CampusEAI Consortium is an international information technology services and consulting company headquartered in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.[1] The company is best known for myCampus, an enterprise portal and web content management solution for K-12 and higher education institutions. As of June 2010, myCampus is being used at more than 250 institutions in over 10 countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
CampusEAI Consortium was founded by 14 institutions in 2003 in response to increasing IT budget cuts, resource constraints, and the needs of incoming internet-savvy students. Among the founding universities are the University of Montana;[2] the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and Oklahoma State University.[3] CampusEAI has also partnered with Google to provide Google Apps integration to educational institutions.[4]
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Anjli Jain is the executive director of the CampusEAI Consortium. After finishing her formal education at Barnard College at Columbia University, she was recruited by the 14 colleges and universities that established the CampusEAI Consortium. Anjli Jain was born in New Delhi, India, grew up in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and is a member of the Greater Cleveland YWCA Board of Directors.[5] She has also been a panelist at the Women's Leadership Forum at Notre Dame College.[6] In 2011, Ms. Jain was a recipient of the Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club's Northeast Ohio Top 25 Under 35 Movers & Shaker Award.[7]
myCampus is a Software as a Service (SaaS) Web 2.0 campus portal solution that provides students, on-campus organizations, faculty and staff, university administration and alumni with access to their academic and social information all in one place.
Key features of the myCampus Campus Portal:
The myCampus Web Content Management System is an enterprise-level open source J2EE/Java (JSR-168 compliant) software system that provides a comprehensive suite for the information management lifecycle including creation, content editing, content publishing, and content archival.
Key features of the myCampus Web Content Management System include:
The myCampus Prospective Student Portal provides an informative way for prospective and newly admitted students to view the college experience at individual member universities.
Key features of the myCampus Prospective Student Portal:
The myCampus Alumni Portal enables alumni to stay connected to their institutions after graduation.
Key features of the myCampus Alumni Portal:
• Communications Tools and enabled social networking
Since its founding in 2003, CampusEAI Consortium has provided information technology grants to higher education institutions and public sector agencies through its Campus Portal Grant Program. The CampusEAI Grant Program is designed for institutions seeking to implement an internet/intranet Portal. Recipients of the Grant will receive substantial financial and organizational assistance in integrating a portal into existing systems and protocols for online and distance education, SIS software and administrative computing, school and organization web properties, student-based web publishing, wireless and e-commerce initiatives.
Past recipients of the CampusEAI Grant include:
In February 2010, the CampusEAI Grant Program was featured as part of the White House Initiative on historically black colleges and universities.[17] The initiative was established in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter as a federal program to help historically black colleges and universities overcome the effects of discriminatory treatment and provide quality education. The program exists today to help strengthen the capacity of historically black colleges and universities to provide excellence in education.