American Disability Act (ADA) Amendments in 2011?
Posted Feb 2011
With Q1 of a new year comes the time for every self-respecting blog to make bold predictions on events to unfold this coming year or have a best of 2010 list, let’s go with the former today: The American Disability Act will be amended to include specific items governing web pages for institutions receiving public [...]
Net Price Calculator mandate – Don’t wait!
Posted Jan 2011
These calculators, which are required under a provision of the Higher Education Opportunity Act, will allow prospective students and their families to estimate their personal out-of-pocket expenses at a particular college. Colleges have until October 29, 2011, to have their calculators up and running, but they have been encouraged to take action sooner. SimpleApply will [...]
Introducing SimpleCampus by SimpleApply LLC
Posted Oct 2010
In the coming weeks SimpleApply will introduce its newest offering SimpleCampus to the Higher Education and K-12 markets. SimpleCampus is a revolutionary way of handling your institutions website. It is a fully vendor managed website solution. What exactly does that mean? SimpleApply will be responsible for building and updating your front end marketing website in [...]
Blind Students Sue Law Schools Over Online Applications
Posted Jun 2010
As we’ve been warning Higher Education institutions for some time now, we were dismayed to see that this is coming back to bite. Please read the full article about these latest Section 508 lawsuits at:
Financial Aid Calculator Requirement for 2011
Posted Nov 2009
It’s a piece of the modern higher education website that has a lot of names (ie. The Financial Aid Calculator, Financial Needs Estimator, Net Price Calculator). The most important thing that insitutions need to be aware of is that there is an important mandate surrounding this piece of web based software. The Higher Education Opportunity [...]
The Optimized Higher Ed Web Team
Posted Sep 2009
There is ongoing debate taking place in the market right now on whether or not a distributed model is effective for managing a school website. For those not familiar with the terminology, I’m referring to an arrangement where the various staff members represented on the web including academic area heads, department leaders etc. are responsible [...]
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube as Admission Recruitment Tools
Posted Sep 2009
The rise of new social networking technologies has left many admission teams asking, “how do we use this?” Just referencing these buzzwords is not enough. Today’s higher education e-marketers need to know how to practically apply these technologies in order to best leverage the huge audiences in their target demographic that these networks have built. [...]
SimpleApply Introduces Facebook Share
Posted May 2009
The typical Facebook user signs on up to 6 times a day. Think about that statement for a second. In an Admissions office, the power of viral marketing is something that must be utilized in today’s landscape. SimpleApply has now integrated this concept into its revolutionary software. Facebook Share allows a user to post an [...]
Information on the IPEDS Ethnicity Requirement
Posted Feb 2009
Please select the following link for more information on the changes to the IPEDS Ethnicity Requirement. Please note, SimpleApply software is already compliance with this regulation. http://nces.ed.gov/IPEDS/news_room/ana_Changes_to_10_25_2007_169.asp
Information on Section 508 compliance
Posted Feb 2009
Please select the following link for information on government mandated Section 508 compliance http://nces.ed.gov/IPEDS/news_room/ana_Changes_to_10_25_2007_169.asp
