larry Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information,...

Incident Management and Response Checklist

May 6, 2013 | Valerie M. Vogel

Rather than waiting for a data breach to happen, consider using an incident checklist to establish a campus incident response team, review your institution's readiness, and develop (or adjust) your incident management and response roadmap. In a recent Security listserv discussion, one campus...

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