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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2003

Leading Technology Provider for Colleges and Universities Introduces Software for Tracking and Verifying International Students

Jenzabar, Inc., a leader in software solutions for higher education, today announced the release of a new Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) product. SEVIS is an Internet-based system supporting the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), a partnership project between the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the Department of State and the Department of Education. Jenzabar will be making the new software available to its customer base of more than 700 colleges and universities.

Continuing its long-term commitment to the higher education industry, Jenzabar is offering SEVIS functionality to help its customers meet the rapidly approaching government deadline of January 30, 2003, for reporting essential information about international students. Under new legislation, colleges must maintain up-to-date information on foreign students and exchange visitors in order to ensure that they arrive in the United States, show up and register at the school or exchange program, and properly maintain their status during their stay.

"Complying with SEVIS requirements will help higher education develop policies that protect United States citizens," said Bob Maginn, CEO of Jenzabar. "Jenzabar is committed to providing the technology that our customers will need to comply with the SEVP requirements. With SEVIS, schools and the government will now have a means to ensure that international students are using the American educational system for what it is intended--to receive a world-class educational experience."

The SEVIS system enables schools and program sponsors to transmit electronic information and event notifications via the Internet to the INS and the Department of State for the duration of a student or exchange visitor's stay in the United States. SEVIS also allows printing of the appropriate forms and provides reminders, alerts and basic reporting capabilities.

The Internet-based SEVIS product operates both within Jenzabar ERP systems and Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solution. Jenzabar will enable its customers to pull SEVIS data from the ERP system where it is tracked and include it in the SEVIS Batch Interface file layout. The company will provide new data entry screens for data elements not included in the current product. Data elements that are already being tracked by schools can be easily copied into the equivalent SEVIS column for consolidated reporting. Schools can then generate reports to list all new or changed records that need to be reported to SEVIS. Other functionality includes:

-- Edit functions to determine which elements have been added or changed and need to be reported to SEVIS

-- Transmit options to post and retrieve records from SEVIS

-- Tracking of batch file information sent and received from SEVIS

-- Ability to view and print response files received from SEVIS

Availability

Jenzabar began offering new SEVIS functionality to its existing customers in January, 2003.

About Jenzabar, Inc.

By improving the exchange of information through powerful business intelligence applications and services, Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solutions and I3 Internet strategy deliver a competitive edge to higher education institutions. Dedicated to supporting and enhancing the educational community, Jenzabar's business units serve 700 higher education institutions worldwide, including students, professors and administrators from private liberal arts, medical, law, state and community colleges. Institutions employing Jenzabar solutions include The Claremont Colleges, Colby College, Daytona Beach Community College, William Mitchell College of Law, Governors State University, Bluffton College, Florida Southern College, College of Southern Idaho, Bay de Noc Community College, Berry College and Harvard Medical School.

Jenzabar's offerings include Web-based enterprise software with student, institutional advancement, human resources and financial applications; e-learning solutions; and a higher education enterprise information portal (EIP). Founded in 1998, Jenzabar is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and currently employs more than 300 people in regional offices across the United States. For more information, please visit www.jenzabar.net or call Alec Ott at [phone].

Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution and I3 are trademarks of Jenzabar, Inc.