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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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NIST Announces Cybersecurity Framework Workshop

March 13, 2013 | Rodney Petersen

The National Institute for Standards in Technology (NIST) has announced a Cybersecurity Framework Workshop to be held on April 3rd at its headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland. According to the announcement, "NIST is interested in collecting information about current risk management...

California Bill = Path Around Curricular Bottlenecks Through 3rd-Party Online Providers

March 13, 2013 | Jarret Cummings

As numerous mainstream and higher education media outlets have reported--for two, see the New York Times and Inside Higher Education--the California state senate president is poised to introduce a bill that would provide students with a pathway around curricular bottlenecks--introductory courses...

SHLB Summarizes February BTOP/BIP Hearing

March 12, 2013 | Karen A. Wetzel

The SHLB Coalition has provided a nice summary of the February 27 hearing of the House Communications and the Internet Subcommittee. At what SHLB describes as a "contentious" hearing, although both the BTOP and BIP programs "took some hits" there does not "appear to be any plans...

The Copyright Alert System Debated by the Congressional Internet Caucus

March 12, 2013 | Rodney Petersen

As a follow-up to our recently reported Policy Update blog entitled "Copyright Alert System Goes into Effect," the Congressional Internet Caucus held a briefing on Capitol Hill on "Combating Piracy online: The Copyright Alert System, A Voluntary Approach." The briefing...

Who is checking your email?

March 12, 2013 | Rodney Petersen

What is your campus policy and procedure for access to employee email? If you don't know - or you don't have it written down - it might be time to review your practice, write it down, and vet it with the appropriate governance bodies. The issue of administration access to...

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