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 Modern Campus, the higher education industry’s leading modern learner engagement platform, today announced the integration of Modern Campus Career Pathways with Modern Campus Acalog, enabling colleges and universities to tie education to career outcomes and demonstrate the value of their courses and programs directly in their academic catalog. Student debt is at an all-time high and so are the number of job applicants for high-paying job openings. With tuition costing more than ever, today’s learners make enrollment decisions based on the expected ROI of their education investment, and 64% of Americans are skeptical that additional education will help secure a ... Read more

 Modern Campus, the leading engagement platform for higher education, today announced the appointment of Jessica Phinn as chief people officer. In this newly created role, Phinn will lead all aspects of human resources, from recruitment through onboarding, employee engagement and beyond. The announcement aligns with the wider focus of Modern Campus continuing its terrific growth, maximizing the potential of its over 400 team members to transform the higher education industry. Phinn joins Modern Campus with a wealth of experience across more than 20 years of progressive human resources leadership at multiple large organizations, including Pepsi Bottling Group and Loblaw. Before ... Read more

 Modern Campus, the leading learner engagement platform, today announced the acquisition of Signal Vine, the higher education industry’s most impactful conversational text-messaging platform. The addition of Signal Vine to Modern Campus will enable more institutions to drive measurable gains in enrollment and retention while collecting actionable data to further drive student success. The acquisition expands Modern Campus’s customer base to more than 1,700 colleges and universities across North America and enables each institution to serve their students with a highly personalized experience throughout the learner-to-earner journey. Text messaging is a must-have communication solution for every school, and many struggle with ... Read more

The rise of cryptocurrency to prominence has been nothing short of astounding. As cryptocurrency’s utility in the world of traditional finance remains under constant scrutiny by the trusted powers that be, this new kid on the block has emerged as something of a tool to bridge the economic gap on the African frontier, seeing increased adoption by the man on the ground as his payment method of choice. SAFCOIN is a uniquely South African cryptocurrency firm based on the shores of Mossel Bay, with team members overseeing the firm’s finer details in multiple locations throughout the world. Having  started out ... Read more

AFCD sets up modern mariculture demonstration farm (with photos/video) **********************************************************************      To guide the local mariculture industry to adopt modern and sustainable operation, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) has established a modern mariculture demonstration farm at the Tung Lung Chau fish culture zone this year.        An AFCD spokesman today (June 28) said, “The demonstration farm has adopted a semi-submersible steel truss cage farm design that can withstand strong wind, waves and ocean currents and is durable. Equipped with modernised technology and management, such as a real-time surveillance system, a real-time water quality monitoring system, an automated feeding system and a ... Read more