Who is Collegiate Project Services?
Collegiate Project Services (CPS) specializes in helping higher education institutions with technology and organizational planning. CPS provides their clients with successful strategies for evaluating and selecting technology options as well as effectively scoping, planning, budgeting, and managing technology projects. CPS is unique in their ability to complement their technology planning services with a powerful portfolio of organizational planning and development services.
Collegiate Project Services is a vendor-neutral consulting firm that represents only the interests of its higher education clients, and has done so for more than 170 institutions in the last 26 years. Collegiate Project Services is based in Columbia, South Carolina, with consultants located across the United States. Sample clients include the University of Tennessee system, the Tennessee Board of Regents, the University of Nebraska system, the Georgia Board of Regents, the University of Cincinnati, Louisiana State University, the University of Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech, Brown University, Georgia State University, and many others.
CPS is dedicated to helping higher education institutions prepare for and manage their most critical technology projects, and CPS looks forward to having the opportunity to help St. John Fisher College develop a multiyear technology plan.
Meet the CPS Staff Assigned to SJFC
Tom Maier
Tom has over 35 years in higher education experience as a faculty member, researcher, academic administrator, Vice Chancellor/CIO, Executive Director of Planning and Policy Development for the University System of Georgia (34 institutions), and a senior director of Special Projects in IT at Georgia Tech. Tom has been involved in a number of consulting engagements, such as developing a strategic IT plan for Georgia College and State University, and recently on a team assessing the strategic directions development for IT in the University of Texas system.
Ed Cornelius
Ed is the founder and CEO of Collegiate Project Services, and was the developer of our strategic planning process, which has been used in both the United States and Europe. Ed has 40 years as an organization psychologist by training, and is an accomplished facilitator and seminar speaker. Ed spent 15 years as a professor, first at Ohio State University in the 70’s, and in the business school of the University of South Carolina in the 80’s. Ed is a teacher, author, consultant, and frequent seminar speaker.
