InCommon Federation Discussions About Online Student Services

[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon Student Notes – October 1, 2010

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ATTENDEES

Brendan Bellina, University of Southern California
Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
R.L. “Bob” Morgan, University of Washington
Rodney Petersen, EDUCAUSE
Mark Scheible, North Carolina State University
Ken Servis, University of Southern California
Jack Suess, UMBC
Ann West, Internet2
Dean Woodbeck, Internet2 (scribe)

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EDUCAUASE Registrar Constituent Group

FYI - Mark McConnahay is chairing this group/meeting

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Survey Review
To date, 79 surveys have been returned; 68 are complete.

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Jack Suess

Jack Suess (UMBC), vice-chair of InCommon, met with the InC Student group, 
listing three agenda items:

1)      which vendors should we try to recruit to InCommon?
2)      How do we communicate to existing InC participants about the service 
providers already in place (e.g. National Student Clearinghouse, Alcohol.edu)
3)      Would there be interest in the College Board (he has had some 
discussions with them)?

Ideas
-       USC is working with Aetna to federated the student health insurance 
program
-       Communicate with current SPs and ask which of their current clients 
are in InCommon (and if they federate) and see they would be interested in 
talking with non-InCommon customers about federating.
-       Should do a survey (or surveys) of participants to determine which 
vendors they would like to see federate and whether they would work with a 
group to make that happen (as the library group has done).
-       UMBC is also talking to CashNet, as well as an outsourced parking 
solution and a company that does outsourced transcripts.
-       We (i.e. InCommon) has tried creating a registry, which doesn’t seem 
to work. What has worked is getting groups – like the librarians – involved. 
The InC Student group would be a good place to start to identify/approach 
vendors, since this group includes the business owners of the service(s)

The consensus was that using the full InC-Student group would be a good start 
to identify the priority targets (as opposed to, say, doing a survey).

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Next Meeting – Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 – 3 p.m. EDT / 2 p.m. CDT / Noon PDT