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CENIC Recognizes San Diego Community College District's Move to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and District-wide Wi-Fi Project

CENIC Recognizes San Diego Community College District's Move to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and District-wide Wi-Fi Project

CENIC awards the 2024 Innovations in Networking Award for Network-Enabled Cloud Applications to the San Diego Community College District's project to move their ERP to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Narrowing the Digital Divide: How to Build on Higher Ed Broadband

Because of their extensive geographic footprint, vast infrastructure, extensive technical capacity, and deep ties to surrounding communities, higher education institutions can play an important role in supporting broadband infrastructure development and adoption initiatives. This panel explores opportunities for the University of California, California State Universities, and Community Colleges to support the expansion of affordable, high-quality, and equitable broadband access throughout the state.

Network Traffic Analysis Shows Changing Activity Patterns During COVID-19 Pandemic

Even as campuses, schools, libraries, and cultural institutions have closed amid stay-at-home orders, CENIC’s networks have remained a vital part of the Internet ecosystem for online learning and community engagement, remote access to research data and specialized computing facilities, academic medicine and clinical care, and work-from-home operations.

R&E Networks in CA, OR, and WA Announce Collaborative Support for COVID-19 Western States Pact

R&E Networks in CA, OR, and WA Announce Collaborative Support for COVID-19 Western States Pact

Statewide research and education networks in California, Oregon, and Washington have joined to support the shared approach announced by their states’ respective leaders, Governors Gavin Newsom, Kate Brown, and Jay Inslee, this week to move toward a reopening of economic activity while safeguarding health outcomes.

Understanding Network Impacts of Increased Online Learning

While COVID-19 is creating unprecedented uncertainty, Research and Education Networks such as CENIC's CalREN will play an important role in supporting our educational institutions as they increasingly move to online learning. CENIC has prepared this information as a resource for members who have moved to, or are contemplating moving to, online instruction.

CENIC Recognizes California Community Colleges for Developing the Student Onboarding Platform MyPath

CENIC Recognizes California Community Colleges for Developing the Student Onboarding Platform MyPath

CENIC has selected the California Community Colleges as a recipient of the 2020 Innovations in Networking Award for Educational Applications in recognition of its online student services portal, CCC MyPath, which helps millions of students seamlessly navigate through their educational journeys.

CENIC and Alameda Peer to Connect Students to Saildrone and Berkeley Lab

A new SFI agreement between CENIC and the City of Alameda is a model for local governments that wish to connect technology and R&D companies in their region with a state’s research and education institutions.

Zero-Trust Networking Enhances Security in Research and Education Environments

Zero-trust networking may be uniquely capable of tackling the security issues confronted by R&E environments. Experts from Google, Netflix, the UC Office of the President, San Bernardino County schools, and the San Francisco Library weigh in on security challenges and solutions.

College Course Exchange Aims to Help Students Finish Faster

Online Course Exchange will help address California Community Colleges’ capacity problems and improve graduation rates by increasing access to and success in high-quality online courses. But tackling the challenge of how to set up secure and accurate data sharing among all 115 campuses is no easy feat.

The CENIC Internship: A Gateway to Networking

Available to students at any accredited college or university, CENIC's paid, part-time internship presents a thorough, hands-on inroad to the world of computer networking. Past interns have come from a variety of educational backgrounds, and have found the internship helped hone their career directions. Hear about their experiences and advice.