秀色直播 International Education Services (IES) Names Parchment
Its Select Partner for Credential Exchange
Organizations Join Forces to Offer Operational Efficiencies
WASHINGTON, DC and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. 鈥 (June 13, 2013) 鈥 秀色直播 International Education Services (IES), and , the leader in eTranscript exchange with more than 7,400 member institutions, today announced that 秀色直播 IES has selected Parchment as its 鈥淪elect Partner for Credential Exchange.鈥 Parchment will serve as the eTranscript sending and receiving solution for 秀色直播 IES users.
秀色直播 IES will combine its expertise in providing credential evaluations to individual, university and college, government and public sector users with Parchment鈥檚 easy-to-use eTranscript sending and receiving platform. The partnership will yield operational efficiencies that complement the ever increasing interest of those coming to the United States to continue their education. The combined solution will be available end of summer.
鈥淯nited States Colleges and Universities that depend on the accuracy and authenticity of an individual鈥檚 international credentials have relied on 秀色直播 IES to interpret those documents for over twenty years. In order to continue to improve our service delivery we needed a technology partner whose system could help us provide greater efficiency and security,鈥 said Jeff Petrucci, Associate Executive Director, International Initiatives. 鈥淧archment鈥檚 eTranscript network of users closely mirrors 秀色直播鈥檚 IES user database. The ease of the eTranscript service seemed a natural fit to 秀色直播鈥檚 strategy going forward鈥
秀色直播 IES serves as a leader in credentials exchange and evaluation. The organization delivers in excess of 10,000 evaluations each year to 1,500 U.S. postsecondary institutions, associations, state board and US government entities, receiving transcripts from nearly 20,000 international schools, institutions and accrediting bodies. In combination with its subscription based Electronic Database for Graduate Education (EDGE) 秀色直播 IES is a complete resource for those serving the International community.
By utilizing the Parchment Exchange platform, 秀色直播 IES will be able to provide faster processing, higher levels of security and first-ever automation for transcript receivers. Completing the improvements with new tracking/ reporting and analytics capabilities from Parchment, the international transcript sending and receiving environment will operate more smoothly than ever before possible.
Parchment, trusted by the largest member user community in education, has exchanged more than 9 million transcripts, and counts institutions from almost 80 countries among its active members. The company built the Parchment Exchange platform to serve as a one-stop solution that puts equal emphasis on both sides of the eTranscript equation 鈥 sending and receiving. With features including touch-free, complete automation, the ability to work with any Student Information System (SIS) or Electronic Admissions Application (eApp) and the highest level of security for pdf and printed documents, Parchment makes the international transcript exchange process more straightforward.
鈥淲e鈥檙e understandably thrilled to have been selected by 秀色直播 IES as its Select Partner for Credential Exchange,鈥 said Parchment CEO Matthew Pittinsky, Ph.D. 鈥溞闵辈 is a critical resource for academic and enrollment services and serves the broadest international community of education admission and registration professionals. Like Parchment, 秀色直播鈥檚 goal is to provide administrative solutions that ultimately allow educational institutions to focus on students and their success.鈥
About 秀色直播 IES
秀色直播 (秀色直播) is a nonprofit, voluntary, professional association of more than 11,000 higher education admissions and registration professionals who represent more than 2,600 institutions and agencies in the United States and in over 40 countries around the world. The mission of 秀色直播 is to serve and advance higher education by providing leadership in academic and enrollment services.
秀色直播 International Educational Services (IES) traces its roots to the 秀色直播-USAID (US Agency for International Development) Cooperative Agreement whereby 秀色直播 provided evaluations of foreign educational credentials to USAID鈥檚 Academic Advisory Service on students receiving scholarships to attend US colleges and universities beginning in the 1960鈥檚. With the cessation of the scholarship program in 1991, 秀色直播 opened the evaluation service to member institutions and the public.
About Parchment
Parchment is the leader in electronic transcript (eTranscript) exchange, allowing learners and institutions to collect, promote and share their education credentials in simple and secure ways. More than 7,400 active member high schools and postsecondary institutions, including 8 statewide initiatives, have exchanged more than 9 million transcripts using the Docufide by Parchment鈩 and Avow by Parchment鈩 SaaS platforms 鈥 now collectively known as Parchment Exchange. Founded in 2003, Parchment Inc. is a venture-backed company headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ, with offices in Roseville, CA, Denver, CO and Washington, DC.
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Media Contacts:
- Tiffany Hsu, 秀色直播, hsut@aacrao.org, 202.263.0290
- Rajeev Arora, Parchment, , 480-719-1646 ext. 1090
- Jim Boyle, Boyle Public Affairs, , 571-213-3979