College Club Experiences Explosive Growth; Passes 1 Million Student Milestone.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1998-- 46% Increase in Student Membership; 6,000-plus Student-Created Groups Celebrate Back-to-College Season College Club (www.collegeclub.com), the world's largest online college community, heads back to school with a 46% increase in membership in just six weeks, involvement with 3,400 college campuses, and an aggressively expanding slate of more than 6,000 student-created groups. College Club, in a record-breaking Adj. 1. record-breaking - surpassing any previously established record; "a record-breaking high jump"; "record-breaking crowds" best - (superlative of `good') having the most positive qualities; "the best film of the year"; "the best solution"; "the best time for month, facilitated communications  This article or section reads like a and may need a .Please help [ to improve this article] to make it in tone and meet Wikipedia's . between 1 million-plus students, through the computer and telephone, in the past month alone. "College Club's continued increase in student membership, backed by involvement from the nation's top universities, validates our communications model. The personal investment that students are making in our site only solidifies our role as `the largest online college community,'" said Michael Pousti Michael C. Pousti is an American businessman. Pousti currently is chairman and chief executive officer of SMS.ac, a mobile social data-communication company with more than 40 million members.[1] SMS.ac claims to be adding as many as 750,000 customers each month. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of College Club. Founded in 1993, College Club is the world's largest online college community. Located at www.collegeclub.com, College Club is the only college portal that affords students across the country free integrated personal e-mail, voicemail and 800 number, making it possible for students to listen to their e-mail through the telephone. Focused on the nation's 15 million college students, the Web site also offers a unique online community encouraging online chats, campus groups, personal hobby A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. Origin of term A hobby-horse was a wooden or wickerwork toy made to be ridden just like the real hobby. From this came the expression "to ride one's hobby-horse", meaning "to follow a favourite pastime", and in turn, and interest clubs, nationwide discounts and much more. Used as a virtual intranet, College Club's integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. can also be used by student organizations and groups for communication purposes. |
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