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