Mr. Goldberg currently serves on the New York State Advisory Council for Registered Business and Licensed Trade Schools and has formerly served as President of the Coalition of New York State Career Schools.

“As Executive Director of the Coalition of New York State Career Schools, I have known Allan Goldberg for more than ten years. He served as President of the Coalition for five years and was active on several Coalition committees. He is knowledgeable and skilled in school regulations, laws and operations. His first-hand experience as a school director gives him real-life, ‘in the trenches’ experience. He is a great resource who will help your school.”
–Terry Zaleski, Executive Director of the Coalition of New York State Career Schools

“I’ve worked with Allan on the Advisory Council and in through our respective associations and have always respected and trusted him as a colleague.”
–Anthony Civitano: Cyanna client and owner of Long Island Beauty Schools and Hair Design Institute, Executive Director of New York State Beauty School Association, and also a council member of the New York State Advisory Council for Registered Business and Licensed Trade Schools

“Allan is so well respected and his depth of knowledge and years of experience within our industry is immeasurable. We’re thrilled to have him on our team.”
–Chris Eckels, Cyanna Managing Partner

“Cyanna is excited to have Allan as a representative on the ground in the New York area representing the Northeast. He’s acknowledged as a results oriented leader with uncompromising integrity. We are excited to have him with Cyanna.”
–Tim Laseke, Cyanna Managing Partner

Cyanna is a leading provider of customized software solutions and consulting advisory services to educational institutions in the public and private postsecondary sector, including degree and non-degree programs, trade schools, technical colleges, and other privately held institutions. Cyanna delivers its clients effective consulting services focused on state compliance and accreditation matters. Cyanna offers an advanced student-life-cycle school management software service to help schools with record keeping, business improvement and compliance needs. Cyanna also provides curriculum development services to help schools grow their business and achieve their desired outcomes. Cyanna works with State and National Accrediting Agencies with electronic web-based delivery of compliance information between agencies and member constitutions.

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The Cyanna Team worked closely with Elise Scanlon to design the new site, and both are very happy with the finished product.

“The Cyanna Team was wonderful. They helped guide me through the design process and in developing the content for the site. The project was well-organized and professionally-managed throughout which contributed to getting us up and running in a matter of weeks. I couldn’t be happier with the design.”
— Elise Scanlon, Elise Scanlon Law Group

“Working with Elise was a pleasure, and the new design showcases her firms’ expertise clearly and concisely to her audience, and maintains a simple, polished look-and-feel that reflects her firm’s reputation and regard in the industry.”
— Matt Cole, CTO, Cyanna Education Services

Cyanna Education Services is a leading provider of customized software solutions and consulting advisory services to educational institutions in the public and private post-secondary sector, including degree and non-degree programs, trade schools, technical colleges, and other privately held institutions.

For more information on Cyanna’s design and technology solutions, contact us today.

The new site and logo design were developed by Cyanna – working in concert with the NASASPS Board of Directors – and dramatically advances NASASPS online capabilities.

As part of the new site, individuals will be able to register online for the 2011 NASASPS Annual Conference held May 1-4 in Denver, Colorado. In addition, NASASPS will be able to efficiently manage the conference registration process and site content using a suite of conference and event management tools.

“The NASASPS board is very pleased with the new site and logo design, and the event management system will make it much easier for people to register for the conference and for the NASASPS board to manage the entire registration process. Cyanna’s design and technical team made the process simple and efficient and exceeded our expectations.”
— John Ware, President, NASASPS

The launch is the culmination of the initial phase of a broader effort underway between Cyanna and NASASPS. Future phases of the project include adding threaded, role-based discussion boards to facilitate improved communication and collaboration, as well as features to facilitate online membership application and renewal.

“The Cyanna team is excited about the new site and our ongoing partnership with NASASPS in collaborating to continuously bring technology innovation and improved service offerings to the NASASPS community of members, associates, and partners.”
— Chris Eckels, Managing Partner, Cyanna Education Services

Cyanna Education Services is a leading provider of customized software solutions and consulting advisory services to educational institutions in the public and private postsecondary sector, including degree and non-degree programs, trade schools, technical colleges, and other privately held institutions.

For more information on Cyanna’s design and technology solutions, contact us today.

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Completely Redesigned User Interface

In our ongoing effort to provide our customers with the best experience possible, we’re launching a completely new User Interface design for our CRM (Admissions), SIS (Student Management), and LMS (Learning) products.

The new design takes advantage of some of the latest technologies and best practices in the user experience of web applications, as well as feedback from you and our own experience in your shoes.

CRM/SIMS/LMS is now EDlumina

To-date, we’ve referred to each module of our platform by their acronyms: CRM, SIMS, LMS.

Given that our product is truly an integrated offering, we wanted to have a name that reflected that and also conveyed the value we feel the product has for institutions in illuminating metrics and trends about their institution such as the effectiveness of their admissions process or the quality of the educational experience in creating positive student outcomes.

We feel that EDlumina captures that and we’re looking forward to continue to build our product suite in alignment with that vision.

Enhancements Throughout

• Platform – Search for leads and students from any page using the global search
• Platform – Uniform design to reports, tables, fonts, and styles for easier reading
• Platform – Improved and integrated system navigation on left instead of top of page
• Platform – Improved and integrated actions metaphor on left instead of in main content block
• Platform – Personalize your initial landing page on your user profile
• Platform – Submit support requests more easily using the “Support” link in the global header
• Platform – Access improved online documentation using the “Help” link in the global header
• Platform – New Analytics infrastructure for charting and reporting.
• View larger versions of any chart and export to Excel.
• Platform – Access all system admin functions from a single page
• Platform – Several performance enhancements throughout
• Admissions – Flag or add notes to leads directly from the admissions search results page
• Admissions – Charts added to manager dashboard to quickly visualize key metrics
• Admissions – Simplified admissions dashboard for easier viewing
• Admissions – View student contact information by hovering over their name on search results
• Admissions – View next appointment date by hovering over the calendar icon on search results
• Students – Charts added to students dashboard to quickly visualize key metrics
• Students – Redesigned student profile page optimized for reporting and 1-click editing
• Students – Edit student data or add notes directly from the students search results page
• Learning – Improved integration between Students and Learning modules

Surveying our competitors products, we feel that this interface design leaps us ahead of everyone in terms of the user experience, personalization, and ease of use.  It provides us a very solid design platform on which we can base the growth of the feature set in the platform.

For more information on EDlumina or any of Cyanna’s products and services, contact us today.

EDvera™ will support all of the Board’s Annual Reporting data collection from licensed career colleges and schools beginning with the 2010 reporting period.

The launch on EDvera represents a huge leap for the state in advancing their data collection and reporting on key enrollment, revenue, and completion metrics for schools. It will enhance their ability to analyze trends both within schools and across market verticals to improve their oversight capabilities and help predict which areas may need more attention.

“The Board of Career Colleges and Schools is very excited about the launch of the EDvera™ platform for the State of Ohio. Automating the process of collecting and processing annual report data from our schools has been a goal of ours for some time, and the EDvera™ solution meets our needs perfectly. Cyanna’s technical expertise and deep knowledge of the postsecondary education industry were invaluable in helping ease the transition to an online process. EDvera’s reporting power and flexibility helps us more efficiently analyze trends both within and across institutions and disciplines in a way we’ve never been able to until now.”
— John Ware, Executive Director, The State of Ohio Board of Career Colleges and Schools

The Cyanna team is excited about the unique opportunity to work with the state regulatory agencies and provide solutions to help them more efficiently execute their mandate and improve the quality of education for students.

The launch is the culmination of the initial phase of a broader effort underway between Cyanna and the State of Ohio Board of Career Colleges and Schools. Future phases of the project include enhanced reporting capabilities, as well as features to facilitate online licensing application and renewal process.

“The EDvera™ platform is unlike anything in the market in terms of it’s capacity to accommodate the varied data collection requirements of each state, collect it in a simple and easy-to-use online experience, and provide the kind of longitudinal analysis that states need to really see the deeper trends that emerge. All of this works together to improve student outcomes for the schools they license.”
– Matt Cole, Chief Technology Officer, Cyanna Education Services

Cyanna Education Services is a leading provider of customized software solutions and consulting advisory services to educational institutions in the public and private postsecondary sector, including degree and non-degree programs, trade schools, technical colleges, and other privately held institutions.

For more information on Cyanna’s EDvera compliance workflow software for states and accrediting agencies, contact us today.

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Think of institutional accreditation as being comprehensive and related to the school as a whole. The post secondary school must meet all the standards set forth by the accreditation organization. This is only achieved through a rigorous peer review wherein the school’s process and procedures, administrative staff and faculty, facilities, student outcomes and services, programs and offerings, professional relations, financial wellness and much more are scrutinized to ultimately receive a grant. Said grant is a stamp of qualify issued to the school and sets it apart from unaccredited schools.

Programmatic Accreditation

Think of programmatic accreditation as being specific and related to a program, profession or specialization. This type of accreditation focuses on curriculum designed for professions generally regulated independently by respective jurisdictions – some of the more familiar areas include nursing, law, education and engineering. The review process and ultimate recognition is more centered on the program.

Regional Accreditation

There are six regions within the United States wherein regional accreditation organizations conduct business. Institutions within these regions are reviewed according to geographic location with the majority of these schools being well established, two or four year institutions, degree granting and nonprofits. This doesn’t preclude for-profits from seeking recognition though.

National Accreditation

National accreditation is conducted by a wide variety of organizations recognized by the Department of Education and their institutions are predominately made up of schools that are non-degree granting and they represent both public and private institutions. Believe it or not, recognition by the DOE is tougher for national accrediting agencies than their counter parts on the regional side.

Our leadership team leverages over 50 years of combined proprietary school and education market experience which enables us to deliver multifaceted consulting and software services spanning a range of needs.

Our Mission

Cyanna offers independent expertise, support, guidance, training and solutions to institutions in the areas of accreditation, compliance and state and federal regulatory environments designed to address workforce and business needs. We have an unwavering commitment to do the right thing. We pledge to maintain your trust and confidence. As leaders in the education community, our client’s reputation is paramount.

Our Process

Every institution has unique goals and situations, whether your institution is a start-up organization, single-campus and multi-campus school, distance learning school, privately owned and publicly traded institution, Cyanna’s approach is to understand you needs and properly tailor an accreditation game plan that works for our clients.

EDlumina Software offers a powerful and effective way to manage all aspects of the student-life cycle in a feature rich web-based environment. EDlumina software offers:

• academics
• admissions
• attendance
• billing
• compliance
• grades
• satisfactory academic progress
• reporting

Integrated email and calendar modules are included. It’s hosted, so your institution doesn’t need to worry about IT expenses. It’s secure and reliable, so your data stays safe and accessible. EDlumina runs on any computer, so everyone can utilize it from students, to faculty and administrators. All at an affordable price!

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