Flipping out or flipping the board
Is this post AI? What textbook is that? Why are there bolded headers? Wow, that student is using the work of a scholar I came across in graduate school! Awesome or cheating? Grading online discussion…
Technology
Developing the workforce for the data center economy
A quiet but consequential shift is occurring in the United States economy. The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and digital services is driving the proliferation of data centers across the nation. This…
When cold cases meet fresh eyes
When Autum Clay sits down to work on a case, she’s not analyzing a textbook scenario or watching a crime documentary. She’s poring over actual evidence from an unsolved investigation — crime scene photos, witness…
AI literacy through AI bots in the classroom
In October, a terrified mother called the police to help her daughter in Fountain, Colorado. With her panic surging and fearing for her daughter’s life, she did her utmost to get help until she could…
Looking at optics through a new lens
The optical systems technology program at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, was founded in the 1960s as the feeder program to train technicians for Kodak, Xerox, Bausch & Lomb and more than 150…
Alumni return to pitch laser, photonics careers
In a government laboratory in California, there’s a giant chamber where 192 laser beams can be shot into a target — providing key data for scientists. Maintaining those lasers and using computer software to help…
Innovations to reduce college costs
A House hearing on innovations at colleges that reduce costs examined a wide range of cutting-edge programs, such as tapping AI to cut operational costs and sharing online programs. But witnesses and several House members…
ICYMI: Coverage of ATE 2025
A compilation of CC Daily articles on the 2025 Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigators’ Conference October 29-31. Living proof of being resilient by designAt Wednesday’s kick-off of the annual Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigators Conference…
The future of farming in the Garden State
Two New Jersey community colleges have collaborated on a unique forum about the future of agriculture in the northwest part of the state, bringing together leaders in farming, education and politics with the hope of…
Students champion ATE on Capitol Hill
For most of the 52 community college students and alumni who participated in the 2025 ATE Principal Investigators’ Conference’s student poster session last week, it was their first time in Washington, D.C. For all but…