Editor’s note: University Business welcomes the insights and opinions of educators and administrators on all topics. If you would like to contribute a guest column, please contact Tim Goral at [email protected]. Charles Isbell’s research passion is artificial intelligence, or AI. The senior associate dean for Georgia Tech’s College of Computing focuses on building “autonomous agents,” or […]

What are some of the trends Jenzabar is seeing in higher ed for 2018 and beyond? There is a focus on fiscal responsibility. As we see budgets tighten, business officers are going to be tasked with being very responsible about the fiscal situation at their institutions. This strategy aligns perfectly with the Jenzabar ethos. Our […]

Just five years ago, the business office at James Madison University in Virginia was spending about $25 for every refund check it processed. Multiply that by the tens of thousands of students who received such checks each semester, including summers, and the cost quickly added up.  Today, the school has all but eliminated paper checks […]

New York is no stranger to the kind of damage that storms can do. In 2012, when Superstorm Sandy swept through, we knew we were fortunate that Adelphi University's campus was without power for days and not weeks. Still, after that experience, we knew we had a responsibility toward student safety and well being to […]