Global Internet Management and Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools Announce Redesign, Upgrade of ces-msa.org.Business Editors BALA CYNWYD, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2004 The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association dedicated to educational excellence and improvement through peer evaluation and accreditation. (MSA (Metropolitan Service Area) An urban area with at least 50,000 people plus surrounding counties. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs (rural service areas) in the U.S. MSAs and RSAs are used to allocate cellular licenses. ) is a suburban Philadelphia-based educational accrediting organization. The Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools (MSCES MSCES Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools ), a division of MSA, works with public and private schools that serve an elementary-age population in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. MSCES also works with schools in the mid-East, near-East, Africa, and Europe. MSCES (and its predecessor, the Assembly of Elementary Schools) has provided accreditation protocols to schools since 1978. The MSCES website, www.ces-msa.org, serves as an information center for schools interested in accreditation; as a service center for already-accredited schools; and as a resource for individuals seeking an accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. school in their region. An important site feature is the DOAS DOAS Department of Administrative Services DOAS Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy DOAS Death of A Salesman (book/play) DOAS Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer DOAS Default Option-Adjusted Spread program (Description of an Accredited School), through which an accredited school creates an on-line admissions/ informational brochure. The DOAS can then be searched and viewed by individuals looking for information about a particular school. The website also offers accredited schools a Projection Service, which allows them to predict future enrollment, income, and expenses based on past statistics. On February 27, 2004, CES-MSA re-launched the www.ces-msa.org website with a new design and updated information. The new site offers a more user-friendly interface, a more sophisticated search feature, and a more contemporary layout. "The new look emphasizes MSCES' commitment to quality, while the site design that underlies the new look provides a portal to a broader variety of services to our membership. The original website introduced a user-friendly technology interface for our member schools. The new site reflects our members' and the public's increasing sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. regarding technology. Thanks to our development partnership with Global Internet Management, www.ces-msa.org serves our schools' current needs and also provides an appropriate technology gateway into the 21st century," says Jeanne M. Gallagher, Manager of Membership Information for MSCES. Global Internet Management (GIM a. 1. Neat; spruce. ), a website management and software development company in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania Bala Cynwyd is a village in Lower Merion Township which is located in the Main Line in southeastern Pennsylvania, bordering the western edge of Philadelphia. It was originally two separate towns, Bala and Cynwyd, but is commonly treated as a single community. , worked with MSCES to create both the original website and the updated site. The site is powered by GIM's content management system, InfoServeCM. GIM also developed the additional DOAS and Projection Service applications as custom programs for MSCES, tied directly into the website. Each accredited school receives a login ID and password, which it can use to access and update its DOAS and Projection Services information. "One of InfoServeCM's greatest strengths is that it offers the functionality of what would be four individual software applications that would have to be purchased and implemented separately. InfoServeCM's users have the ease of cohesiveness and breadth of functionality that is not available at this value price elsewhere in the market," noted Eli Avershal, founder and president of Global Internet Management. For more information or a demonstration of InfoServeCM, please visit www.gim.net or call 610.617.4515. |
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