Greetings from CollegiateLink,

We would first like to thank all of the organizers and attendees at the following conferences: 

NASPA Region 5 Conference (Las Vegas, NV)

ACUI Region 5 Conference (Charleston, NC)

ACUI Regions 8 & 9 Conference (Chicago, IL)

NASPA Region 1 Conference (Burlington, VT)

NIRSA Region 1 Conference (Ithaca, NY)

NASPA Region4 Conference (Indianapolis, IN)

Your contribution and thoughtful insight is greatly appreciated.  We look forward to working with all of you in the near future.

Also, we have new implementations of SA LINK this fall, which include IUPUI and Radford.

Finally,  Mark Greene, Chief Technology Officer and Lead Developer of the SA LINK software, has released a new white paper about using external vendor applications to help support campus directory services.  Please see the attached PDF for the full article.

CollegiateLink supports CAS as recommended authentication solution for SA LINK

Check back with us next week for more updates.

Until then, Cheers

Fred

 

Here is the first CollegiateLink Technology in Student Affairs Newsletter for November:

Greetings from CollegiateLink,

The end of October has been a very busy time for us. We recently released our first Technology for Student Affairs Newsletter for November. In it, you can find links to articles about student affairs technology, company updates, and conference schedules for this month.

We have also released new version SA LINK 2.1, the web-based information system for managing student clubs and organizations.

Updates to the software include:

* Enhanced Step-by-step organization registration process containing one or more custom forms, releases, roster updating, and organization profile updating

* Enhancement to our robust paperless forms/surveys and workflow process

* Increased the granularity of reports about the types of leadership roles held by students, faculty, and staff

* Added ability to freeze/disable organizations

* Added ability to track active vs. inactive organizations

* Additional searching and information added to the organizations list

* Privacy settings to allow users control their public roster display settings

* Improved financial account display for organization presidents and treasurers

* Increased the number of friendly confirmation messages presented to user before deletion and updating of data

* Added comprehensive financial request PDF export with attached transaction list and stage history

* Improved workflow for approving financial requests by adding more context sensitive links on confirmation screens

CollegiateLink has also been attending Student Affairs regional conferences. Last weekend, Ken Abert and myself attended the NASPA Region 5 Conference in Las Vegas, NV. Aaron Severs will be representing us at the NASPA Region 4 Conference in Indianapolis, IN on Nov. 11th - 13th. You can find the full list of conferences we will be attending in our newsletter, where you can also schedule a time to meet with us.

Check back with us next week for more updates.

Until then, Cheers

Fred

Greetings from CollegiateLink,

My name is Fred Alcober and I am CollegiateLink's new Marketing and Communications Coordinator. I will be here to update you on all the new and exciting information about events and activities that CollegiateLink has in store for the upcoming year.

As of this fall, we are proud to be working with 40 clients in 14 states, representing nearly 400,000 students. The list includes large and medium-sized public institutions as well as private colleges and universities. Specific examples of success include Ithaca College’s use of SA LINK to track student officer participation in mandatory training sessions and online quizzes, the Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia’s use of SA LINK to increase student knowledge of involvement opportunities.

We have added new staff at CollegiateLink, including two software / support engineers, and began working with a dedicated quality assurance team to accelerate development of new features and more proactively support our users.

Earlier this month, we released SA LINK 2.0. This new version of our proven system for co-curricular management includes a more accessible interface and many enhancements requested by our clients over the past two years. With SA LINK 2.0, students now interact with a more vibrant online community of involvement opportunities. Department forms, including those with several pages and complicated workflow may be easily incorporated into a paperless process. SA LINK now also offers customizable co-curricular transcripts to offer each student and will soon be including more group management functions to help clubs be more effective such as attendance tracking, to-do lists, and event invitations / RSVPs.

When working with campus IT, we also now support integration with a myriad of campus systems including LDAP, CAS, PubCookie, Banner, PeopleSoft, and Colleague.

Please check back next week to find out more about CollegiateLink's conference appearances, including next week's in Las Vegas, NV.

Until then, Cheers

Fred