An Alabama high school this fall will start requiring its 1,400 students to wear a picture ID, the school’s new principal has announced. “The ID’s are for administrators, for teachers, for students. The safety issue is that we’ve had some...
States, counties and cities aren’t the only ones going after stimulus dollars. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has submitted 30 proposals for grants totaling more than $30 million for projects including increasing security on campus with more lighting and...
What started out as a free service–Metro bus rides–is now costing students at the University of Cincinnati money and another increase may be coming. “We want to keep it going,” said a university spokesperson, who pointed to a reduction in...
A desktop computer stolen from Virginia Commonwealth University may have exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 17,000 current and former students. As a result, the university is offering a year of free ID theft insurance to those affected....
Social Security numbers rarely fade away, even after they’re no longer being used as employee or student identifiers. That’s what the University of Washington learned when a computer hack put the names and Social Security numbers of more than 6,000...
Just when a college thinks it has eliminated the ubiquitous Social Security number as a student identifier, those persistent nine digits have a nasty habit of cropping up again. Case in point is a community college in Binghamton, N.Y. that...
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan., has notified 45 students who took an agricultural course eight-years ago that some of their personal information, including Social Security numbers, had been available via a K-State Web site since 2001. Although there is no...
About 18,000 current and former students at Ohio State University have discovered that their names and Social Security numbers were inadvertently posted to a server that was accessible via the Internet. While no abuses have been reported, the school has...
New student privacy regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Education enable universities to use ID numbers, but not Social Security numbers, in student directories as long as they can’t be used to access education records without another form of...
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