Today's Higher-Ed News
(Business Week)
Peer-to-peer lending is entering the student loan market.
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(post-gazette NOW News)
John Cavanaugh currently is president at the 10,400-student University of West Florida.
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(The Wall Street Journal)
The chancellor of the University of Colorado plans to raise $9 million to create an endowed ...
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(DailyMail.com)
President Mike Garrison expressed anger, disappointment, and regret during his first face-to-face meeting with the Faculty ...
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(newsobserver.com)
The system's decision is counter to the position of federal officials, who said last week that ...
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(bizjournals.com)
The private Christian college in Phoenix has filed an S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities ...
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(The Wall Street Journal)
Dozens of colleges and universities have announced efforts to overhaul their aid programs, and now they're ...
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(chicagotribune.com)
The fraternity has been suspended for three years to try to stop a troubling culture of ...
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(elpasotimes.com/Associated Press)
The private Catholic school canceled classes after the May 6 fire that investigators believe was caused ...
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(delawareonline.com)
She alleges that the school failed to provide a secure environment and did not abide by ...
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Executive Job Position of
the Day
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Carthage College
Kenosha, WI
Vice President for Library and Information Services -
05/15/2008
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New Contracts
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Cedar Point Communications Inc. has begun the first full-scale deployment of its voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) on a college-campus setting -- at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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The college has already completed the integration of PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management, Campus Solutions, Contributor Relations, and Enterprise Portal and is now upgrading to PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.0.
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is donating the money in order to help identify creative ways to engage students in the biological sciences.
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The firm’s redesign of what was formerly a residential structure at the Hellenic Center in Washington, D.C., included architectural planning, architectural design, and structural, mechanical, plumbing, and electrical engineering.
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The college will also use the ActiveCampus Portal to expand student services.
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Executive
Jobs
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Carthage College
Kenosha,WI
Vice President for Library and Information Services -
05/15/2008
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Purdue University
West Lafayette,IN
Vice President for Marketing and Media -
04/18/2008
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Pace University
New York,NY
Vice President for Enrollment Management -
04/03/2008
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New Products and Services
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Sanyo's new LP-XP100L projector boasts the industry's highest brightness, 6,500 lumens, in the portable-class, single-lamp LCD projector category.
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Hitachi Software introduced the FX-Series interactive whiteboards offering educators, students, and presenters an exciting way to communicate. Available in three sizes (63”, 77” and 82”), the FX-Series works with Hitachi Software’s StarBoard 7.1 software, enabling users to annotate directly on any Microsoft Office program, quickly and easily creating notes, geographic shapes, highlights and much more.
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The newest version incorporates 100 specific user suggestions, including a redesigned administrator console and a simplified discussion forum application.
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Elite Screens has added to its product choices with screens that users can custom order online.
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The Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education is holding its annual conference in Las Vegas, July 13 to 17, 2008.
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The free consumer tool provides information on more than 7,000 postsecondary institutions in the United States.
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The company has dropped the price on its 94-inch SMART Board 690 interactive whiteboard by 10 percent.
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New features will eliminate the 755,000,000 admissions documents processed annually.
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The enhancements will be offered at no additional charge as part of the Regent Enterprise solution.
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Education Sector has released a new report Graduation Rate Watch: Making Minority Student Success a Priority.
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