Welcome to the u'select Illinois Annual Statewide Meeting

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Welcome to the u.select Illinois Annual
Statewide Meeting
April 7, 2009
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Introductions
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u.select Illinois ProjectPast, Present and
Future
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Past

• redLantern purchased by College Source
• More than 200 institutions nationwide use
  u.select

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u.select nationwide
u.select is a statewide system in Illinois,
Indiana, Minnesota and Ohio
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Past

• Illinois Participating Institutions
• 12 Public Universities
• 48 Community Colleges
• 7 Independent Institutions

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Receiving Institutions

• Planning Guide, Course Equivalency Guide and
  Course Listing implemented
• DePaul University
• Eastern Illinois University
• Illinois State University
• Southern Illinois U at Edwardsville (Fall 2009)
• U of Illinois at Chicago
• U of Illinois at Springfield
• U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• West Suburban College of Nursing
• Western Illinois University (Spring 2009)
• Course Equivalency Guide and Course Listing
  implemented
• Bradley U
• College Of DuPage
• National-Louis U
• Northern Illinois U
• Southern Illinois U at Carbondale
• Course Equivalency Guide or Course Listing
  implemented

COD CSU DePaul GSU Loyola National-Louis NEIU UIC
West Suburban
NIU
Bradley
ISU
WIU
UIUC
UIS
EIU
SIU-E
SIU-C
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Sending Institutions

• u.select is implemented

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Request Import Institutions

• Black Hawk C.
• City Colleges of Chicago
• College of DuPage
• Elgin CC.
• Illinois Eastern CC (Spring 2009)
• Lewis Clark
• Lincoln Land CC (Spring 2009)
• Moraine Valley CC
• Carl Sandburg C (Spring 2009)
• Sauk Valley CC
• U of Illinois Chicago (Spring 2009)
• U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2009)

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Past

• Population Served
• 120,000 user accounts have been created
  nationwide
• 22,000 active user accounts in Illinois

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Present

• u.select Illinois Project Funding
• FY2002-2008
• Funded by a HECA grant through IBHE
• FY2009
• HECA grants funds eliminated
• FY2010
• Included in Governors budget proposal

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Present

• Collaboration with Transfer Indiana
• Goal To facilitate development of interfaces
  that connect institutional information systems to
  u.select.
• Activity Meet with four information systems.
  (Datatel, PeopleSoft, Banner and Jenzabar)
• Outcome Vendors include the interface as part of
  their products.

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Present

• Interface Development
• u.select Technical Coordinator is developing the
  components of the interfaces for institutions.
• Components are not specific to an information
  system
• Institution will own interfaces
• Distributed under open source licensing

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Future

• Continue to Advance Implementation
• Expand Course Listings
• Work with College Source
• Include more Private Institutions
• Marketing
• Provide Statistical Information
• Number of Student Accounts
• Your Institutions Top Feeders

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Questions?