As colleges and universities embrace mobile technologies to enhance communications on campus, an added benefit has emerged: increased access to administrative information.

Take Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3), where IT Director Marty Christofferson needed to find a way to make communication between faculty, staff, and students more instantaneous. TC3 is located in a rural, mountainous region of upstate New York, just east of the Finger Lakes; the majority of its students are commuters, some traveling up to 30 miles to attend classes. An e-mail notifying a student of an emergency cancellation or change in schedule would likely be sent while that individual was already en route to school.

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