MALVERN, Pa, July 23, 2010 - Humber, one of the fastest growing colleges in Ontario and a leading polytechnic institution within Canada, will implement SunGard Higher Education’s Banner Digital Campus. A strategic initiative for Humber, the implementation is expected to help improve services, promote student success, manage enrolment growth and enhance decision making through greater access to information. The modern integrated technology platform also will provide enhancements to business processes.
Humber joins a global user community that includes an additional 45 Canadian institutions that have implemented SunGard Higher Education’s Banner Digital Campus. In addition, Humber can collaborate with SunGard Higher Education customers worldwide via The Commons, SunGard Higher Education’s new online community created to help facilitate open discussion and collaboration by connecting customers and employees around the world. SunGard’s Web 2.0 based The Commons, annual Canadian Banner Users Conference, and Banner Ontario Leadership Team provide SunGard customers in Canada with a variety of options for sharing expertise, ideas, challenges and best practices that can help improve higher education. In addition, as part of SunGard’s global network of solution centres, Canadian institutions receive support from a local SunGard office, based in Toronto. The solution centre develops regional localizations including a Student Financial Aid solution designed specifically for Canada, and provides ongoing maintenance and improvements for Banner solutions.
"A focus on higher education was a key factor for Humber when selecting SunGard," said Rani K. Dhaliwal, vice president, Finance and Administration, Humber College. "SunGard’s Banner Digital Campus solution is clearly aligned with Humber’s goals. Further, the SunGard team demonstrated depth of knowledge and experience from working with higher education customers in Canada and across the globe. We are excited about our relationship with SunGard and the promise of a new platform that will support our students."
“Our Open Digital Campus approach supports Humber’s vision of creating a functionally-rich, learner-focused environment that will help the institution sharpen its institutional competitiveness, customer service and the overall educational experience for all members of the campus community,” said Bruce Bleiman, senior vice president, Customer Relationships, SunGard Higher Education.
About Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Established in 1967, Humber is one of Canada’s leading postsecondary institutions. Committed to student success through excellence in teaching and learning, Humber serves more than 22,000 full-time students and 56,000 continuing education registrants. With an internationally recognized reputation for quality learning, Humber offers a wide-range of career-focused opportunities for students to personalize their educational path. Our 150 full-time programs include four-year bachelor’s degrees, two and three-year diplomas, one and two-year certificates, and apprenticeship training. As a founding member of Polytechnics Canada, Humber offers students the opportunity to participate in applied research projects that find solutions for issues confronting small and medium-sized enterprises. Humber is one of 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges as identified by the League for Innovation, and the League’s only Canadian board member. Humber finished first in its class in the highly regarded Community College Survey of Student Engagement in 2009 in each of four categories, including Active and Collaborative Learning, Student Effort, Academic Challenge and Student-Faculty Interaction. More than 85 per cent of Humber graduates are employed within six months of completing their studies.
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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 technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves 25,000 customers in 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 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. For more information, please visit www.sungard.com
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