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This story has been updated to include a statement from the Education Department. The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) — a national student loan servicer that has been criticized for failing to forgive the debts of public servants — is planning to exit the federal student loan servicing business in December of this year. PHEAA, which administers the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program and operates as FedLoan Servicing, has notified the Education Department… Source link

The dossier of documents sent to the Arizona State compliance department and the NCAA enforcement department on May 31 begins with a blunt message about allegations of NCAA improprieties in the ASU football program. “I am writing this letter to inform you about recruiting violations that are occurring at Arizona State University in their Football department. My objective is…providing enough information to assure you if Arizona State football is looked into, there will be violations… Source link

WILMINGTON, Mass., May 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Security Innovation, an authority in software security assessments and training, announced today that it is partnering with Google to provide training to 200 members of the International Consortium for Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP). More than 400 people applied for the scholarships, which seek to provide skills-based career development for students, unemployed professionals, and those seeking to transition into… Source link

Google today announced the launch of 40,000 new developer scholarships in Africa. Google will offer the scholarships — created in partnership with tech talent companies Pluralsight and Andela — to developers spread across mobile and cloud development tracks. According to the statement released by the company, Google will give full scholarships (with certifications in Android and cloud development) to the top 1,000 students (beginner and intermediate developers) at the end of the… Source link

Mike Blake/Reuters The head of the U.S. Post Office law enforcement division running a covert social media collection program is expected to brief lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee Wednesday morning about its surveillance work. Yahoo News last week revealed the existence of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Internet Covert Operations Program, known as iCOP, which has been monitoring social media for information about political protests. The work involves having analysts trawl… Source link

Former LSU running back Derrius Guice is being scrubbed from the school’s record books and is barred from future involvement with the athletic program. (Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) LSU is removing former star running back Derrius Guice from its record books and barring him from any future involvement in the school’s athletic programs, the Baton Rouge Advocate reported on Friday. A school spokesperson later confirmed the actions to ESPN.  Guice, a second-round… Source link

The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News. The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory”… Source link

Google for years operated a secret program that used data from past bids in the company’s digital advertising exchange to allegedly give its own ad-buying system an advantage over competitors, according to court documents filed in a Texas antitrust lawsuit. The program, known as “Project Bernanke,” wasn’t disclosed to publishers who sold ads through Google’s ad-buying systems. It generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the company… Source link

A Google IT Support Professional Certificate program that was launched at the start of 2020 by Mohawk Valley Community College was noted in the Google technology company’s annual Economic Impact Study for New York. The report, issued last week, referred to the MVCC program in a section titled “Helping New York businesses and job seekers.” The report said “Google is invested in expanding access to Google Career Certificates to help more people—particularly underserved—grow their… Source link

AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) – Blue Ridge Community College is offering a Google IT certificates program that is geared to help folks get a starting point into a technology career. The program also includes an employer consortium of over 130 companies committed to those who complete the certification for related entry-level roles. “We need more technicians out there in the IT field. If anybody thinks they’re good at actually figuring things out and working with technology, this would be… Source link