C-Level View :: July 25, 2007 -- Campus Technology

Making the Case for Student Lifecycle Management: By Mike McLean, senior director, Information and Applications Services, California State University; In today's increasingly competitive higher education environment, we face rising demands to attract and keep the best students, improve the quality of education, and keep costs down. These are lofty goals, but they are attainable if institutions learn to examine their business processes and leverage technology to manage the entire student lifecycle -- helping improve service to students, from recruitment through graduation and beyond. If higher education institutions do not embrace this concept and start nurturing these valuable relationships, they risk disconnection from students and the loss of competitive edge....

Northwestern U’s Open Source Bridge between Blackboard and Xythos: Northwestern University has developed an open source File Bridge Extension to facilitate content exchange between Blackboard and Xythos applications. The software is available for download freely by colleges and universities....
Who is Where on the Network?: Coppin State University (MD) now has an automated, centralized view of their network that facilitates both long-term planning and real-time problem solving....

New DSpace Foundation Names Executive Director: Michele Kimpton will lead the new DSpace Foundation, formed by MIT and HP, as its executive director....

AI Platform Behind 12,000 E-mail Breaches Shut Down

Microsoft has disrupted EvilTokens, a cybercrime service that used AI to help attackers break into e-mail accounts, study their victims, and build convincing financial scams.
Educause President and CEO John O'Brien Announces Retirement

John O'Brien, president and CEO of Educause, has announced his intention to retire in August 2027.
California Governor Proposes Independent Watchdogs Within AI Safety System

California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing a new model of artificial intelligence regulation that would give independent organizations a formal role in evaluating the safety claims made by leading AI companies.
Meta Steps Up Enterprise AI Ambitions with Muse Spark Launch

Meta has announced the launch of Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model designed for agentic AI, alongside a new Meta Model API that gives developers access to the model for the first time.