Connect! 3.0 Adopted By High Schools As a Powerful Student Case Management Tool for Counselors.BOSTON Boston, town, England Boston, town (1991 pop. 26,495), E central England, on the Witham River. Boston's fame as a port dates from the 13th cent., when it was a Hanseatic port trading wool and wine. Having recovered from a decline in the 18th and 19th cent. -- Streamlines Time Consuming Administrative Tasks to Increase Valuable Counselor-Student Interaction ConnectEdu, a leading provider of technology and services for education planning, today announced its Connect!HighSchoolSuite online platform is productive in the high school environment. Connect! 3.0(TM) helps guidance counselors guidance counselor Child psychology A school worker trained to screen, evaluate and advise students on career and academic matters involved in the college planning process to minimize administrative tasks while maximizing human interactions to effectively track, monitor and counsel students. Connect! 3.0 is deployed in partnership with high schools, universities and community colleges and is also offered to employees and their children as a work/life benefit. "St. John's graduates routinely attend some of the finest colleges and universities in the country," said Dr. Albert Albert, German churchman Albert, 1490–1545, German churchman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. A member of the house of Brandenburg, he became (1514) Archbishop of Mainz. J. Shannon, headmaster at St. John's. "Our partnership with ConnectEdu will provide our counselors with additional tools to assist students and their families with what has become an increasingly competitive process." Connect!HighSchoolSuite provides: --Flexibility to meet each counselor's college placement process --An interactive process for students to begin college planning before meeting with a counselor to facilitate more productive in-person meetings --A counselor-controlled management dashboard (1) See Mac Dashboard. (2) A software-based control panel for one or more applications, network devices or industrial machines. Dashboards display simulated gauges and dials that look somewhat like an automobile dashboard. with full reporting and querying capabilities to track all of the process steps, deadlines and tasks --A forum for ongoing communication between counselors, students and parents; giving parents a "window" into progress for independent updates --Integration with all commercial transcript A generic term for any kind of copy, particularly an official or certified representation of the record of what took place in a court during a trial or other legal proceeding. A transcript of record management systems allowing counselors to send encrypted en·crypt tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts 1. To put into code or cipher. 2. Computer Science transcripts and track submissions --Continuous professional development and end-user-support "Forward thinking schools who have used Connect! are realizing the value of greater admission success through tools to best determine a student's fit within a specific college environment," said Craig Powell, President of ConnectEdu. "The biggest impact on students will come when large public school systems adopt this cost-efficient way to democratize de·moc·ra·tize tr.v. de·moc·ra·tized, de·moc·ra·tiz·ing, de·moc·ra·tiz·es To make democratic. de·moc the process so that all students have access to the resources necessary to maximize their education potential." Company Overview Founded in 2001, ConnectEdu (www.ConnectEdu.net) provides Web-based education planning to students and advisers engaged in the preparation, search, application and financial aid process of undergraduate, community college, graduate or adult learner Adult learner is a term used to describe any person socially accepted as an adult who is in a learning process, whether it is formal education, informal learning, or corporate-sponsored learning. admissions. ConnectEdu's ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). technology - Connect!(TM) - is a scalable solution offered by employers as a valuable work/life benefit, by high schools and community colleges to facilitate their college counseling services, and by colleges as a means to reduce their drop-out and transfer rates. ConnectEdu is dedicated to ensuring that all students have access to the resources necessary to maximize their education potential. |
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