fsaATLAS Customers the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder Recognized for Innovation in International Education
2/3/2010
Awarded for its achievement in the category of Internationalizing the Campus, the Georgia Institute of Technology wins a 2010 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education from the Institute of International Education (IIE). The University of Colorado at Boulder was recognized in the same category with an honorable mention. The purpose of the Andrew Heiskell Award is to honor colleges that have made significant attempts to provide international experiences for their students. Recipients of this year's awards will be profiled in the 2010 issue of the IIENetworker magazine and honored at an awards ceremony at the IIE Best Practices conference in March. SunGard Higher Education congratulates these customers on this well-deserved recognition for their international education achievements.
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Open Cloud Standards or Vendor Lock-in
1/22/2010
Darren Wesemann has a new blog post: Vint Cerf (Father of the Internet) is calling for standards in the cloud in an interview with InfoWorld (see the whole interview here). I enjoy following Vint’s logic whenever he imparts it, as it’s usually spot on. Remember how hard it used to be to change wireless carriers? Enter number portability and interoperability between carriers for exchanging provision/termination information and the result is a few minutes on the phone with the change almost immediately. Not that changing wireless carriers is something we want to do all the time, but the standards that made switching possible also bring other useful features to light, such as better customer service, accountable behavior from the carrier and open competition for features, all competing for your business because they don’t have the complacency derived from the proprietary lock-in of the past. Continued at http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2010/01/10/open-cloud-standards-or-vendor-lock-in/
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AACRAO Strategic Enrollment Management Webinar
1/21/2010
Applying SEM at the Community College, Jan 21 at 2:00 p.m. ET. For info and registration for the live or recorded event, visit www.aacrao.org/webinar. The webinar examines topics from the new AACRAO book, Applying SEM at the Community College, which are both sponsored by SunGard Higher Education. The book identifies the unique enrollment issues confronting two-year colleges, and suggests effective strategies for resolving them. The webinar will focus on the highlights of each chapter and will review: - The use of data in the decision making process
- Marketing in the community college environment
- Technology and its application to SEM
- Financial dynamics
- institutional leadership
- community college recruiting
- lessons learned from SEM experts.
Participants will learn fundamental SEM concepts, how to jump start the SEM process at their own campuses, and the myriad of resources to help along the SEM journey.
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Early-bird Summit Registration Ends Jan 8
1/5/2010
Register for SunGard Summit 2010 by this Friday, January 8, to receive the discounted early-bird registration fee. Go to the Summit 2010 website - http://sungardsummit.com - and click on the Register NOW link. At SunGard Summit you’ll learn how to manage resources more effectively and serve your constituents more creatively. You’ll learn how to support more productive and collaborative learning environments. And you’ll learn how the Open Digital Campus vision and strategy will help you build a more flexible and cost-efficient campus environment. Go to the Session Catalog (under Agenda on the Summit website) to learn more about what SunGard Summit has to offer and find out how you can support a more dynamic and collaborative digital campus environment today. If you have questions, please send an email to summit@sungardhe.com.
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fsaATLAS Customers Sweep 2009 Campus Internationalization Awards
12/10/2009
Three of the five recipients honored this year with the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization are SunGard Higher Education fsaATLAS customers. The winning institutions include: Boston University, Pacific Lutheran University and Portland State University. This prestigious award recognizes U.S. institutions of higher education for exemplary international education practices. Additionally, two of the three recipients earning the 2009 Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award are also SunGard Higher Education fsaATLAS customers. The Berklee College of Music won for international outreach, employing a recruiting and audition strategy that spanned six continents. The University of California-Davis is recognized for academic diplomacy initiatives with Iran and Cuba. The Spotlight Awards recognize outstanding and innovative work in a specific area or program related to international education. Sponsored by NAFSA, a worldwide association that works to advance international education, these annual awards recognize institutions for overall excellence in internationalization efforts as evidenced in practices, structures, philosophies, and policies. Recipients of this year's awards will be profiled in the 2010 edition of Internationalizing the Campus: Profiles of Success at Colleges and Universities, a NAFSA report on successful models of campus internationalization. SunGard Higher Education congratulates these customers on this well-deserved recognition for their international education achievements.
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Darren Wesemann Blogs about Agility & Higher Ed
12/1/2009
Read Darren Wesemann's newest blog post about agility in higher education. You can go to it directly at www.sungardhe.com/darren or become a fan of SunGard Higher Education on Facebook www.facebook.com/sungardhe.
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Tarleton State University Embraces Banner Enrollment Management
11/30/2009
Congrats to Tarleton State University, and especially Denise Groves, Dean of Enrollment Management/University Registrar, and her team on a very successful Texan Tour event. This is one of their first campaigns using Banner Relationship Management, the core CRM component of the Banner Enrollment Management Suite. Read this article from the North Texas e-News to learn more about their great results.
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Seminars on Academic Computing Wins 2009 EDUCAUSE Leadership Award
11/20/2009
SunGard Higher Education, an EDUCAUSE Platinum partner, is proud to have sponsored the 2009 EDUCAUSE Leadership Award and congratulates this year’s winner: innovation within higher education. Congratulations to this year’s winner: the Seminars on Academic Computing. The Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC), an event held annually from 1970 through 2007, was honored for its role in mentoring and cultivating a generation of leaders across higher education. Early on, SAC established itself as the place for those involved in academic computing to meet and discuss common issues. SAC evolved well beyond the technologies of computing and communications to deal with all aspects of the computing center director's leadership role in the management, administration, fund-raising, planning, application development, and other matters pertaining to the use of technology in supporting education and research.
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Congratulations to Time Magazine’s “Best College Presidents”
11/20/2009
SunGard Higher Education would like to congratulate our customer institutions that received the honor of having their presidents ranked among “The 10 Best College Presidents” by Time magazine. The institutions and their presidents are: - The University of Michigan; President Mary Sue Coleman
- New York University; President John Sexton
- Arizona State University; President Michael Crow
- Tulane University; President Scott Cowen
- Middlebury College; President Ronald Liebowitz
- University of Maryland; President Freeman Hrabowski
To read the complete article, visit http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1937938_1937934,00.html
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SunGard Higher Education Customers Win 2009 Digital Education Achievement Award
11/18/2009
Abilene Christian University and Fashion Institute of Technology Recognized for Innovations in Digital Technology SunGard Higher Education congratulates customers honored in the 2009 Center for Digital Education Achievement Awards. The awards showcase outstanding educational venues in higher Education, K-12 state and local districts, portals and Web sites based on their innovations, functionality and efficiencies. Abilene Christian University was recognized in the Learning and Engagement category for its ACU Connected system that utilized mobile technology, changing the way students live, work and learn at ACU. As the first university to distribute Apple iPhones and iPod Touches to incoming freshman, ACU created an innovative platform where students could instantly receive homework alerts, answer school surveys and quizzes, get directions to professors’ offices and check meal and account balances in and out of the classroom. In addition to earning the 2009 Digital Education Achievement Award for improving education through mobile technology, Abilene Christian University was named one of America’s Best Colleges for the second year in a row by U.S. News and World Report in its 2010 edition. The university climbed up the rankings to 20th in the category of Master’s Universities – West. The Fashion Institute of Technology was recognized in the Sustainability category for its ePortfolio for College Submissions. Before the award-winning online submission system, potential students had limited options for portfolio review, through mail or personal submission. With ePortfolios, students can submit their work online from anywhere in the world. The system simplified scheduling, student checklists and grading. Over 125 ePortfolio were submitted, and of those, 30% received admission. ACU Connected and the Fashion Institute of Technology’s ePortfolios are powered by the SunGard Higher Education Banner. SunGard was privileged to join in supporting the nominations. The complete listing of the 2009 Best of the Web honorees can be viewed at
http://www.convergemag.com/awards/education-achievement/2009-Digital-Education-Achievement-Award-Winners.html. The Center for Digital Education (www.centerdigitaled.com) is a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies and best practices in K-12 and Higher Education. The Center is a division of e.Republic, Inc. (www.erepublic.com), a national publishing, event and research company focused on information technology in the public sector.
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