By: Tonya Mead, CHFI, CFE, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist The U.S. Department of Education in 2019 received an “A” grade for its efforts to implement the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA). In…
Hi everyone! Although I have created many cyber security awareness courses (see introduction to my FISSEA presentation) for use in the education sector, here is my first course created for Cybrary.it is available on demand…
By: Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, CFE, CHFI, PI Recently, I gave a presentation at the inaugural Women and Minorities in Technology Conference in Jacksonville, Florida and was so excited to learn from the audience…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Fansided posted an article “College football coaching salaries: Worth it, Not worth it?” My verdict? None are worth it. May I paint the following picture? …
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Thanksgiving is often a time when fraudsters prey upon our most vulnerable. You wouldn’t think that university fundraising departments would risk exposing confidential income, employment,…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology English is not the primary home language for almost 10 percent of kindergarten through twelfth grade (k-12 ) public school students. The US Department of…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Just today, I posted an article about a Nigerian living in St. Louis who attempted to obtain $12 million in fraudulent tax returns based upon…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Perhaps the reform, re-organization and right-sizing of the federal education bureaucracy has its benefits. For instance, the Office of State Support under the federal U.S.…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA,MA Educational Psychology Is grade inflation in colleges and universities symptomatic of fraud? Maybe. According to the dictionary, grade inflation represents the “the awarding of higher grades than students…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Did you hear about the data breach of information stored at the Alaska Office of Children’s Services today? The state divulged that personal information of…