It’s official. Ellucian Mobile is now available. In the Ellucian Mobile—Vision and Roadmap session, Wayne Bovier, director of product management for Ellucian, introduced this complete mobile solution that can be easily integrated with existing IT platforms and strategies.
It’s a provocative combination: community colleges and businesses, a federal challenge to better prepare workers, and $474.5 million to do it.
Intended to fuel community colleges’ creativity in restructuring career training paths and timelines, the third round of Labor Department job-training grants is now open. And if community colleges’ track records thus far are any indication, innovative programs and employer partnerships are just ahead.
So your students walk off the stage with a high school diploma. Tasseled caps soar in the breeze, held aloft with aspirations for the future. But just because they graduate, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ready to fly.
Recently, the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) released the results of a two-year study of the English literacy and mathematics required for success in the first year of community college. It wasn’t pretty.
The concept of project-based learning has been around for a long time, but it is experiencing a resurgence, in part, due to innovative software that is opening new doors that help students collaborate. Until recently, technical support for group projects has fallen short. But that is all changing.
With a little creativity and some customization, institutions are building the tools they need. In the Campus Technology article Tools for Teamwork, David Raths highlights four specialized tools that bolster cooperation among students.
Gartner analyst Ian Finley predicts that within the next four years up to 25 percent of enterprises will have their own enterprise app stores for managing apps on both desk tops as well as mobile devices. Justification for the trend includes BYOA (bring your own app), which continues to grow from the abstraction enabled in the BYO* culture (see my post on BOYM). Gartner was referring to enterprises that will assume more control of the apps downloaded by their company’s employees, by creating their own app store containing sanctioned apps available for quick downloads and deployments. However, consider students, who are members of the culture that expects immediate access to functionality via app stores. Do institutions need to consider BYOA relative to ensuring the student experience is optimal as well as secure? This post considers two very different angles to this question, first a mobile strategy for institutions that is compatible with the immediate-access trend, and second an ERP strategy that leverages an app store to extend rapidly, enabling institutions to adapt better to the dynamically changing education environment, doing more with their student systems.
University Business reported on the availability of a centralized payment system that will help institutions of higher education streamline their accounts receivable and payments processes. “Campuses throughout the world will now be able to offer synchronized and secure payment processing through a new payment engine, the Ellucian Payment Center by TouchNet. ‘The world of electronic payments and campus commerce continues to become more demanding and complex every day,’ said Mark Jones, senior vice president and chief product officer of Ellucian. ‘Ellucian customers will benefit from a single platform to manage payments that is integrated with their Ellucian solution.’”
Read article: Announcing Ellucian Payment Center by TouchNet
Campus Technology reported on two new product announcements from Ellucian. “Ellucian has launched (Ellucian Banner Data Defense) a new bundle for Banner users that provides multi-layer security tools designed to protect student, faculty, and staff data. The company also introduced a new payment system designed specifically for higher ed …” In other news, Ellucian has teamed with TouchNet to launch a centralized payment system designed to “help institutions of higher education streamline their accounts receivable and payments processes.”
Read article: Ellucian Rolls Out Payment Center, Banner Data Defense
University Business magazine called out Valdosta State University and Johnson County Community College as 2013 Spring Models of Efficiency. Both institutions’ initiatives are supported by Ellucian solutions.
“With a 67 percent one-year retention rate costing $6.5 million in lost revenue annually, Valdosta State University (Ga.) officials knew they had to act. The problem was data that could have helped identify remedies were sorely lacking, and what little information the institution possessed was difficult to access and analyze … (They) didn’t have to look far to find a solution. Valdosta State already was supporting its Banner student information system with Oracle Database. Many of its programmers were comfortable with Oracle, and thanks to a license through the statewide higher education system, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition was an easy choice.”
After years of personal struggle and uncertainty about her place in the world, Anne Mahlum had a startlingly simple realization: a little self-worth goes a long way.
And it took a group of nine homeless men to help her reach that realization.
As Ellucian Live’s closing keynote speaker, Mahlum detailed her journey from disillusioned, confused teenager to founder and CEO of Back on My Feet, a nonprofit organization that uses running to help homeless people build self-value and self-worth—the first ingredients to self-sufficiency.
After two years as runner-up, The College of St. Scholastica is taking home the prize—well, a Benjamin Franklin shot glass and a Liberty Bell coffee mug—as this year’s Luminis® Idol.
As part of the seventh annual Luminis Idol competition, held Tuesday, seven schools had five minutes each to demonstrate the cool features and functions of their Ellucian Luminis Platform-based web portal. And while each earned applause and kudos from judge Alistair Calder, The College of St. Scholastica dazzled the rowdy crowd with its new mobile app.
Presented by: Kevin Meldorf, Senior Product Manager, Ellucian
Institutional effectiveness has risen to the top of many presidents’ cabinet agendas. Why? Because every institution aspires to improve. And because institutional effectiveness is at the core of the concerns that they deal with every day.
In the session, Institutional Performance Management, senior product manager Kevin Meldorf said institutions must ask four questions:
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