SANTA BARBARA, March 21, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)—Governet announced today that Ohio will become the fourth statewide higher education system to upgrade, automate and network curriculum development, processing and management with CurricUNET, the award-winning online curriculum management system. The plan to adopt CurricUNET Meta was initiated as a collaborative effort between Ohio Board of Regents and STEM Grant recipient, Kent State University Center for Excellence in the Teaching of Science and Mathematics in order to help the Center meet its special requirements for program review and reporting.

The CurricUNET Meta installation will serve that need for the Center for Excellence and will also facilitate and streamline reporting and program review for Ohio’s entire statewide system, which is conducted by the Ohio Board of Regents.

“As our fourth statewide system of higher education, the Ohio system brings the added innovation of streamlining program reviews, as well as specific reporting requirements supporting its prestigious STEM program centered at Kent State University,” said Governet CEO, George Tamas.

Currently serving statewide systems in California, Illinois and Iowa, the CurricUNET web-based system will provide unprecedented connectivity between Ohio’s public system of 14 universities, 24 regional branch campuses and 23 community colleges, and connect all of its public, private and for-profit colleges and universities with other CurricUNET subscribers via the emerging Worldwide Curriculum Network.

“Through this initiative we will access the latest technology to streamline the statewide system for program submission and review while sustaining a rigorous, detailed review process,” said Stephanie Davidson, Interim Chancellor of the Board of Regents. “I am confident that the integration of statewide program review for all public, private and for-profit institutions of higher education in Ohio will reduce unnecessary or duplicative effort and decrease our processing time.”

Established in 1963, the Ohio Board of Regents is comprised of nine board members with two ex-officio legislative representatives appointed by the Governor with advice and consent of the State Senate.  In addition to advising the Chancellor, the purpose of the board is to develop an independent annual report on the Condition of Higher Education in Ohio, and issue an annual performance review of the Chancellor.

“We are very pleased that the Ohio Board of Regents has chosen to adopt CurricUNET,” said Tamas, who concluded, “We truly believe that the unique nature of the Ohio system, by integrating statewide curriculum processing for all public, private, and for-profit institutions of higher education, will set a new standard for other states to follow.”

About Governet and CurricUNET:

Governet is a leading provider of innovative Web-based solutions for higher education institutions. These solutions address local campus, statewide system, and international collaborative network issues in curriculum development, management and accreditation. Governet’s core application is CurricUNET, the award-winning curriculum management system designed to streamline curriculum processes from planning to articulation by improving workflow efficiency, reporting and approval processes and institutional connectivity. Currently serving more than 550 colleges and universities, including several state-wide systems throughout the U.S., Canada and the United Arab Emirates, and recently adopted by California’s ground-breaking ASSIST, which connects and facilitates articulation between all of the state’s higher education systems, CurricUNET provides its users access to more than 600,000 course outlines and 47,000 program and degree programs.  Via this transformational database, Governet is guiding the development of best practices standards for curriculum and creating what is rapidly becoming the Worldwide Curriculum Network. For more information about Governet and CurricUNET, please visit www.governet.net.

About Ohio State Board of Regents:

The Ohio Board of Regents, a nine-member advisory board to the Chancellor with two ex-officio representatives from the state legislature, was created in 1963 by the General Assembly. Members of the Board of Regents are appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. Responsibilities of the Board include, developing an independent annual report on the Condition of Higher Education in Ohio, and issuing an annual performance review of the Chancellor. The Board is also responsible for advising the Chancellor on issues of statewide importance affecting higher education.

About Kent State STEM Center for Excellence in the Teaching Science and Mathematics:

The Kent State STEM Center for Excellence in the Teaching of Science and Mathematics was the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s $1.08 million grant to support the university’s Noyce Scholars Program designed to increase the number of highly qualified middle and high school teachers in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, mathematics and physics. The STEM grant funding, secured under the direction of Dr. Andrew Tonge, will provide scholarships for 50 recent STEM majors to become certified with a Master of Arts in Teaching licensure program.

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SANTA BARBARA, March 20, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)—Governet, innovators of technology solutions for higher education institutions, announced today that Arizona State University (ASU), renowned for its academic leadership and achievements in sustainability, will adopt CurricUNET Meta, the award-winning online curriculum management system as part of its ongoing effort to reduce paper consumption and save resources. Currently serving and connecting more than 550 colleges and universities via the Worldwide Curriculum Network, CurricUNET Meta will enable ASU to modernize, automate and streamline its curricular management while improving connectivity and integrating sustainable, paperless practices in all major curriculum processing functions throughout its six-campus system.

“Arizona State University is famous for its prolific leadership in technology, innovation and sustainability and is setting a new ‘Gold Standard’ for American universities,” said George Tamas, Governet’s Chief Executive Officer. In recognition of its sustainability achievements, ASU has received a “STARS Gold” rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Education (AASHE). “Having demonstrated cutting edge innovations in green technology, renewable energy, environmental conservation and climate science, ASU is among the most highly regarded research universities in the country. It is gratifying that CurricUNET Meta has been selected as the technology that will move the institution toward more sustainable curriculum practices.”

Since 2001, Governet has been setting standards for best practices in curriculum management. Higher education institutions subscribing to CurricUNET’s suite of automation services have reported significant savings in terms of financial, human and natural resources, an advantage that is aligned with ASU’s Sustainability Plan.

Over the course of the next several months, Governet’s technology team will be configuring ASU’s CurricUNET Meta system, which will automate curriculum processes that streamline development, management, workflow, approvals and dissemination of course and program data across all ASU campuses. By adopting CurricUNET Meta, ASU expects to significantly reduce its use of natural, human and financial resources across the board.

“The opportunity to re-design and build our academic processes, from new curricular developments through course and catalog approvals, around a single system is very exciting,” said ASU Executive Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Graduate Dean Maria T. Allison. “To date so much of the work requires a huge amount of human resource to handle electronic routing and archiving of word documents and PDF curricular documents.  CurricUNET will not only allow ASU to work more efficiently with transparent and timely communication with the academic units, but it will also allow for historical archiving of all actions relevant to curricular and course approvals. Additionally, its benefits align perfectly with ASU’s long-term sustainability goals.”

As of 2013, ASU’s student enrollment reached over 73,000 students, making it the largest student body in the United States. ASU students can choose from over 12,000 courses scheduled yearly in more than 850 academic programs offered at four campus locations in the metro-Phoenix area as well as though ASU Online.  Each year, ASU develops an average of 475 new courses to support new and existing programs. By adopting CurricUNET, ASU will gain access to the rapidly growing Worldwide Curriculum Network. Currently, CurricUNET’s member institutions have access to more than 600,000 courses and 47,000 degree path programs stored in CurricUNET’s global database.

“ASU’s academic achievement and credibility can be measured by the quality of educational offerings it provides,” noted Tamas. “In that regard, its presence in CurricUNET’s Worldwide Curriculum Network will benefit other member institutions as much as ASU will benefit by gaining access to our growing database.”

About Governet and CurricUNET:

Governet is a leading provider of innovative Web-based solutions for higher education institutions. These solutions address local campus, statewide system, and international collaborative network issues in curriculum development, management and accreditation. Governet’s core application is CurricUNET, the award-winning curriculum management system designed to streamline curriculum processes from planning to articulation by improving workflow efficiency, reporting and approval processes and institutional connectivity. Currently serving more than 550 colleges and universities, including several state-wide systems throughout the U.S., Canada and the United Arab Emirates, and recently adopted by California’s ground-breaking ASSIST, which connects and facilitates articulation between all of the state’s higher education systems, CurricUNET provides its users access to more than 600,000 course outlines and 47,000 program and degree programs.  Via this transformational database, Governet is guiding the development of best practices standards for curriculum and creating what is rapidly becoming the Worldwide Curriculum Network. For more information about Governet and CurricUNET, please visit www.governet.net.

About ASU Campus Sustainability and University Sustainability Business Practices

The ASU sustainability vision begins internally with university-wide business practices and policies. Sustainability efforts are advanced by the Global Institute of Sustainability and made possible by partners from across ASU. Sustainability practices are implemented in the areas of energy, water, carbon neutrality, transportation, buildings and grounds, food services, waste and recycling, and purchasing. For more information, visit: http://sustainability.asu.edu/practice.

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SANTA BARBARA, December 20, 2012 (PrLog NEWSWIRE) — Governet announced today that it has entered into a contract with the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) to install CurricUNET Meta, Governet’s state-of-the-art curriculum automation and management system. Already serving the entire United Arab Emirates’ Higher Colleges of Technology System, CurricUNET will now also serve as a gateway for UAEU to gain access to the rapidly growing worldwide curriculum network, which Governet has been building since 2000. The system will also streamline the processes of course approval, assessment and program review, and articulation between the College-level system and UAEU.

UAEU is the oldest and most comprehensive residential university for graduate and undergraduate men and women in the United Arab Emirates. The institution is currently positioning itself to become a world-class center for applied research, national and international outreach, innovation and outcome-based learning. The university’s growth trajectory requires advanced, flexible technology that can both accommodate and facilitate expansion.

“The university is placing a high priority on international interconnectivity,” said Steve Thyberg, Vice President of Strategic Services at Governet, who recently participated in a panel at Curriculum Design Conference and Curriculum Institute in Dubai. “Therefore, their objectives are very much aligned with CurricUNET’s offerings on a global level. Having access to our automated workflow engine, UAEU will be able to bring efficiency to the approval process, which will be particularly beneficial as the institution grows its capacity.”

CurricUNET is currently experiencing a rapid growth phase as more and more higher education institutions and statewide systems turn toward advanced technology to automate management processes and improve connectivity. As a result, these institutions are tapping into Governet’s rapidly expanding worldwide curriculum network. The interconnectivity gained has proven to be especially beneficial in multi-campus systems that depend upon CurricUNET’s capability to interconnect multiple departmental levels during program approval processes, articulation and reviews.

The benefits ultimately impact students as CurricUNET increases the capacity for higher education institutions to offer quality programs garnered as a result of shared information within the worldwide curriculum database.

“The future of fully connected and integrated higher education institutions is thrilling,” said Thyberg. “For universities like the UAEU that seek to improve the student-centered educational experience, having such unprecedented access to a global cache of courses and programs opens opportunities that, a decade ago, were not even conceivable.”

About Governet:
Governet is a leading provider of innovative Web-based solutions for higher education institutions. These solutions address local campus, statewide system, and international collaborative network issues in curriculum development, management and accreditation. Governet’s core application is CurricUNET, the award-winning curriculum management system designed to streamline curriculum processes from planning to articulation by improving workflow efficiency, reporting and approval processes and institutional connectivity. Currently serving hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the U.S., Canada and the United Arab Emirates, CurricUNET provides its users access to more than 600,000 course outlines and 47,000 programs and degrees. Via this transformational database, Governet is guiding the development of best practices standards for curriculum and creating what is rapidly becoming the worldwide curriculum network. For more information please visit www.governet.net.

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George Tamas, the CEO and Chairman of the Board at Governet an innovative technology company known for its Web-based curriculum management solutions for higher education institutions joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest George Tamas discuss the following:

• Let us start with explaining a bit about Governet , how do your solutions simplify the already complex world of higher education institutions?
• What do you see in the traditional culture of higher education institutions that limits their opportunities for breakthrough innovations?
• As someone who understands this industry, what big changes do you see coming in the next few years?
• How will your solutions impact this industry, what is the big picture vision?
• What strategic partnerships are you creating today to help you reach your vision?
• What university today, leveraging your resources, is a good example for how to use Governet’s offering?
• Are there additional Universities coming on board by end of year?
• Do you see your solutions impacting education more broadly than just in higher education? How?

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George Tamas is the Chief Executive Officer/Chairman of the Board of Governet. Mr. Tamas has more than three decades of experience in top management positions for computer software/service organizations ranging in size from start up to publicly traded companies with more than $150,000,000 in annual revenues. After receiving his degree in Mathematics from UCLA, he taught Mathematics and Computer Science for several years before starting his first company.

He has since led multiple companies that engaged in such areas as technology management consulting, software development, networking, and outsourcing. Mr. Tamas has been a featured speaker at numerous state, national, and international conferences. He is recognized as a leading innovator in government and educational uses of technology, and particularly in the design and development of Web-based, multi-entity networks and databases.

SANTA BARBARA,  November 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —  Governet, creators of CurricUNET, the award-winning curriculum automation system for higher education institutions, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Campus CE, developers of innovative on-demand software services for colleges, universities and continuing education institutions. The partnership will create synergy between the companies, expand the capacity of each to improve educational access, automate workflow, and provide unprecedented Web-based connectivity between institutions and students.

Currently serving hundreds of higher education institutions and statewide college systems throughout the United States, CurricUNET’s suite of academic curriculum management services automates, streamlines and indexes approved curriculum in the states where it is deployed. CurricUNET also enables institutions to connect to statewide articulation and transfer systems and share vital resources for accreditation-required curriculum review via Web-based access to a database of more than a half-million course outlines and thousands of program and degree offerings.

Campus CE’s open enrollment Education Management System (EMS), which is currently deployed at more than eighty institutions nation-wide, including multi-campus regional and state-wide systems, serves as a student services portal for online registration, admissions, payment processing and administrative management tools for distance education and open enrollment curriculum. Provided through a Software as a Service Platform (SaaS), Campus CE’s EMS enables institutions to electronically connect students, faculty and administrators throughout complex registration, academic scheduling and student networks. The system provides flexible options for marketing to constituents while providing administrators real-time information for academic decision making.

The strategic partnership will combine resources and maximize synergistic capabilities of both companies to expand their networks by creating the Campus CE / CurricUNET Integrated System, which will enable unprecedented sharing of information between higher education institutions and students. The Integrated System will bridge each company’s networks in areas of curriculum development, management, and approval, pre- and co-requisite tracking, administration and student information, articulation, academic scheduling, enrollment, and curriculum delivery – both online and in the classroom.

“For more than a decade, we have been building the worldwide curriculum network which has been accessed, primarily, by educators and administrators at client institutions,” said George Tamas, Governet’s Chief Executive Officer. “By leveraging our vast library of course and program offerings with Campus CE’s EMS, the strategic alliance seeks to automate and improve upon the primary value chain activities of public and private higher education and training organizations.”

The Campus CE / CurricUNET Integrated System will streamline processes and eliminate double entries into multiple databases at each level, which will create significant savings in labor and optimize access to information across institutional databases. With such automation, the average curriculum approval and education management overhead can be reduced by more than 70%, which can ultimately reduce the cost of education for students.

“Our mission is to make higher education and training affordable and accessible for 100% of our nation’s student and adult learner population by developing the 21st century, internet-driven standard for the higher education, technical training and lifelong learning workflows,” said Loren Pace, CEO of Campus CE. “By partnering with Governet, we are tapping into their existing network, which will further our ability to help educational and training institutions provide exceptional student services. At the same time, we can greatly increase connectivity, efficiency and productivity for all constituents through synergistic collaboration, information sharing and innovative technology.”

About Governet:
Governet is a leading provider of innovative Web-based solutions for higher education institutions. These solutions address local campus, statewide system, and international collaborative network issues in curriculum development, management and accreditation. Governet’s core application is CurricUNET, the award-winning curriculum management system designed to streamline curriculum processes from planning to articulation by improving workflow efficiency, reporting and approval processes and institutional connectivity. Currently serving hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the U.S., Canada and the United Arab Emirates, CurricUNET provides its users access to more than 600,000 course outlines and 47,000 programs and degrees. Via this transformational database, Governet is guiding the development of best practices standards for curriculum and creating what is rapidly becoming the worldwide curriculum network. For more information please visit www.governet.net.

About Campus CE:
CampusCE designs, develops and hosts a collaborative environment of on-demand software services for higher educational institutions including, Colleges, Universities, Community and Vocational Colleges, Continuing Education Departments, Online Education Businesses, Corporate Universities and Government. The foundation of the CampusCE Integrated Web-based Learning Administration System is a set of hosted software applications that enable institutions to:

• Optimize and schedule academic resources including, facilities, courses and instructors
• Streamline production and publishing course catalogs in print and online
• Market to student prospects via email, digital and print media
• Provide branded, configurable e-commerce sites for multiple departments
• Streamline admissions, enrollments and registration via e-commerce websites.
• Make quick, accurate decisions with extensive reporting and dash boarding capabilities.
• Integrate or consolidate various database systems including legacy, CRM and LMS.
• Produce course-level budgets and financial information

For more information, please visit www.CampusCE.com.

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DES MOINES, IOWA, September 12, 2012. — The Iowa Community College System has joined the ranks of more than 350 colleges and universities to transition into a new era of curriculum automation, collaboration and network connectivity. Governet, innovators of Web-based solutions for higher education institutions, announced today that the Iowa Community College System will become the third statewide college system to streamline curriculum processes and improve system-wide connectivity using CurricUNET, Governet’s award-winning curriculum automation and management system.

Since its initial development in 1998, the CurricUNET system has been implemented by more than 350 colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Canada. CurricUNET also serves statewide college systems in California and Illinois, as well as the national higher education system of the United Arab Emirates.

“In the past, colleges and universities have operated as what might be called ‘islands of learning,’ each operating independently of one another, using cumbersome methods of developing and processing curriculum with limited resources for sharing information,” said George Tamas, Governet’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. He explained that this is particularly true of statewide systems, where ability to collaborate and share developing information is crucial to successful articulation, reporting and approval processes.

According to Tamas, CurricUNET applies Web-based networking capabilities to statewide systems of colleges and enables these institutions to streamline an otherwise labor-intensive process, improve their ability to collaborate on course offerings and expedite state board approval processes. “We have become accustomed to instantaneous connectivity due to the accessibility of the World Wide Web. With CurricUNET, all of the Iowa community colleges will have instantaneous access throughout their system the same way.”

By adopting the CurricUNET system, the Iowa Community College System will also improve the way institutions manage Iowa’s common course numbering requirements, and integrate local college processes with all state reporting and approval processes at the Iowa Department of Education. Over the course of two years, the project will fully automate course and program approvals at all 15 of Iowa’s community college campuses, making Iowa’s curriculum system the first comprehensive curriculum network in the nation containing 100% of all course outlines and programs offered by every community college in the state system.

“But the real innovation isn’t just in the automation of the curriculum management processes, or connectivity within Iowa’s inter-college network. In our view, the truly transformative aspect of the solution is in the aggregate database of approved courses and programs from all of our participating institutions,” said Tamas. “CurricUNET users currently have access to more than 550,000 course outlines (not just course descriptions) and 23,000 programs and degrees in what is becoming an emerging worldwide curriculum network and database.“

“The Iowa Community College System will be able to tap into that transformative resource,” said Tamas. “Now Iowa’s college system can also help to shape curriculum best practices that benefit other institutions globally as well.”

About Governet:

Governet is a leading provider of innovative Web-based solutions for higher education institutions. These solutions address local campus, statewide system, and international collaborative network issues in curriculum development, management and accreditation. Governet’s core application is CurricUNET, the award-winning curriculum automation and management system designed to streamline curriculum processes from planning to articulation by improving workflow efficiency, reporting and approval processes and institutional connectivity. Currently serving more than 350 colleges and universities throughout the U.S., Canada and the United Arab Emirates, CurricUNET provides its users access to 550,000 course outlines and 23,000 program and degree programs. Via this transformational database, Governet is guiding the development of best practices standards for curriculum and creating what is rapidly becoming the worldwide curriculum network. For more information about Governet and CurricUNET, please visit www.governet.net.

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