Administrative/Business Apps
- DigiLore kicks Off Software Grants
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7/25/2007
Ed tech provider DigiLore has launched a new grant program for both K-12 and higher ed institutions. The grant, according to the company, is designed to support United States Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings's call for "a more accountable higher education system that includes a stronger accreditation process with more information about the quality of colleges and universities."
- New Ohio U CIO Knocks Out Strategic Plan in 75 Days
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7/24/2007
Bruce Bible, Ohio University's recently appointed chief information officer, has completed an initial 75-day review of OU's information technology needs. The result is a new IT-management strategy to restructure the central office, designate advisory groups, and identify opportunities to collaborate with IT workers across the university's Athens and regional campuses.
- Admissions of Guilt
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7/19/2007
One of the discussions I have been in for the last week or two has been about the growing use within academia of MySpace information for what verges on "official" purposes.
- U West Streamlines Administrative Systems
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7/19/2007
The University of the West in Rosemead, CA is upgrading its administrative systems in order to grow enrollment and and fulfill new accreditation requirements. The upgrades include CampusVue Collegiate and CampusNet, two enterprise solutions from Campus Management in Boca Raton, FL.
- TTUS Implements ConnecTech with SunGard
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7/19/2007
The Texas Tech University System (TTUS) is in the middle of a four-year implementation of a project called ConnecTech, which is designed to integrate information systems within the TTUS enterprise. As part of the program, the university system has adopted various technologies from SunGard Higher Education, a provider of enterprise solutions for higher education.
- Schnabel Takes Over Indiana U Informatics School
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7/16/2007
Computer scientist and researcher Robert B. Schnabel has been named dean of Indiana University's School of Informatics. He has succeeded J. Michael Dunn, who retired at the end of June and remains as dean emeritus.
- Lindenwood Connects Admissions, Planning to Web-Based System
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7/16/2007
Lindenwood University in Missouri has partnered with ed tech provider ConnectEdu to deploy Connect!, an online portal system designed for education. The university will use Connect! to help Missouri students and parents prepare for college and to begin accepting electronic applications.
- Arrive Launches Campus Manager
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7/12/2007
Arrive Corp., an ICT/AV technology provider that recently launched in North America, has debuted two facilities management tools targeted toward higher education: Campus Manager and Easy Conference.
- FileMaker Pro 9 Adds Live SQL Support
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7/12/2007
FileMaker has released four new versions of FileMaker Pro, a database widely used in education. The new FileMaker Pro 9 family, which launched July 10, includes FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced, FileMaker Server 9, and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced.
- Scantron Launches Class Climate 3.0
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7/11/2007
Scantron has released an update to Class Climate, its course evaluation system designed for higher ed. The new version sports enhancements to performance, data analysis, and customization options, as well as other changes.
- Mining Data To Find Gold
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7/5/2007
At Coppin State University in Baltimore, MD, colorful screen displays can tell a dean or provost at a glance and a click of the mouse what a faculty member's course load is, how heavily a classroom is being utilized, and even how many students from a specific high school have applied and been accepted to date.
- 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.
