Congratulations to the 2008 EDUCAUSE Award Winners
7/3/2008
SunGard Higher Education is an EDUCAUSE Platinum partner and proudly sponsors the EDUCAUSE Awards. Congratulations to this year’s winners: Joel L. Hartman, vice provost of Information Technologies and Resources at the University of Central Florida received this year’s Leadership Award for his distinguished performance and outstanding service in advancing the innovative use of learning technologies at his institution as well as other institutions of higher education around the globe. Authors Michael J. Albright, associate professor and director of online learning at Dakota Wesleyan University and John Nworie, lead educational technology designer at Kent State University earned the EDUAUSE Quarterly Contribution of the Year Award for their article “Rethinking Academic Technology Leadership in an Era of Change.” An examination of the current teaching and learning with technology environment reveals the existing lack of strategic leadership in this area and poses a case for this critical role to be adopted by all institutions. The visionaries behind the Regional Networks concept have worked to encourage and move forward collaborative dynamics used in the creating and support of the Internet. For its work in bringing together federal, corporate and higher education online networks for the benefit of higher education institutions, The Regional Networks earns the Catalyst Award. This award recognizes innovations and initiatives centered on information technologies that provide groundbreaking solutions to major challenges in higher education.
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Temple University’s Fox School of Business Awards IT Leadership Award to SunGard President and CEO
4/10/2008
Cris Conde, president and CEO of SunGard, was awarded the 2008 Fox Information Technology Leader Award from Temple University’s Fox School of Business at an Awards Reception held last night at Temple University’s Main Campus. The IT Leadership Award recognizes one person per year for leadership in the use and development of IT in business. Today, SunGard is the largest privately held business and software services company. It is very rewarding to see Cris recognized for his talents and work that has also benefited SunGard Higher Education and our customers. This is the eighth year the Annual IT Awards have been held. In addition to the Fox Information Technology Leader Award, honors for the Fox Information Technology Innovator Award and the Fox Information Technology Award for Distinguished Alumni were also presented.
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SunGard Higher Education Customer Paul Wiley, Sewanee University, Takes the Helm as President of AACRAO’s Board of Directors
4/9/2008
Congratulations to Paul Wiley, Sewanee University registrar & director, institutional research, elected to serve as President of AACRAO’s Board of Directors. AACRAO is the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers which represents 2,500 institutions in 30 countries. The office of Board President has been well earned after many years of dedicated service as a member of the AACRAO Board of Directors where he held many posts including Treasurer and most recently, serving as President Elect. Sewanee, known as The University of the South, is a longstanding SunGard Higher Education Banner customer. We look forward to working with AACRAO and Paul to support institutional performance and the education community.
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Genesee CC Makes Headlines For Access To Education Programs
3/19/2008
The Daily News (Batavia, NY) and The Buffalo News have run great articles about efforts at Genesee Community College to put education within reach for every member of its community. They have launched a new program to offer course scholarships to all area high school students graduating in June. They also launched the Genesee Promise and Promise Plus programs to guarantee that all area residents who want to take courses are able to cover tuition. This summary from one article sums it up, "If there's a way out of economic doldrums for Western New York, it's through education, and GCC just handed out the keys to the door." Our team onsite at Genesee is very proud to be part of this. Kudos!
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Award Nominations Now Closed
3/5/2008
The nomination period for the 2008 SunGard Higher Education Award for Institutional Performance is now closed. All eligible entries will be reviewed by a panel of judges from SunGard Higher Education and our customers. The winner will be announced at SunGard Summit in Anaheim next month. If you missed the nomination period but have a great story to share, visit www.sungardhe.com/sharesuccess and review other publicity opportunities.
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New York Times Panel on Distance Ed
3/5/2008
SunGard Higher Education's senior vice president of marketing, Andy Cooley, was invited by the New York Times to speak at a panel discussion about distance learning. Approximately 100 NY Times employees and editors attended the invitation-only event. The other panelists were from the New York Times and McGraw-Hill. The discussion was recorded and used in the Times' "Pixels + Print " newsletter which is sent to the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. http://www.nytimes.whsites.net/pixels_winter_08/index.php
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New News Blog
3/5/2008
We are excited to add a new blog feature to share news and information that might not make the cut for a press release or news brief. We plan to include company information and also highlights of education community news that we think our collaborative education community would find interesting. If you have an item to suggest, please email laura.kvinge@sungardhe.com.
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