Recent Posts by Joyce Kim

Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA – also known as the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) was established in 1993 to support the Netherlands’ growing demand for professional training and practical education. HvA is now one of the largest institutions in the Netherlands, supporting approximately 50K students with 4K faculty and staff. While HvA has a focus on professional education, it collaborates closely with a number of more traditional Dutch schools. It has a shared...

In the last of our three-part series exploring how technology serves as the foundation for resiliency in higher education, we brought together leaders from three higher education institutions and one implementation partner to discuss the financial aid office of the future. Nicole Engelbert, Oracle Higher Ed Development’s Vice President of Product Management, served as the moderator of this panel of financial aid and student services experts: William E. Hudson Jr., Ph.D, Vice...

You’ve heard us say that Student Cloud is a radically different kind of student system: one with the flexibility, agility, and innovation to support today’s institutions and students amidst unprecedented levels of industry disruption and changing educational paradigms. A core differentiator of Student Cloud is an architectural capability that we’re calling our multi-entity framework. Our engineering team has been hard at work on designing these capabilities, and we’re excited...

The Universidad del Istmo de Guatemala (UNIS) might be the smallest post-secondary institution in Guatemala, but it has big goals for its future. As its name suggests, it sees its mission to serve as to serve as a bridge or “isthmus,” combining academic research and development with the spirit of religious and community-oriented service. And its institutional leadership sees their recent, end-to-end Oracle Cloud implementation (Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning,...

Many universities have successfully moved on-premise workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. But what’s it’s like for a large institution to move their critical PeopleSoft application to the cloud, during the COVID-19 pandemic? Two Northern Illinois University (NIU) IT professionals told their story in a webinar that described their successful migration strategy, despite the shuttered campus. Although migrating enterprise applications to a cloud platform can be demanding,...

Like most industries, higher education is under tremendous pressure to provide a modern consumer-like experience to students, faculty and staff in the new remote-work reality. Ithaca College, a residential liberal arts college in New York, has stepped up to the challenge. With five schools and more than 100 degree programs, Ithaca College’s mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice and performance. This goal has gained renewed importance in light...

Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications will help the university improve student outcomes, while saving money and improving productivity REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – Oct. 1 , 2020 - Spring Arbor University, one of the Midwest’s leading universities, has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications to deliver a modern, efficient and personalized student and staff experience. With Oracle Cloud Applications for finance, supply chain and customer experience, Spring Arbor will be empowered to...

Instead of our usual fall conference, Open World, we’re hosting Oracle Live: a virtual event series that seeks to bring the inspiration, product highlights, and customer stories directly to you. Last week, we dedicated a day-long event, “Oracle Live: The Time is Now,” to celebrate how Oracle Cloud Applications customers have pivoted forward and embraced continuous innovation, even amidst the chaos and disruption of the past six months. In his keynote kicking off the event, Steve...

As higher education institutions enter the fall semester, they are encumbered by a series of financial constraints, exacerbated by the loss of spring and summer revenue, budget cuts, declining enrollments, and heavy expenditures on COVID-related campus safety measures.  Yet despite – or rather, because of – all these issues, funding long-term projects to support institutional sustainability and future growth is more critical than ever. How do schools build the bridge? To...