edu.com Announces Preferred e-commerce Partnerships With University of Maine, Foundation for California Community Colleges, Higher Education Cooperative Purchase Consortium and Others.Business/Technology Editors NACUBO NACUBO National Association of College and University Business Officers REPEATING... CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2000 Partnerships provide 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. institutions opportunity to earn revenue, enhance commerce capabilities, and offer "student-only" values on school essentials edu.com, a marketing services company that facilitates partnerships and commerce among students, universities, and Fortune 500 companies, today announced preferred e-commerce partnerships with several higher education institutions including: University of Maine "UMO" redirects here, but this abbreviation is also used informally to mean the Mozilla Add-ons website, formerly Mozilla Update Should not be confused with Université du Maine, in Le Mans, France The University of Maine , Foundation for California Community Colleges, Higher Education Cooperative Purchase Consortium, Taft College The College was founded on August 30, 1922 as Taft Junior College and was a part of the Taft Union High School District with classes held on the campus of Taft High School. The school switched to its current name on July 1, 1954 and opened its own separate campus adjacent to the high , John Wood Community College, Southern New England School of Law Southern New England was founded in 1982. Awaiting Approval from ABA Southern New England School of Law has applied for membership with the ABA. The University is committed to providing all resources towards gaining ABA approval. , Northwestern Business College, and Imperial Valley College History The Imperial Valley College had its beginning on May 9, 1922 with the name of Central Junior College, opening in September that year. Originally at Central Union High School, 2 years later a new college named Brawley Junior College was opened. . These partnerships complement and augment each institution's existing commerce capability, generate revenue, and provide millions of students access to edu.com's exclusive pricing, information and service to purchase school essentials. In related news, edu.com today also announced exclusive e-commerce partnerships with higher education enterprise portal See corporate portal. Jenzabar as well as WebCT, a leading e-learning hub. See www.edu.com/pressroom for the entire announcement. Together, these announcements support edu.com as the e-commerce "partner of choice" for institutions and businesses that serve the college student community. "We are really excited about our partnership with edu.com," said Doug Marchio, Manager of the University of Maine's Computer Connection. "The alliance allows us to reduce costs associated with running our on-campus reseller operation, augment the range and breadth of products we offer, and capture a share of our students' online purchases currently being lost to both off-campus channels and from students purchasing products prior to arriving at school. Given our commitment to providing students with an outstanding customer experience, both in price and service, and students' increasing reliance on the Internet for significant purchases, a partnership with edu.com positions our reselling operation for great success going forward. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial Adj. 1. mutually beneficial - mutually dependent interdependent, mutualist dependent - relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed; "dependent children"; "dependent on moisture" relationship." Through a personalized online campus store "powered by edu.com," participating institutions offer students, and in some instances faculty and staff, access to exclusive "academic" pricing, which can be up to 70 percent off retail, on computers, software, textbooks, electronics, phone and Internet services, banking services, credit cards and more. edu.com offers objective information and product reviews, some of which are written by students, to facilitate informed purchase decisions. 24-hour customer service is available for all other inquiries. "We are delighted to announce our higher education e-commerce partnerships," said Adam Kanner, edu.com chief executive officer. "edu.com was founded to help students reduce educational costs. Partnering directly with higher ed institutions, which, in turn, pass the values on to students, enables us to achieve this corporate objective while providing institutions with revenue opportunities. We look forward to a busy back-to-school season and the chance to help students at this important time in their lives." "edu.com is a significant addition to the purchase programs offered to more than 1,500 colleges and universities in the Higher Education Cooperative Purchase Consortium," said Larry Toy, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of both the Foundation for California Community Colleges and Higher Education Cooperative Purchase Consortium. "Since students at HECPC schools represent close to three-quarters of all US students (approximately 11 million), we are thrilled to be able to utilize an edu.com partnership to offer this huge student population the best values available anywhere on key school-related products while fortifying the commerce reach and revenue opportunities for participating schools." About University of Maine The University of Maine, which includes 7 satellite campuses in Orono, Augusta, Farmington, Ft. Kent, Machias, Portland, and Presque Isle Presque Isle (prĕsk īl) [Fr.,=peninsula], city (1990 pop. 10,550), Aroostook co., NE Maine, inc. 1859. It is the trade, tourist, and shipping center of the Aroostook valley. , excels in the fields of education and human development, business, public policy and health, engineering, liberal arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. and sciences, and natural sciences, forestry, and agriculture. About FCCC FCCC Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN) FCCC Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, PA, USA) FCCC Four County Career Center FCCC Florida Civil Commitment Center and the HECPC The Foundation for California Community Colleges (www.foundationccc.org) is the official auxiliary foundation for the California Community Colleges system The California Community Colleges system consists of 109 community colleges in 72 community college districts in the U.S. state of California. Created by legislation in 1967, it is the largest system of higher education in the world, serving more than 2. . The CCC CCC A very speculative grade assigned to a debt obligation by a rating agency. Such a rating indicates default or considerable doubt that interest will be paid or principal repaid. Also called Caa. (www.cccco.edu) is the largest system of higher education in the world, with 108 colleges and 2 million students attending annually. The foundation was incorporated in January 1998 and began full operations in May 1998. The Foundation successes lead to the creation of the Higher Education Cooperative Purchase Consortium, representing 1,500 colleges and universities throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The HECPC has focused primarily on the buying and purchasing needs of the institution, gaining access to academic pricing to assist in achieving the academic technology goals of the schools. About edu.com edu.com (www.edu.com) offers a unique suite of marketing services, which facilitate partnerships and commerce among colleges, students and Fortune 500 companies. At edu.com verified registered students receive; exclusive "student-only" pricing on brand name products and services, objective content that facilitates smart purchase decisions, 24/7 customer service, and eduPoints for purchases and other online transactions redeemable for prizes. edu.com provides higher education institutions a turnkey commerce solution and Fortune 500 companies a secure environment for commerce transactions and relationship building with students. Key edu.com products and services include: computers, software, bank services, phone and Internet services, peripherals, credit cards, electronics and more. Select partners include AT&T, Adobe, Apple, Citibank, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Iomega, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Toshiba and many others. Founded in 1998 and privately held, edu.com is located in Boston. The Mayfield Fund, Information Technology Ventures, Student Advantage and HarbourVest Partners are principal investors in edu.com. |
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