Frederick, MD – Regent Education, the leading provider of financial aid management software solutions for higher education institutions, today announced that it has joined the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC). As an industry leader in financial aid software, Regent will play in integral part in PESC efforts to lower college IT costs, improve service, and attain system interoperability.
PESC is a non-profit, community-based, umbrella association of colleges and universities; professional and commercial organizations; data, software and service providers; and state and federal government agencies.
“Regent is the first off-the-shelf financial aid solution designed to interoperate and enhance college and university technology investments. We are pleased to join PESC‘s efforts in creating national standards that allow for seamless data exchange between all organizations supporting higher education,” said Leonard Gude, Vice President of Financial Aid Solutions at Regent and a former PESC Board of Directors member.
Established in 1997 and located in Washington, D.C., the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) is a non-profit, community-based, umbrella association of colleges and universities; professional and commercial organizations; data, software and service providers; and state and federal government agencies. PESC’s mission is to lead the establishment and adoption of data exchange standards in education. The goals of the mission are to enable the improvement of institutional performance and foster collaboration across educational communities in order to lower costs, improve service, and attain system interoperability.