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Rowan University

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Representative Papers

Automating Freshman Course Placement and Registration: A Case Study

Aug 09, 2026

This work addresses the inefficiencies of Rowan University’s manual course placement and registration process, which became increasingly unsustainable amid a 57% decade-long increase in incoming student enrollment. To overcome this challenge, the authors developed the institution’s first end-to-end automated system that integrates multi-source data—including the Banner Student Information System and academic advisor-maintained Google Sheets—to intelligently group students by major, automatically assign primary and secondary courses, validate real-time capacity and scheduling constraints, and execute bulk registrations. Leveraging the Banner API, cross-platform data integration, and custom registration scripts, the system successfully enrolled over 3,500 new students, saving more than 350 staff hours annually, substantially reducing error rates, and enhancing operational efficiency and resource allocation—thereby enabling administrative personnel to focus on strategic academic advising.

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Beyond Compliance: A Proposed Framework for Ethical Governance of Student Data in Learning Analytics

Aug 04, 2026

This study addresses the prevailing overemphasis on legal compliance in student data governance within learning analytics, which often neglects critical ethical dimensions such as fairness, student autonomy, accountability, and educational purpose. To bridge this gap, the work proposes LEAGUE—a six-pillar ethical governance framework encompassing Legitimacy, Equity, Autonomy, Governance, Utility, and Ethics-by-Design—integrating insights from learning analytics, data ethics, and capability-oriented theories of educational justice. Moving beyond conventional compliance paradigms, this framework pioneers the application of value-sensitive design in the field. Through conceptual review, interdisciplinary theoretical synthesis, and a case analysis of an early warning system, the study demonstrates the framework’s feasibility in enhancing transparency, educational meaningfulness, and ethical justifiability, offering a theoretically grounded yet practically actionable pathway for ethically robust learning analytics.

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CRB-Driven Beamforming and Trajectory Optimization for UAV-assisted ISAC System

Jul 21, 2026

This work addresses unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems by jointly optimizing UAV trajectory and beamforming to minimize the time-averaged Cramér–Rao bound (CRB) on angle-of-arrival estimation, subject to power and mobility constraints, while ensuring reliable downlink communication. The study innovatively adopts the CRB as the optimization objective and incorporates null-space projection-based beamforming to suppress interference. A deep reinforcement learning framework is employed to dynamically co-optimize trajectory and beamforming decisions over discrete time steps. Compared to non-UAV-assisted systems, the proposed approach reduces the time-averaged CRB by more than 10% and significantly outperforms baseline schemes such as fixed-trajectory deployment and maximum ratio transmission.

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Automating Freshman Course Placement and Registration: A Case Study

Aug 09, 2026

This work addresses the inefficiencies of Rowan University’s manual course placement and registration process, which became increasingly unsustainable amid a 57% decade-long increase in incoming student enrollment. To overcome this challenge, the authors developed the institution’s first end-to-end automated system that integrates multi-source data—including the Banner Student Information System and academic advisor-maintained Google Sheets—to intelligently group students by major, automatically assign primary and secondary courses, validate real-time capacity and scheduling constraints, and execute bulk registrations. Leveraging the Banner API, cross-platform data integration, and custom registration scripts, the system successfully enrolled over 3,500 new students, saving more than 350 staff hours annually, substantially reducing error rates, and enhancing operational efficiency and resource allocation—thereby enabling administrative personnel to focus on strategic academic advising.

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Beyond Compliance: A Proposed Framework for Ethical Governance of Student Data in Learning Analytics

Aug 04, 2026

This study addresses the prevailing overemphasis on legal compliance in student data governance within learning analytics, which often neglects critical ethical dimensions such as fairness, student autonomy, accountability, and educational purpose. To bridge this gap, the work proposes LEAGUE—a six-pillar ethical governance framework encompassing Legitimacy, Equity, Autonomy, Governance, Utility, and Ethics-by-Design—integrating insights from learning analytics, data ethics, and capability-oriented theories of educational justice. Moving beyond conventional compliance paradigms, this framework pioneers the application of value-sensitive design in the field. Through conceptual review, interdisciplinary theoretical synthesis, and a case analysis of an early warning system, the study demonstrates the framework’s feasibility in enhancing transparency, educational meaningfulness, and ethical justifiability, offering a theoretically grounded yet practically actionable pathway for ethically robust learning analytics.

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CRB-Driven Beamforming and Trajectory Optimization for UAV-assisted ISAC System

Jul 21, 2026

This work addresses unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems by jointly optimizing UAV trajectory and beamforming to minimize the time-averaged Cramér–Rao bound (CRB) on angle-of-arrival estimation, subject to power and mobility constraints, while ensuring reliable downlink communication. The study innovatively adopts the CRB as the optimization objective and incorporates null-space projection-based beamforming to suppress interference. A deep reinforcement learning framework is employed to dynamically co-optimize trajectory and beamforming decisions over discrete time steps. Compared to non-UAV-assisted systems, the proposed approach reduces the time-averaged CRB by more than 10% and significantly outperforms baseline schemes such as fixed-trajectory deployment and maximum ratio transmission.

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