What Google can teach colleges about servers
What Google can teach colleges about servers
Increasing internet use, the proliferation of streaming video, and the need for more powerful servers has colleges and universities seeking new, efficient ways to cool those all-important servers.…
ACE conference addresses college sustainability in troubled times
This week, a panel of higher-education stakeholders gathered to discuss their greatest sustainability challenges during the economic downturn.
Higher ed fundraising jumps amid recovering economy, social media use
Seven in 10 colleges and universities have recorded an uptick in donations this year after historic decreases in 2009-10, and experts said Facebook and Twitter adoption could be…
Campus payroll errors can translate to big bucks … but automation can help
Collecting and entering employee payroll information is a famously complex task in higher education. College payroll calculations are even more complicated—and fraught with error—when they’re done by hand.
Technology helps save college fundraising
Carefully crafted social media strategies and web videos that tug alumni heartstrings could become a foundation of college fundraising as campus officials use dwindling resources to recover from…
Brown University expands Google services, could save $1M per year
Reports of Gmail’s demise, it seems, have been greatly exaggerated. After a spring that saw at least three prominent universities move away from Google’s eMail and applications, technology…
Ed-tech grant program aims to boost college readiness
Six months after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pumped $3.6 million into a national certification program for teachers of remedial college courses, a new initiative will dole…
Tech-savvy university grows mobile learning with $1.8M award
Abilene Christian University, among the leading users of mobile technology in higher education, will use a $1.8 million award from AT&T to build a studio for mobile learning…
UNC expects to save $100K through eBilling
Paying bills online is nothing new for 20-somethings, but the University of North Carolina’s elimination of traditional snail mail in sending out tuition bills means students will have…
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