Kuali Student and Changes at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Kuali Foundation Board has commented on the recent changes at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with the merger of its Research in Information Technology (RIT) program into the Scholarly Communications program (to be renamed).

From the Kuali Student perspective, the changes at the Mellon Foundation will have no impact on the project. The original $2.5 million grant provided to the project has been fully received. Furthermore, Kuali Student is designed to be financially self-sustainable with seven institutions committing $5 million each. Kuali Student also will be seeking to expand partnerships with other institutions as critical milestones are reached.

In continued support of Kuali, Mellon Foundation awarded a $2.38 million grant on Monday to Indiana University to lead Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) project, a partnership of research libraries dedicated to managing increasingly digital resources and collections.

Happy Holidays from Kuali Student and a Reading Recommendation

Happy Holidays from Kuali Student. As a gift ( or sorts), we have a reading recommendation. The Tambellini Group has published a new research report: “Student Information Systems U.S. Higher Education Market Share, Insights and Trends: 2004-2008.”

Available via eduWorld1 Daily News and Insights, the report looks at Student Information Systems (SIS) purchases made by U.S. higher education institutions over a 5-year period.

“According to Tambellini, SIS systems are expensive and she believes that universities will be looking to maintain their current systems in the coming years, adding applications that work with and enhance what they already have,” the accompanying press release states.

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Kuali Student Joins PESC

At Kuali Days VIII, the Kuali Student Board voted to join the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) and will be represented on the council’s Board of Directors by Matthew Coombs of San Joaquin Delta College.

PESC Mission: “Through open and transparent community participation, PESC enables cost-effective connectivity between data systems to accelerate performance and service, to simplify data access and research, and to improve data quality along the higher education lifecycle.”