InC Student: Notes from 7/20/2007
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Andrea Beesing, Cornell
Keith Hazelton, Wisconsin
Todd Mildon, Washington
Karen Schultz, Penn State
Renee Shuey, Penn State
Ann West, Educause/Internet2/Michigan Tech
Action Items
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- Ann will work with Nancy and Bob to initiate a set of questions for
Sungard and determine whether a call with them is appropriate or not.
- Bob will update the CollegeNet use case in the wiki.
Next Call
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August 17 at 3:00 pm Eastern
877-944-2300
99208#
Notes
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The group discussed the outcomes of the AACRAO Technology Conference
(ATC) held July 15-17 in Minneapolis. There were several formal IdM
sessions on the program as reported in earlier notes:
- IdM Preconference seminar on Sunday attended by 17 registrants.
- IdM Basics session on Monday morning attended by 50+ registrants.
- Federated IdM session on Monday at 1:30 attended by 30+ registrants
- IdM roundtable on Monday at 5:00 attended 15+ registrants.
Interest and engagement at these were high.
In addition, Bob and Ann joined Mark Luker from Educause with a number
of AACRAO staff and members to discuss the possibility of an IdM meeting
hosted by AACRAO. The goal would be to have IT and registrar officers
come arm-in-arm to the conference to discuss issues surrounding IdM.
Outcomes would include IdM-related practices and tools for registrars
and admissions officers and a subsequent effort to enlist early adopter
schools to refine the recommendations. Jerry Sullivan, executive
director of AACRAO, will be talking to the board the week of July 23
about this proposal. Stay tuned for details.
Vendor Discussions
- AVOW - Bob approached AVOW while at the ATC and discussed the use of
fed IdM and R/E community trust services (such as the USHER PKI service
analogous to the InCommon federation services) that could be used to
exchange transcripts securely. The group on the call discussed the
services that AVOW offers and how InCommon and USHER could help. Further
exploration is needed on this topic.
Tom Black at Chicago has done quite a bit of work with electronic
transcript exchange. See his presentation at last year's ATC at
http://www.aacrao.org/tech06/handouts/080.pdf
- Sungard - Nancy has had initial discussions with Josh Aversa at
Sungard and offered to arrange for him to join one of our calls. Josh
is one of their product managers and a member of the PESC EA2 committee.
The group is interested in discussing Sungards plans, but we need to be
clear that we're not interested in a sales pitch and that the session
would be for information exchange. Ann and Bob offered to work with
Nancy to "prescreen" Josh and see if the opportunity is worth pursuing.
[AI] Ann will convey this to Nancy and work with her and Bob to initiate
a set of questions for Josh.
- CollegeNet - Bob and Ann had lunch with Patricia Summers (VP of
marketing) and Emil Izunagbara (Assoc. VP of business development)
while in Portland in June. Bob presented fed IdM, and Collegenet
described their process flow and how they interact with the students
after matriculation and graduation. Rumor has it that Stanford is also
using CollegeNet to manage their course evaluations. [AI] Bob will
update the CollegeNet use case in the wiki to reflect this new
information.
- StudentsOnly - StudentsOnly will be joining InCommon as an
UWash-sponsored partner. Bjorn Larsen from StudentsOnly is looking to
pilot with other InCommon schools to do enrollment verification for
their discount student travel service. Look for a call to InCommon
participants for this.
- NSC - No movement on this, but NSC is an important partner and we'll
keep them on the watch list.
- Mapping Your Future - David, Bob, and Ann had a call with Cathy
Mueller executive director of Mapping Your Future and a number of her
staff. (http://www.mapping-your-future.org.) They are doing a pilot in
New York to enable students to see their entire student loan
liabilities. This is done leveraging a relationships with NSC as the
lookup point and Meteor as the corporate loan broker. Currently the New
York State Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC) is managing the
distribution of credentials in the state for the pilot. MYF would like
to not have to rely on state orgs to do this and instead were very
interested in using campus credentials (and federated identity) to
address this instead. BTW, HESC is the state agency that helps people
pay for college by administering the Tuition Assistance Program,
guaranteeing student loans, offering guidance and administering a
College Savings program for students and families. As an action item for
that call, we decided to set up another call with additional folks from
Meteor in particular to talk about their credential requirements for
accessing the student loan information.
Next Call
- Discuss goals and actions for the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in
October.