Track 5

Assessing Institutional Effectiveness Through the Electronic Portfolio

Wednesday, January 14, 2004
9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. SESS25

Lynda Barner-West, Associate Vice President for Technology and Information Services, Carlow University

Andrea Beranek, Assistant to the Vice President for Acaedmic Affairs for Program Support, Carlow University

Assessing institutional effectiveness requires evaluating academic programs from the varied viewpoints of the institution, the core curriculum, the major, and the individual student. E-portfolios permit collection of multiple examples of student work over time. Carlow College's institution-wide e-portfolio will be described and demonstrated.

Postconference Resource

Building a Data Warehouse: Bringing in the Sheaves

Tuesday, January 13, 2004
3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. SESS10

Alan Harmon, Technical Director, United States Naval Academy

Ella Smith, Research Analyst, United States Department of Agriculture

This presentation will discuss the analysis, requirements, design, implementation, and initial management of a data warehouse. The key issues of project management, funding, cost control, and roles and responsibilities will be emphasized. The concentration will be on overall development and management rather than on specific design methodologies or technical issues.

Postconference Resource

Disaster Recovery: A Case Study

Thursday, January 15, 2004
9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. SESS50

Terrence Bazylewicz (duplicate), Sr. Consultant, The TLT Group

The presentation uses an actual fire at a Northeastern University as a backdrop for why disaster planning is a critical planning effort that often is set aside due to pressing "priorities." In 2000, Mr. Bazylewicz worked on a massive project on behalf of the NYC Board of Elections that included worst-case scenario planning for a disaster in the downtown financial district where the board's offices were housed. Sadly, those preparations were required when 9/11 occurred.

Duke's Faculty Database System: Content Management for Faculty Information

Tuesday, January 13, 2004
4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. SESS15

Melissa J. Mills, Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences for Information Science & Technology, Duke University

Adrienne Moore, IT Communications Consultant, Arts & Sciences Information Science & Technology, Duke University

Kevin Witte, Senior Manager, Internet Framework Services, Duke University

Five years ago, the Faculty Database System (FDS) was conceived as a means for the Duke math department to keep its Web site up-to-date. Today the FDS is a production content management system, providing a model for university-wide integration. Learn about the system and the process through which it developed.

Postconference Resource

Identity Management

Wednesday, January 14, 2004
2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. SESS40

John J. Suess, Vice President of Information Technology/CIO, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Reengaging the Campus Community to Build a Campus-Wide Administrative System

Thursday, January 15, 2004
8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. SESS45

Cindy Bilger, Senior Associate Director, Human Resources, Bucknell University

Brian Hoyt, Executive Director of Web Integration, Willamette University

Carolyn Hoyt, Director of Advancement & Info Services, Bucknell University

Seven years ago, Bucknell began implementing various Banner modules with no plans to integrate the Advancement module. Times change, and we are now implementing Advancement. Learn how the project coalesced more than 80 staff members from a dozen departments and motivated them to look afresh at processes, procedures, and even Banner tables to improve university-wide communication and information exchange. The Advancement conversion is also serving as a springboard to launch campus-wide tools such as Workflow and document imaging.

Roadmap to myRutgers: A University Portal

Wednesday, January 14, 2004
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. SESS30

Joseph Percoco, Director, OIT, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

William G. Thompson, Jr., Senior Technologist, Princeton University

In the first half of 2003, Rutgers University expanded its portal project, myRutgers, from an initial pilot group to include all incoming first-year and transfer students from more than seven colleges and five campuses. This presentation will highlight 10 specific tips regarding strategy, planning, and implementation from both managerial and technical perspectives.

Turning Information into Action: Rethinking Enterprise Reporting

Wednesday, January 14, 2004
8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. SESS20

Maria Mosca, Director, Student Information Systems, Columbia University

University reporting personnel are increasingly called to serve as active partners in service delivery and strategic planning. Columbia has effected this transition through significant investments in easy-to-use reporting technologies and targeted training and support of data users.

Postconference Resource

Unlocking the Data

Tuesday, January 13, 2004
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. SESS05

Shelley F. Gette, Enterprise Information System Consultant, The Pennsylvania State University

Yvonne M. Riley, Data Warehouse Consultant, The Pennsylvania State University

This presentation describes how Penn State implemented data warehousing technology along with Cognos's enterprise information system (EIS) to provide flexible, detailed reporting as well as summary-level information to our user community. This presentation will describe our current system, our successes and failures, and what we are doing to continue to add value to our system.

Web Services and Fedora

Wednesday, January 14, 2004
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. SESS35

Timothy M. Sigmon, Director, Advanced Technologies, University of Virginia

Web services are units of application logic that provide data and services to other applications. This presentation will provide an overview of Web services and the technologies and standards on which they are based (for example, XML, SOAP, and WSDL). The use of Web services will be illustrated by describing the Fedora project, an open-source digital object repository system (www.fedora.info) that uses Web services both on the user/client access side and on the backend.