Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences; Administrative Systems; and Articles, Papers, and Reports
Administrative Systems and Online Student Services
| Title: | Administrative Systems and Online Student Services (ID: EDU0195) | | Author(s): | Eugene L. Spencer (Bucknell University) | | Origin: | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences (2001) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Today's students assume the Internet is the place to turn for all of their needs. Integration of online student services into the overall institutional e-business strategy of our institutions is critical. Can we define online services that match the campus service culture? Can we really put this power in the hands of the students, who might not know or agree with our data standards? How will we balance access with security? Who will get to define the ideal state? What relationships and partnerships will be required to develop these services? What does it mean for our organizations and who will lead the charge? Finally, will portals get us where we need to be? This roundtable discussion will address these and other issues related to the challenge of moving from managing transactions to directly serving students in an online environment. | | View this resource: | |
Administrative Systems as Instantiations of University Policy
| Title: | Administrative Systems as Instantiations of University Policy (ID: EDU0040) | | Origin: | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences (2000) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Montana State University used the implementation of a new administrative information system as its opportunity to integrate an independent, four-campus administrative structure into a single environment, as had been mandated by its Board of Regents five years earlier. The additional stress generated by implementing new policy concurrent with implementing a new system appears to be a common complication for CIOs and policy makers. This session described how MSU dealt successfully with this in an 18-month implementation. (David Todd's contribution is a result of his former position at Montana State University.) | | View this resource: | |
Chasms and Bridges on the Path to a New Administrative System
| Title: | Chasms and Bridges on the Path to a New Administrative System (ID: EDU9944) | | Author(s): | Ann F. Trost (Valparaiso University) and J. Michael Yohe (Valparaiso University) | | Origin: | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences (1999) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Valparaiso University is nearing the completion of a three-year project to replace an eclectic collection of vendor-supplied and home-grown software with an integrated administrative information processing system. The project has been successful in the sense that most of the buildings and many of the working relationships have survived. We will trace our path across the chasms of needs analysis, request for proposals, evaluating the responses, selecting a vendor, training, and implementation; and reveal which ones we successfully bridged, which ones we crossed in a single bound (with or without airlift), and which ones we plummeted into. Our experiences may be reassuring to those who have already embarked on this journey, and useful as a planning and strategy resource to those who are about to. | | View this resource: | |
Pooling the Resources of Dozens of Schools
| Title: | Pooling the Resources of Dozens of Schools (ID: EDU9943) | | Author(s): | Mahendran Jawaharlal (Campus Management Corporation) | | Origin: | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences (1999) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | With ever-climbing costs of supporting your administrative software, your institution needs the benefits of a virtual community of users from fellow institutions. Such communities pool resources and substantially keep down the costs of development, support, and implementation of software technology. Learn how to keep software support costs at a manageable level by sharing information across and between institutions through national and regional user groups, Web resources, dedicated listservs, and custom software contests. Discuss the required infrastructure behind these communities, how the technology must be industry-standard, net-centric, object-oriented and flexible. | | View this resource: | |
Virtual U: The University Simulation Game
| Title: | Virtual U: The University Simulation Game (ID: EDU9937) | | Author(s): | William F. Massy (Stanford University) | | Origin: | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences (1999) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The Virtual U Project is a simulation product created to help improve the management of the nation's university systems. Virtual U simulates running a university or college and assists management in allocating resources within the university. It is a powerful and user-friendly software tool that models the attitudes and behaviors of an academic community. The tool is driven by a powerful simulation engine that draws on an extensive compilation of data concerning the U.S. higher education system. Players determine policies for resource allocation, faculty hiring, enrollment management, and consider other decisions that college and university administrators face. Virtual U is the beginning of a new genre of interactive tools for educational systems. | | View this resource: | |
Implementation Projects: Land Mines and Other Lessons
| Title: | Implementation Projects: Land Mines and Other Lessons (ID: EDU9912) | | Author(s): | John D. Wilder (SunGard Higher Education) | | Origin: | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences (1999) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute totally replaced its administrative computing systems in a series of projects during the 1990s. Along the way many lessons were learned, and recent projects have been consistently successful. This paper looks at the process by which new systems are implemented and highlights the lessons learned. Six phases are identified, covering the entire process from first concept and software selection through ongoing upgrade efforts and thirteen "Land Mines," or common mistakes, are identified. Two large projects that implemented much of the Banner suite from Systems & Computer Technology Corporation (SCT) are used to provide examples. | | View this resource: | |
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