Higher education SaaS provider Ellucian has revamped its partnership programs, combining them into a new Ellucian Partner Network, aiming to “ignite scale and acceleration of digital transformation across the industry,” according to a news release.
Across all sectors, including K–12 and higher education, procurement is making a big shift toward online, propelled in large part by the pandemic. Some 85 percent of organizations report they pushed more of their procurement to digital as a direct result of the pandemic, and 96 percent of those expect to continue doing so beyond the pandemic, according to a report released this week.
Even as schools are dealing with the fallout from coronavirus, a Michigan university is facing the fallout of a cybersecurity virus too. Michigan State University said a data breach that hit one of its software vendors has affected about 300 people who processed credit card payments through its ecommerce site, shop.msu.edu.
A new offering from Blackboard allows students to order food and other items from any location via mobile device.
The Foundation for California Community Colleges' purchasing program, CollegeBuys, has entered into a five-year partnership with Nelnet Campus Commerce to offer the company's mobile-friendly payment processing solutions across the community college system's 115 institutions.
At Chapman University, students can buy and sell products with each other via a new online marketplace powered by Ulyngo.
Ohio's Eastern Gateway Community College is turning to Barnes & Noble Education for an array of digital content and other services, including bookstore operations, learning management system, predictive analytics and digital courseware.
The City University of New York is turning to online bookstore provider Akademos to help address the rising cost of textbooks.
Cedarville University in Ohio is simplifying its tuition payment processing with technology from ACI Worldwide.
Blackboard has partnered with online transportation network Uber Technologies to let students pay for rides on their campus card account using the Uber app.
Kenneth Green draws on 25 years with The Campus Computing Project to reflect on higher ed's IT priorities.
The Texas Association of Community Colleges (TACC) is contracting with a new e-procurement company for volume purchasing.
Updates business software includes new modules for scheduling and proctoring exams, managing conferences, and creating programs for corporate partners.
Business students at the Philippines-based institution will soon be getting practical experience in with cloud-based enterprise business software.
