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2011 Higher Education Guide to FINANCIAL SERVICES Our financial aid and student service solutions focus on improving efficiencies and delivering high quality student services that improve student satisfaction, increase retention and optimize student outcomes. Our financial aid solutions provide one-stop financial aid and loan advising, back-end services including verification, packaging, auditing and consulting services to optimize efficiency, maximize revenues and ensure compliance. Our student services solutions provide support for student inquiries day and night, including account balance, password resets, technical support, payment processing, more, Higher One works closely with colleges and universities to ensure students receive Financial Aid refunds quickly, can pay tuition and bills online, make on-campus and community purchases, and learn the basics of ﬁnancial management. Higher One provides its services to distinguished public and private higher education institutions throughout the country. processing service. Sallie Mae also offers complete refund disbursement services – featuring the Sallie Mae Debit MasterCard®. To learn more, visit www. SallieMae.com/UB. Guided by data, driven by service Scannell & Kurz, Inc. 71-B Monroe Avenue Pittsford, NY 14534 585-381-1120 Fax: 585-381-2383 info@scannellkurz.com www.scannellkurz.com Heartland Campus Solutions 2375 Telstar Drive, #160 Colorado Springs, CO 80920 800-486-4462 Fax 719-522-9297 Campus.solutions@e-hps.com www.1card.com Maguire Associates, Inc. 555 Virginia Road, Suite 201 Concord, MA 01742 978-371-1775 Fax 978-371-1759 kdawley@maguireassoc.com www.maguireassoc.com Maguire Associates is a comprehensive market research and consulting ﬁrm that serves educational institutions and associations. For over 27 years, we have applied innovations in market research, analysis, predictive modeling, and consulting to help our clients understand the dynamics of past performance, apply insightful knowledge to sound decision making in the present, and attain future outcomes critical to the health and vitality of their institutions. Maguire Associates’ services include: • enrollment management consulting • market research • branding and image development • student retention/satisfaction consulting and research • strategic pricing and forecasting • strategic ﬁnancial aid modeling • strategic planning • alumni and development research. Heartland Campus Solutions reduces cash handling on campuses to streamline financial operations. Heartland’s OneCard™ allows students to make purchases at campus dining locations, bookstores, printers, copiers, vending and laundry machines using a student identification card. Campuses can generate revenue by enabling students to use ID cards to make purchases at local businesses. Heartland also offers a financial aid distribution product – AcceluraidSM – that replaces manual ACH and paper check processes to deliver refunds faster, more efficiently and more accurately. Acceluraid can stand-alone or integrate into the Heartland OneCard system, resulting in one financial account to manage for OneCard and financial aid. Overture Technologies Higher Ed Strategies, LLC 18A Pasco Drive East Windsor, CT 06088 860-386-6729 Fax 419-745-7141 www.higheredstrategies.com 6900 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20815 301-492-2140 Fax 301-652-8599 Scannell & Kurz, Inc. specializes in developing customized, data-driven financial aid, recruitment, and retention strategies for their higher education clients. Services include: • Organizational and operational reviews of enrollment-related offices • Strategic financial aid analysis including recommendations for action • Recruitment “best practice” advice • Empirically based retention assessment and targeted intervention strategies • Management tools such as our Scannell & Kurz Online Reporting Environment (SKORE) and our Financial Aid Strategy Tool (FAST) We are dedicated to working in partnership with our clients, sharing our analytical techniques in order to develop our client’s knowledge base for addressing future enrollment challenges. The solutions recommended are unique to each client, based on a datadriven understanding of the institution’s particular market position and challenges. Special attention is paid to ensuring that the solutions are practical, detailed, and implementable. Outcomes include improved net tuition revenue, more effective management of institutional resources, and achievement of specific class profile targets, all within the understanding of the necessary “tradeoffs” involved. A sample of recent clients include: Abilene Christian University, Alvernia University, Austin College, Cedarville University, The College of Saint Rose, Connecticut College, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marist College, Marymount Manhattan College, Maryville University, Miami University of Ohio, Northeastern University School of Law, Rutgers University-Camden, Temple University, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, University of Connecticut, University of Indianapolis, University of Pittsburgh, Waynesburg University, Whitworth College, and York College of Pennsylvania. Higher One Sallie Mae 25 Science Park New Haven, CT 05613 203-776-7776 Lisa Forte (x4426), Don Smith (x4115) www.higherone.com Founded in 2000, Higher One is a leading company focused on helping college business ofﬁces manage operations and provide enhanced service to students. Through a full array of services from refunds, payments, electronic billing, payment plans and 12061 Bluemont Way Reston, VA 20190 800-531-4300 Betsy.Burton-Strunk@SallieMae.com www.SallieMae.com/UB Sallie Mae offers a complete line of business solutions designed to help colleges, universities and K-12 schools deliver services to students at lower costs and with greater efﬁciency. The suite of services includes tuition payment plans, electronic bill presentment and payment, an electronic payment gateway and 1098-T SunGard Higher Education www.sungardhe.com 10 Financial Services 2011 universitybusiness.com http://www.SallieMae.com/UB http://www.scannellkurz.com http://www.maguireassoc.com http://www.1card.com http://www.scannellkurz.com http://www.maguireassoc.com http://www.1card.com http://www.higheredstrategies.com http://www.higheredstrategies.com http://www.SallieMae.com/UB http://www.higherone.com http://www.sungardhe.com http://www.SallieMae.com/UB http://www.higherone.com http://www.sungardhe.com http://www.universitybusiness.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - January 2011

University Business - January 2011
Contents
Editor’s Note
College Index
Company Index
Advisory Board
Behind the News
Sense of Place
Viewpoint
Money Matters
Guide to Financial Services
Human Resources
Community Colleges
Take Ii Tablets
Pilots Taking Off
Today’s Admission Office Budget
What’s New
End Note

University Business - January 2011