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How State Universities Are Addressing The Shortage Of Cybersecurity Professionals In The United States, Gary Harris
How State Universities Are Addressing The Shortage Of Cybersecurity Professionals In The United States, Gary Harris
Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
Cybersecurity threats have been a serious and growing problem for decades. In addition, a severe shortage of cybersecurity professionals has been proliferating for nearly as long. These problems exist in the United States and globally and are well documented in literature. This study examined what state universities are doing to help address the shortage of cybersecurity professionals since higher education institutions are a primary source to the workforce pipeline. It is suggested that the number of cybersecurity professionals entering the workforce is related to the number of available programs. Thus increasing the number of programs will increase the number of …
Campus Paper Waste, Joshua E. Randall
Campus Paper Waste, Joshua E. Randall
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
The fall of 2004 at Minnesota State University, a new program called MavPrint was introduced. The user submits a document to be printed at a computer, the expense is deducted from their account, and then their document can be retrieved from any MavPrint station. In years past printing had been free, but seeing how according to Bryan Schneider, the director of Technical Services at Minnesota State University – Mankato, from the year 2003 to the year 2004 the printing costs for the University rose 200 percent, they felt it was time to make a change. MSU students printed out over …
An Automatic Dialog System For Student Advising, Brian Mcmahan
An Automatic Dialog System For Student Advising, Brian Mcmahan
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Automatic dialog systems are an implementation of natural language processing theory with the goal of allowing the use of natural sentences to communicate with a computer system. The general purpose of this project was to design and implement an automatic dialog system for augmenting university student advising. Student advising is a relatively narrow domain of possible questions and responses. The automatic dialog system focused on prescriptive advising rather than developmental advising to further narrow the domain to scheduling and registration matters. A student advisor was interviewed and recorded during a mock advising session in order to model the interaction between …
Computer Access For Students With Disabilities: An Adaptive Technology Laboratory, Frances Grodzinsky
Computer Access For Students With Disabilities: An Adaptive Technology Laboratory, Frances Grodzinsky
School of Computer Science & Engineering Faculty Publications
Adaptive technology, which permits equity of access, has helped to reassure people with disabilities that they can attempt a university education with minimal accommodation.