A Pattern of Choice and Competitive Selections – Extensive Due Diligence by Three Colleges Leads to Selections of CampusWorks Technology Management Co-Source Model

IT Co-Sourcing, Pioneered by CampusWorks, Becomes the Number One Choice for Community Colleges

December 3, 2007, Sarasota, Florida - CampusWorks Inc. (CWI), an information technology management firm specializing exclusively in higher education solutions, announced today that three additional community colleges in North America have selected CampusWorks Inc. as their first choice for an IT management partner.  In the last 60 days, through extensive due diligence and competitive bid and/or sole source processes, the following innovative colleges have selected CampusWorks:

The Community College of Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland)
CCBC, under the leadership of Sandra Kurtinitis, Ph.D., enrolls nearly 70,000 students and has an operating budget of $166.1 million, making it Maryland’s largest and most powerful higher education provider and one of the largest higher education providers in the country. 

Coconino Community College  (Flagstaff, Arizona)
Under the leadership of Dr. Leah Bornstein, CCC is a comprehensive college enrolling more than 3,600 students and serving a widely-dispersed population of more than 120,000 people throughout northern Arizona. To serve this extensive area, CCC maintains three campuses and two satellite locations.

Keyano College (Alberta, Canada)
Keyano College, located in Fort McMurray, Alberta, first opened in 1965 as the Alberta Vocational Centre. Keyano’s Training Centre provided skilled workers for the world’s largest oilsands. Currently, under the leadership of President Jim Foote, Keyano College consists of 4 campuses and 4 learning centres, and its enrollment exceeds 3,000.  According to President Foote, “Keyano sits at the epicenter of the hottest economy in Canada, if not the world.”

CampusWorks technology management assignments at these premier institutions encompass all current and projected technology planning and implementation initiatives for administrative and instructional technology and interrelated network and security infrastructures. For all three new clients, CampusWorks is:

• Providing high-caliber and experienced IT leadership services to augment and strengthen IT management and technical staffing through deployment of one or more highly experienced chief technology officer, chief information officer and/or ERP project manager;
• Providing each client with access to a cadre of subject matter experts with experience in ERP software, web/portal technologies, instructional technologies, network/infrastructure, cyber security enhancements, and IT staff development and training best practices to work directly with faculty, staff, students and the administration of each client to support implementation of institution-wide IT strategic plans; and,
• Developing strategic IT plans and blueprints for achieving a significant return on current or projected multi-million dollar investments in new instructional and administrative information technologies and telecommunications/ infrastructure initiatives.

According to Dr. Darrow Neves, CampusWorks’ Vice President of Operations, “CampusWorks has had the privilege of being selected on a number of important and exciting IT management projects with a growing number of college CEOs. We have earned the reputation among community college administrators as a provider of premier IT leadership services.  The experience and high caliber of CampusWorks’ Project Delivery Teams, Senior IT Executives and functional and technical staff – attested to by the satisfaction of our clients – is the cornerstone of this reputation.”

Prior to selecting CampusWorks, each College’s administration investigated many options for external consulting and technology management services--including local consulting companies, software consulting companies, internal hiring, CampusWorks co-source services, and full outsourcing services.  The selection committees compared the track record and the caliber/experience of the proposed technology management staff from each competing company.  All three institutions reached the same unanimous decision:   CampusWorks’ product independent and learner centered technology management co-source model was the right choice for their College based on the experience and caliber of the proposed delivery team, the exceptional track record throughout North America and the company’s extensive library of instructional and administrative technology best practices.

The CampusWorks’ technology management co-source model, which engenders a learning and mentoring environment that seeks to identify, cultivate, and advance College IT staff skills, was pioneered by CampusWorks in early 1999.  This innovative model was developed in response to the shifting demands of the higher education market and replaces an outdated staff termination model of outsourcing with a model blending highly experienced CampusWorks management and technical specialists with talented local community college employees. CampusWorks has successfully implemented this model throughout North America at progressive colleges in search of dramatic increases in the return on technology investments and constituent user satisfaction.

CampusWorks is pleased to add The Community College of Baltimore County, Coconino Community College, and Keyano College to the growing number of progressive colleges throughout North America who have selected CampusWorks’ innovative learner-centered technology management co-source model.