Administrative/Business Apps
- Minnesota Opts for E-Transcripts
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7/5/2007
Minnesota has aligned itself with the Midwestern Higher Education Compact's (Minneapolis, MN) electronic transcript initiative, which seeks to facilitate the electronic transfer of high school transcripts to colleges.
- Kuali Financial System Is Live at Strathmore University
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7/3/2007
Strathmore University in Nairobi has turned on its implementation of the Kuali Financial System, making the Kenyan university the first institution to go live with the much-anticipated open source financials.
- Mapping Out the Future of Campus Maps
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6/28/2007
A recent question posed to the college and university webmasters list, UWEBD, asked the list subscribers to share their latest expertise and stories about the production and publication of campus maps. Not surprisingly, the ensuing discussion was enlightening. I'll share some of it here.
- Central Connecticut Contracts Oce To Scan Student Data
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6/28/2007
Central Connecticut State University recently contracted Oce Business services to provide the university with archival scanning technology to help preserve student information.
- CBN Launches 3 Lead-Generation Portals
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6/28/2007
The CollegeBound Network (CBN) has beefed up its higher education search and lead-generation services by adding threw new search sites: Top10ComputerSchools.com, TopCareerSchools and CanandianSchoolSearch.com.
- Georgia DTAE To Standardize Student Evaluations, Planning Surveys
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6/27/2007
The Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education (GDTAE), which oversees the Technical College System of Georgia, said it plans to standardize on Scantron's Class Climate and eListen systems in order to standardize the surveys it conducts with students.
- Peopleclick Helps Universities Refine Affirmative Action Adherence
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6/20/2007
Talent acquisition firm Peopleclick (Raleigh, NC) has unveiled Peopleclick Higher Education, a compliance service and software tool that helps universities and colleges refine their affirmative action adherence through gathering and analyzing employee data.
- CourseAdvisor Helps Universities Profile 'Ideal' Students
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6/14/2007
Marketing company CourseAdvisor (Wakefield, MA) has formed a Data Mining Group to help higher education institutions apply data capturing and filtering against their inquiry data pools to generate profiles of their ideal prospective students/enrollees.
- Forms and Function
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6/14/2007
In life, we all encounter redundant, taxing, and seemingly purposeless forms. At your campus, do your forms serve a purpose? When you ask your users for information, is it information that you actually need? Actually use? Or are you wasting your users' time and needlessly causing frustration?
- CMU Goes Inside for New Computer Science Leader
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6/5/2007
Carnegie Mellon University named a researcher from its own ranks as the new head of its computer science department.
- Purdue Names Permanent Chief Information Officer
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6/5/2007
After a national search, Purdue University last week named long-time management Boilermaker Gerry McCartney as its vice president for information technology and chief information officer.
- CUNY Picks Systemwide Help Desk Software Suite
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5/21/2007
The City University of New York (CUNY) has purchased a software suite to help automate its help desk services. The school, the country's largest urban public university, with 23 institutions, picked the RightAnswers site to drive self-service initiatives across all its service desks.
- Schools Eye Analytics for Enrollment Planning
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5/15/2007
Some higher ed administrators are experimenting with new database analytics software to try to predict both how many students will return and how many new students will enroll in the fall.
- Campus IT Departments Grapple with Vista
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5/9/2007
At colleges, universities, and K-12 institutions, IT decision makers are increasingly showing concern over performance, patching, and hardware requirements of Microsoft Windows Vista. At the same time, the number of organizations using or evaluating Vista has increased to 29 percent, up 8 percent since October 2006. This according to a new survey conducted by Walker Information and released this week by CDW Corp.
- Portal System Keeps Students, Alumni in Touch at Plymouth State U
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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.
- A Look at Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions 9.0
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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.
- Long Beach City College Switches On Enrollment System
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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.
- SAS Launches OnDemand for Academics
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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.
- Institutional Intelligence
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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.
- North Central State To Deploy New ERP
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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.
- Enterprise Content Management and Open Source BI Emerge at TDWI
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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.
- Invest Locally
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3/28/2007
Sakai, Kuali, uPortal, Moodle, and others are taking advantage of a better way to build software through open source communities....
- Service Links Student Data to Web College Planning Platform
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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.
- SchoolSpring 2.0 Launched
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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.
- Florida Atlantic U Adopts WebFocus for Data Management
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3/7/2007
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has implemented a data management system from Information Builders to track and analyze data across multiple departments.
