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Campuses devote a great deal of their fundraising focus on a group that simply isn’t paying off.  How can participation among them be increased? 


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Features ... A rookie college ranking debuts.  Will it challenge U.S. News?  Must big fundraising efforts result in little payoff?  Can college be more affordable?  What's happened to online higher education?   Also ... Most popular articles and interviews. 



Eleven Steps to Student Information System $uccess

Purchasing a new student information system (SIS)?  What are the right questions to ask?  Try these.




Today's Campus Update. July 2010



Cracking the code of higher education productivity
Productivity produces more finished work from the same - or even less - effort.    Productivity usually restrains or reduces prices, because it results in lower costs.  Here are some productivity successes in teaching and learning.  Will they spread throughout higher education?  Or just take hold in a relatively few niches?



No Matter the Crisis, a Communications Plan Is Critical
Recent news reports from a pair of campuses amplify the need for a plan. At the University of Virginia, a male lacrosse player with an apparent history of violence allegedly beat to death his former girlfriend, a member of the woman's lacrosse team. At the University of Alabama-Huntsville, a female professor who just had been denied tenure shot and killed three colleagues and wounded three others.  By Anne Sceia Klein




Todd Gibby, CEO, Intelliworks
Founded in 2002, Intelliworks hired Todd Gibby in 2007 from Blackboard.  His company's platform serves up CRM to admissions offices throughout the United States.


Killer e-Marketing Tools
The latest award-wining apps for higher education, courtesy of the ClickZ Marketing Excellence Awards.   By Joe Dysart.


Larry Consalvos, Senior VP & General Manager, iXP Corporation
A co-founder of a 100-employee company that is now ten years old discusses operational realities regarding campus emergency preparedness, emergency communications and a newly burgeoning activity known as e-discovery.


The Semantic Web: Your Web’s Smarter Younger Brother

New + Notable by Tom Robinson
 
The Semantic Web is also known as Web 3.0 and the Data Web and the Deep Web.  It's not artificial intelligence.   This new iteration of web is, however, “smarter” in that it makes more intuitive connections between data.  Colleges are beneficiaries in several ways.
 
 



Pick one: Cybersecurity. Convenience.
Students' communications devices and the ubiquity of wireless networks have all ratcheted up the difficulty of securing campus networks and data. What has resulted? Identity theft. Data breaches. Compliance violations. Increased costs. Legal liabilities. What else? It's a battle fought with valor by MIS directors and the technology vendors who support them.  By Tom Robinson.


YouTube: The top ten uses cited by experienced users
While YouTube has emerged as a marketing juggernaut for colleges and universities, many campuses are also discovering that the free video-sharing service has scores of other uses—all of which are also free for the taking.  By Joe Dysart.


A rational comparison of iPad and PC tablet
 
New + Notable by Tom Robinson
 
The iPad introduction has colleges ramping up technology and interactivity in the classroom.  But the venerable PC tablet may be a better option.  Find out when and why.
 



A very scary, very expensive and very necessary ERP software conversion
 
What happened when PeopleSoft/Oracle began to look old and unworkable to a community college?

by Karen West and Tom Robinson.



iPad’s Amazing Impact

New + Notable by Tom Robinson.
 
Introduced in April 2010, Apple sold a million iPads by early May.  The company plans to sell a bazillion more as colleges rush to integrate iPad as a learning system.  What’s all the fuss?
 



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