In a data-driven world, protecting your data is an essential skill in your student and personal life. Colleges and universities are collecting more data than ever. Understanding which information ...

For example, let’s consider the student data management system PowerSchool to illustrate the difficulty in maintaining student privacy when there is leadership or ownership turnover.

Increasingly, universities are collecting and analyzing student data for a variety of purposes. At the University of Arizona, for example, a researcher analyzed the swipes of student ID cards at ...

While this might seem like meeting students in “their world”, the risk of blurring social and work boundaries, which may impact on student privacy, is significant. For example, a WhatsApp message to a ...

The research addresses a fundamental challenge in modern education: the lack of cohesive insights from disparate student data ...

Students at the University of Alaska have created a public database containing salary information of university employees.

Identification, classification and handling of Purdue data, classified as public, sensitive or restricted, is essential to ensure the appropriate protection is applied.

For example, students in my class determined a change of the traditional formal class presentations to student-led TED Talks and/or video stories. Student data can be truly beneficial in improving ...

The database could also show, for example, the student was improving and was in an English-as-a-second-language program.

More than 30 advocacy groups are urging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to stop developing a database of detailed information about students that is intended to prevent school shootings, saying it ...