Recently added articles from University Business:
"Web 2.0--Bane or Boon to Campus Operations and Management.(NEW)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... "Web 2.0--Bane or Boon to Campus Operations and Management," by Ed Mallen, president and CFO of Time Trade Systems. ...
"Keeping Carbon Footprint Measurement Credible.(NEW)
Jun 01, 2009 ... "Keeping Carbon Footprint Measurement Credible," by Dorothy Austin. Colleges and universities now have a new arena for competition: the size of their carbon footprint. This is a way to measure an aspect of ...
"The Top 10 Cloud Computing Issues for Higher Education".(NEW)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... "The Top 10 Cloud Computing Issues for Higher Education" by Marla A. Hoehn and John L. Nicholson. Cloud computing frees colleges and universities from the need to buy hardware and software and maintain their own IT infrastructure, making them more ...
EDUCOMM 2009 news.
Jun 01, 2009 ... * Keynote information * Breakout session planner * Session descriptions ...
Sustainable stories.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2009; ... SOMETIMES WORDS AND PHRASES CAN trigger images that we use to define things. For example, when I hear the word "sustainable" it often brings to mind a trip I took some years ago. I was among a group of people touring one of the largest working dairy farms in western Connecticut. ...
Welcome to streamlined.(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Greetings. Welcome to the third Streamlined of 2009! My colleagues and I are proud to continue this series of publications designed to inform college and university administrators about new and innovative methods of streamlining business office operations. In this ...
Assessing the student experience with e-refunds.(Dowling College Higher One OneDisburse Refund Management)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Dowling College, in Oakdale, NY, has 7,000 students, most of whom obtain financial aid refunds each semester. The school implemented Higher One's OneDisburse[R] Refund Management[R] system in 2007. Students can obtain refunds in one of three ways, including the OneAccount, a ...
Tired of refund checks 'lost in the mail,' an Iowa college goes all-electronic: Des Moines Area Community College brings Higher One's OneDisburse[R] Refund Management[R] to its 27,000 students.
Jun 01, 2009 ... When it came time to mail financial aid refund checks at Des Moines Area Community College each semester, officials always worried about how many of those checks the post office would return as undeliverable. With nearly 27,000 students attending more than 3,000 classes on six campuses, it ...
Mystery donor identity a puzzle not to be solved: piecing together the who's of anonymous giving.(BEHIND the NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009; ... IN ANY ECONOMIC CLIMATE, A donor secretly giving at least $90 million to 18 or more higher ed institutions would create a buzz. Headline after headline prove that it is happening now. This secret donor's extreme anonymity is also unexpected. While there's no hard data on the ...
Sound bite.(BEHIND the NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009; ... 'We were doing cost containment before cost containment was cool.' --Jon A ....
Figuring out fire.(BEHIND the NEWS)(University of New Haven's Fire Science and Arson Investigation Laboratory)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... FIRE SCIENCE STUDENTS AT THE University of New Haven (Conn.) won't have to wait for actual fires in the area to progress in their studies. Instead they can examine the Fire Science and Arson Investigation Laboratory, housed in a barn on campus. Professor Bruce Varga says the three-room ...
Institutions put kindle to the test.(BEHIND the NEWS)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... COULD AN E-READER CUT DOWN ON PAPER USE, ENRICH ACADEMIC LEARNING, OR EVEN become the preferred choice over printed textbooks? The question has been asked before about certain devices. This fall, students and faculty at five institutions will participate in trials to test the Kindle DX, ...
E-mail fundraising still works.(BEHIND the NEWS)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IF YOU TELL PEOPLE AT DARTMOUTH THAT e-mail is ineffective for fundraising, they'll probably say you are doing it wrong. Considering they have tracking reports Linking an April e-mail campaign to $200,000 in donations, they might have a point. ...
Ready for anything.(BEHIND the NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ADVANCE WARNING AND GOOD PREPARATION ARE PLAYING A role in keeping an influenza outbreak from reaching pandemic proportions. So far, the H1N1 virus--"swine flu"--does not appear to be any more serious than seasonal influenza, but that doesn't mean the danger point has passed. In fact, the ...
Answering the Call: African-American Women in Higher Education Leadership.
Jun 01, 2009; ... Answering the Call: African-American Women in Higher Education Leadership By Beverly L. Bower and Mimi Wolverton Stylus Publishing, www.styluspub.com, 2009; 158 pp.; $22.50 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ANSWERING THE CALL TELLS THE STORIES OF seven ...
Dining Halls of Distinction.(LAST CHANCE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Got a dining hall with top-notch food and service, a welcoming atmosphere, and operations that are environmentally and ...
Two women to lead UC campuses.(PEOPLE WATCH)(University of California's Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Linda Katehi)
Jun 01, 2009; ... COME AUGUST, THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEM'S GROUP OF 10 CHANCELLORS will add two women to its ranks. They will join Marye Anne Fox, who is chancellor of UC, San Diego. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Susan Desmond-Hellmann, a physician and biotechnology industry ...
Data point.(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... 30-Percentage of surveyed undergraduate students who used a credit and to pay tuition. ...
Sound bite.(Quotation)
Jun 01, 2009; ... 'You'd think UCSD, especially after the earlier error, would be more careful about proofing things.' --Ben Weaver, ...
Inspiring the next generation of women in science.(FUTURE SHOCK)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... WHAT DO ANALYZING CRIME scene DNA, racing in a cardboard boat regatta, and practicing healthcare in Tanzania have in common? First, these scientific learning moments are more fun than staring at textbooks, test tubes, and microscopes. Second, students are succeeding in these projects at ...