Press
2012-2013 Press Releases
- May 21, 2013: ConnectEDU Names Evan Nisonson as CEO
- May 13, 2013: ConnectEDU Announces the 2013 Best Places to Work for Recent Grads
- Mar 21, 2013: ConnectEDU Chosen to Build the Online Talent Community for Hiring Our Heroes
- Feb 26, 2013: The Resiliency Foundation Partners with ConnectEDU to Launch the First Innovation Academy
- Feb 1, 2013: $100,000 Awarded to ConnectEDU and CareerVillage Joint Solution
Nov 1, 2012: ConnectEDU and Epsilen Join Forces to Increase Student Engagement, Persistence and Success
Oct 24, 2012: ConnectEDU Closes Capital Raise Led by Allen and Company and North Atlantic Capital
Oct 2, 2012: National Academy Foundation Partners with ConnectEDU to Measure Student Success with Real-Time Data
Sept 18, 2012: Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) Partners with ConnectEDU to Drive Student Success in the State of Michigan
Aug 7, 2012: Louisiana Empowers Students to Graduate College-Ready
Jun 27, 2012: State of Texas and ConnectEDU Continue to Drive Student Success with Online College and Career Resource Site
Jun 6, 2012: MA College and Career Access Portal Announces Rapid Growth
Jan 31, 2012: Sallie Mae Partners with ConnectEDU to Help Ensure a Generation's Financial Stability
Jan 30, 2012: The San Francisco Education Fund & ConnectEDU Win Lumina Grant
Jan 23, 2012: ConnectEDU Integrates Experience to Create Industry-Leading High School to College to Career Network
In the News
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: U.S. Chamber's Hiring Our Heroes Joins with Leading Media and Entertainment Companies on Job Serach Tool for Veterans
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Hiring Our Heroes program today unveiled a free online job search tool for veterans specific to the entertainment and media industries with the help of national technology leader ConnectEDU...March 25, 2013
En.Parset.com: With $100M From The Gates Foundation & Others, inBloom Wants To Transform Education By Unleashing Its Data
- Today, 21 education technology companies have already announced plans to develop apps that will work with inBloom’s open API, including Agilix, BloomBoard, CaseNex, Clever, Compass Learning, ConnectEDU...
February 5, 2013
SPi Word News: $1.7+ Mil Total Funding Announced at LearnLaunch/MIT Sloan.Ed Ed Tech Conference
ConnectEDU and CareerVillage disclosed details of the $100,000 College Knowledge Challenge competitive grant Grand Prize awarded for Career Connect, an app built in partnership by the two companies...February 1, 2013
Xconomy.com: New Accelerator LearnLaunchX Looks to Make Boston Ed-Tech Capital of the World
There’s a new startup accelerator in town. OK, there are a few—but this one specializes in technology and innovation in the field of education...February 1, 2013
The Lafourche Gazette: TOPS Progress Tracker Now Available to Parents and Students
The Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance (LOSFA) recently announced a major addition to the Louisiana Connect college access and career planning Web portal (www.louisianaconnect.org) with the launch of the new TOPS Progress Tracker tool...December 20, 2012
Texas Education Agency: TEA Launches College and Career Planning Website
The Texas Education Agency today announced the launch of a new free online college and career planning website for Texas students, parents and educators...October 1, 2012
Huffington Post: We're at a Tipping Point
A generation of young people in, or heading towards, college are asking if it's worth it. These are Millennials...September 26, 2012
HawaiiNewsNow: Gear Up Hawaii
GEAR UP Hawai'i, along with the Governor of the State of Hawai'i, is celebrating National GEAR UP Week 2012 starting September 10. National GEAR UP Week commemorates the continuing success of Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate programs, a college access program funded by the U.S. Department of Education...September 12, 2012
Lowell Sun: Lowell High recognized as a Champion by college-planning website
Lowell High School has been working hard lately, and that hard work has started to pay off...September 9, 2012
Lowell Sun: Lowell High finds success with college-planning portal
Any parent of a high-school student will tell you that the college search process can be incredibly stressful. Now, the state is providing an online stress reliever to students, parents, teachers and school administrators through YourPlanForCollege.org...September 4, 2012
Huffington Post: ConnectEDU Founder Craig Powell Seeks To Level College Admissions Playing Field
Frustrated by the systemic inefficiencies faced by college-bound students and job-seekers, entrepreneur Craig Powell decided to step up and take action...August 30, 2012
Herald Online: New Texas College and Career Resource Site Contract Awarded by Texas Education Agency
The Texas Education Agency has announced the selection of Boston-based education technology provider ConnectEDU as their partner in the development and deployment of the ‘Online College and Career Preparation Resource Site’...August 23, 2012
Educause: Building a Purpose Network to Increase Student Engagement and Retention
Increasing student retention through purposeful engagement online has always been a challenge for institutions. With advances in technology and purpose networking, institutions can explore new and interesting ways to communicate and market to students...August 13, 2012
The Wall Street Journal: Education Data Companies Chosen
New York state education officials Monday said they selected four companies to build a broad education database that will host students' test scores, curriculum materials and education apps, paid for by up to $50 million in federal Race to the Top funds...August 13, 2012
- The State Education Department (SED) today announced the selection of four vendors to provide products and services to implement an Education Data Portal...
August 13, 2012
The Journal: Web Portal Helps Louisiana Students Prep for College
A new Web tool aims to help Louisiana high school students beef up their academic resumes with college courses...August 7, 2012
Reuters: Louisiana Empowers Students to Graduate College-Ready
LouisianaConnect.org launches new feature to increase high school student participation in credit-bearing college courses...August 7, 2012
The Advocate: Louisiana Connect helps students, parents
Louisiana’s middle and high school students are being encouraged to build and keep tabs on their “high school portfolios” with Louisiana Connect, an interactive, state-run website...August 4, 2012
West Seattle Blog: West Seattle High School wins big grant: $350,000/year
West Seattle High School is in celebration mode this afternoon. Principal Ruth Medsker just announced they’ve won a major grant from the city Families and Education Levy...June 8, 2012
Lowell Sun: Lowell High to help kids jump-start college search
Lowell High is on the verge of implementing a program to make the process a whole lot easier and get students planning their future as early as eighth-grade. Yourplanforcollege.org is an interactive college planning website...March 5, 2012
The Town Talk: Louisiana Connect helps high schoolers plan for college and careers
The Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance is spreading the word about the new Louisiana Connect college access and career planning Web portal....January 22, 2012
Cisco Case Study: ConnectEDU Moves Data Center to the Cloud
Education access firm ConnectEDU reduces monthly data center cost by 35 percent and accelerates application performance with the Cisco Unified Computing...2011
Boston Business Journal: Get Educated with Career Planning Advice
(Written by Craig Powell) While the Occupy Wall Street movement has focused widespread attention on the issue of income inequality, less publicized has been...December 30, 2011
The Boston Globe: Boston’s Best People and Ideas of 2011
YourPlanForCollege, Massachusetts’ online college and career planning platform powered by ConnectEDU technologies, was just recognized by Boston Globe’s Best of the New!...December 18, 2011
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Colleges Mine Data to Tailor Students' Experience
Educators have long held that the interactions between students and professors defy simple reduction. Yet in several areas of campus life, colleges are converting the student experience into numbers to crunch in the name of improving education...December 11, 2011
Cristo Rey: 2011 Annual Report
The Cristo Rey Network is excited to pioneer this new approach to alumni support in its effort to build college success for all its students...November 18, 2011
The Atlantic: How a Match.com for Students Could Make College Admissions Obsolete
One in two 18-year-olds today won't go to college, and one in two who enroll will drop out. These are separate problems -- indifferent students and ill-matched students -- but one company called ConnectEDU is trying to solve both of them...September 30, 2011
San Francisco Examiner: Program to give San Francisco students a helping hand...
ConnectEDU. Guidance counselor Brianna Palmer wants all her students to go to college. And once they're there, she wants them to graduate. “Getting students...September 18, 2011
Education Sector Event: Charting the Future of Higher Education, with panelist Craig Powell
This summer, the Obama administration implemented long-debated regulations designed to crack down on abusive for-profit colleges while simultaneously fighting to preserve Pell grants... The 2011 Washington Monthly College Guide provides answers to these questions...September 15, 2011
National Review: The $10K Undergraduate Education and Technology-Enabled Labor Market Matching
...One wonders if some kind of publicly-sponsored matching program, modeled on the college admission approach pioneered by ConnectEDU...September 8, 2011
Washington Monthly: The End of College Admissions As We Know It
Everything you’ve heard about getting in is about to go out the window...September/October 2011
Reuters: ConnectEDU Selected by Louisiana to Deploy Statewide Customized ...
ConnectEDU Selected by Louisiana to Deploy Statewide Customized College and Career Access Web Portal New Comprehensive, Data-Driven Solution Guides Students...August 2, 2011
Scribd: The Edupunks' Guide to a DIY Credential by Anya Kamenetz
Connect! is a Facebook-like platform that works like a virtual guidance counselor. It suggests high school courses and prep courses for standardized tests based on your interests and past performance. It stores your information...August 2, 2011
University Business: A Case for Engaging Higher Education-Minded Students via Purpose Networks
In our wired, social media-saturated world, many of us are connected to family and friends on Facebook and to business colleagues and other professionals via LinkedIn...July 25, 2011
Webmetrics: Thanks to BrowserMob's Performance Monitoring, ConnectEDU's web ...
Harnessing cloud computing, Boston-based ConnectEDU simplifies it ... Blaisdell, Chief Technology Officer at ConnectEDU. “So we searched...July 25, 2011
VatorNews: Dropbox valued by investors at up to $10 billion?
The firm has also invested in smaller deals, having led a $7 million Series D for ConnectEDU last year and having participated in a $7.6 million Series A...July 13, 2011
Forbes: The Technology Revolution Changing College Admission
“Blame it on the bloody mouse. Don’t blame us.” The speaker was a senior admission officer at a well-known, well-respected college...June 8, 2011
Mass High Tech: ConnectEDU's Blaisdell turned to the cloud to simplify infrastructure and grow
Rick Blaisdell calls himself “a cloud evangelist.” So, it made sense that when he stepped into the lead IT role at Boston’s ConnectEDU two years ago, there was a cloud element in his strategy...June 8, 2011
Computerworld: IaaS is smart choice for ConnectEDU
As most parents and teachers can attest, teenage students have a tendency to procrastinate - not a particularly endearing characteristic, especially if you're a company that helps students...June 6, 2011
BostInnovation: ConnectEDU Keeps Students and Advisors Connected
With high school students constantly transferring, reevaluating their five year plans, and moving on to college, it’s difficult for institutions to keep track of exactly what courses students have completed...April 22, 2011
BostInnovation: Lead411 Honors 75 “Hot Companies in Boston”
Lead411 a data research firm out of Santa Barbara California has just announced their picks for the “Hottest Companies in Boston” Awards...April 15, 2011
Fox Miami: Parent to Parent: ConnectEDU
Keeping track of a student's progress and goals as they prepare for college can be complicated, but now a new online program is making it easier for Miami-Dade schools...March 15, 2011
NBC Miami: Miami-Dade Schools Seek to Reduce Dropouts, Increase Graduates
What does it take to encourage students to stay in school and go on to college? It's a question Miami-Dade schools are tackling by getting high school students more involved in their education...March 10, 2011
Education Week: Schools Embrace Web to Streamline College Planning, Apps
With school counselors juggling hundreds of students and under pressure to get them college ready, some districts are turning to Web-based tools to empower students...March 1, 2011
Web Host Industry Review: Web Host NaviSite to Launch NaviCloud Node in San Jose Data Center
Web hosting provider NaviSite announced last week it plans to unveil its newest SAS 70 San Jose data center. The enterprise-class cloud platform NaviCloud supports...Jan 31, 2011
Entrepreneur Journeys by Sramana Mitra: Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rick Blaisdell, CTO Of ConnectEDU
Elementary, secondary, and university education in the United States is rapidly evolving to address the needs of changing times and those of a competitive and more flat world. Until now...Jan 25, 2011
Boston Herald: Apply Yourself
High school seniors, if you haven't done so already, get cracking on those college applications - or you might not get into the school of your choice ...Dec 7, 2010
Center for American Progress: The Social Life of College Information
The information dissemination strategies employed by policymakers rely upon students and parents' desire to access information ...Dec 3, 2010
The Washington Post: Five Thanksgiving thoughts for the college-bound
As we reflect on the Thanksgiving holiday, those of us in the education field know that it is a week of thanks ...Nov 25, 2010
The Boston Globe: ConnectEDU closes $7m equity offering
ConnectEDU Inc., a Web-based Boston company that aims to help students to manage their education, said that it has closed a $7 million equity offering led ...Nov 15, 2010
Vator News: The Online College/Career Platform for Students is Backed by Allen & Company
A plethora of startups have realized the importance of education—not just in terms of their hiring decisions, but in terms of their target audience ...Nov 15, 2010
The New York Times: There's More Than One Way to Apply to College
There's the upstart Universal College Application, similar in format to the Common Application, and portals like Xap, Embark and ConnectEDU, which make it ...Nov 5, 2010
Inside Higher Ed: A Debate Impaired by Flawed Data
Given how nasty and speculative the political and policy debate over the quality and value of for-profit colleges has become in recent weeks and months ...Oct 7, 2010
Mass High Tech: ConnectEDU Strives to Match Students with Potential Employers
When many college students arrive on campus believing they are on a path toward medical school, they don't anticipate their sophomore year hurdle ...Aug 4, 2010
WBUR: The Education Bubble, Part 3: 'Shared Responsibility' To Shrink Student Debt
In a recent interview, a Boston-based college and career consultant stressed the need for cooperation to ease the escalating student debt ...May 26, 2010
Government Technology: States Bring Purpose-Driven Social Networking Tools to Schools
Michigan's forthcoming Web-based platform that will help students and their families make college and career connections might initially sound like ...May 23, 2010
Inside Higher Ed: Common or Elitist?:
Every year the Common Application becomes more popular, as more institutions seek to join, and those already in report increases in applications ...September 25, 2009
Daily Collegian.com: SuperAPP seeks to ease the stress of college applications
On Sept. 24, 2009, ConnectEdu launched the SuperApp, described in a press release as "complete, paperless application package for students, parents, high schools and colleges"...September 24, 2009
