The Automation Education Summit 2022 brought together visionary educators, automation experts, and students that are shaping the future of education. For UiPath the commitment to invest in education and in the workforce of the future is a key direction. Our Co-CEO Rob Enslin ensured that the message was well received by the 1,300 attendees during the three days of regional summits.

The RPA Initiative at George Mason University recently announced the establishment of the Virginia Academic Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Community of Practice (CoP) to support the commonwealth’s colleges and universities improve effectiveness, efficiency, and student experiences through the adoption of software automation. The VA Academic RPA CoP is meant to help institutions of higher learning become familiar with software automation and provide opportunities to collaborate across the commonwealth to enhance student experiences.

George Mason University, which nearly two years ago became one of the first universities to formalize a course of academic study in RPA, has launched a Community of Practice that will focus on supporting colleges and universities so they can become end users and benefit from intelligent automation.

The founders of the Robotic Process Automation Initiative at George Mason University join the Cutting EDge podcast to explain how their new RPA community of practice effort has the potential to expand to a nationwide network.

The new Virginia Academic Robotic Process Automation Community of Practice is led by an existing RPA Initiative at George Mason. The automation community is designed to help other institutions become familiar with RPA and enhance how students experience their educations.

President Biden’s call for elimination of college student loan debt is being widely debated in households across the nation. One unintended but logical consequence has been the call for restraints on college and university tuition costs and overall reduction of higher education expenses for America’s youth. For example. the cost of tuition at public four-year institutions nationally increased 31.4% from 2010 to 2020, a substantial increase over just one decade. But after adjusting for inflation, college tuition has increased 747.8% since 1963. And these statistics do not reflect the cost of private schools which are no doubt even higher.