In this new day of "maximum flexibility" for California adult schools, what do adult school leaders percieve as the most important qualities of information systems? What posture are adult school leaders taking toward the initiation of change in their organizations? In September 2009 we asked you these questions. We'd like to share with you the results of our survey.

Go to http://www.bostonreed.com/partners/survey-results.cfm.

It is a season to reassess long-standing practices and make way for new. So say a majority of adult school leaders. Check it out.

Greetings Adult Education Administrator/Staff,

Boston Reed College would like to request that you participate in a quick survey about program management systems for adult education.

Please follow this link to a short survey to help us understand how we can serve you, your staff and your students better!

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229MSGSKJT2

We would like to have all results in by Wednesday, September 23, 2009.

Thank you for your participation!

Best regards,

A~
Alice Chegia

Boston Reed College

SVP, Partner Care

direct- 707-307-5062

mobile- 510-520-1068

On August 3, 2009, California State Superintendent of Schools Jack O'Connell announced that CDE will now accept electronic signatures in attendance accounting systems.

O'Connell's notice is available at http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/sf/aa/electronicattenltr.asp,The notice outlines the requirements local education agencies must meet in order to take advantage of the new permission.

It appears that Boston Reed's adult education management system CDI would meet these requirements.

Imagine the savings in money, time, and trees your school might experience by eliminating the print-bubble-sign-scan routine. This is definitely worth exploring!

The January 2009 issue of Hook 'Em Up, a newsletter of the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), includes an informative article on the value of health career training and the value of education institutions partnering to deliver health career training. One brief excerpt:

Allied health careers also “travel well.” A pharmacy technician instructor at the Central Texas College District in Killeen, Texas, told her students with military spouses, “I have traveled with my husband all over the world and have been offered a job everywhere I go. This is one profession that every community needs and hires!”

Read the entire article here.

Effective in the next statements (for October 2008), organizations using Boston Reed's data system, CDI, will receive a new version of the statement sent with reimbursement checks. The new report is intended to give clearer accounting of all tansactions, especially for schools and colleges using a wider range of CDI features.

If you really like the former report, don't despair. You still have direct access to the older report as well as the newer report. From the CDI Index page, click on Downloadable Transaction/Registration Reports in the FISCAL area. On the new page, the old report is available behind the link, BR Transaction Report, the newer one is through the link, Reimbursements.

If you are not using Boston Reed's data system now, on our website you can get an Introduction to CDI, our web application supporting online registration, catalog development, student attendance accounting, and more.

"How did you leearn about us?"

When your students and customers answer this question, they give you valuable feedback to help you assess the impact of your various advertising efforts.

Schools and colleges using Boston Reed's data system CDI ("Comprehensive Data Infrastructure") now have a means for collectiing this key information. New features allow schools to ask enrollees this question on the registration page when students are doing online registration. The school can completely customize the list of answers that students may select from.

Once this "learned about" information is collected, we give you a tool for reporting it out for any date range you choose. We also include the 'Learned About' responses in the form of a filter in the Contact Tool for direct email marketing. So you can, for example, send a targeted email specifically to those students who learned about you from a radio ad campaign you ran and signed up for the first time between August 20 and September 15.

(And, if you haven't been to the Contact Tools window lately, you will find that it now has a built-in HTML editor to help you send out emails with eye-appeal!)

To see documentaqtion for using these "Learned About" features, go to the CDI Help Table of Contents. In the section, "Doing Business on the Web," see article number 9, The "Learned About" Report.

If you are not using Boston Reed's data system now, on our website you can get an Introduction to CDI.

Like almost everything in CDI, these ideas came from administrators like you who use the applicaton. We always listen to our customers to discover what features would make your life easier and make your programs more manageable.