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What I Learned in Jail
"Are we going to do collage?" asked a large man in a blue jumpsuit and day-glo orange tennis shoes.
"No, I don't think we'll be doing any collage, at least not for now, Bob. Sorry."
It was the first day of my first class at the local county jail. I'd signed on as a volunteer graphic design instructor, and I knew there would be challenges. But putting a 290-pound student in a deep funk within the first five minutes of class was a bad start.
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Telling your Organization's Story
One of the most important responsibilities of a Chief Information Officer is to communicate the story of their organization, it's work, what drives its strategy, and most importantly - how it is succeeding. Over the past ten years I have found that a simple status and activity report, written for senior executives, can be an important and effective tool for doing just that. On a monthly basis, I compile this report and distribute it to the president, vice presidents, deans, and other...
What will be the Impact of the National Election on Higher Education?
All eyes in Washington, D.C., are now firmly focused on the national election in the weeks leading up to November 6th. We asked representatives of higher education associations for their perspectives on the impact of the election on higher education. The results of those interviews are shared in this video.
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What ConnectUGA is About
One of the more memorable experiences from earlier in my career was sitting with the Director of Human Resources at Texas A&M and hearing her recount a frustrating experience she had had with the IT director managing the University’s payroll system. She and I were talking about a project to better manage the University’s classification and employment records and she was telling me about her need for authoritative data about employees. What she got from the payroll system wasn...
What Facial Recognition Technology Means for Privacy and Civil Liberties: A Hearing
On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 the Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing of the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law entitled, “What Facial Recognition Technology Means for Privacy and Civil Liberties.” Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) spoke about the need for tight rules on facial recognition software. He said that the privacy and legal implications surrounding facial recognition technology remain murky. The committee questioned...
All Together Now!
Collaboration. Convergence. Community. Each is important not only to higher education information technology as a profession but also to EDUCAUSE as an organization.
We have spent the past year collaborating on how best to converge various EDUCAUSE publications (EDUCAUSE Review, EQ, EDUCAUSE Now) into a format that will allow us to both experiment with innovative digital tools and release...
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