Student Information Systems

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.

Interested in moving beyond ERPs or your homegrown SIS? Come find out about a new approach, Kuali Student, built by and for the higher ed community. An extended Q&A will provide answers to your toughest technical, functional, and financial questions.

Dickinson College and Pennsylvania College of Technology recently implemented portal solutions in under 365 days. This presentation will describe the high-level planning and management of fast-track portal implementations. The necessary decisions and trade-offs realized will be highlighted. We will also present the lessons learned from our 365-day portal implementations.

To discourage repeat student violations of the UMBC academic integrity policy and to encourage faculty to report them, the Office of Information Technology used the campus portal to track, report, and alert all parties of AI incidents. Summary reports publicly document UMBC's change over time and students' changing behavior.

Social networking software like Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube has become a way of life for today's students. In this session, we will explore whether and how we might use these technologies, or ideas they generate, to create better and more effective student and academic services at our institutions.

This research bulletin is designed to help senior college and university administrators better understand the complexities of both financial aid and information technology support for efficient and effective management of the financial aid resource. Using the financial aid technology pyramid as a framework, the bulletin illustrates how to use the pyramid in enrollment management, financial aid, and IT planning and implementation.

This session will introduce wiki concepts and explore their use in project management and in supporting IT systems in higher education. JHU's implementation of a new student information system extensively uses an enterprise wiki, which will be highlighted, along with use cases, examples, and lessons learned.