PESC Summit Meetings on Academic Progress

We had two great working sessions on Academic Progress at the PESC Summit October 19th and 20th. The face to face meetings brought together new and old members of the workgroup interested in documenting the data exchange functions to determine and reveal student academic progress by actor. Our meeting focused on review of the goals of the group, a review of the draft message sets and discussion on next steps. Most of the meeting reviewed the past work.

Discussions and questions focused on how the draft message sets need to reflect catalog year/term. The legacy of using year/term as a means to segment course and curriculum data is difficult, given many institutions govern changes to the data when it occurs mid year. Which means, year/term is not grandular enough to be distinctive. This led to the discussion about using start and end date ranges to complement and reflect the tracking of data changes. This would be more realistic going forward. There was general agreement on that.

The list of participants were:

John Ittelson – California Virtual Campus
Jason Elwood – RedLantern
Steve Hellen – Johns Hopkins University
Ed Walker – CS4Ed
Rich Petrick – Ohio Board of Regents
Shawn Bay – eScholar
Daysie Kratz – eScholar
Andy Wood – Oracle
Jason Presley – Colorado Dept of Higher Education
Manuel Dietz – Unisolution
Bill Hollowsky – SunGard Higher Education
Ken Sauer – Indiana Commission for Higher Education
Deborah Newby – United States Department of Education
Charles McGrew – Data Quality Campaign
Anne Valentine – Academi Ccatalog
David Moldoff - AcademyOne
Bill Pryor - Academy One

The next meeting is scheduled for Friday October 30th and 2:00pm. Conference Call Information is:

866.352.3799 meeting number is 7696363