COLLEGIS Continues to Capture Clients in Higher Education Market; Chicago's Benedictine University Latest to Sign Technology Management Agreement.ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1998--COLLEGIS, the leading provider of technology solutions to the higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. market, announced that Benedictine University Benedictine University has retained close relations with the Benedictine Order. Some monks from the nearby St. Procopius Abbey,located across the campus, belong to the faculty, though the vast majority of professors at Benedictine are secular instructors. (www.ben.edu) has signed a five-year agreement with the company to manage all of the college's administrative and academic information technology operations Information technology operations, or IT operations, are the superset of all processes and services that are both provisioned by an IT staff to their internal or external and used by themselves, to run themselves as a business. . The university had been running its information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. on an in-house basis. Located in Lisle, Illinois Lisle is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 21,182 at the 2000 census, and estimated to be 23,376 as of 2005. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor. , Benedictine University is a 4-year private liberal arts college Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a, "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge with values and tradition rooted in the Catholic and Benedictine heritage. Enrollment at the suburban Chicago university is steadily rising and a new president was recently appointed to focus on planning and implementing a strengthened, long term technology strategy. Under the agreement, COLLEGIS will assist Benedictine in incorporating academic and instructional technology There are two types of instructional technology: those with a systems approach, and those focusing on sensory technologies. The definition of instructional technology prepared by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Definitions and Terminology into their curriculum, as well as, developing alternative delivery channels to enhance campus-wide and remote information delivery. COLLEGIS will have full, on-site responsibility for managing all of the university's strategic technology initiatives including developing and executing a comprehensive information technology (IT) strategic plan; year 2000 compliance assessment; developing and maintaining the IT governance structure; re-engineering the university's technology help desk; planning and implementing a standard, campus-wide network infrastructure and management methodology; enhancing the university's PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). phone system; providing technology training for faculty and staff; and developing and implementing a migration strategy for the school's current administrative software and application systems. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Benedictine President, Dr. William J. Carroll, the university's selection of COLLEGIS was a logical progression of the school's recent decision to reach a new level of IT capability and performance, as well as, attract and retain qualified staff in the competitive Chicago market. "We chose COLLEGIS as our technology partner because of the company's staunch product independence and their reputation in the industry for superior client satisfaction," Dr. Carroll said. "We are confident in their ability to continually direct our efforts and provide advanced resources such as the COLLEGIS Learning Network Services and the COLLEGIS Research Institute to ensure Benedictine will continue to grow into the next century. Our goal is to become one of Chicago's leading universities by providing a high quality educational experience for staff and students. COLLEGIS' vast technology expertise will help us achieve this objective." Founded in 1986, COLLEGIS (www.collegis.com) is the leading provider of technology solutions to colleges and universities nationwide. The company provides onsite information management expertise to handle all facets of an institution's administrative and academic computing and communications technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry functions. Specific services include data center management, development and implementation of strategic and tactical plans, design and implementation of network solutions, expansion of technology for instructional purposes, and development of technology migration strategies to help clients achieve the maximum return on their technology investment through multi-year partnerships.
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