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....

"Engineering and the Good Life" at Santa Clara University

An ethics across the curriculum program at Santa Clara University's School of Engineering supports ethical reflection in engineering design and encourages each student to consider what it means to them to be an engineer.
HPE Announces Agentic AI Enhancements to Mist Platform

HPE recently announced new capabilities for its Juniper Mist platform that leverage agentic AI to enable more autonomous, intelligent, and proactive network operations.
OpenAI, Oracle Expand AI Infrastructure Partnership

OpenAI and Oracle have announced they will develop an additional 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, expanding their artificial intelligence infrastructure partnership as part of the Stargate Project, a joint venture among OpenAI, Oracle, and Japan's SoftBank Group that aims to deploy 10 gigawatts of computing capacity over four years.
OpenAI to Launch AI-Powered Jobs Platform

OpenAI announced it will launch an AI-powered hiring platform by mid-2026, directly competing with LinkedIn and Indeed in the professional networking and recruitment space. The company announced the initiative alongside an expanded certification program designed to verify AI skills for job seekers.