The IT Strategy calls for developing programs to provide Web-enabled services and integrated services for all students. These would provide students with self-service access to information and services, allowing them to interact with personalized tools that will support and enrich the learning experience in and out of the classroom.
Most campuses already have student information systems that are similar to each other.
This collaboration would allow them to greatly reduce their costs and increase their buying power. The few campuses that now use unique systems or have very different service needs should buy or develop their own Web-enabled systems. The goal is to deliver an array of logically related, on-campus services as seamlessly and as flexibly as possible. Greater integration would increase efficiency, convenience and value to students and, at the same time, allow staff to give more attention to students with unique needs. Each campus would then use the model as the basis for creating a one-stop center that reflects its own unique culture and needs.