Higher Ed Market Headlines

College Marketing Firm TargetX Unveils Revolutionary CRM System for Student Recruiting

TargetX —Wednesday, October 08, 2008 As colleges feel increasing pressure to build relationships with prospective students, a long-time leader in recruitment technology has created a revolutionary customer relationship management system, providing a one-stop online tool for managing the entire recruitment process. Read more.

Record Demand for Pearson’s Higher Education Learning Solutions

Pearson —Wednesday, October 08, 2008 College students around the globe showed record demand for Pearson’s MyLabs and Mastering learning solutions for the Fall 2008 semester, underscoring the transformative impact of these programs for both students and educators. Read more.

Text a Librarian Makes It Easy for Libraries and Schools To Create Their Own Mobile Messaging Reference Services

Mosio.com —Wednesday, October 08, 2008 Mosio, the award-winning mobile Q&A community, today announced the launch of Text a Librarian (www.textalibrarian.com), a new service that helps libraries set up mobile Q&A systems so they may answer students and patrons’ questions instantly via text message to any mobile phone. Read more.

Research Confirms Tegrity Impacts Student Achievement; Coppin State University Enjoys 15 % Increase in Retention

Tegrity —Tuesday, October 07, 2008 A study on the use of Tegrity Campus 2.0 examines the positive impact of the Tegrity Campus 2.0 class capture web service on student achievement. The study is one of many research initiatives linking improved grades and academic performance to the implementation of Tegrity. Read more.

U.S. Air Force Academy Selects CDW-G and Fujitsu Tablets for Incoming Cadets

CDW-G —Monday, September 29, 2008 CDW Government, Inc. (CDW-G), a wholly owned subsidiary of CDW Corporation announced that for the second year in a row, the company was selected to provide Fujitsu tablet computers to the U.S. Air Force Academy’s 1,300 incoming fourth-class cadets (freshmen) and 200 faculty members under a $2.5 million contract. Read more.

SunGard Higher Education Announces Integration Between Banner Student and Advance Solutions

SunGard Higher Education —Saturday, September 27, 2008 SunGard Higher Education announced today that the latest version of its Advance alumni relations, fundraising and development software system now integrates with the Banner Student administrative solution. Read more.

Pearson and Rio Salado College Save Students More Than 50 Percent on Textbooks

Pearson —Thursday, September 25, 2008 Rio Salado College, a community college catering to working adults in Tempe, Ariz., recently faced a tough challenge: How could they create textbooks for their online students that offered personalized content, yet also saved students money? Read more.

North Seattle Community College Brings Developmental Math Online with Academic Systems(R)

PLATO Learning —Tuesday, September 23, 2008 North Seattle Community College (NSCC) will continue its 10-year partnership with PLATO Learning by transitioning to the company’s newest online software for post-secondary—Academic Systems Algebra—to support the college’s developmental mathematics courses. Read more.

Crown College Minnesota Adopts ANGEL LMS To Support Online Learning

ANGEL Learning —Thursday, September 18, 2008 ANGEL Learning announced that Crown College in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota has adopted the ANGEL Learning Management Suite. The college will implement ANGEL to support its online learning program. With its ANGEL adoption, Crown is moving from the LMS it previously licensed to the ANGEL LMS. Read more.

Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities Partners with Schooldude.com

SchoolDude.com —Tuesday, September 16, 2008 SchoolDude.com, the nation’s leading provider of on-demand operations management solutions for educational institutions, has signed an agreement with the Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities to provide web-native support services management solutions to the organization’s members. Read more.

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