higher education
Increasing our Commitment to Higher Education: University Relations Program
Career services offices at colleges and universities understand the significant value that internships have when it comes to helping their students find jobs. Simply, as this Forbes article points out, internships offer as direct a path to a full-time job offer for college graduates as does any... Read more
Tags: higher educationLooking for a Lift: Why Clark University Chose the Acquia Platform
Looking for a Lift: Why Clark University Chose Drupal and the Acquia Platform A Q&A with Matt Cyr, Director of Content Marketing I recently had the opportunity to talk to Matt Cyr, Director of Content Marketing at Clark University in Worcester, MA. Clark is one of the most... Read more
Tags: higher educationSaïd Business School Wins Acquia Award in the Higher Education Category
Pronovix won Acquia’s Partner Site of the Year Award in the Higher Education category for its work on the public website of Saïd Business School. Ákos Horváth and Diana Lakatos of Pronovix contributed to this post. We started working on the public facing website of the Saïd Business School... Read more
Tags: higher educationThe Case for Drupal at Small and Mid-Sized Colleges
Drupal is used to run some of the largest web sites at some of the largest universities in the world. Massive institutions like University of Minnesota (64,000 students), Ohio State University (65,000 students), Austin Community College (70,000 students), King Khalid University (75,000 students),... Read more
Tags: higher educationWhy Drupal Was Chosen to Build a Platform for Global Problem Solving
Saïd Business School’s GOTO website is the online platform of the Global Opportunities and Threats: Oxford (GOTO) community, an action-oriented problem-solving community tackling the issues the world is facing today. Pronovix became a finalist in Acquia's inaugural Partner Site of the Year... Read more
Tags: higher educationTraffic spikes and college's website crashes. Don't let it happen to you
Being in the cloud business we often hear the phrase, “don’t let your best day be your worst day.” It’s certainly a risk that any school that hosts it’s own websites faces. A couple of weeks ago an elite, very well known school in the Northeast had a “best day / worst day” situation of their own,... Read more
Tags: higher educationConverging Content, Community and Commerce in Higher Education
Higher Education institutions rely on their websites to tell their story through rich and engaging digital experiences. In this rapid age of innovation, it is imperative that educational establishments are able to attract and enroll the best prospective students and once those students have... Read more
Tags: higher education5 Reasons Why Your School Should Use Drupal Commerce
While colleges and universities are not ecommerce businesses they still do a great deal of ecommerce. From online bill payments for class registration, to payments for fines, infractions and permits, to dining plans and other related student services, to tickets for events and seminars, to online... Read more
Tags: higher educationUsing Drupal to Support Web Accessibility in Higher Education
Web accessibility in higher education is not a new topic. For over 15 years most institutions have been working to insure that their web accessibility adheres to the standards and protocols set forth in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1998 (even though 508, as written, does not... Read more
Tags: higher educationHigher Education’s Equation: Simplify Digital Complexity
Colleges and universities were some of the first organizations to create websites. They are natural content generators with access to great thinkers, cutting edge research and engaged students, not to mention they embody the word community. The web, as a result, was the perfect vehicle for them... Read more
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