Over the past nine months, Webster University has undertaken an evaluation of its global IT supply chain, resulting in agreements with Adobe, a software company; Cisco, a network infrastructure provider; and Qualtrics, a provider of enterprise research software that will develop deeper relationships with these three critical supply chain providers on a global basis.
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He is credited with developing Rutgers’ first long-term strategic plan and overseeing a massive infrastructure project that rewired the university for the internet.
4/17/2013
The announcement was made by Dr. Bruce McLarty, president-designate of the school.
4/17/2013
Yale was drawn to NetDocuments’ comprehensive document management suite to improve collaboration, organization and productivity between staff and across departments.
4/17/2013
Dwight Barnes, who teaches computer-integrated machining at Johnston Community College (N.C.), has a bold prediction for the program’s graduates. “Every one of our students will have a job when they graduate,” he says. “We get calls from companies every week asking to interview our students.”
4/17/2013
A three-year faculty compensation agreement has been approved by the Southeast Community College (Neb.) Board. Faculty will receive an overall 3.36 percent increase in compensation, the first year of the agreement. That includes salary, health coverage and retirement.
4/17/2013
Budget panels in both houses of the legislature rejected a provision in California Governor Jerry Brown's budget proposal that would limit community college students to 90 units, or force them to pay more than four times the current $46-per-unit price.
4/17/2013
This fall, students attending Jackson Community College (Miss.) could start earning a four-year bachelor's degree in energy production technology or culinary arts.
The JCC Board of Trustees unanimously approved a resolution at its Monday, April 15 meeting asking for baccalaureate granting authority. This, JCC officials said, is required by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools’ Higher Learning Commission and the first step in the process.
4/17/2013
Southeast Community College officials are reporting double-digit declines in enrollment. The year-to-year figure is down nearly 12 percent, and the spring quarter enrollment is down around 17 percent from the 2012 figure. The school says the final count of full-time students for the 2012-2013 school year is just over 8,800, compared with just under 10,000 the year before.
4/17/2013
An 18-year-old student drove to a community college campus located inside a western Virginia mall on Friday, April 12, walked in, then opened fire -- wounding two women -- before being subdued by an off-duty security guard and two police officers, authorities said.
4/17/2013
The state is close to selling the former Great Bay Community College campus in Stratham to Juliet Marine Systems, a Portsmouth-based defense contractor. The 90-acre site and its 100,000-square-foot building would be sold to the company for $2.75 million.
4/17/2013
Some Texas lawmakers are looking to create an academic assessment tool to measure and compare the teaching abilities of the state’s public universities.
4/17/2013
Kristine Duffy, vice president of enrollment management at Onondaga Community College (N.Y.), has been appointed the new president of Adirondack Community College, in Queensbury, N.Y., just outside of Glens Falls.
4/17/2013
When the Ohio University Board of Trustees meets Friday, it will be asked to approve a 1.6 percent tuition increase for undergraduates on the Athens campus, as well as an increase in room and board rates.
4/17/2013
Forty percent of Colorado’s class of 2011 enrolled in a Colorado college or university needed remedial education courses in at least one subject in order to catch up to college-level work, according to a report from the Department of Higher Education.
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