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. [...]

This spring has been full of big announcements here at Campus Labs. We reached 1 million users of our CollegiateLink platform. And we launched the newest Campus Labs module – Beacon – a tool for identifying at-risk students and aiding in retention efforts. While these announcements are certainly big news, these are nothing compared to [...]

Campus Labs practices agile development. If you’ve never heard of agile, visit www.agilemanifesto.org to learn more about this transformational way to develop software. So, what does agile mean for you and your campus? Unlike other internal departments or external organizations, you may work with – you never have to wait on Campus Labs for a [...]

What comes to mind this time of year? Tax season. Baseball season. Flu season. Here at Campus Labs, it is also “archive season.” More than half of the institutions currently submitting Compliance Certifications to the SACS Commission on Colleges use our Compliance Assist Accreditation module, and dozens of them are working towards submission deadlines of [...]

As of January 6, 2012 the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) released an updated version of their accreditation standards which all institutions accredited by or applying for accreditation from SACSCOC are now subject to. These changes included description, and in some cases title, changes to existing standards and requirements, as [...]

I recently had the opportunity to travel to Orlando for my third SACSCOC Annual Meeting. This year’s theme was “Innovation, Imagination, and Excellence: Rethinking Accreditation in the 21st Century.” Since all of the Compliance Assist products have a very similar theme, our team felt right at home! Conference highlights for us included winning the best [...]

Many activities in life warrant the phrase – it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. And I think this saying definitely applies to the accreditation process. We work with campuses that approach their accreditation from both perspectives – some beginning years in advance and others giving themselves no more than a few months. For some [...]