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Strong Capital, which has managed college savings plans in Wisconsin, Oregon and Nevada, has gathered about $1.2 billion in assets, the research firm said.
Some digital-textbook experiments have shown that students facing a lot of reading prefer printed books, said Gary Shapiro, senior vice president for intellectual property at Follett, a company that manages college bookstores.
He recalled that the district spent about $15,000 to ferry the high school's guidance director back and forth from New Jersey each day several years ago, when the director was recovering from an illness but was needed to manage the college admissions process.
Charles S. Valvano, founder of a New Jersey bank, taught his only son how to manage his college fund when the boy was 8.
It's tough for students to manage the college housing rental process, as listings are fragmented across sites, and rentals require paper leases and handwritten checks.
It serves as a major alternative for training and teaching professionals, technicians, skilled workers, amateurs and students who cannot manage regular college education due to time, cost and distance factors.
Rather than thinking about technology in terms of Netflix and smartphones, walk down the street and take a look at the software being utilized to manage your college's admissions, financial aid and human resources functions.
Today, with the help of nearly $20 million in outside funding, MyEdu's platform now offers data from over 800 institutions across the country and over one million students have used MyEdu to help manage their college experience and connect with employers — with 660,000 of those students having created accounts in the last 14 months.
The dean who conceals her departmental budgets is attempting to manage her college's affairs within the context of an inescapable academic reality: Structural inequalities are pervasive and, in effect, are a central characteristic of higher education.
