InCommon Student: Notes from 1/18/08
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Tom Black, Stanford
Nancy Krogh, Idaho
Bob Morgan, U Washington
Karen Schultz, Penn State
Renee Shuey, Penn State
Ann West, Educause/Internet2
Action Items
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- Ann to submit placeholder proposals to ATC and Educause Annual Conference.
Notes
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- Updates/Announcements - All
--- Work with Vendors
Tom and IT staff from Stanford met with National Student Clearing House
(NSC) and discussed/demo'ed Shibboleth. Stanford is recommending using fed idm to access two NSC services:
1) Student access for enrollment verification.
2) Student tracker service for IR, HR, and Admissions folks.
Tom also mentioned that AAU Institutional Data Committee (IDC) will be (or are) using the NSC student tracker service too. Currently, these folks (presidents, provosts, IR officers from AAU institutions) must submit the account-request form in the traditional way. Maybe we could leverage the new NSC Shibboleth service for the AAU schools? We should check the overlap of the AAU and InCommon:
AAU members
InCommon participants
[At first glance, it looks like about 24 institutions belong to both.]
Stanford will also be approaching other vendors regarding access to their course evaluation services and transcript status. He also mentioned using fed idm when a student or alumnus/a applies for law or medical school and request a transcript to be delivered to the other school. Currently, the person must log into Stanford's order system. If would be great to use fed idm and access between the schools to streamline this, so folks would have a single experience.
Bob announced a proof of concept project with the Department of Education to help them move to federated identity by participating in a pilot for financial aid staff. The agency isn't accepting campus federated credentials just yet, but is instead taking baby steps by asking a limited set of pilot participants to get federated credentials from Operational Research Consultants [ORC], one of their approved credential providers, and use those to access a sponsored student financial aid site called The eCampus-Based System (https://cbfisap.ed.gov/ecb/CBSWebApp/). This site contains the Fiscal Operations Report and Application to Participate (FISAP) for the three Campus-Based programs: Federal Perkins Loan, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG), and Federal Work-Study (FWS). In addition, it allows users to access Campus-Based account data and view reports. The short-term pilot will occur this spring. Even though this is a very small step and doesn't use campus federated credentials, it demonstrates using federating technology in some form, which could lead to better integration and accepting campus federated ids in the future.
--- PESC EA2 group
The group met on 1/18 in DC. Nancy will bring us up to date on the next call.
- AACRAO IdM Workshop - Nancy/Ann
The workshop is scheduled to convene on Wednesday afternoon before the ATC conference and finish up Thursday at noon. We hope to include IT/Registrar pairs and develop a first cut at terminology, issues outline, and IdM practices for AACRAO membership.
Regarding vendor participation, chances are we would have some involvement. Nancy and Ann will be bringing ideas and drafts to review to this group to get your thoughts on the practice and program developments.
- Outreach this year?
The group agreed to submit proposals for the AACRAO Tech Conference and Educause Annual Conference, both due in February. [AI] Ann will send in placeholders that we can edit later.
- Next Call will be Feb 15 at 3:00 pm Eastern.