Here's some important information on this big merger from HERDI client, SUNGARD. We've got big news for HERDI:  Datatel and SunGard Higher Education have completed the transaction to combine and operate as one company. The newly combined organization will be exclusively focused on helping institutions succeed in the changing education environment. The process of combining business operations...

The Associated Press' Justin Pope reports that "A little debt may be good for students."  "To pay for college and minimize borrowing, students are working longer hours at jobs and taking fewer credits.  They're less likely to enroll full-time.  They're living at home.  The're 'trading down' to less selective institutions..."  The upside of borrowing is that students who borrow for college are...

Things are shaping up extremely well for our April, 2012 conference in Orlando.  Fourteen companies have signed up and we have room for only sixteen, so we're almost at capacity.  This will be the biggest event in the history of HERDI.  Companies have stepped up to sponsor our reception and dinner for all the companies and advisory board, and a new sponsorship for the advisory board meeting rec...

After eleven years as Executive Secretary for HERDI and 25 years with its predecessor company, ERDI, David Amsler is saying goodby to his role at HERDI.  He will continue in an ex-officio capacity so that HERDI CEO, Dr. Toni Cleveland, can "pick his brain" when needed.  David and his wife, Susan, attended the HERDI reception and banquet with the Advisory Board of community college presidents an...

Dr. Jack Huck, President of Southeast Community College in Lincoln, Nebraska, and HERDI Advisory Board member had to cancel his attendance at the Dallas meeting last week.  Reason:  Dr. Huck was being honored as President of the Year at the annual meeting of the National Association of Community College Entrepreneurship in Portland. Fortunately there were 25 other community college presidents an...