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Budget
Cuts in Higher Education Force Companies to Scramble
"Back-to-Campus" MarketTimes Webcast
Will Explore Key Issues Affecting Firms Doing Business in
the Higher Education Market
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NEW
YORK, NY -- September 3, 2003 -- MarketTimes, a web-based
information service focused on the postsecondary education
market, will explore college stores, budget cuts, and reauthorization
in its premier interactive webcast. Scheduled for Tuesday,
September 9th, 2003 at 1:00pm EDT, the hour-long MarketTimes
webcast will focus on three issues:
Back
to Campus/College Stores
Tens
of thousands of college students are coming back to campus.
What does the retail experience in college stores during fall
opening suggest about the economy and the coming year for colleges
and the college student market? Panelists:
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Kenneth
Bowers, UC-Santa Barbara Bookstore and immediate
past president, National Association of College Stores
(NACS)
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Gwen
S. Gardner, CSP, Davidson College Bookstore
and president, NACS
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Laura
Nakoneczny,
CAE, NACS
Impact
of Budget Cuts
They’re
here, big time -- budget cuts. Across all sectors, campuses
are struggling to maintain educational programs and campus
services despite reduced resources. What are campus officials
saying privately about the impact of budget cuts? What are
their campus strategies in these very difficult times? Panelist:
Why
Care About Reauthorization?
The
Higher Education Act is up for reauthorization. The recent
No Child Left Behind legislation, focused on K-12 education,
seems to cast a large shadow over parts of the higher education
bill. What does reauthorization mean for colleges? And why
should firms that do business in higher education be concerned
about reauthorization? Panelists:
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Mark
Schneiderman, Director of Educational Policy,
Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
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Leslie
Thorton, partner, PattonBoggs, Washington, DC
“We’ve
designed this first MarketTimes webcast to address the real
needs of companies that do business in higher education,” says
program host and Executive Producer Casey Green. “Fall
rush is a leading indicator, budget cuts are real, and reauthorization
could have major consequences. We’ll address these
three issues, and more, in our opening program on September
9th.”
The September
program will include segments from featured MarketTimes contributors
Anne Keehn (Quantum Insights and formerly Senior VP for business
development at SCT); Peter Stokes (Eduventures); and Eric
Weil (Student Monitor).
For subscription
information and registration, visit the MarketTimes website
at www.markettimes.net,
write john@learningtimes.net or
call John Walber (215) 884-7321.
MarketTimes
is produced by LearningTimes,
LLC & The
Campus Computing Project.
About LearningTimes, LLC
LearningTimes,
LLC, is the leading producer of online communities
and conferences in the education market. LearningTimes
designs and manages learning programs and events, as
well as the environments, applications and marketing
strategies that make them successful.
The LearningTimes
Network, a coalition of 28 vibrant, online learning communities,
serves over 13,000 members and includes groups delivering
educational programs, workshops and events in information
literacy, poetry, museum education, professional development
for college and K-12 educators, corporate training, continuing
and professional education, and product user group support.
For more information visit: www.learningtimes.net.
About
The Campus Computing Project
Begun in 1990, The
Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role
of information technology in American higher education. The project is widely
cited by campus officials and corporate executives as a definitive source
for information about IT issues affecting US colleges and universities. For
more information visit: http://www.campuscomputing.net.
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