How to Take Your Two-Year Institution to the Next Level
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How to Take Your Two-Year Institution to the Next Level
A Four-Part Webinar Series for Two-Year Schools from CBORD
Ithaca, N.Y.—More and more two-year institutions are turning to integrated solutions from The CBORD Group, Inc., the leading provider of campus card and integrated security solutions to colleges and universities. These schools have increased student services, reduced operating costs and improved campus safety by implementing CBORD solutions.
Georgia Perimeter College (GPC) started its one-card program on just one of its six campuses more than 10 years ago. Since 1998, the college has produced more than 185,000 ID cards and has seen a 375 percent sales increase at the college’s bookstores. Today, the "JCard Office" supports six bookstores, five food service locations, five ID offices, has nearly 250 point-of-sale card readers, more than 350 access card readers and more than 1,800 security alarms.
While two-year institutions are facing record enrollments and shrinking budgets, their students are demanding the same services offered at four-year colleges and universities, and administrators are striving to enhance operational efficiencies in many areas. The free, four-part webinar series has been running from June to October. Discussions focused on important issues facing two-year colleges, including:
• Benefits of a one-card system
• How to develop and implement a successful one-card system
• How to increase bookstore, food service and vending sales
• Streamlining financial aid disbursement
• Improving safety on one or across multiple campuses
• Enhancing and expanding student services
• Reducing costs
"Our school is not like a four-year school, where the university community tends to be localized on and around a single campus," said Craig Lipsey, Associate Director of the JCard Office at Georgia Perimeter College. "We have six different campuses with vastly different student and community demographics at each. What we do for one campus, we must do for all of them."
"Two-year institutions are realizing the value one-card system technology can bring and are implementing solutions. Leveraging campus-wide solutions like online vending, print and copy control, integrated security systems and off-campus programs allows our two-year college customers to foster a sense of community, maximize student engagement, increase revenue, reduce waste, improve safety and plan for future growth," said Cindy McCall, Vice President of Marketing, The CBORD Group, Inc. "Schools can start with the functionality they need now and expand as their budgets allow. CBORD solutions are designed to support campuses as they grow."
To view available webinars click here.
Aimee M. Milks
Marketing Communications Specialist
The CBORD Group, Inc.
61 Brown Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
T: 607.257.2410 ext. 2793
F: 607.257.1902
axm2@cbord.com
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