Commercial partners offering assistance for Sakai implementations are heavily involved in the larger Sakai community and have a strong interest in the success of their partner institutions.
Marist College (http://www.marist.edu/), located in Poughkeepsie, New York, is known as one of the most technologically advanced comprehensive liberal arts colleges in the United States. Marist, with its 4,300 students and 1000 staff, is a proud recipient of the Campus Technology Innovators Award and is recognized by The Princeton Review and Forbes as one of the 25th "Most Connected Campuses" in America.
In early 2006, Marist College embarked upon a rigorous two-year assessment of Sakai. When Marist began this assessment, many considered Sakai suited only to large research institutions. Nonetheless, Marist College was interested in understanding how Sakai might both meet technology needs and allow for substantive innovation in teaching and learning in a smaller institution...