Former Texas Cybersecurity student Clinic Deborah Chu was highlighted inWall Street Journal Opinion piece “College Grads vs. the AI Job Apocalypse.” As artificial intelligence reshapes the workplace and threatens to automate many traditional entry-level roles, higher education may need to rethink how it prepares students for their careers.
Chu points to experiential learning opportunities such as the Strauss Center’s Texas Cybersecurity Clinic as a model for preparing students for higher-level work. As AI takes on more technical tasks, she argues, employers will increasingly value people who can weigh competing values, understand the consequences of decisions, manage relationships and make ethically nuanced judgments. “A successful education in the AI age,” Chu writes, will prepare students not simply to compete with AI, but to develop the judgment and character necessary to lead it.
Texas Cybersecurity Clinic Senior Privacy Counsel Colleen García was recently interviewed by KLTV at the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce 4th Annual Cybersecurity Conference, where she provided keynote remarks. The conference focused on helping small businesses improve their cybersecurity defensive posturing. Artificial intelligence, García noted, is both an asset and a threat, with more security firms building AI into response tools even as the technology makes...
Jose Torres, graduate of the Strauss Center's Texas Cybersecurity Clinic, was recently featured by Google in their Cybersecurity Clinics Fund Impact Report, shared in an announcement earlier this month highlighting Google's Fairwind Program. Jose discovered his passion for cybersecurity through the cyber clinic, joining its inaugural class in 2023. He gained hands-on experience helping a local city government outside San...
The Strauss Center for International Security and Law co-hosted a roundtable with ON2IT Cybersecurity and the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law focused on cybersecurity resilience in Texas, and featuring leaders of the Texas Cyber Command as well as state legislators dedicated to improving the cybersecurity and national security posture of the state. Participants explored expanding shared services to smaller...