September 15, 2008, Sarasota, FL - CampusWorks Inc. (CWI), an information technology management firm specializing exclusively in higher education solutions, announced that Baltimore City Community College, MD, (BCCC) has awarded CampusWorks a professional services contract for the company’s innovative, Learner-Centered Technology Management Co-Source Model.  

Under this contract, CampusWorks will work with talented members of the College administration, faculty and IT staff to deploy an experienced team to help manage and staff the College’s newly created, cabinet-level IT Business Transformation Initiative.  The first phase of the College’s business transformation effort combines CampusWorks’ established Learner-Centered Technology Management Model with a unique focus on developing a new teaching and learning paradigm, a corresponding business model, and a new technology infrastructure to support both the new academic and business processes.

BCCC is a State-sponsored, comprehensive two-year degree-granting college serving students at multiple locations. Under the leadership of President Dr. Carolane Williams, BCCC serves over 22,000 credit and non-credit students. The College, through a comprehensive due diligence and competitive RFP process, selected CampusWorks over a number of national and international IT consulting companies.  In announcing the award, Dr. Williams said, “The BCCC selection committee was seeking a partner who would bring both innovative and cost effective approaches for transforming BCCC’s Information Technology infrastructure into a high performing resource that supports learning at a higher level.  We chose CampusWorks because of its broad experience in higher education and expertise in managing large IT departments and Project Management Offices.”

This highly competitive contract award was based on CampusWorks’ unique “trinity” contract model and approach that blends talented BCCC IT staff and local MBE subcontractors with highly experienced CampusWorks project management specialist staff. This model was pioneered by CampusWorks in early 1999 and was developed in response to the shifting demands of the higher education market to replace an aging IT outsource model (both offshore and staff termination focused) with a more responsive model for colleges in search of dramatic increases in the return on technology investments and constituent user satisfaction.

CampusWorks is assisting the College by leading the IT transformation initiatives and is providing a team of high-caliber and experienced technology leaders, project managers, and academic subject matter experts with experience in technology planning to create and execute the roadmap for all IT strategies.  The IT strategies will focus on redefining and redesigning applicable business processes to ensure optimal performance and use of technology; implementing a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that should be flexible enough to grow and change as the College changes; enhancing BCCC’s Strategic Plan, Academic Master Plan, and IT Master Plan; implementing effective document management and reporting best practices; providing universal and ubiquitous access to educational services; and developing a human capital strategy that builds skills quickly and effectively to maximize the return on investment for information technology investments.

According to David Rutledge, CampusWorks Executive Advisory Board Member and Quality Assurance Officer for the BCCC contract, “CampusWorks’ unique IT transformation approach was selected after a thorough due diligence of the exceptional results demonstrated at many other CampusWorks’ clients such as The Community College of Baltimore County, MD, the Houston Community College System, TX, Miami Dade College, FL, Grand Rapids Community College, MI, Bunker Hill Community College, MA, and Middlesex Community College, MA, among others. CampusWorks is pleased to add BCCC to the growing number of colleges who have selected CampusWorks to assist in managing talented college staff and leading initiatives for BPR/administrative systems, network infrastructure, and instructional technology.”