Operational Efficiencies

5/21/2013
Exinda, a global provider of next-generation WAN optimization and Network Control solutions, announced a call for participation in the first vendor-driven advisory group aimed at addressing critical issues that impact networks at K-12 and Higher Education institutions around the world.
5/17/2013
Departments across campus must share information, a need not always easily, quickly, or securely achieved; Laserfiche Workflow technology breaks down the barriers inhibiting information-sharing.
5/17/2013
For staff in the USC Contracts and Grants department, Laserfiche has transformed the collaborative process from effort-filled to effortless.
5/17/2013
Transparent records management allows users to easily organize and access documents in the ways they’re used to, facilitating information-sharing and enabling departments to function more efficiently.
5/2/2013
In 2010, the Office of Information Technology had plans to purchase portable data centers to increase energy efficiency, which would have cost up to $7 million.
5/2/2013
For Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun, he says his experience as a teacher has been a blessing and a curse when it comes to upending the world of higher education.
4/17/2013
The state is close to selling the former Great Bay Community College campus in Stratham to Juliet Marine Systems, a Portsmouth-based defense contractor. The 90-acre site and its 100,000-square-foot building would be sold to the company for $2.75 million.
4/11/2013
The error likely affects almost every college employee, said Steve Baker, a spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association, which represents faculty members.
4/4/2013
The report from the American Association of University Professors accuses Southern of freezing faculty out of the decision-making process as administrators looked for ways to cut costs.
4/4/2013
Cleveland State University's administration got a vote of no confidence Wednesday from faculty leaders who don't think they've had an appropriate role in the decision to convert the undergraduate curriculum to primarily three-credit-hour classes.
4/3/2013
In the push to achieve greater efficiencies, institutions of higher learning are looking at ways to standardize business practices and bring greater uniformity to departments across the campus. Increasingly, they’re relying on ECM tools to achieve this objective, an effort that typically starts with Accounts Payable (AP), says Linda Ding, education program strategist for Laserfiche.
4/3/2013
Lauri Reilly, accounts payable manager at the Chancellor’s Office for California State University, distinctly recalls the moment she fell in love—with Laserfiche, that is. One of the first tasks she tackled upon her arrival to the office four years ago was preparing 1099 forms for vendors. “In the past, reconciling differences between the 1099 and total payments to a vendor took forever,” she says. “It was just amazing to me that I could sit at my desk and actually see the images in Laserfiche, and make an immediate determination whether or not a particular invoice was reportable without having to get up and search through files.”
4/3/2013
Every department on campus is shouldering a heavy workload, but few would argue that Accounts Payable (AP) staff are especially burdened. After all, AP is one of those critical business tasks that spans all departments—every purchase and every invoice is funneled through AP. When mistakes and discrepancies occur, reconciling paperwork can require a lot of detective work. An efficient AP system can help the department—and the institution as a whole—achieve efficiencies, reduce costs, and conserve resources.
3/28/2013
Legislators want to make it easier for veterans to go to college in South Carolina by paying tuition at in-state rates, though bills differ on how to do that.
3/28/2013
A proposal for a state Department of Higher Education drew questions Wednesday in Senate Judiciary Committee about its impact on universities. An attorney for state university system said it could mean a loss of accreditation.

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