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CampusEAI Consortium

CampusEAI Consortium is an international not-for-profit information technology services and consulting company headquartered in downtown Cleveland, Ohio[1]. The company is best known for myCampus [2], an enterprise portal [[3]]and web content management solution for K-12[[4]]and higher education institutions. As of June 2010, myCampus is being used at more than 250 institutions in over 10 countries, including the United States [5], Canada [6], Australia[7], and the United Kingdom [8].

CampusEAI Consortium was founded [9] by 14 institutions in 2003 in response to increasing IT budget cuts, resource constraints, and the needs of incoming internet-savvy students. Among the founding universities are the University of Montana [10];the University of Nevada, Las Vegas [11]]; and Oklahoma State University[12] .

Products

myCampus Campus Portal

myCampus [13] is a Software as a Service (SaaS) [[14]]Web 2.0 campus portal solution that provides students, on-campus organizations, faculty and staff, university administration and alumni with access to their academic and social information all in one place.

Key features of the myCampus Campus Portal:

• CAS Single sign-on [15]

• Wikis

• Email Sync

• Enabled Social Media

• Targeted Alerts

• Video News

• Web 2.0 User Profiles

myCampus Web Content Management System

The myCampus Web Content Management System [16] is an enterprise-level open source J2EE/Java (JSR-168 compliant) [17] software system that provides a comprehensive suite for the information management lifecycle including creation, content editing, content publishing, and content archival.

Key features of the myCampus Web Content Management System [18] include:

• Web Publishing and Workflow

• Live Page Editing and Scheduling

• Search Engine Optimization

• Blogs

• Drag-and-Drop Site Maps

myCampus Prospective Student Portal

The myCampus Prospective Student Portal [19] provides an informative way for prospective and newly admitted students to view the college experience at individual member universities.

Key features of the myCampus Prospective Student Portal:

• Targeted Announcements

• Job Hunt Aggregate

• Message Boards

myCampus Alumni Portal

The myCampus Alumni Portal [20] enables alumni to stay connected to their institutions after graduation. Key features of the myCampus Alumni Portal:

• Calendar Sync featuring institutional dates as well as personal ones from iCal [21] or Microsoft Exchange [22] .

• Personal Giving information • Communications Tools and enabled social networking

Corporate Affairs

CampusEAI Consortium employs more than 120 full-time staff and has facilities in both the United States and India [23]. The corporate headquarters of CampusEAI Consortium are located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and the organization's second U.S. office is located in Newark, New Jersey. The CampusEAI India offices are located in Guragon.

Directors [24]

Anjli Jain – Executive Director

Arun Kumar Chopra – Chief Financial Officer

Sumit Oberoi – Director of Operations

Michael C. DeJohn – Director of Corporate Development & General Counsel

Executive Advisory Committee

The CampusEAI Consortium Executive Advisory Committee [25] guides the Consortium’s Executive Director, Board and Leadership Team in prioritizing the strategic initiatives of the community.

Responsibilities of the Executive Committee:

• Provide guidance to the Consortium’s Executive Director

• Provide guidance to the Consortium’s committees and task forces

• Oversee and endorse all formal written Consortium position papers and/or recommendations

• Represent the Consortium at professional, university and federal forums

• Interact on behalf of the Consortium with external groups such as Educause and Internet2

Advisory Committee Members Jack Chen – Chief Information Officer, Adelphi University

Virginia Stewart – Vice President, Information & Instructional Technology, Albany State Univesity

Mike Bourque – Assistant Vice President of Information Technology Services, Boston College

Peter Quan – Vice President for the Division of Information Technology Services &

Chief Information officer, Califorinia State University, Los Angeles

Anjli Jain – Executive Director, CampusEAI Consoritum

Mohamed Seddiki – Dean of Information Technology & Chief Information Officer, Essex County College

Laurie Orzechowski – Director of Administrative Systems, Lourdes College

Patrick Fontiera – Vice President for Information Technology, Loyola Marymount University

Lori Temple – Vice President for Information Technology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Philanthropy

Since its founding in 2003, CampusEAI Consortium has provided information technology grants to higher education institutions and public sector agencies through its Campus Portal Grant Program [26] . The CampusEAI Grant Program is designed for institutions seeking to implement an internet/intranet Portal. Recipients of the Grant will receive substantial financial and organizational assistance in integrating a portal into existing systems and protocols for online and distance education, SIS software and administrative computing, school and organization web properties, student-based web publishing, wireless and e-commerce initiatives.

Past recipients of the CampusEAI Grant include:

• The City of Cleveland [27]

• University of North Carolina Wilmington [28]

• Boston College

• James Madison University [29]

• St. Vincent’s College

• Arkansas State University [30]

• Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University [31]

In February 2010, the CampusEAI Grant Program was featured as part of the White House Initiative [32] on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The initiative was established in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter as a federal program to help historically black colleges and universities [[33]] overcome the effects of discriminatory treatment and provide quality education. The program exists today to help strengthen the capacity of historically black colleges and universities to provide excellence in education.