Tennessee Schools Take Campuses Online with Campus Pipeline.Business Editors/Education & High-Tech Writers EDUCAUSE 2000 NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 2000 Two Tennessee schools, The University of Memphis The University of Memphis is a public research university located in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, and is a flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system. and Volunteer State Community College, are the first schools in the state to create comprehensive online campuses that connect administrative services, academic programs and community building tools under one online roof. University of Memphis graduate student, Malathi Bhattacharjee, realized the benefit of an online campus when she took a leave of absence from the university to care for a family member. "Campus Pipeline has been very helpful to me in keeping touch with the University. I was able to know what was happening on campus and access campus email during my stay in California. The ability to stay connected to Memphis meant a great deal to me," said Bhattacharjee. Mark Ciampa, director of academic computing and a CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S instructor at Volunteer Community College in Gallatin, Tenn., also enjoys the convenience of online academic services. "Having the ability to make group study sessions available through Campus Pipeline's chat rooms will be a valuable tool and can help students improve their grades. Campus Pipeline will give them the opportunity to dialog with other students and provide opportunities for them to collaborate on class materials." Although both the online campuses of The University of Memphis and Volunteer State Community College are built upon the Campus Pipeline Web platform, the online campuses are every bit as customized as their bricks-and-mortar counterparts. The online campuses not only sport the schools' colors and logos, they contain the services, information and technology of most importance to each school. The University of Memphis, for example, has integrated online registration and grade viewing services into the Campus Pipeline Web platform. In the future, the university will add services for faculty and staff into the Web platform. In addition to registration and grade viewing services, Volunteer State Community College has integrated a TouchNet gateway, so their mostly non-traditional, working student body can conveniently pay tuition from almost any Internet connection. The Campus Pipeline Web platform is easily customizable to reflect each school's unique identity and personality and includes Web-based email Web-based email or webmail is a term referring to an e-mail service intended to be primarily accessed via a web browser, as opposed to through an application such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, Mozilla's Thunderbird or Apple's Mail. , course-specific chat rooms and message boards, academic and career research centers, faculty and student Web sites, online shopping tools, and a personalized news service. Through integration with the campus' choice of student information systems, distance learning programs and other online services, the Campus Pipeline Web platform also delivers access to registration, grade posting and viewing, tuition payment, and other services. Sixty-five schools are using the Campus Pipeline Web platform to place their entire campus at the fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. of students, faculty, staff and administration from anyplace at anytime. The schools, located coast to coast throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , include four-year, public institutions such as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, at Blacksburg; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1872 as an agricultural and mechanical college. ; private institutions including Pepperdine University Pepperdine University is a private institution of higher learning affiliated with the Church of Christ in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States. The university's location overlooks the Pacific Ocean and is adjacent to the city limits of Malibu. ; Canadian institutions from Ottawa to British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography ; as well as two-year and online institutions. About The University of Memphis The University of Memphis is a comprehensive urban university committed to scholarly accomplishments of our students and faculty and to the enhancement of our community. The University of Memphis offers 15 bachelors degrees in more than 50 majors and 70 concentrations, masters degrees in 45 subjects and degrees in 18 disciplines, in addition to the Juris Doctor The degree awarded to an individual upon the successful completion of law school. Juris doctor, or doctor of Jurisprudence, commonly abbreviated J.D., is the degree commonly conferred by law schools. (law) and a specialist degree in education. The University of Memphis campus is located on 1,160 acres with nearly 200 buildings at more than four sites. During a typical semester, students come from every state and many foreign countries. The average age of full-time undergraduates is 23. The average ACT score for entering freshman is 22. About Volunteer State Community College Volunteer State Community College is a public two-year community college in Gallatin, Tenn., about 30 miles northeast of Nashville. Students primarily commute from a 12-county region including the counties of Clay, Davidson, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale and Wilson. The college has an open admissions open admissions pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A policy that permits enrollment of a student in a college or university without regard to academic qualifications. Also called open enrollment. policy and serves a student body and community diverse in cultural, economic, and academic background. Volunteer State offers the Associate of Science degree, the Associate of Applied Science degree, and a number of one and two year certificates in a number of areas of study. The college is committed to the concept of providing 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. opportunities to the residents of its service area without regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, or disability. VSCC VSCC Vintage Sports Car Club (UK and US) VSCC Volunteer State Community College VSCC Vehicle Safety Communication Consortium VSCC Visual Studio Combined Help Collection offers programming at teaching sites throughout the service area, through various delivery systems and on multiple schedules in order to meet the needs of students. The VSCC campus is located on 100 acres in Sumner County Sumner County is the name of several counties in the United States:
About Campus Pipeline Inc. Campus Pipeline's Internet infrastructure is setting the standard for higher education. The company collaborates with colleges and universities to create comprehensive intranets that cultivate online relationships within higher education communities. Through the Campus Pipeline(TM) Web platform, the company helps schools integrate campus communication, academic resources, administrative services, campus news, distance learning, and all other Web applications securely together online. Salt Lake City-based Campus Pipeline Inc. is backed by investors including American Express, Dell Computer Corp, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Inktomi, Lynx Technology, and SCT Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) A tumor occurring at the base of the fetus's tailbone. Mentioned in: Prenatal Surgery (Nasdaq:SCTC SCTC Systems & Computer Technology (NASDAQ Symbol) SCTC Scleroderma Clinical Trials Consortium SCTC Somerset County Technology Center (Somerset, Pennsylvania) ), and has strategic relationships with companies including Educational Testing Services, Oracle Corp., TIAA-CREF TIAA-CREF Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund and WebCT. For more information, visit www.campuspipeline.com or call 888/682-PIPE. Campus Pipeline and the Campus Pipeline logo are trademarks of Campus Pipeline Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Editor's Note: To view The University of Memphis and Volunteer State Community College sites, please visit www.pipeline.memphis.edu and www.vscc.cc.tn.us. School and company logos, photos and contacts, as well as tours of school sites, available upon request. For information about other schools that have introduced a Campus Pipeline Web platform, please visit the school showcase and/or press room at www.campuspipeline.com. |
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