Kuali Student Service System UC Berkeley
has agreed to contribute $5 million in resources over the next
five years to the development of the Kuali Student Service
System (KS). The KS program will create a next-generation
student system using a service-oriented architecture to provide cost
effective, scalable support for students and other users that
responds to their individual challenges and goals and simplifies or
eliminates administrative tasks. In addition to meeting all of the
needs of a traditional student system, Kuali Student will improve
support for new learning activities and programs, and make it easier
to innovate and change activities, programs and processes.
Since the last 2012 update, Florida State
University joined the Kuali Student effort as a founding member, and
Carnegie Mellon University and MIT have decided to participate as
partners. The Berkeley Kuali Student team includes CIO Shelton Waggener
and Associate Vice Chancellor Susie Castillo-Robson as KS Board members;
JR Schulden from IST and Tim
Heidinger from Student Affairs as KS Steering Committee
representatives; and Johanna Metzgar from the Registrar's Office, Alicia
Wilson from Admissions and Enrollment, and IST's
Randy Ballew, Steve Masover, and Yu-Tin Kuo as KS project team members.
The size of the project team will continue to grow over the next
twelve months. The Kuali project team is scheduled to attend at
least four workshops between August and December of this year, including one
hosted here at Berkeley in October.
For more information on the Kuali Student Service System, please
refer to Berkeley's 2012 Wiki, or to the
Kuali Foundation
public site.
Stretching scarce student systems
resources At the 2007 Campus Forum on Student Systems,
it was announced that over the next several years, enhancements and
changes to existing centrally supported student systems will be
severely curtailed while resources are dedicated to development of
new or improved systems under the 2012 umbrella. The
2012 Community Council and the 2012
Executive Governance committee will be instrumental in setting
priorities and ensuring resources are available to maintain existing
systems while the new systems are being implemented.
Understanding current student system
processes After many months of hard work,
documentation on all major student processes is available on the
2012 Wiki. System
diagrams, stakeholder interviews, and comparisons with the Kuali
Student charter are among the artifacts now available.
2012 people update
Dean Andrew Szeri replaced Dean Mary Ann Mason on the 2012 Executive
Governance Committee. Acting Dean Diana Wu from UC Berkeley Extension
joined the Executive Governance committee in August.
Joyce Sturm from the Controller's Office replaced Faye Fields on the
2012 Community Council. A number of new members joined the Community
Council this spring; they include Betsy Livak from the Graduate
Division, Mara Hancock from Educational Technology Services, Tessa
Michaels from Administration, and Johanna Metzgar from the Office of the
Registrar/Kuali Student team.
