Preparing for the Complexities of the Simplified FAFSA
The most significant overhaul yet to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is coming this December when the US Education Department plans to release its new simplified form. Reducing the application from over 100 questions to less than 50 will no doubt make it easier for many of the nearly 18 million students […]
Reaping Long-Term ROI Over Eight-Year Partnership with Tambellini Group
When a prestigious national R1 university first began a multiyear initiative to improve student services in 2015, its technology leadership reached out to Tambellini Group with a straightforward request for the comprehensive annual 2023 Student Systems US Higher Education Market Share, Trends, and Leaders Report. This in-depth report is a common entry point for Tambellini […]
Slate Festival Highlights
In May, I attended several of the Slate Festival webinars, which featured client testimonials on a myriad of topics ranging from integrating with Slate, creating innovative marketing campaigns, using technology to reduce summer melt, leveraging financial aid insights in recruitment and admissions, and more. At the end of the series, what struck me was the […]
Financial Aid is Hard. Is Your Legacy System Making it Harder?
Financial aid is critical for many students to make higher education accessible. It’s also vital for the financial sustainability of the many institutions that serve those students. But as essential as it is, many colleges are still using legacy systems with complex user interfaces and little or no workflow capabilities to guide students through the […]
GLBA Safeguards Rule Compliance Deadline Extension
As most of you know, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, was designed to regulate, control, and take affirmative precautions to safeguard sensitive nonpublic personal information (NPI) collected by organizations classified as “financial institutions” from individuals to obtain a financial product or service. The GLBA rules, which […]
Financial Aid Needs More IT Support
It is no secret that financial aid is foundational to the relationship between an institution and students. Financial aid packages are one of the core factors that students and families use when deciding where to enroll. In today’s increasingly competitive enrollment environment, institutions face even more pressure to elevate the student financial aid experience and […]
Ellucian On-Trend with CampusLogic Acquisition
By acquiring CampusLogic, Ellucian has made a solid addition to its portfolio, bringing significant potential benefits to its customers. The acquisition adds product assets to augment current offerings and architectural assets to provide technology and staffing to accelerate Ellucian’s transition to SaaS. The move is interesting but not surprising. With this transaction, Ellucian extends its […]
Technological Improvements and Personal Interactions
For all of the prognostications focused on how the current pandemic may forever alter the future of higher education, the severity and swiftness of the economic fallout have already further intensified the most immediate concern every institution faces: reining in ever-escalating tuition rates. It’s been a pressing issue looming large across academe long before campuses […]
Using Chatbots to Increase Student Engagement
If you happen to be a parent, do you have a screenager or know one? If so, how are you communicating with them and is it effective? Sheenah Hartigan deals with this generation of student (a.k.a. Gen Z or iGeneration) all day long every day at Ocean County College. Students are changing as is technology. […]
Student Game On
On April 30, 2018, Oracle Corporation announced its perspicacious acquisition of Vocado, a premier student-centric, cloud-based financial aid solution for higher education. This acquisition allows Oracle to expedite the Oracle Student Cloud timeline by at least one year. According to Oracle, the Student Cloud is expected to be available at the end of this year […]
