In This Issue

• Campus WiFi:
  • Saint Joseph Builds Out Wireless Network in Multi-year Upgrade
• IT News:
  • California Community Colleges Partner with Waterfall Mobile on Statewide Emergency Notification Coverage
  • King’s College and ASU Add e2Campus for Improved Emergency Notifications
  • Vista Ramp Up Is Happening Now, Study Says
  • Talisma Launches New Version of CRM with Built-in Application Management
  • Ferrum College Enrolls Juniper Networks To Extend 10 Gigabit Ethernet
  • California Community Colleges Adopt SunGard Banner Software
  • Ball State U Web Sites Now Managed with Sitecore
• Events:
  • Keep up with your peers!
• Online Resources:
  • Webinar: Reducing Costs Through Strategic Financial Management
  • Webinar: Trends and Best Practices for E-mail Security
  • Webinar: Unwired Infrastructure — Implementing Next-Gen Wi-Fi at Your School
  • How London School of Economics Delivers Real-Time IT Services to Remote Users
  • Webcast: The Benefits of a Connected Campus

Saint Joseph Builds Out Wireless Network in Multi-year Upgrade

Saint Joseph’s University has begun deploying a Meru Networks wireless local area network across its Philadelphia campus as part of a multi-year effort to bring wireless coverage to every building on campus. The wireless project began with the installation of Meru access points (APs) in the university’s freshman residence halls and the Campion Student Center, and continued with upper-class dormitories. When students return to school this fall, 380 Meru APs will be providing wireless coverage to 25 buildings, encompassing all residences plus two dining halls, a student commons, an administrative facility, and an academic building.

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California Community Colleges Partner with Waterfall Mobile on Statewide Emergency Notification Coverage

The Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC) has awarded a statewide emergency alert notification contract to Waterfall Mobile. The contract establishes Waterfall’s AlertU as an approved technology through the official non-profit foundation for the California Community College (CCC) system office. Through this partnership, individual colleges may directly implement emergency communication services, eliminating lengthy technology evaluation and RFP processes.

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King’s College and ASU Add e2Campus for Improved Emergency Notifications

King’s College and Arizona State University have switched to Omnilert’s e2Campus for emergency notification. Ominlert also has introduced a new program called the ENS Conversion Service that allows schools to bulk upload data from their previous emergency notification system into e2Campus at no charge.

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Vista Ramp Up Is Happening Now, Study Says

Organizations may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a Forrester Research report by Benjamin Gray et al., published last week.

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Talisma Launches New Version of CRM with Built-in Application Management

Talisma Corp. announced version 8.0 of its constituent relationship management (CRM) application for higher education. The new release includes application management, a revamped user interface, two-way text messaging, personalized Web portals, and an ADA-compliant Web client, among other enhancements.

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Ferrum College Enrolls Juniper Networks To Extend 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Ferrum College in southwestern Virginia has chosen to replace its campus-wide legacy Cisco network infrastructure with Juniper Network switching, network access control (NAC), and firewall/virtual private network (VPN) solutions. The college chose the new equipment after deciding to extend 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) throughput across the network in support of advanced voice over IP (VoIP) by fall 2009.

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California Community Colleges Adopt SunGard Banner Software

California’s Rio Hondo College and Sierra College have selected software from the Banner Unified Digital Campus and other solutions from SunGard Higher Education to help address their growing enrollments and to help improve student retention and services.

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Ball State U Web Sites Now Managed with Sitecore

Ball State University in Muncie, IN has gone public regarding its deployment of a Web site content management system from Sitecore. Ball State chose Sitecore’s software to revamp its 220-plus sites, integrating common new media applications and garnering a next-generation user experience that has won several awards from education and new media marketing organizations. Now, Ball State maintains uniformity across all university Web sites and said it has enhanced its recruiting efforts through the site’s new look and interface.

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Text Messaging as an Emergency Communication Superstar?

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In this session, see why text messaging for emergency communication as one modality that should be considered amongst many more robust and reliable communication tools. Text messaging is great for peer-to-peer communication but, as you will discover in this session, communicating via text messaging during an emergency is NT SO GR8.

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