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ERIC Number: EJ799773
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1528-5324
EISSN: N/A
An Integrated Digital Campus Delivers ROI and VOI
Forsstrom, Jan; Ham, Gary
EDUCAUSE Quarterly, v30 n1 p49-53 2007
Five years ago, North Shore Community College (NSCC) encountered rising enrollments in the face of lagging state funding. The addition of two new campuses stretched NSCC thin as it attempted to provide administrative and academic services across five (more recently consolidated to four) locations. Its students increasingly struggled to balance the demands of work and family with their dreams of getting a college degree. Systems and procedures in place for 35 years began to show signs of stress. In addressing these challenges, NSCC repeatedly found itself talking about one thing--technology, specifically an integrated campus portal. Portal technology could make NSCC more efficient, strengthen connections among its five campuses, and allow its working and parenting students to complete academic and administrative tasks online. In this article, the authors discuss how NSCC--a mid-size public school with 10,000 credit and noncredit students (4,000 FTE), a shrinking budget, and limited in-house expertise--successfully implemented an integrated digital campus. The unified digital campus yielded substantial savings of time and money and an opportunity for the college to redesign many of its business processes. (Contains 2 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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