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Phone App Brings Payment Options to Campus Housing

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PHILADELPHIA — Campus Apartments, a developer, owner and manager of on-campus student housing, has developed a Smartphone application that will allow users of iPhone and Android-based phones to pay their rent and schedule service calls — in-between text messages.

SmartClick Mobile is an extension to the company’s successful SmartClick web portal. This student housing mobile applications was officially went online to residents in November and has already secured early adopters.

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$250M Kent State Construction Project on Hold

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KENT, Ohio — A financing snag has derailed the proposed renovation and construction plan at Kent State – at least for the time being.
 
According to reports, Eric Fingerhut, chancellor of the Board of Regents, was against the implementation of a new student fee that would have been use to pay off $210 million in bonds from the Federal Stimulus Build America Bonds program. Unless it’s renewed, the federal bonds program is slated to sunset at the end of the year. University officials say the delay could result in another $57 million i

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Aerospace Research Facility Coming to Virginia Tech

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HAMPTON, Va. — Commercial developer Concord Eastridge has been selected by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop a research facility for the National Institute of Aerospace.
 
The 57,411-square-foot, highly specialized research facility is designed to further research and graduate education in leading-edge aerospace and atmospheric research.

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$45 Million Gift to Fund New Academic Center

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PHILADELPHIA — Drexel University has received a $45 million gift from financier and corporate executive Bennett S. LeBow, chairman and CEO of Borders Book Group, which will go toward construction of a new academic center for the College of Business, which was named in LeBow’s honor in 1999.
 
Drexel President John A. Fry says the gift is the largest donation to the university from a single donor and the largest by an alumni benefactor.

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