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- Brigham Young University-Idaho Builds a Roadmap for Student Growth With Predictive Analysis Tool
- Brigham Young University-Idaho (BYU-Idaho) wanted to evaluate the risk involved in revamping the university's admissions and enrollment structure to accommodate its shift from a two-year to a four-year institution and implement a forecasting system that allows the university to determine how many offers to make to prospective students. The challenge...
- Tags: Analysis Tool, Oracle Corp., University, Enrollment, Tool, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Sales, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- CLEAR has a "Senior Moment"
- AP Newswire is reporting this morning that CLEAR has found a laptop also see CLEAR Press Release that had gone missing for over a week from one of its kiosk locations that contained the “personal data†of over 30,000 enrolled members at San Francisco International Airport,...
- Tags: Clear, Enrollment, Laptop Computer, AP Newswire, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Voluntary Benefits Company Boosts Sales Efficiency With Flexible Enrollment Application
- Colonial Life needed a flexible, easy-to-use application to provide a rich, engaging experience for its agents, brokers, and potential policyholders. Previously, the company was supporting two distinct software applications to facilitate its insurance enrollment process - one for offline operation and another for online usage. Not only were application maintenance...
- Tags: Agent, Benefit, Sales, Enrollment, Policyholder, Data Management, Real Estate, Storage, Databases, Business Operations, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- Computer science departments expanding focus and enrollment
- Computer science departments expanding focus and enrollmentNiche MarketingI suppose this makes sense but only as long as the skills being taught are valuable to employers. CS and CIS departments should look for in demand and future demand skills and fill those. If they happen to stumble across some niche to...
- Tags: Outsourcing, PRODUCTIVITY, computer science, Computer Science Department, enrollment, offshoring, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- FL teachers moonlight as online teachers
- In Palm Beach, Florida, some teachers are moonlighting as ... teachers. Due to high demand for online instruction, these teachers end their day jobs, go home and log on to teach online, reports the Palm Beach Post. The Palm Beach Virtual Community School, offers high school credits and GED...
- Tags: Palm Beach, Palm Inc., enrollment
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Science degrees continue to decline
- Science degrees continue to declineLittle/No reward for scientists in itThe trends in Sci/Tech industry are an evidence of the fact that the sci/tech industry has turned into a war-zone filled with deadly intellectual property IP "land-mines". Needless to say that while IP provides HUGE incentives directly to businesses and lawyers...
- Tags: enrollment, S&E Degrees
- Discussion threads 2007-01-08
- Rumors of online education's plateau greatly exaggerated
- Contrary to recent projections that online course enrollment at colleges has leveled off, a new report states online enrollment that there was a large increase in online enrollment, reports The Washington Post. The Sloan Consortium, a group of colleges pursuing online programs, published a report that estimates 850,000...
- Tags: Education Technology, Distance Learning, Higher Ed, enrollment
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Leveraging BPM Technology to Stay Ahead of the Competition
- With over 800,000 clients and 840 employees, Dix Amico is Brazil's second largest health plan provider. The company is committed to using technology to benefit its customers and outpace competitors. Due to the high cost of healthcare and increased competition, Dix Amico views reducing operating costs as critical to increasing...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., BPM, Health Care, Enrollment, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Software, Human Resources, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management
- Case studies 2006-11-01
- With online applications, colleges struggle to predict enrollment
- University enrollment has always been difficult to predict. Students are fickle and apply to sometimes a dozen universities at once. Now with online registration making applying that much easier, some California universities have admitted more freshman than they had planned for, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Universities such as...
- Tags: enrollment
- Blog posts 2006-08-14
- Foreign students enrollment in US universities dropped 2.4ò0in 2003-2004
- Foreign students enrollment in US universities dropped 2.4ò0in 2003-2004Student enrollmentLet me say that for every dollar spent to house, feed, clothe, and educate a foreign student one less American student gets educated. This isn't a matter of delusional self-serving liberalism; it's a matter of survival. Why should my tax dollars...
- Tags: enrollment, Foreign Students
- Discussion threads 2005-05-04
- Foreign students enrollment in US universities dropped 2.4% in 2003-2004
- Foreign student enrollment in the United States dropped by 2.4% in the 2003-04 academic year, and enrollment of students from China fell by 4.6%, the first-ever decline.
- Tags: Foreign Students, enrollment
- Blog posts 2005-05-02
- Foreign students enrollment in US universities dropped 2.4% in 2003-2004
- Foreign student enrollment in the United States dropped by 2.4% in the 2003-04 academic year, and enrollment of students from China fell by 4.6%, the first-ever decline.
- Tags: Foreign Students, enrollment
- Blog posts 2005-05-02
- Yale women demand stand on gender controversy
- Yale women demand stand on gender controversyWhat a crock...The petition calls for Levin to not only criticize Summers, but to improve opportunities for women on the Yale campus.... They demand he says what?So much for free speech. .. "but also to implement policies that would make Yale a leader in...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, enrollment, women, Yale University
- Discussion threads 2005-02-22
- Foreign-student enrollment declines
- Foreign-student enrollment declinesThe biggest loss it the cultural exchange.We also need more students to go oversees. The solution is not to have a war with everybody we don't like, the solution is to learn to get along with the rest of the world, and drop the arrogance.And the specs for...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, enrollment, job
- Discussion threads 2004-11-10
- Computer science enrollment down 23%, computer engineering down 19%
- There was a dramatic 19% drop-off of enrollment in Computer Engineering in 2003. Enrollment in undergraduate Computer Science courses continued to grow after the collapse of the dot-com bubble until the sharp decline in the 2002-03 academic year, according to the Washington-based Computing Research Association. The number of newly declared...
- Tags: enrollment, computer, computer science
- Blog posts 2004-03-24
- Student Laptop Mandates: Creating the Competitive Campus
- Colleges and universities that seek to recruit and retain students in today's competitive higher education market are increasingly turning to laptop and tablet PC mandate initiatives to make their programs more attractive to today's tech-savvy students. This white paper, published by the Center for Digital Education and underwritten by Gateway,...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., Student, Enrollment, Laptop Computer, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
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- H&R Block Streamlines and Facilitates Enrollment Process for Government Benefits
- Millions of people in the United States rely on government assistance. But the complex enrollment process causes billions of dollars to go unclaimed and is expensive for government and non-government organizations to deliver. To effect change, H&R Block and Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner Nets to Ladders (N2L) developed the...
- Tags: H&R Block Inc., Microsoft Corp., Enrollment, Benefits Enrollment Network, Government, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Community College Improves Enrollment Forecasting, Positions to Meet Growth Goal
- With campuses located throughout Indiana, Ivy Tech Community College is the only community college in the state. The college receives state funding, and the staff works hard to ensure that Ivy Tech graduates contribute to Indiana's growing workforce. Wanting to boost student enrollment and retention, the Central Indiana region of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Enrollment, Forecasting, Community College, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Payroll Solutions, Software, Human Resources, Sales
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- Hogeschool Windesheim Eliminates Duplicated Data and Manual Processes, Streamlining Enrollment
- With approximately 16,000 students, Hogeschool Windesheim is one of the largest professional education universities in the Netherlands. Windesheim wanted to eliminate errors and time wasted manually entering the same student data in different systems during student enrollment and drop periods. The challenge was to accelerate enrollment so students and staff...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Enrollment, Hogeschool Windesheim, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Portals, Web Services, E-learning, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Internet
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- Ice Creamery Connects With Customers, Lowers Costs With Easy-to-Use Solution
- Cold Stone Creamery is famous for its ice cream Creations, which contain any combination of fruits, nuts, or candy. Its popular Birthday Club provides members with free ice cream on their birthday. The company wanted to open this club up to all customers - not just children - and move...
- Tags: Customer Information, Ice Cream, Microsoft Corp., Enrollment, Marketing Research, Marketing
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