Great Lakes College
Consortium on a Tall Ship
to Launch This May
Four colleges and universities in the Erie region have joined together to create the nation’s first Great Lakes college consortium for study onboard a tall ship. The Flagship Niagara is owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, partially supported by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC), and based at the Erie Maritime Museum, a PHMC site. The sailing operation is managed through the Flagship Niagara League...(continue)

Mexico's Tecnológico de Monterrey,
National Institute of Statistics and Geography
Sign Collaboration Agreement
With the aim of exchanging information and promoting regional, educational, and social development, the Tecnológico de Monterrey and Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) signed a collaboration agreement establishing their joint participation in promotion, research, and continuing education, among other activities...(continue)

University of Vermont, Chinese Arts College
Sign Cooperation Agreement
The University of Vermont (UVM) forged a new partnership with an old friend on Friday. At an official ceremony, framed by flags of the United States and China, College of Education and Social Services Dean Fayneese Miller and President Li Yulin of the Inner Mongolia University Art College (IMUAC)...(continue)

South Korea, United Arab Emirates
Join in Multi-lateral
Education Agreement
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), has established a partnership in research, education and vocational training with three United Arab Emirates institutions, the Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR), the Institute of...(continue)

University at Albany
NanoCollege, SEMATECH
Launch Consortium to Develop Crucial
EUV Metrology Tools
The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany - State University of New York (SUNY) and SEMATECH have launched a global consortium at CNSE’s Albany NanoTech Complex...(continue)

Stanford University, IBM
Research Collaboration
Unveils Green Chemistry Breakthrough
Scientists from Stanford University and IBM have detailed discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, biocompatible plastics. The result of a multi-year research effort, the breakthrough also could lead to a new recycling process that...(continue)

The University of Limerick,
Infineon Technologies in
Cooperation Initiative
The University of Limerick (UL), IDA Ireland, and Infineon Technologies AG announced a joint cooperation initiative to develop university programs in supply chain management at the University of Limerick in Ireland...(continue)

Xerox—Case Study
Improving Reprographic Quality and Reducing
Costs at Rotterdam University
Spread over five separate locations across the city, Rotterdam University (aka Hogeschool) supports approximately 27,000 students and 2,500 employees. It runs courses in 67 fields as diverse as science, technology, healthcare, business, engineering and art, and has a well deserved reputation for academic excellence...(continue)

Auxillium West—Case Study
University Research Facility Uses HRSource HRIS to
Budget and Allocate Grant Money
A major US university that receives numerous research grants needed a tool to budget and allocate salaries from various grants. To further complicate the matter, a research scientist may split his or her time among a variety of grants; and, furthermore, some scientists only worked part-time.Utilizing the flexibility of Auxillium West's HRSource™ HRIS, a grant table was added to track each grant, the project start date, end date, review date, budget, and other fields.

The review date provided a tickler for mid-project review of the budget burn rate. It also tracked multiple projects per employee and the percent of time worked on each project. HRSource™ HRIS compared the percent of time on each project with the total time worked to help check the integrity of the data...(continue)

The Future of Collaborative Networks
By Aaron Fulkerson
Enterprise software (software that solves an enterprise problem rather than a departmental one) has been on a roller coaster of innovation in recent years. This has primarily been driven by innovations in user experience that started in the consumer web space and then seeped into enterprise software.

This new class of enterprise software, dubbed social business software, intends to create enterprise social networks and deliver new social tools for creating conversations and providing one to one interactions.

Vendors of this social software have repurposed social media tools from the consumer web by wrapping them in an enterprise message. Suddenly social networks, social bookmarking, forums, blogs, video sharing and microblogging are the new path to productivity.

Alas, it has become all too clear that individually these applications have not delivered for the enterprise in a meaningful way. As a result the industry has seen a bevy of enterprise social software suite vendors returning to the 1990s with product development that is driven by feature checklists...(continue)