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Deep Dive: How College Onboarding Is Getting A Remote Push During The Pandemic
Deep Dive: How College Onboarding Is Getting A Remote Push During The Pandemic
September 16, 2020  |  Digital Onboarding

The COVID-19 pandemic’s negative effects are hitting almost every sector, and higher education is no exception. Many colleges and universities are scrambling to reconfigure classes...

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West Virginia University On Transitioning New Student Onboarding To An Online Future
West Virginia University On Transitioning New Student Onboarding To An Online Future
September 15, 2020  |  Digital Onboarding

Onboarding new U.S. university students is taking on a whole new level of complexity in the pandemic era, as once in-person activities like finalizing financial...

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British FinTech Besieged By Parents’ Complaints Over School Refunds
British FinTech Besieged By Parents’ Complaints Over School Refunds
June 04, 2020  |  International

Hundreds of angry British parents are fighting for refunds from ParentPay Limited Co., the online school payments firm. The Financial Times reported that many parents...

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Reopening Trends: Consumers Spending More On Gas, Kids Still Home From School
Reopening Trends: Consumers Spending More On Gas, Kids Still Home From School
May 25, 2020  |  Coronavirus

As the U.S. begins procedures to tentatively reopen, the entire country has seen only a few across-the-board trends: namely, that people are filling up their...

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Testing, Cleaning Rules Needed Before Schools Reopen, Public Health Experts Say
Testing, Cleaning Rules Needed Before Schools Reopen, Public Health Experts Say
May 04, 2020  |  Economy

With talk about reopening the U.S. economy come questions around how schools are going to handle reopening. Labor and public health experts say extending school closures...

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HopSkipDrive Lands $22M To Drive School Rideshare Mission
HopSkipDrive Lands $22M To Drive School Rideshare Mission
February 07, 2020  |  Investments

HopSkipDrive, a rideshare company that focuses on getting children to school on time, has raised $22 million to expand on its mission to provide transportation...

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Louisiana School Cyberattacks Trigger State Of Emergency
Louisiana School Cyberattacks Trigger State Of Emergency
July 28, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Louisiana has declared a state of emergency after a series of cyberattacks impacted three of the state’s school districts. The attacks shut down the districts’...

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Hackers’ Newest Target? Schools
Hackers’ Newest Target? Schools
October 24, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Hackers, being an ever-inventive group, have found a new target to go after. Public schools. According to the U.S. Department of Education, a new cyberthreat...

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Igniting Smartwatches One Student At A Time
Igniting Smartwatches One Student At A Time
August 23, 2017  |  Wearables

Despite Tim Cook’s most enthusiastic comments that the Apple Watch is doing “great,” the figures on the ground in the U.S. indicate pretty strongly that...

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