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The NACUBO Innovation Award honors higher-education institutions that incorporate cutting-edge solutions to significant institutional challenges applicable to all colleges and universities.
The College of New Rochelle received the award for a resource enhancement model that recognizes higher-education institutions that have reduced costs, increased revenues or improved productivity in response to a campus need.
“We are so pleased to be recognized by NACUBO with this prestigious honor,” said Judith Huntington, president of The College of New Rochelle. “This shared-services partnership with Marist College demonstrates an innovative approach to what has become a ubiquitous challenge in higher education — how to address the affordability and timeliness of onboarding new technology that optimizes both the academic enterprise and business environment."
Dennis Murray, president of Marist College, said, “Through this model, both institutions benefit. We are able to leverage Marist’s technology proficiency – proficiency that would take CNR many years and significant funds to replicate, while Marist continues to advance their technology leadership role in higher education.”
This collaboration has thus far resulted in the CNR’s new website (www.cnr.edu), which was launched in December. The new website is hosted on Marist’s server in an environment that applies the highest industry standards for data storage, security, backup, and recovery.
The second phase of this collaboration launched on July 1 as CNR transitioned its finance operations to the Banner enterprise resource planning system, using funds from a $10 million Title III grant the college received in 2014 to support technology infrastructure and Marist’s expertise to accelerate the project timeline.
Integrating all student-related functions, including registration, financial aid and academic advisement on the Banner system will be the next phase in this endeavor.
Betty Roberts, vice president for finance and administration who has steered the technology implementation at CNR, accepted the award at the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ annual conference this week in Nashville, Tenn.
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