Posted on September 02, 2010
Loveland, OH – September 2, 2010 – SCRIP-SAFE® International, the leading provider of secure paper transcripts and transcripts delivered electronically (PDF), announced an agreement today with the Technical College System of Georgia (TSCG) to provide electronic transcript delivery for the 26 colleges that comprise the System.
Over the next several months the 26 TCSG colleges will become both senders and receivers in eSCRIP-SAFE®, the global electronic transcript delivery network. They will join almost 1000 colleges, universities and state/government agencies that are sending and receiving electronic transcripts via eSCRIP-SAFE®.
eSCRIP-SAFE® (eSS) sending schools must be accredited by a recognized accrediting authority and are vetted by SCRIP-SAFE®. Receivers are either in-network receivers or out-of-network receivers. In-network receivers have established credentials and a virtual “mail-box” where they may conveniently retrieve all transcripts sent to them from multiple sending schools. Out-of-network receivers obtain the delivered transcript from a secure website unique to that transcript. Out-of-network receivers are notified of the delivered transcript by email and are required to complete a brief but important registration process before retrieving the transcript.
Joe Orndorff, President and CEO of SCRIP-SAFE noted, “SCRIP-SAFE® has a long association with the higher education community in Georgia. As such, we are well positioned to collaborate with TCSG in the implementation of an electronic delivery system—a system that enables records professionals to offer improved service to students while reducing delivery expenses.” Orndorff further observed, “These services were designed and directed by Jim Wager, former University Registrar at Penn State, and Mark Strickland, former University Registrar at the University of New Orleans. Their work included extensive collaboration with Georgia and Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers members, as well as other leading records professionals from around the country. The result is a unique product that functions intuitively and is responsive to continuous input and improvements suggested by our users.”
Dr. Nichole Kennedy, Executive Director of Student Affairs for the Technical College System of Georgia, stated, “We are extremely pleased to be partnering with SCRIP-SAFE ®in this endeavor. In a competitive process we found their electronic delivery product to be the best solution for our colleges and students. It provides secure, verifiable and trackable PDF transcripts at the same or lower costs than our present system of delivering paper transcripts via the postal service. In these tough economic times, we will be able to provide outstanding service to our students and improved operational efficiencies without increasing our total costs.”
SCRIP-SAFE International is located in Loveland, Ohio, a northern Cincinnati suburb where it owns a modern research, customer service, and printing facility. Founded in 1989, the company offers paper and electronic transcripts, custom diploma papers, secured corporate papers and web-based diploma software for over 1,800 national and international corporations, colleges and universities. Created by former university registrars and vetted by the industry, eSCRIP-SAFE®, the global electronic transcript network, has emerged as the leader in higher education electronic transcript delivery. The Technical College System of Georgia colleges join nearly 1,000 schools participating in the eSCRIP-SAFE® network.
The Technical College System of Georgia is a unified system of technical education, custom business and industry training, and adult education. The System is comprised of 26 colleges enrolling over 190,000 students (fiscal year 2010). TCSG colleges offer easy access to lifelong learning for all Georgians and are a critical part of a seamless education process for Georgia in which students can transfer credits efficiently as they advance from secondary schools to technical colleges and to the University System of Georgia.