Santa Clara, Ca
Tegrity, provider of the leading class capture web service for higher education, announced today the winners of the Tegrity Innovation Awards Program, which recognizes outstanding achievements in higher education technology on campuses throughout the United States. These awards honor leading institutions whose innovative uses of the technology have impacted student achievement and reinforced their institutional missions during the 2007-2008 academic year.

The Tegrity Innovation Awards program debuted last week at the Tegrity Annual User Conference. Honorees were chosen from a broad spectrum of colleges and universities and honored last week at a special awards luncheon at the Disney Swan Resort in Orlando, FLA. Awards were presented to both individuals and institutions, indicative of performance milestones achieved during the 2007-2008 academic year, including:

• President’s Award – Dr. Sadie Gregory, Provost of Coppin State University (CSU) for demonstrating exemplary vision and leadership through successful implementation of Tegrity Campus. CSU’s implementation of Tegrity has received numerous industry accolades, including selection as Laureate and finalist by IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program and a Campus Technology Innovator’s award
• Innovator’s Award -- Eddie King, Chief Information Officer of the University of South Carolina, Beaufort, for being a true catalyst for positive change by using Tegrity in innovative ways to further enhance student retention and learning. King was also recognized for being a true champion of technology on campus – driving further faculty adoption.
• Student Advocate Award -- Jimmy Duke, Division Chair of Health Sciences at Calhoun Community College, for discovering innovative ways to engage and encourage students to use Tegrity. In so doing, Duke has positively impacted the lives of scores of traditional and non-traditional students who have enhanced their academic performance using Tegrity.
• Rapid Response Award –The University of Texas at Brownsville received the distinct honor of being the ‘fastest Tegrity implementation’ among new Tegrity clients. The university quickly realized the overall benefits of using Tegrity and trained their faculty and made them fully operational in the shortest period of time so that students could immediately reap the benefits of class capture technology.
• Provost Award -- St. Mary’s University of Minnesota was selected for achieving the highest total volume of faculty recordings. With more than 5000 faculty recordings posted, faculty usage of Tegrity at St. Mary’s University illustrates the wide-spread acceptance Tegrity is achieving among faculty of all disciplines.
• Student Achievement Award -- The University of Alabama was honored for recording the highest total volume of student views. With more than 92,000 student views in one year, the University of Alabama showcases how students truly use and benefit by using Tegrity to enhance their academic performance.
• Student Achievement Award -- The University of Central Florida (UCF) was recognized for posting the highest total volume of student viewing hours with more than 43,000 total hours logged, citing outstanding student and faculty acceptance as the reason for its success.

“Faculty members of Saint Mary’s utilize Tegrity because they believe that it provides them enhanced capacity to impact student learning, provides a means for students to learn more effectively, and has been supported well by the institution's IT office”, said Jeffrey Highland, Provost of Saint Mary’s University Minnesota. “We are pleased to partner with Tegrity to use this innovative technology to make Saint Mary's a stronger teaching university”.

“We are honored and excited to be recognized by Tegrity for our fast implementation and usage of Tegrity Campus 2.0,” said René Sainz, Assistant Director of Distance Education & Instructional Technologies of the University of Texas Brownsville. “Very early in our engagement with Tegrity, we realized just how valuable the technology was for enhancing student performance. More importantly, students and faculty recognized the value of Tegrity and quickly embraced the technology.”

“As our customers are the true innovators, we felt it was vital to honor and recognize their vision and usage of the product at our second annual Tegrity User Conference,” said Tegrity founder and CEO Isaac Segal. “It is our customer’s pioneering approaches to using Tegrity that have truly helped us become the leading class capture system - proven to enhance student retention and performance.“