InCommon Federation Discussions About Online Student Services

[Joanne Berg <>]

All - sorry that Wisconsin missed the call. Karen and I were both in a 
meeting and we weren't able to get to you in time.
Hope you had a productive session,
Joanne (and Karen Hanson too)


Ann West wrote:
> All,
>
> To make quick work of the CAMP update on today's InC-Student call, 
> I've included the almost-final draft of the title and abstract.  If 
> you have comments, please bring them to call.
>
> Thanks
> Ann
>
> ----------------------
>
> Title
> *CAMP: Delivering, Sourcing, and Securing Services Throughout the 
> Student Identity Lifecycle *
>
> Abstract
> In the electronic self-service environment where physical cues such as 
> inked signatures, passports, and facial expressions are absent, our 
> assurance level that we're interacting with the right person (or the 
> same person) and engaging them in the correct capacity (e.g., new 
> admit vs. employee) is increasingly coming under question more and 
> more. Couple this identity environment with the growing compliance, 
> security, and privacy requirements, as well as the attractive 
> opportunity to enable rich student services of all kinds including 
> those offered by third parties, and one can only conclude that 
> interacting electronically has become quite complicated.
>
> Fortunately, there are ways of making access to electronic services 
> more coherent, secure, and responsive to change. It entails 
> understanding the institutional student life cycle and tying the 
> electronic service mix and security level of an individual's 
> credentials at each stage to the role or affiliation. These techniques 
> are being used at campuses, and community practices are emerging.
>
> For instance, prospective students may access a limited set of 
> services associated with applying to and finding out about an 
> institution. After being enrolled, the person's role changes and the 
> access level, keyed off this change, is broadened automatically. This 
> is enabled because 1) enrolled students need to access different and 
> richer services, 2) the new services require more verification that 
> the individual using the self-generated id is indeed the person 
> matching the emerging profile, and 3) the institution now has this 
> proof. The data sensitivity and type of access to it drives the 
> identity assurance requirements, even for students. Similar methods 
> apply to other areas of the life cycle such as transition to alumni 
> status.
>
> /CAMP: Delivering, Sourcing, and Securing Services Throughout the 
> Student Identity Lifecycle/  will offer registrar, admissions, and IT 
> staff a chance to explore the student identity lifecycle, community 
> practices for how institutions have implemented this approach, and 
> case studies on leveraging the resulting implementation to streamline 
> outsourcing and enhance institutional collaboration. Topics will include:
>
> - Student life cycle and provisioning of services
> - Access management and students at a distance
> - Identity-related technology and practice standards
> - Identifying and addressing duplicate records
> - Working together: Successful governance models
> - FERPA and sharing data with off-campus/outsourced-service providers
> - Course and resource sharing among institutions (i.e. federated 
> identity)
>
> Institutions are encouraged to send registrar, admissions, and IT 
> teams to the CAMP to learn about these issues together and leave with 
> next steps for furthering student services and identity management 
> efforts back home.
>
> CAMP is sponsored by EDUCAUSE and Internet2. Additional support was 
> provided by AACRAO and the National Science Foundation Cooperative 
> Agreement OCI-0330626.
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