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5/2/2007
By giving current students and all alumni a lifetime e-mail account accessed through a portal, Plymouth State University has enhanced its ability to stay in touch with graduates long after they leave the university.
4/30/2007
Boise State University's coordinator for data quality and reporting comments on his university's beta trial of Campus Solutions 9.0 and that institution's intention to upgrade and move toward next-generation applications that improve constituent services.
4/25/2007
Southern California community college Long Beach City College has gone live with a new Cognos-based enrollment management system that was designed by Irvine, CA-based professional services firm e2e Analytix.
4/20/2007
Analytics software developer SAS recently announced OnDemand for Academics, a new service designed for higher education. The new version provides additional means for students and educators to access SAS analytics technologies, via the Internet through a graphical interface.
4/11/2007
Fewer than 100 higher education institutions in the United States have recognized data warehousing programs. This represents an adoption rate of less than 3 percent for a discipline well into its second decade of mainstream practice.
3/28/2007
North Central State College in Ohio will be swapping out its current enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in favor of Colleague, an ERP targeted specifically for higher ed. The system, developed by Datatel Inc., is designed to run in a SQL server environment.
3/28/2007
Higher education's rapidly growing interest in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing comes at a time when many new trends and techniques are appearing in BI.
3/28/2007
Sakai, Kuali, uPortal, Moodle, and others are taking advantage of a better way to build software through open source communities....
3/26/2007
ConnectEdu Inc., a Web-based college planning service, and Rediker Software Inc., a school student management system, have teamed to export student data directly into the college planning, admissions, and financial aid platform. The partners claim the result will integrate high school systems with community colleges, colleges, and universities, as well as provide entirely electronic college transcripts and application materials.
3/19/2007
SchoolSpring has released a major update to its Web-based recruiting tool for K-12 and higher ed institutions. The new version adds evaluation tools and gains an improved user interface, among other upgrades.
3/7/2007
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has implemented a data management system from Information Builders to track and analyze data across multiple departments.
3/5/2007
SunGard Higher Education has debuted a new tool for recruiting, admissions, and retention management. Designed specifically for higher education, the new technology--Banner Enrollment Management Suite (BEMS)--is designed....
3/1/2007
According to Regent Education, a developer of financial aid management software for higher ed, seven community colleges in California have adopted and gone live live with its Regent Enterprise Financial Aid Management (FAM) software.
2/28/2007
Despite the wave of social media such as FaceBook, blogs, and instant messaging invading higher ed campuses, fewer than 8 percent of higher-ed marketers use such alternative channels to reach prospective students, according to a recent survey by advertising and marketing firm Media Logic Inc.
2/28/2007
XY Media Solution announced the launch of AdReply: a response tracker that gives real-time data for university and college enrollment campaigns.
2/28/2007
Berklee College of Music's human resource department has gone paperless by employing ImageNow from Perspective Software Inc.
12/4/2006
Among many themes, Margaret Price explores the theme of purpose in her Viewpoint. One purpose of ePortfolio is to reflect on change from a beginning to a later point in time. In a future Viewpoint, Margaret will return to the SpEl.Folio and we’ll see how her thinking and her project have evolved.
11/29/2006
If you’re not also enabling the ‘why’ or ‘what’ behind the tech tools you give your faculty, you’re not enabling effective use of those tools.
11/24/2006
ERP and student information systems may be obvious foci for administrative IT best practices. But maybe you haven’t thought about the impact of document imaging on disaster recovery planning, or laundry machines that alert students from cyberspace.
10/16/2006
In Washington, D.C., debates continue on how to encourage students to seek careers in science, math, engineering, and technology (STEM). At the same time, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) drives the election agenda. I see this as a conundrum and question where we’ll find new scientists if the process is driven through NCLB.
10/10/2006
Life in the more affluent regions of Southern California does not normally invite comparisons with the bleak existence one might experience in your average refugee camp.
10/8/2006
9/30/2006
8/3/2006
You may guess from the title this week that I am annoyed with something. That would be correct. A few weeks ago, my wife received an invoice for $167.52 for a package that was shipped from Florida to some overseas company via her FedEx account.
7/22/2006
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