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Units around campus define the person who is an authority. That authority can delegeate to one or more person in their area to.
A person must be a current regular U-M employee to be an administrator on the system. Must have completed the admin. access and compliance training and must attest to be a good steward of the system. The med center has their own very robust IdM system.
Didn't want problem if person who wrote the code left the university.
When the university University of Michigan moved from a human home-grown system into web services, there was a need to think through requirements again.
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