Educause 2002 Spotlights Campus Pipeline Partner Institutions

Campus Pipeline, Inc. partner institutions take the stage at the Educause 2002 conference, Oct. 1-4, to share software selection and implementation strategies and highlight results from their digital campus implementations.

A digital campus is a centralized network that integrates an institution’s technology, information, services, and communities under a single online roof.

Join Campus Pipeline and its partner institutions at the following conference events:

EDUCAUSE CONFERENCE SESSIONS

· Tuesday, Oct. 1, 8:30 a.m. – noon, B312. Digital Campus Blueprint: the Framework for Improving Service and Faculty Use of Technology while Reducing Costs.- (This event requires a separate conference registration.)

Join CIOs and Information System Managers from Appalachian State University and Pepperdine University, Plymouth State College and North Shore Community College for this pre-conference panel that will delve into how digital campus technologies have proven to consistently improve service, increase faculty adoption of technology and reduce implementation and staffing costs.

· Thursday, Oct. 3, 11:45 – 12:35 p.m., B303. “Content Management: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?”

As students, administrators, faculty, and staff expect more and better online services, institutions must implement and unify technologies that will help them in achieving their goals. Relatively new to this mix is enterprise content management, an emerging standard in today’s digital campus.

Drexel University’s Director of Core Infrastructure, Ken Blackney, will share how Drexel is implementing content management technology to streamline the creation and management of campus-affiliated Web content while delivering the right information to the right people at the right time.

· Thursday, Oct. 3, 2:20 p.m. – 3:10 p.m., B305. “The Luminis Product Family: Your Unified Digital Campus is Within Reach.”

Experience the power of the new Campus Pipeline™ Luminis™ product family and see how hundreds of institutions are making personalized delivery of information and services a reality. Luminis™ Enterprise Content Management, Integration, and Portal and Platform suites bring together information, systems, and people into a cohesive network for collaboration and achievement. New this year, Luminis™ SDK, Luminis™ Group Studio, and Luminis™ L:Drive also bring to light the ability to rapidly develop applications, manage groups, and share information on your campus like never before.

CAMPUS PIPELINE THEATER

Conference attendees can learn more about Campus Pipeline’s technologies and services in the Campus Pipeline Theater, Booth #1031. Presentations include:

· Content Management: The Tsunami Approaching Higher Education

Content management is a much-needed component of today’s digital campus. Colleges and universities face the challenge of managing tens of thousands of Web pages, documents and other digital assets. Find out how content management technologies can enable institutions to seamlessly create, manage and deploy information on portals, intranets, and extranets.

Wednesday, Oct. 2, two sessions: 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 3: 3:00 p.m.

· Employing Services to Successfully Manage a Digital Campus Implementation

When undertaking a new IT implementation, the attitude frequently is: “Build it and they will come.” Unfortunately, this attitude often leads to apathy or failure to accept on the part of the users. Learn what is needed to ensure a more successful IT implementation and garner user acceptance.

Wednesday, Oct. 2, two sessions: 10:00 a.m., and 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 3: 11:30 a.m.

· Mapping the Future with Campus Pipeline

Hear what’s on the horizon for Campus Pipeline’s JA-SIG, Documentum and SCT technology partnerships and preview planned enhancements and developments for Campus Pipeline technologies.

Wednesday, Oct. 2: 2:00 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 3: 3:00 p.m.

HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS

Learn how to best meet business and technology needs by selecting and implementing integration, content management, learning and administrative solutions to create a user-centric digital campus environment. Experience how this “e-Education infrastructure” offers easily accessible, personalized online services to students, faculty, staff, and other campus communities.

Co-hosted by Campus Pipeline and SCT, the workshop will be held:

Wednesday, Oct. 2, 10:30 a.m., in B212

Thursday, Oct. 3, 8:10 a.m., in B212