Administrative Systems

Administrative systems should be affordable, flexible, and customizable. They should help end users plan for and achieve their goals and help them complete tasks along the way. This presentation will show how the vision, principles, and design for Kuali Student are aligned with these objectives and discuss why community source development was selected for this project.

"Blackboard, the dominant player in course management software, has the ability to inspire devotion and, for the more fervid open-source adherents, not a little contempt. So today’s announcement may cause a stir among those more apt to liken Blackboard to the devil than a gentle giant: The company is partnering with Syracuse University to develop a way to integrate Blackboard with Sakai, one of the primary open-source alternatives."

Administrative systems should be affordable, flexible, and customizable. They should help end users plan for and achieve their goals, helping them complete tasks along the way. This presentation will show how the vision, principles, and design developed for Kuali Student can be applied to other next-generation administrative systems and outline some community source development opportunities.

Explore the technical solutions of a custom written, fully web-native, AJAX-driven campus data solution that ties together new and legacy systems and provides a single point of management for students, faculty, and staff.

Vendor acquisitions, open source initiatives, and the emergence of service oriented architectures have drastically changed the landscape for ERP systems. In this session, we will share how the University of Michigan planned and continues to plan for the future of its enterprise administrative systems in this dynamic environment and what others can learn from our planning efforts.

The author discusses the slow pace of changing ERP systems from siloed stores of data to intergrated databases.

It is time to think differently about administrative systems in colleges and universities. Using the Kuali Student Service System as an illustration, this ECAR research bulletin discusses a vision, and a set of functional and technical principles, for the next generation of administrative systems. Although the vision and principles are being developed for a new student system, they can serve as a framework for the development of an administrative system in any area of higher education. They are also a guide to what to look for in planning to select and implement a next generation vendor-supplied administrative system.

"A cute name belies the mission of this open source financial management software for higher education, which soon enters its next incarnation."