Funding/Finance
- MS Commits to $6 Million in Research Grants
-
7/18/2007
Microsoft has committed $6 million worth of research grant to a number of colleges and universities in certain areas of break through research during the company's eighth-annual research faculty summit recently held at Microsoft's headquarters.
- JP Morgan, Syracuse Partner on Financial IT Curriculum
-
7/2/2007
Investment banking firm JP Morgan Chase announced a $30 million partnership with Syracuse University designed to supply the bank with graduates trained in financial and information technology.
- CTI Awarded $68K in HP Grant
-
5/30/2007
The Hiram G. Andrews Center's Commonwealth Technical Institute (CTI), in Johnstown, PA, has been awarded $68,000 from the Hewlett Packard Technology for Teaching grant program that includes a teacher's stipend of $19,000 and $48,000 worth of equipment from Hewlett Packard.
- Carnegie Mellon, WPI Grants To Explore 'Intelligent Tutoring'
-
5/29/2007
The United States Department of Education has awarded Worcester (MA) Polytechnic Institute and Carnegie Mellon University a four-year, $2 million grant to enhance a computerized program to help middle school students hone their math skills. The tool is designed to tie tutoring to the assessment of student performance under federal teaching and learning guidelines.
- IT Funding, Student Safety Top Concerns for CIOs
-
5/22/2007
University information technology officials rated funding for technology as the most pressing issue they face, according to an annual "current issues" survey by the Educause higher education association. The survey asked campus IT managers to rank a series of information technology challenges on their campus, including security, funding, identity management, and strategic planning. Funding was No. 1.
- AlarmPoint Launches Notification Grants
-
5/17/2007
AlarmPoint Systems has launched a new grant program offering emergency notification systems through its new Crisis Notification Systems Grants Program.
- Survey Said ...
-
5/10/2007
I look forward each year to the EDUCAUSE annual Current Issues Survey Report. There is always something new and interesting, be it the ways in which the survey instrument itself has been shaped to reflect the association’s view of the field or in the results of the survey.
- HP Awards Classroom Technologies to 172 Institutions
-
5/3/2007
HP this week announced the recipients of its 2007 HP Technology for Teaching grant program. Forty-two colleges and universities and 130 K-12 schools will be receiving more than $7 million in cash, gear, and professional development.
- North Central State To Deploy New ERP
-
3/28/2007
North Central State College in Ohio will be swapping out its current enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in favor of Colleague, an ERP targeted specifically for higher ed. The system, developed by Datatel Inc., is designed to run in a SQL server environment.
- Extricom Offers $1 Million in WLAN Technology
-
2/26/2007
Extricom, a manufacturer of WLAN technologies, announced the start of its 2007 Education Grant program for higher education and K-12 schools. The grant will award a total of $1 million worth of wireless local area network (WLAN) equipment and discounts to schools.
- Technology and Campus Services
-
12/11/2006
Can auxiliary services be mission-critical? You bet they can. With tuition on the rise, Auxiliary Services departments at a variety of colleges and universities are proving that they can innovate and still save their parent institutions cash.
- Strategic Tech Purchasing
-
10/23/2006
Finding ways to better manage your purchasing strategy can help save considerable sums, not just on purchases, but on back-end support costs. For suggestions on how to cut tech procurement costs and control spending, we spoke with CIOs at two universities and a senior manager of higher ed purchasing at one of the biggest tech product suppliers in the world. Here are their suggestions on ways to control, standardize, and save on tech purchasing.
- The Evolving Growth of LON-CAPA
-
10/3/2006
As educational institutions establish an online presence, initial successes are often due to individual faculty members (“early adopters” of this new technology), working long hours to develop material more or less single-handedly. Frequently, they are leaving behind scattered projects, which are of intrinsic value, but of little use for the institution and far less for the larger academic community.
- Business Continuity Planning – Not Just for IT Anymore
-
9/27/2006
Basically, if your IT doesn’t work, you don’t have any business or learning continuity except for in the smallest and most specialized of situations.
- Strategic Tech Purchasing
-
9/25/2006
- Bankrolling IT Infrastructure
-
9/12/2006
Every investment in IT infrastructure presents a classic double whammy: An organization has to budget for the initial deployment and maintain funding to keep the technology working.
- Bankrolling IT Infrastructure
-
8/27/2006
- 2006 Campus Technology Innovators: IT Funding
-
7/23/2006
- Getting the Grants: Boost Your Chances!
-
7/3/2006
In the information technology arena, a number of tech companies offer grants that can help advance university research and instructional programs. That’s the good news. Now for the bad news: Competition abounds and only a handful of grant seekers obtain funding.
- When ‘Strategic’ Means ‘Hard to Sell’
-
6/26/2006
