EDUCAUSE Live! July 22, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Kuali Student: A Next-Generation Administrative System

Special Guest

Richard Spencer
Executive Director of IT
University of British Columbia

Richard Spencer is a part-time senior IT strategist in the IT department at the University of British Columbia. He is currently working on a project to develop a next-generation community source student services system. Spencer came to the UBC as a faculty member in 1968. He became registrar in 1988 and registrar and director of student services in 1993 and brought a strong focus on excellent service to students, supported by leading-edge web-enabled systems, to these areas. As registrar, Spencer led the project that developed UBC's Student Self-Evaluation and Self-Admission system, which won the EDUCAUSE Award for Administrative Information Systems in 2003. Spencer joined UBC's IT department in 2000. He has a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Richard Spencer, and the topic will be "Kuali Student: A Next-Generation Administrative System."

Administrative systems should be affordable, flexible, and customizable. They should help end users plan for and achieve their goals and help them complete tasks along the way. This presentation will show how the vision, principles, and design for Kuali Student are aligned with these objectives and discuss why community source development was selected for this project.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• Administrative Systems
• Student Information Systems
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! seminars

Additional Resources

• Kuali Foundation and the Kuali Community