As colleges and universities find new ways to partner with each other to improve services and reduce costs, the idea of sharing an LMS is starting to gain traction. For instance, selecting and sharing a learning management system was key to an online teacher training and certification partnership established in 2017 between the schools of […]
Reaching students and families with social media posts in their native language is one way higher ed institutions can build engagement and drive traffic to the website.
Adaptive Suite (Adaptive Insights) Cloud-based performance management software for budgeting, planning, forecasting, reporting and dashboards adaptiveinsights.com Axiom Higher Education Suite (Kaufman Hall) Software to support institutional planning and reporting kaufmanhall.com Banner Finance ERP (Ellucian) Higher ed-specific system designed to gain in-depth financial insights through real-time visibility and reporting capabilities ellucian.com Link to main story: Higher ed […]
What do you see as the biggest roadblock for finance offices at colleges in moving away from spreadsheet-based budgeting and financial planning? “The biggest roadblock is changing existing processes that are constrained by outdated technology. With a platform [that has] data integrations, linking, collaboration, control and a full audit trail, finance teams can create […]
When the finance team at Wofford College in South Carolina wanted to show it could support a slightly higher than average tuition increase, advanced financial software was on hand to make the case to the board of trustees. “We loaded historical sticker prices for Wofford and our peers into the software and then made a […]
A college or university's campus represents, physically, its environment for learning—its training ground for future thought leaders. Yet today, many U.S. institutions of higher education lack the appropriate resources and funding needed to develop new infrastructure or to upgrade existing buildings. To solve this problem, more are turning toward a public-private partnership (P3) model—a practice common […]
The American Society for Engineering Education, the pre-eminent authority on the education of engineering professionals, knew that associations for other disciplines had great success with Liaison-powered Centralized Application Services (CAS). Nathan Kahl, ASEE’s managing director for communications and society advancement, thought it might be time to offer his member engineering schools the same benefits. After […]
Ricky Fuentes, the director of user services at Clovis Community College in New Mexico, was staring down two challenges: Providing dedicated servers upon request and refining the backup process on those servers. “If a department says they had software that needs a dedicated server, I would have to find a vendor to help build out […]
Over the past decade, the eLearning team at Seminole State College of Florida saw video organically grow to become a regular part of students’ learning experiences. But as different instructors and departments were starting to adopt the technology, there was a lack of standardization, which quickly began to create a number of new challenges when […]
The University of Arizona wanted to rethink its course site design workflows to empower faculty to teach courses the way they want to teach them. Courses for fully online degrees are supported by the Office of Digital Learning while support for all other degrees is provided by the Office of Instruction and Assessment. Teams in […]
