With more than 1,000 people flowing through the meeting rooms, ballrooms, and hallways of the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina—including Jenzabar customers, employees, partners, vendors, and higher education experts—the 2005 Jenzabar Annual Meeting (JAM) was a spirited place to be for four days in mid-June.

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The National Association of CX Users (NACU) rewarded three Jenzabar CX users for their ingenuity during Jenzabar’s Annual Meeting (JAM), held June 14 – 17 in San Diego, CA. Awards were presented to the winners of NACU’s 2005 JAM Software Contest: William Goins of Georgetown College, Michael Marks of St. Edwards University, and Eric Urff of Daytona Beach Community College.

… Jenzabar Customers in the News … Penny Evans-Plants, who works in administrative systems at Berry College, made a good showing in a July 2005 University Business magazine article about course management systems, talking up Berry’s 100% student adoption rate and embrace of the entire Jenzabar solution … Jamming on the Djembe … Yaya Diallo, a Bellarmine University music instructor and his wife, Harlina Churn-Diallo, a University of Louisville African dance instructor, instructed 5-year-olds to 12-year-olds in African culture, drumming and dance movements at the recent African International Music and Dance Clinic in Louisville Kentucky … Hear (and See) Her Roar … Columbia College Chicago recently chose Jane Saks as director for its new Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, the only institute of its kind in the United States … There and Back Again … Merrimack College offers the only resident-based transportation summer program in Massachusetts for high-school students interested in transportation careers … A Gift of Magical Beans … Shaw University professor Beena Ollapally enriched the lives of children in Bangalore, India, where 35 impoverished 9-year-old to 12-year-old girls and boys each chose a book and painted its name and characters onto terracotta beads … Gifts Closer to Home … Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa, received an anonymous $700,000 donation, which pushed the College past the $20 million mark toward its $22.5 million capital improvement goal … That’s Istanbul, not Constantinople … Six legal professionals from Turkey visited William Mitchell College of Law in June for a primer on the American legal system from William Mitchell’s recognized experts in teaching law to foreign students … Strong Ties with Thailand … Edgewood College welcomed Thai royalty recently, hosting Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn during a visit designed to highlight ties between the college and Thailand … A “Reality” Show for the Stout of Heart … Cameras and microphones recently captured surgeons in action at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, providing patients with live Web casts of surgeries … Accent on Authenticity … Charlie White Buffalo, a professor of Lakota studies at Oglala Lakota College in South Dakota, was an adviser for Steven Spielberg’s “Into the West” miniseries, instructing actors on how to speak Lakota with the correct dialect …

As you’re preparing your audit schedules and working to pull information together, this is actually a good time to think about how this process can be automated or retained into a saved report for next year. You can make it faster and easier to reproduce the needed audit schedules for the future by calling up the stored report and pulling the required data for the new year. The transactional data you will need is there to help support you, along with reporting tools that make it possible, in combination with the existing reports.

In addition, some auditors have discovered that Jenzabar’s Financial Analysis Data Mart is a useful tool for querying data and drilling down into the detail. You may use the summary financial statements for the Statement of Financial Position and Statement of Activities, and then access the breakdown into the specific accounts that make up the totals and specific transactions to make inquiries even faster.

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Belmont Technical College
Chooses Jenzabar's TCM Solution

Belmont Technical College is a competitive standout among the community colleges of the Ohio Valley. BTC recently chose Jenzabar’s Total Campus Management^SM (TCM) flexible solution to meet its unique needs.

Converse College of Spartanburg, South Carolina, has named the head of the Gibbes Museum of Art as its the ninth president. Betsy Fleming, 36, will start at the all-women’s college in October 2005.

IPEDs data and other data that institutions need to generate benchmarking reports can be a nightmare to access and process. To solve this problem for our customers, we’ve developed Jenzabar IR Touchstone, which provides easy-to-use access to a range of federal data in the user-friendly Jenzabar environment. This new product puts a wealth of advanced competitive information at your fingertips.

One of Jenzabar’s goals is to help client institutions maximize their return on investment from the IT systems they have put in place. Ensuring that technology supports your institution’s mission and strategic goals is the primary focus of Jenzabar’s Strategic Consulting service, which we are now bringing to client campuses, including Spoon River College.