Friday, December 7, 2001

A Digest of Corporate News in Academic Information Technology By BROCK READ Free and Thornton LLC, a higher-education-consulting company, will guide the California State University System's transition to administrative software from PeopleSoft. The company expects the software to be incorporated in all of the system's 23 campuses within three years. Free and Thornton will also serve on a team of vendors that will oversee the installation of PeopleSoft software at the University of Kansas and its medical center. (Link to the California State press release and the Kansas press release.) Dordt College, in Sioux Center, Iowa, will manage its online student services with software from Datatel. (Link to press release.) The University of Dayton will use Antigen, an anti-virus program developed by Sybari Software Inc., to maintain the security of its servers. The software will guard against viruses that could be spread through student and faculty e-mail accounts. (Link to press release.) Endeavor Information Systems will provide its library-management software to a consortium of university libraries in Puerto Rico. Universidad Metropolitana, Universidad del Este, and Universidad del Turabo, all in San Juan, will use Endeavor's Voyager system. (Link to press release.) Submissions for this column can be sent by e-mail to itdigest@chronicle.com Easy-to-print version E-mail this article

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