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On December 13, 2008, CollegeZapps and ConnectEDU have created a partnership that will make manual college application process a history. If the transition to college before used to be a hassle in such a way that students should fill out application forms by hand, gathers all the required paperwork, deals with all the standard testing process, and finds a time to complete all the requirements in time, this will never ever happen again after the partnership has been made.
The two web based resources joined forces with the aim to make the college application process more efficient and convenient. The partnership will allow student users apply to more than 1,000 colleges and universities through an easy, comfortable and efficient online solution.
According to the CEO of CollegeZapps Mr. David Kenney, they strive hard to minimize the inefficiencies in the process for college application, and he called their partnership with ConnectEDU unique. With this partnership, college students will now be able to work on with their application and import all the information that has already been uploaded to Connect, and because of this integration, unnecessary amount of time used for manually inputting information into multiple application forms will be eliminated.
In order to connect students with educators and colleges, and in order to build a network for easy sharing of information, it requires advanced technology and resources. Both CollegeZapps and ConnectEDU have excellent technology and supports system in place. Their dedication in providing comprehensive solutions to successfully navigate through the transition to college made the ConnectEDU the nation’s leading technology firm. On the other hand, CollegeZapps has a proven technology that directs an online interview to efficiently collect required data. The information collected by both parties is then now used to complete all documents through a logic driven auto-population solution.
By synchronizing these two systems, it will not only simplify the application process and reduce the redundancy of the students, but it will also save time and will allow the students to focus on some other important things like finishing personal essays. In addition, the system will also provide a one-stop-shop dashboard area in order for the students to view their application and track on with their progress.
According the Mr. Craig Powell, the President and CEO of ConnectEDU, their partnership with CollegeZapps is the first step toward to their goal of providing the industry’s first solution to deliver a complete, comfortable and efficient application package electronically. For now, counselors have already realized the benefits of utilizing integrated data in their college planning programs that is why, people at ConnectEDU are now committed to taking that one-step further and providing every college with the application integration services that is necessary to make the entire application process paperless. Through this process, they will now be able to create one secure, single location for both counselors and colleges to verify the receipt of all the application documents.
As we all know that technology is the way of the future, the partnership of ConnectEDU and CollegeZappa is just another step towards an improved college application process for students and colleges alike. non fiction books |

Calling business leaders and academics for a Responsible Leadership

As the world needs a more responsible leader, the Globally Responsible Leaders Initiative from Brussels Belgium was co-founded with the support of the United Nations Global Compact and the European Foundation for management Development. Its mission is to be a bridge in developing the next generation of globally responsible leaders. By doing this mission, the group challenges the issues of the company for the 21st Century, as well as the mission of business schools and learning institutions and the process for cultural change in different organizations.

According to Bill Gates, Capitalism improves the lives of many people. However, as other people’s lives improves, it left billions more lives worsen. He said further that the world needs a more creative capitalism and must attempt to stretch the market forces in order for more companies to benefit in doing work that makes more people’s lives better.

In order to achieve the better life that we desire, there is a need for this creative capitalism the Bill Gates is claiming, however, a more responsible capitalism and strong leadership that can able to make that responsibility happen. In response to this, business leaders and academics are called to do certain action by GRLI with their three main areas of focus that includes:

Re-visiting the raison d’etre of the firm
Integrating leadership and ethics
Making corporate statesmanship

GRLI strongly believes that achieving this focus can be made possibly if business schools will focus on educating the whole person as entrepreneurs, leaders and corporate diplomats. As we all know, leadership is an art of motivating, communicating, empowering and convincing people to a new vision of sustainable development, focusing on this part of learning will dramatically help achieve the aim of having responsible leaders.

As GRLI realized the urgency with which a falling system needs to be adapted to human needs in a globalized economy, the will enhance the change factors that will help them implement a more sustainable development model. Another way to implement is that the groups will embed the appropriate values and behaviors in their strategies and management practices. Another way is their aim to develop pedagogies and curricula, which enables the development of a globally responsible leadership, and lastly the groups will exchange innovations, good practices and cases in business and education, and will share it with their partners and the public through the development of learning platforms for critical and constructive dialogue.

The GRLI or Globally Responsible Leaders Initiative’s call for action has the goal of re-enforcing the strengths of our entrepreneurial system while correcting its defects and the financial excesses of the system. The group is striving to achieve this aim through enhancing responsibility at all levels.

To make this call come true, a new way of education managers and leaders and the next generation of globally responsible leaders will play a big and important role.

Globally Responsible Leaders Initiative is also calling all those who want to show their support for the group’s manifesto to do so online by visiting www.grli.org.