DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Feb 19, 2002--Free and Thornton, LLC announced today that they have signed a Professional Services Subcontractor (PSS) agreement with an undisclosed consulting firm to provide PeopleSoft 8 consulting services to Indiana University.
Free and Thornton is one of the higher education industry`s leading consulting nd advisory firms. Financial details of the agreement were not released.
Under the PSS agreement, Indiana University will be able to engage Free and Thornton, LLC as a valued PeopleSoft 8 implementation partner. Free and Thornton will initially offer PeopleSoft 8 Student Administration consulting support to the entire eight-campus Indiana University system. The agreement will enable Free and Thornton to meet continued client demand for their wide array of technology and management consulting services.
''Indiana University is amongst the elite universities in the nation,'' said Emily Thornton, majority partner and CEO of Free and Thornton, LLC. ''We are thrilled to be able to add IU to the Free and Thornton client family. The higher education marketplace continues to embrace our elite consulting services due to our implementation successes.''
When asked about the Indiana University PeopleSoft project staff, Matthew Thornton, President and Director of Higher Education Consulting of Free and Thornton, LLC, said, ''Laurie Sullivan (Indiana University PeopleSoft Project Coordinator) and her team have been such a pleasure to work with. The IU people are so willing to help and are very interested in making sure their PeopleSoft project is a success. We are looking forward to continuing to build a strong relationship with Indiana University.''
About Indiana University
Indiana University was established in 1820 in Bloomington, Indiana. There are now eight IU campuses located throughout the state of Indiana. Indiana University has 116 academic programs ranked in the nation`s top 20. For fall semester 2000-2001, the all-campus enrollment was 93,775 students (graduate and undergraduate). There are more than 460,000 living IU alumni. In 2001, Time magazine ranked Indiana University as ''College of the Year among Research Universities.'' For more information on Indiana University see http://www.iu.edu.
About Free and Thornton, LLC
Free and Thornton, LLC, based in Dallas, Texas, is the first and only woman-owned higher education consulting organization founded and managed by former PeopleSoft Student Administration Beta and Charter school administrators. Free and Thornton`s staff of ex-university administrators who have transitioned into consultants offer specialized expertise to universities providing comprehensive student administration, financial, human resources, distance learning, and E-business solutions as well as implementing and integrating those solutions with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages and E-business software tools. Free and Thornton has more than 12 higher education clients throughout the nation, representing every type of institution from community colleges to Research 1 universities, and from public to for-profit institutions. For more information on Free and Thornton, LLC see http://www.freeandthornton.com or visit with a Free and Thornton representative at the annual PeopleSoft Higher Education Users Group (HEUG) conference located in Las Vegas, NV at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino from March 4, 2002 to March 7, 2002.
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