Call for Nominations Now Open: 2010 SunGard Higher Education Award for Institutional Performance

Thursday, February 25, 2010
SunGard Higher Education

MALVERN, Pa., February 24, 2010 — Nominations are being accepted for the fourth-annual SunGard Higher Education Award for Institutional Performance. In addition to the award, the winning institution will receive $10,000 for student aid and scholarship.

The annual customer-focused award recognizes one institution of higher education for its measurable performance in areas such as community impact, accountability and accessibility. Nominated projects are to be supported by SunGard Higher Education technologies or services, but can be as large as a full administrative implementation or as small as a new teaching technique that has improved learning.

Nominations must be received by March 10, 2010. The nomination form, criteria, and submission guidelines are available on the SunGard Higher Education Customer Success Web page at www.sungardhe.com/performanceaward. A panel of experts from education organizations and associations will complete the final judging to determine the winner. The honoree will be announced at the 2010 SunGard Summit conference April 11-14 in San Francisco. Information about the conference can be viewed at www.sungardsummit.com.

Past Award Winners
• Immaculata University (2009) for its migration to and implementation of a new learning management system (LMS) that has helped the institution increase its revenue from online courses as well as improve institutional performance, academic offerings and efficiency.
• The College of St. Scholastica (2008) for its transformation from a paper intensive, redundant, disparate, manual environment to an online environment of easily accessible knowledge assets to support data-driven decision making and strategic planning.
• North Shore Community College (2007) for developing a self-service e-recruitment system built with the Banner Unified Digital Campus that enabled potential students to recruit themselves online.

About SunGard Higher Education
SunGard Higher Education serves colleges, universities and foundations in 40 countries worldwide. Through its Open Digital Campus strategy, SunGard collaborates with the higher education community and provides software and services to help institutions find better ways to teach, learn, manage and connect. To learn more, please visit www.sungardhe.com.

About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries.

SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.

With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented six times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.


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