News 02-11-2003
Sponsor: With strained IT resources, this university reduced its backup
time by 50 percent!
Pace University (New York) experienced a sudden increase in projects that heightened
IT support and resource demands - doubling its server capacity in just a few
months. Backups became too time consuming. Solution: Pace chose Computer Associates
International, Inc.'s BrightStor(tm) Enterprise Backup. Now the school can effectively
back up its servers in less time and with less effort. Visit http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=258
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Stanford Studies Online Help for Chronically Ill
Stanford University Medical Center is hosting a six-week online workshop to
teach self-management skills for people with heart disease, diabetes, or lung
disease. Called Self Management @ Stanford, the online workshop helps participants
learn skills to manage their chronic disease and to maintain or increase their
level of activity. The workshops will feed a two-year study on how effective
the Internet can be in helping people with chronic medical conditions live better,
more active lives. Over the course of a year, workshop groups will complete
three online questionnaires about their health status. The results will be compared
against a control group composed of non-workshop participants.
For more information visit: http://healthyliving.stanford.edu
Sponsor: William Taylor Interviewed on Syllabus Radio
http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=266
Syllabus Radio offers topical interviews with leading educators and creative
thinkers in higher education on the hot issues of the day. This week, log on
to http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=266
and listen to host Judith Boettcher and William "Punch" Taylor, consultant to
the Internet2 PKI Laboratory at Dartmouth College, as they discuss the implementation
of wireless technology on campus.
Clemson Financial System to Chart Grant Growth
Clemson University has finished installing PeopleSoft accounts receivable and
billing modules, a project that will enable the school to standardize its billing
and receivables processes campuswide. The project was completed in less than
four months with the help of Ciber Inc., which specializes in PeopleSoft installations.
The software was first picked to bring campus administrative systems into Y2Kcompliance,
but then expanded to include the financial modules. At the time, Clemson wanted
to increase its research and sponsored programs to exceed $100 million as part
of a goal to become one of the nation's top 20 universities. With the new system,
Clemson can perform invoicing and management of receivables for the non-student
university and foundation receivables, as well as all sponsored research.
eCollege Says Revenues, Earnings Rising
Course management system provider eCollege said revenues for the fourth quarter
of 2002 were $6.3 million, up from $5.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2001.
With that, the company reported that revenue for the year increased 19 percent
to $23.7 million, from $19.8 million in 2001. For 2002, the Company's pre-tax
earnings improved to a negative $251 thousand compared to a negative $7.7 million
for 2001. The company also reported that for the 2002 fall term, the total number
of student enrollments was 157,000 compared to 96,000 for the 2001 fall term.
About 80,000 of the enrollments represented distance students, up from 58,000
distance students in the fall term last year. The number of distance courses
rose to 4,900, a 27 percent increase over fall 2001.
Cal State Campus to Offer TV Tech Curriculum
California State University-Dominguez Hills is offering a live Internet class
covering technologies used in the entertainment industry. Those who pass the
course, which will include online lectures and discussions, will earn a "certificate
of completion in entertainment technology." The first course, on the Technology
of Television, will cover the basics of television technology, and move into
digital and high definition TV, interactive TV, broadcast, cable, satellite,
and video, as well as Hollywood's TV business. Follow-up courses include the
Technology of Movies, to be offered in March, and the Technology of New Media,
in April. The school said the target students are business professionals in
the entertainment industry.
For more information visit: www.csudh.edu/extendeded
Kurzweil to Offer Teacher Assistive Tech Training
Kurzweil Educational Systems, which makes reading technology systems for people
with learning and visual disabilities, has launched a "professional development
program" to train educators in integrating its latest platform, the Kurzweil
3000, into classrooms. The company is offering hands-on basic and advanced workshops
in both half-day and full-day formats for groups of 20. The basic workshop is
designed to introduce teachers to Kurzweil's reading features, writing supports,
study skills tools, test taking, and scanning. The advanced workshop is designed
to take educators who are familiar with the techno