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Author: Aimee Hagedorn

Spotlight: Using Hootsuite to manage your social networks

Spending too much time signing in to Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, and others to promote your organization? Having trouble tracking your latest ad campaign online? Hootsuite may be the solution. Described as “the social media dashboard,” Hootsuite is able to coordinate all of your social networking accounts by allowing users to enter information ahead of time and pre-schedule release dates for when YOU want.

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Implementation of new Student Information System (iSIS) continues

When K-State students left for summer break the implementation of the new student information system known as iSIS was nearing completion. Financial aid applications were processed and aid awarded in iSIS, and enrollment for the 2008 fall semester was also completed in the new system. Since then additional functionality has been made available for K-Staters including:

  • Updating personal information
    Students are able to update their personal information (home (local) address, permanent address, phone number, etc.) online
  • Managing student account information
    K-Staters view and pay bills online, view holds on account

After the first of September, transcripts requested by active students will be printed from iSIS.  To ensure accuracy of this new transcript, the Registrar’s Office staff will closely scrutinize every transcript prior to release which may cause a slight delay in the release. Stay up-to-date with iSIS by visiting www.k-state.edu/isishelp/students.

Mindset list for the Class of 2012

Last week, the 10th annual Mindset List for the Class of 2012 was released by Beloit College’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and Public Affairs Director Ron Nief. The list reminds everyone of the events shaping the lives of this year’s college freshmen, most of whom were born in 1990.
Highlights from the 60-item list include:

  • GPS satellite navigation systems have always been available.
  • Coke and Pepsi have always used recycled plastic bottles.
  • Schools have always been concerned about multiculturalism.
  • College grads have always been able to Teach for America.
  • IBM has never made typewriters.
  • They may have been given a Nintendo Game Boy to play with in the crib.
  • Personal privacy has always been threatened.
  • Caller ID has always been available on phones.
  • Windows 3.0 operating system made IBM PCs user-friendly the year they were born.

For the complete list visit Beloit College Mindset List.