Frequent downtime. Lengthy change processes. Complicated pricing structure. These were just a few of the issues with Brescia University’s phone system that was in use prior to 2014. The western Kentucky institution—which serves just over 1,000 students—had aging, IP-based hosted solution. “Calls would drop all the time,” says Chris Ford, Director of Information Technology for […]
Higher education has a long history of collaboration among institutions. Today, colleges and universities are leveraging the power of that collaborative spirit to bring high-capacity bandwidth to the market’s most insatiable users: traditional college-age students. That technology hunger is evident in how each student not only has multiple devices but is likely to be using […]
Higher education institutions consistently face pressure to satisfy the computing, storage and network requirements of their campus power users, the research scientists. A variety of technological trends are also putting added pressure on an institution’s infrastructure. With the advent of cloud computing, and public infrastructure as a service offerings available with the swipe of a […]
Institutions collect a wealth of data regarding admissions, financial aid and student success factors. All of these data provide a holistic view of prospective and current students, but it is crucial that this actionable intelligence be used to create and deploy personal and productive messages. In this web seminar, originally broadcast on April 23, 2015, an […]
From dealing with an increase in student housing to managing off-campus student conduct, Colorado State University and the city of Fort Collins have a more than decade-long partnership that's become a model for other higher ed institutions and their hometowns. CSU's enrollment is expected to grow from 27,000 students to 35,000 within the next 10 […]
