Heard the latest? Portals are taking off on campuses nationwide. According to Campus Computing 2006, the Campus Computing Project’s survey of 540 two- and four-year public and private colleges and universities across the US, portal deployment for four-year public residential universities jumped from 28 percent to 74 percent of responding institutions between the 2002 and 2006 academic years; from 20 percent to 38 percent for private four-year universities; and from 23 percent to 43 percent for community colleges. Yet, as more and more campuses buy into the promise of single sign-on and integration of information and services, needs and realities of implementation can diverge. To get a better sense of the “state of the portal� in higher ed, it’s important to look at the differing stages of maturity and the wide range of technology choices in the portal journey.

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