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Work was the No. 1 challenge reported by students, cited by 34 percent of survey respondents. That was followed by paying expenses (also 34 percent), family and friends (30 percent), online classes (21 percent) and parking on campus (21 percent).
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knowledge, according to a recent report by Cisco. While the largest target was made up of energy and utility companies, in the Cisco study, colleges experienced 22 percent of all cryptomining attempts.
BOUNTY HUNTING. Stanford University (CA) has implemented a “bug bounty” program that pays people for finding vulnerabilities in the university’s software systems. Set up by the Information Security office, the program is only open to Stanford students and full-time employees. During a pilot phase, a limited number of domains and vulnerabilities are being considered for the payoffs. Rewards range from $50 to $1,000, all paid in Amazon gift cards; the bigger rewards go to anybody finding problems defined as “critical,” including remote code execution or SQL injection.
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CC CHALLENGES. In a recent survey, community college students cited online learning as one of their top five challenges to success. Conducted by researchers from North Carolina State University, the Reveal- ing Institutional Strengths and Challenges (RISC) Survey polled 50,097 students at 10 community colleges across the United States.
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SEARCHING FOR SUCCESS. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is seeking organiza- tions that can help “transform” colleges and universities to boost student success. These “intermediaries for scale” will have two leading characteristics: They’ve figured out how to increase student success in education after high school, and they possess a track record of working across multiple institutions serving a significant number of low-income students and students of color. Those that make the cut will be awarded grants to “blueprint” their work to see how well it can accelerate and scale.
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