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"Vanguard is the gold standard for protecting shareholder value ," said
Malcolm Lazin, Executive Director of Equality Forum. Equality Forum undertakes high impact
initiatives, produces documentary films, highlights GLBT history and presents
annually the largest national and international GLBT civil rights forum. Datatel and Colleague
are registered trademarks of Datatel, Inc.

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Faculty can review, rate, and provide feedback to
students on their portfolio(s ), develop and manage portfolio
templates, and extract assessment data for program and department
assessment initiatives.
Nuventive's TracDat offers administrators and faculty an
easy-to-use , comprehensive approach that helps them master assessment
tasks and institute uniform reporting that simplifies data collection,
review, management, utilization, planning, and follow-up at all
levels .
"We are very pleased to join with Datatel in offering Nuventive's
institutional planning and assessment solution and electronic
portfolio system to Datatel clients," said Nuventive's CEO David
Raney, M. Nuventive product offerings include TracDat, an
institutional planning and assessment tool, and iWebfolio, an
electronic portfolio system.

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This agreement will help
provide higher education institutions with a strong student learning
and evaluation solution and a comprehensive institutional planning and
assessment system.D. All rights reserved.

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Vanguard
is the nation's second-largest mutual fund company, managing approximately
$880 billion in assets.

Datatel and Nuventive Sign Partnership Agreement; Colleges and Universities will have Enhanced Tools for Strategic Planning

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Exxon Mobil, number two on the FORTUNE 500 list, is one of only 40 of the
FORTUNE 500 companies that do not provide nondiscrimination protection for gay
and lesbian employees.
The announcement was made at the Datatel Users' Group Conference
in Washington, DC - an annual gathering of over 2,000 Datatel clients.
"These tools will also assist institutions with the often complicated
accreditation process . All other names, products,
and services mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective companies.

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"We believe that fully inclusive employment policies may be reasonably
expected to contribute positively to shareholder value," said Glenn Booraem,
Principal + Assistant Fund Controller for Vanguard.com/fortune500.

ABOUT EQUALITY FORUM
Equality Forum is a national nonprofit and 501(c)(3) GLBT organization
headquartered in Philadelphia.

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At
the start of the project in 2003, 323 companies (65%) provided
nondiscrimination protection. "We look forward to working together with Datatel to
improve learning outcomes. For more information , visit
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With 149 million shares, Vanguard is the fourth -
largest institutional holder of Exxon Mobil shares.
Vanguard's letter stating their policy change, along with more information
on the FORTUNE 500 Project, can be found at:
http://www.
"Clients will have access to iWebfolio and TracDat through this
partnership and will be able to better manage their measurement
goals," said Kyran Kennedy, Datatel director of Partner Programs.

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With Nuventive's iWebfolio, students can build multiple
portfolios, store and relate work products, dynamically share
portfolios, interact with faculty, and maintain a life-long record of
accomplishments.com

About Nuventive

Nuventive, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, is an education
and learning technology company providing institutions, faculty,
students and other users in over 20 countries with the necessary tools
and services to effectively examine, improve, and manage the life -long
learning process.

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This decision will
influence other mutual funds and positively increase proxy support for sexual
orientation nondiscrimination protection.

Datatel, an employee-owned company, is a leading provider of fully
integrated enterprise information management solutions for higher
education. Headquartered in Fairfax, VA, the company has over 650
client institutions throughout North America.nuventive.

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"After discussions with
Equality Forum, Vanguard determined that a supportive workplace for gay and
lesbian employees helps maximize shareholder interest. Today, 460 of the FORTUNE 500 companies (92%)
now protect gay and lesbian employees. For more than 25 years,
Datatel has exclusively focused on meeting the needs of colleges and
universities, helping institutions operate more efficiently so they
may better serve their constituents.com

(C) 2005 Datatel, Inc.

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Exxon Mobil, others to be impacted by change in policy

PHILADELPHIA, Following discussions with Equality
Forum, a national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) civil rights
organization, The Vanguard Group has announced that it will vote in favor of
sexual orientation workplace protection in its proxy voting rights. For more information, please
visit www.

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Equality Forum's FORTUNE 500 Project, in collaboration with Professor
Louis Thomas of the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and Professor
Ian Ayres of Yale Law School, requests FORTUNE 500 companies to specifically
include sexual orientation in their workplace nondiscrimination policies.equalityforum .

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers/Education Writers

WASHINGTON----Datatel, Inc., a
leading provider of technology solutions and professional services for
higher education, and Nuventive, a leader in electronic portfolio and
assessment planning and management software, today announced that they
have joined in a partnership agreement.