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• *New Payment Data Security Standard on the Horizon
• *Leading Your Campus Disaster Efforts
• *Deploying Secure Guest Access at the University of San Diego
• *Sacred Spaces

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Academic Issues

• More Than an Access Program: The Emerald Eagle Scholars at the University of North Texas
• Creative Competition.
• Making Radical Change a Reality
  10 Tips for Implementing Curricular Innovation
• Higher Education Moves to Online Classrooms
  Web conferencing, eLearning allow students to progress with confidence
• Ball State University's Immersive Learning
  The university is redefining education with a program that lets students engage in intense, creative, collaborative, personal, and, at times, real-life ventures.
• Thinking Globally, Learning Locally
  How technology can enable high-quality mass higher education for the 21st century
• Coming to a College Near You
• The eLearning Future is No Longer Five Years Away
• Engineering the Nation's Future
  Universities' Best Practices for Preparing Engineering and Architecture Students.

Admissions and Financial Aid

• 10 Tips for a Meaningful Campus Tour
• Sagging Economy Lifts Adult Student Programs
• Making the Best Bets Possible
• A New Admissions Gambit
  The star players at some universities aren’t on the athletic field.
• Up Front and Personal
  While academic marketers now can reach prospects through a wider array of channels, the structure of discourse and the content communicated hasn’t changed as much. And change might yield deeper connections and better results.
• The Best Thing We Can Do to Thank Returning Vets
• Aid Directors: Are You Ready For The Summer?
• Getting Personal with Potential Students
• The Price Isn't Right
  Market Pricing Dynamics To Kill The Small Private College
• Research Tools to Guide Tuition and Financial Aid Decisions
  Two proven methods can help administrators make informed decisions about tuition pricing and financial aid allocation.
• Lawmakers Are on the Student-Loan Warpath
  Will your college or university be ready when they come calling?
• Proactive Financial Aid Officers Have Opportunity to Save Millions for Students
  Providing financial aid that really helps students will, in the end, benefit your university.

Campus Construction

• The ‘Next Great Space’ on Campus
  Student forum facilities help attract and serve today's students and the students of tomorrow.
• Financial Aid, Course Schedule, and a Latte to Go
  One-stop student centers streamline service.

Campus Security

• Preventing Targeted Violence in Our Academic Institutions
• Public Safety: Deploying AEDs to Save Lives on Campus
• Continuity Planning and Crisis Communications – Their Dual Role in Campus Evacuations
• Higher Education's 9/11: Crisis Management
  Lessons From The Tragedy At Virginia Tech
• The Thin Blue Line
  Campus cops come under new scrutiny after the Virginia Tech shootings.
• 10 Steps to Creating a More Secure Campus
  How to reduce some of the fears and concerns over safety and security that will be felt on every campus.
• Review of Campus Safety
  Security experts review the events on the Blacksburg campus, while higher ed officials nationwide review emergency procedures. What could have been done to prevent fatalities?
• Online Help for Administrators
  Links to education and health organizations that can help; statements from higher ed leaders on the shootings.
• Administrators are Human Beings, Too
  A college president offers some advice on acting during a tragedy.
• Gotta Get a Message to You

Facilities Management

• *Sacred Spaces
• A Prime Investment
• Bringing Ease to Managing Facilities
  A computerized maintenance management program may be the solution.

Finance

• *New Payment Data Security Standard on the Horizon
• What Financial Officers Need to Know
• Down Economy Presents Opportunity for Private, Market-Funded Universities
• How We Did It: Public Private Partnership
• Colleges and Universities: The Next Target of Audits, Investigations and Legislative Reform?
• Breaking the Deadlock: Unifying Our Federal Student Loan Programs
• Creating Working Capital and Cash Flow Efficiencies
• Pathways to Procurement
  E-procurement gives universities far more control over their purchasing power.
• Mission Based Investing Comes of Age: Embracing Investments With A Double Bottom Line
  How and why college and universities have begun to do this with their endowments
• 12 Steps to a Better Bursar's Office
  From automating processes to implementing self-service, here are a dozen ways to streamline bursar's office operations.
• 529 Plans Contribute to College Credit Stability
  For most IHEs, the biggest source of revenue is tuition, and 529 plans are helping to keep those revenue streams flowing.

Management and Leadership

• *Leading Your Campus Disaster Efforts
• Fighting Gossip with Values
• Three Steps for Managing Serious Challenges
• Don't Let Severe Weather Cause a Severe Disruption On Campus
• Addressing Diversity Conflict on Campus
• Time to Cover Higher Ed Like Sports Teams
• Why Students Are Leaving Your College or University?
• Retain Students Retain Budgets: A How To
• Four Strategies for a Difficult Economy
• Removing Educational Roadblocks for Disabled Veterans
• Is Higher Education Approaching the Perfect Storm?
  With costs increasing and economic forecasts pointing to a challenging year ahead, what can colleges and universities do to contain costs and weather uncertain times? The answer may surprise you.
• Single vs. Multi-Vendor --The Critical Decision in 403(b)
  Examining the merits of both arrangements
• Best Branding Practices–Avoiding Assumptions that Miss the Media Mark
  Campaigns that deliver the best results always involve bold leadership and tough decisions
• Learning Life's Lessons
  From lengthy reading to reaching out to students, a college president reflects on going back to school and what it taught him.
• Take the Leap
  Challenges Faced by Traditional Schools Entering the Online Education Industry.
• The Face of Diversity
  The effectiveness of diversity depends on the sincerity of its delivery
• Cyber-harassment in Academia
• Building a Student Retention Program – A Challenge Worth the Effort
• Foreign Employees at U.S. Universities
  Establishing Internal Policies for Permanent Residence Applications.
• How Innovation Can Build Scientific Leadership
  A partnership between the University at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute has helped turn an old industrial city into a center of medical science.
• What's on the Menu: Successful Changes
  Campus dining must step up to the plate--by revamping facilities, trying out new programs, or making friends with local facilities--to bring better service to the counter.
• The Town-Gown Relationship
  How St. Lawrence University has nurtured and sustained a relationship with its hometown of Canton, N.Y.
• Flu Pandemic Prep
• Academic Institutions and Identity Theft: What You Need to Know
  An interview with Brian Lapidus, senior vice president, Kroll Fraud Solutions
• Simple, Yet Sophisticated Strategies for Achieving Full Lifetime Value from Your Alumni
  Maintaining accurate data is key.
• Resolution Number One: Create a One-Year Integration Plan
  Let this be the year that you better connect with prospective students, donors, and everyone else in your target audience.

Marketing

• The Art of Getting Press Coverage
• How Smart Marketers Are Investing

Sustainability

• The Top 10 Energy Wasters in Schools (and What to Do About Them)
• Reducing Campus E-Waste Through Product Stewardship Recycling Programs
• Keeping Carbon Footprint Measurement Credible.
• Sustainable Success Sharing
  Higher ed institutions with strong sustainability stories to tell are getting the word out.
• Sustaining Your Sustainability Program
  Colleges and universities have unique sustainability challenges, but careful planning can help ensure success.
• Teaching Green
  Sustainability programs are growing on campuses large and small.
• Green Products for the Bookstore
  Items that are organic, recycled, or sustainable have an edge with students.

Technology

• *Deploying Secure Guest Access at the University of San Diego
• Your University's Data Theft Hot Spots Revealed
• Considering Enterprise Software as a Service?
• Digitally Connected Learning Environments to Enhance Communication and Collaboration
• Laying a Secure Foundation for Student Privacy and Access
• Managing Environmental Compliance Can Be Easy – With the Right Tool
• Digital Signage for Education
• Cloud Computing's Top Issues for Higher Education
• Web 2.0—Bane or Boon to Campus Operations and Management?
• Dude, Where's My Projector?
• Engaging in the Social Web, Social Media, and the Facebook Phenomenon.
• The Next Small Thing
• Social Networking and the .edu Experience: It's Time They Meet
  IHEs must consider how to address social networking
• Why Infected PCs Still Walk the Halls of Higher Education
• Collaborate or Die: The Future of Education
  The Challenge of Developing an Institutional System that Serves the 21st Century.
• How to Tame the University Document Problem
  The biggest document process pain points-and what can be done to ease them.
• Audio Visual Systems in Colleges and Universities
  Factors That Contribute to High Satisfaction and Solid Return on Investment.
• Running Out of Room
  An array of on- and off-site storage solutions help academic libraries manage user needs and continued growth.
• If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em: Bringing Higher Education into the Web 2.0 Age
  A Systematic Approach to Help Secondary Education Providers Maximize Rich-Media Content, Mobile Technologies, and Social Networking Effectiveness
• Best Practices for Using a CMS
  Colleges and universities have unique sustainability challenges, but careful planning can help ensure success.
• Students Comment on Facebook