http://www.simpleapply.com Enrollment Management Made Easy Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:28:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.simpleapply.com/dashboard/blind-students-sue-law-schools-over-online-applications/ http://www.simpleapply.com/dashboard/blind-students-sue-law-schools-over-online-applications/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:03:14 +0000 admin http://www.simpleapply.com/?p=1130 the Chronicle. Contact us today and don’t let this happen to you!]]> http://www.simpleapply.com/dashboard/blind-students-sue-law-schools-over-online-applications/feed/ 0 http://www.simpleapply.com/dashboard/financial-aid-calulator-requirement-for-2011-net-price/ http://www.simpleapply.com/dashboard/financial-aid-calulator-requirement-for-2011-net-price/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:35:06 +0000 admin http://www.simpleapply.com/?p=971 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 Act (HEOA) was signed into law August 14, 2008. It includes many new reporting and disclosure requirements. Specifically, in terms of Financial Aid, it states that by August of 2011, every College/University/Higher Education institution most have a net price calculator on its website. The U.S. Department of Education recently released a template that institutions can use as a starting point. All insitutions will have the choice of customizing the DOE Financial Aid Calculator template themselves, or working with a vendor such as SimpleApply LLC which is capable of creating this dynamic form for them. It is important to note for many schools that the DOE template is NOT Section 508 compliant.

Please contact us soon if you’re interested in completing this requirement as we’re anticipating increased interest.]]> http://www.simpleapply.com/dashboard/financial-aid-calulator-requirement-for-2011-net-price/feed/ 1 http://www.simpleapply.com/dashboard/the-optimized-higher-ed-web-team/ http://www.simpleapply.com/dashboard/the-optimized-higher-ed-web-team/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:07:42 +0000 admin http://www.simpleapply.com/?p=543

• There is no need for a centralized web team, just a webmaster
• It empowers departments to generate their own content

It does however come with its pitfalls that any good user interface expert, or marketing representative would point out:

• Your marketing message lacks a clear consistent voice because it is being communicated by many different people (no copywriter/web writer)
• The overall aesthetic treatment (look and feel) of the website degrades over time as users come up with new ways to style their respective sections outside of your specified guideline

Therefore, SimpleApply LLC advocates the following for those schools interested in maintaining a well branded, and professional web presence:

• A centralized and dedicated 5 person web team consisting of the following roles:
  
  Webmaster – leads team, touches all areas of development, develops site standards
  Web Editor – reviews all information, makes decisions on publishing priorities
  Web Designer – maintains look and feel, develops imagery, art, and animation/movies
  Web Programmer – educated in the code structure of the selected CMS
  Web Marketing – solicits content from departments, edits and writes copy



• A leadership mandate dictating specific procedures for the management of the website and decision making structure of the web team

Following these suggestions we’ll help to position your institution to get the most out of its best marketing tool – it’s own website.

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