During the World Tour-Boston in July 2011, Annemieke Rice presented on the concept of learning outcomes frameworks/co-curricular mapping. (Read more about the trend here). Christine Bouchard & Michael Christakis, Vice President and Assistant Vice President for Student Success at the University at Albany were in the front row (whether literally or figuratively). They took notes. [...]

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the key to sharing data on the internet and across campus. Learn the basics of a fundamental piece of the internet and how it relates to your goals on campus.

Our Involvement Consultants have participated in several national conferences in the last few weeks. We’ve rounded up our observations.

The suspense has been building and building as many of my colleagues at Campus Labs and several of our member campuses have been trying to guess, “Where in the world did we hit our 1,000,000th CollegiateLink user? Just yesterday we had the privilege to fly into Midway Airport in Chicago to embark on our day to surprise our 1,000,000th CollegiateLink student user at Northwestern University!

CollegiateLink was the first involvement platform to bring the concept of an electronic co-curricular transcript to much of the higher education market place. Many of us thought the co-curricular transcript would come to serve as an important artifact in students’ portfolios when applying for graduate schools or even full-time jobs. Some even considered our student [...]

The planning and execution of a coordinated involvement platform is not unlike the effort it takes to pull off a major campus concert. Explore how CollegiateLink is like a campus concert.

March is a whirlwind for all of us at Campus Labs and at CollegiateLink! Here is a listing of where colleagues and I will be for the upcoming conferences in March and a listing of our educational sessions at each. It is energizing to see so many of my colleagues here at Campus Labs collaborating with campuses and spending long nights after work perfecting some really interesting and innovative presentations.

It’s hard to believe that it was only a year ago that I was preparing to go to The Placement Exchange to participate in the gauntlet of interviewing “student affairs” style.  As my final semester of graduate school was wrapping up, I felt like I spent every waking hour trolling through TPE, Higher Ed Jobs, [...]

It is no great secret that Valentine’s Day is to an industry ruled by reclusive chocolatiers, confectionary conglomerates, flower mongers, and holiday card magnates what Black Friday is to every other merchandising company: one of the most profitable days of the year in consumer sales. Since just within the candy industry alone there are hundreds [...]

A reflection on how we often set ourselves up for failure when we make resolutions and a proposal for how we can be more intentional about them—by forgetting them entirely.