Higher Ed

Turning Releases SDK for Classroom Response System

6/6/2008

Ed tech provider Turning Technologies this week rolled out a new software development kit for its ResponseCard classroom response systems (AKA "classroom clickers"). Read More

Cengage Completes Acquisition of Houghton Mifflin College Division, Expands Offerings

6/3/2008

Print and digital instruction and reference materials provider Cengage Learning announced Monday that it has completed its acquisition of Houghton Mifflin College Division (HM College). After announcing the agreement to acquire HM College in December, the company recently received the regulatory clearances required to close the deal. Read More

Cerritos College PeopleSoft Upgrade Comes in on Time and Budget

6/2/2008

Norwalk, CA-based Cerritos College said it has completed a major IT system upgrade--on time and under budget--after partnering with Ciber Enterprise Solutions. Read More

St. John's U Outsources Admissions Document Management to DataBank

6/2/2008

Following on a business process management analysis across multiple school operations, Queens, NY-based St. John's University has decided to outsource its admissions application process to DataBank, a service provider that performs document scanning and management. The school was compelled to find an outside vendor after experiencing a 65 percent increase in admissions applications over a five-year period. Read More

Rice University Purchases SciQuest eProcurement Service

5/30/2008

Houston-based Rice University has selected SciQuest's electronic procurement service to support its online purchasing program. The technology automates purchases made by all users across a university and addresses the unique needs of researchers who often make individual purchases of complex materials. SciQuest also provides a dedicated marketplace of scientific suppliers. Read More

Stanford University Hires SafirRosetti for Security Consulting

5/30/2008

Stanford University has awarded SafirRosetti's Technology Design Consulting Practice a competitively bid contract to provide security master planning and design and construction administration services as the university implements a new campus-wide security program. Read More

GroundWork Signs Universities for Open Source Monitoring

5/29/2008

With open source a large and growing facet of IT in higher education, a number of universities are signing on for third-party support services aimed at implementing, maintaining, managing, and monitoring OSS deployments. Read More

Georgia State Pilots Incident Response System

5/27/2008

Georgia State University in Atlanta is piloting a new incident response system from Risk Mitigation Systems. FIRSTResponder provides planning and two-way voice, text, and e-mail communications response. Read More

Randolph College Virtualizes on SAN

5/22/2008

Randolph College, formerly Randolph-Macon Women's College, has upgraded its storage to an IP-based storage area network (SAN) from StoneFly. The Lynchburg, VA-based school implemented the StoneFly Hybrid Storage Concentrator (HSC), an iSCSI SAN with 8 TB of capacity, after evaluating solutions from several vendors. Read More

Adobe Launches Bundles for Online Learning

5/19/2008

Adobe this week launched a new slate of bundles and resources for educators looking to use Acrobat Connect Pro in their online teaching efforts. Adobe just introduced the new version of Acrobat Connect Pro about two weeks ago. Read More