Assurance

[Steven Carmody <>]

On 10/17/12 2:38 PM, Farmer, Jacob wrote:
> Ann,
>
> Do you know what kind of systems that they're talking about?  I can
> see the value for employee access, but since the student's
> relationship with the DOE continues after they separate from the
> university, I'm curious about the value that DOE gets from federated
> access for students.

More and more schools (brown included) are now in the business of 
"lifetime credentials". Admittedly there are crass business reasons for 
this ("Brown's relationship with you will continue thru probate"). But, 
there are also other reasons (eg ordering transcripts).

My big worry with this plan, tho, derives from my experience with FAFSA 
forms while my daughter was an undergraduate. The forms required lots of 
financial info from the parents. Since this email is in writing... and 
someone has already stated under penalty that she filled out the 
forms... I'm not going to say that I was involved in that process....

but I can certainly imagine that there are lots of situations where the 
parents completely handle the forms and sign on behalf of their child 
... however, if a federated login is needed in order to access the 
forms, will those credentials really retain their associated LOA ?