E-Scholarship

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Scholarship

EDUCAUSE Response to NIST RFI: Developing a Framework to Improve Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

April 9, 2013

The Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC), hosted by EDUCAUSE and Internet2, is pleased to submit comments to the NIST Request For Information on Developing a Framework to Improve…

ECPA Reform Update

February 11, 2013

Recording of the January 29, 2013 call with Greg Nojeim, Senior Counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) reform and its implication…

House Cmte. Passes Bill on Higher Ed. Data Transparency

May 16, 2013

On a bipartisan voice vote that took place in record time yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce approved sending the "Improving Postsecondar…

The Student Unit Record System Returns?

May 13, 2013

As reported today in Inside Higher Ed , the Wyden-Rubio, and now Warner (D-VA), "Student Right to Know Before You Go Act" has shifted from its early stage concept of knitting…

SHEEO State Authorization Resources Updated

May 10, 2013

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 au…

Major Higher Ed. Community Developments on State Authorization

April 23, 2013

The higher education community continues to make significant progress toward addressing the problems of distance education state authorization through the development of a state authorization rec…

Google Accessibility Improvements

April 22, 2013

Google started informing its applications user groups today about the accessibility improvements it has made to a range of its applications and software platforms. (Please see below for the quote…

FCC Telecom Service Provider Accessibility Certification Rules

April 22, 2013

Our friends at ACUTA (the higher education telecommunications administrators association) have posted an alert to colleges and universities that "charge students, tenants, or others for …

Fed. Regs. on Student Identity Verification, State Authorization of Distance Ed. Back on the Radar

April 16, 2013

As reported in today's  Inside Higher Ed , the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has announced its intent to modify the rule-making effort  it originally proposed last year  …

Data Privacy Month Awareness Video, 2013

January 14, 2013

SANS and EDUCAUSE have developed a free privacy awareness video that colleges and universities can use during Data Privacy Month in January, and throughout the year, in their privacy educ…