IT Trends :: Thursday, April 5, 2007

• 04/05/07

Opinion

Risk and Responsibility

Cognitive development and the implications for higher ed

By Terry Calhoun

Young people taking risks. Who'd have thought? But the science is there, telling us that a 20-year-old's brain has not yet fully matured, even though the rest of his or her body has. And universities are beginning to take notice and to take more responsibility for the risk-taking behaviors of their students....

IT News

Campus Technology Kicks Off 2007 Innovators Nominations

You’re doing great things with technology on campus—we want to know about them. We seek exemplary colleges and universities, their visionary technology project leadership, and their innovative vendor partners who have deployed extraordinary campus technology solutions to campus challenges.

Could you be one of this year’s recognized technology leaders? CT’s 2007 Innovators will be featured in the August issue and recognized at the Campus Technology 2007 conference in Washington, DC, July 30-Aug. 2, 2007....

Charleston To Stream NCAA Events Wirelessly

This month Charleston Southern University in South Carolina will deploy what is described as the "first-ever all-wireless network" for delivering live video and audio streaming of NCAA soccer and softball events....

Swarthmore Running Trial of Google Education Apps

Swarthmore College is testing the Education Edition of Google Apps, in part to determine whether a switch to Google's Gmail would benefit the campus community, according to Swarthmore's Phoenix online newspaper....

U Michigan Unveils Master's Degree in 'Social Computing'

The University of Michigan's School of Information (SI) announced a graduate-degree specialization in "social computing" through a Master of Science in Information. The university said the program is the first in the country to focus on social computing, the term describing the wave of open technologies that enable masses of people to interact and exchange and sort information....

UMassOnline Credits Record Enrollment with Program Offerings

UMassOnline yesterday announced record enrollment and revenues for fiscal 2007. UMassOnline is the online learning division of the University of Massachusetts. The organization said it credits the record enrollment with "the depth and breadth of our program offerings," according to David Gray, CEO....

Tulane U Launches LiveWorld Community Center

In an effort to reach out to newly admitted high school seniors, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, has expanded its online community presence with the launch of its new Tulane Community Center. The new service is built on the Community Center platform from LiveWorld....

North Central State To Deploy New ERP

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....

Park University Launches Mobile Phone Program

Park University in Parkville, MO has entered into a partnership with Rave Wireless and Sprint Nextel to launch a mobile phone program for its campuses, which span 21 states. As part of the deal, Rave will provide its academic applications on the phones, while Sprint will extend its wireless network to cover the university's campuses....