Welcome to Esri's Higher Education Community!
Welcome to Esri’s Higher Education Community!
This post will serve as an ‘ever-green’ welcome/landing page for the community and the goal is to ensure that you understand how to connect with us and all of your peers.
For years now, Esri has provided discounted ArcGIS licenses to colleges and universities across the globe. We also have a dedicated team at Esri that works with and supports you. If you are a student, professor, researcher, license coordinator, facilities administrator, or other – there are folks at Esri and peers in the larger community for you to connect with.
In this post – we really wanted to focus on 2 things:
- Let you know what applications and tools you have access to
- Ensure that you know how to get in touch with us and your peers
What Does Esri Offer?
Esri makes ArcGIS – which includes ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise and a whole host of other applications and extensions. These links provide details on ‘what’ is provided with the Esri license and how you can utilize it.
Does My University Have ArcGIS?
- Search for your college/university to see if it currently has an ArcGIS license available
- High-level explanation of Esri’s Institutional Agreement.
Esri Education Institution Agreement – Global
- Overview of the software included with Esri’s higher education program – includes teaching, research, and administrative uses
Esri Academic Department License Overview
- Overview of the software included for teaching and research with Esri’s Department license
Case Studies – Teaching and Research
- Provides a wealth of case studies/examples of teaching and research with Esri technology
Stay in Touch / Engage
Have questions about licensing? Questions about research or tools? Need a textbook recommendation? Looking to hire a new faculty member? All great questions! If it’s getting connected with your Account Manager or technical Esri staff, or reaching out to your peers, we want to ensure you know where to reach out.
Esri Higher Education Community - in Esri Community
- Esri’s ‘Community’ is our go-to location to post about events, answer your questions, post best practices, and work to engage with you! There are multiple ‘channels’ that you can subscribe to – so please pick your interest and then ‘subscribe’ to get notifications.
- You also have the ability to 'post' your questions or comments as well - so please join in the conversation!
- Use this application to understand who your Account Manger is, along with the rest of the team that supports you at Esri
- Join the community of faculty and staff. Feel free to post questions and reach out to peers. The list includes about 750 individuals and posts are generally sent 1X/week.
Social
- In the world of ‘social’ – we manage content on 2 separate platforms. Please follow/comment/post and engage with us. Both feature training & learning resources, events, stories, and more.
Education Summit / Events
- Throughout the year – our team appears in-person at a variety of events. We would love to meet and engage with you – so please let us know if you will be attending anything!
- Education Summit
- Every year – hundreds of faculty, researchers, librarians, space planners, students, and others come together in San Diego the weekend preceding Esri’s User Conference. We would love to have you join us for one of our favorite events of the year.
- Events Page
- For a full listing of all of the upcoming webinars and events
- Education Summit
- Each month - we feature an hour long webinar with tips & tricks, product enhancements, curricular ideas, and more. Please register to receive updates and notifications on upcoming webinars.
ArcNews/ArcUser/ArcWatch – Story Submissions
- Have an interesting research topic? New course that featured AI+maps? Let us (and your peers) know about it!
If you have any questions - please reach out. There are a lot of people here at Esri, or your peers in the wider community that are here to help! Again - welcome to the Esri Higher Education Community!
Lastly - if you have any general questions, you can always reach out to us at: highered@esri.com