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The What and Why of Identity Management
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This session will engage attendees in a discussion and exploration of the concepts and terms, standards, and roles associated with identity management. Participants will discuss one vision of what student services of the future will look like, hear from their peers about the results of a recent survey of the AACRAO community on identity management, and end with a discussion session to bring it all together.
Strategies for Making Progress
Governance and Collaboration: the Essential Ingredients for Successful Identity Management
David Yeh and Andrea Beesing
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Using the identity life cycle of the Cornell student as a model case, the speakers will discuss the value of approaching identity management as a collective responsibility and the important role of governing bodies in achieving shared goals. The business and IT sides of the house must partner to meet rising expectations for streamlined access to information in a world where services are distributed across not only multiple campus units but also multiple institutions.
Identity Management at USC: Collaboration, Governance and Access
Robert Morley and Brendan Bellina
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Identity and Access Management (IAM) at USC has been a policy-driven grass-roots effort for 5 years. During that time collaborative committees with representatives from many academic and administrative units have allowed accelerated growth of applications relying upon identity data while governing the release of that data. With the backing of the University data stewards in the offices of the Registrar, Provost, and Personnel Services, policies have been implemented regarding the release of identifying sensitive information to both internal departments and external vendors. The speakers will discuss the make-up of these committees, the governance policies that have been implemented, and some of the applications that have been enabled securely through this process.
National Student Clearinghouse and Stanford University Shibboleth Pilot
Tom Black and Adriene Doray-Franklin
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The speakers will present their plan to pilot the use of Shibboleth, the community-source federating single sign-on software, to provide Stanford students and staff access to National Student Clearinghouse web applications using their Stanford credentials. Through a single sign-on process controlled by Stanford University, students will gain access to the Clearinghouse Student Self-Service application, and staff will gain access to the Clearinghouse College and University secure web portal. The presenters will describe the advantages of this approach relative to the current method for authenticating and granting access to NSC data and will consider how the approach will expand to other applications.
Speaker Information
David S. Yeh
David Yeh is the Assistant Vice President for Student and Academic Services, and University Registrar at Cornell University. He is an active collaborator with University technologists in introducing new technology tools and systems to enable the university to meet its mission world-wide. He has played a key role in the implementation of the Mandarin Tools to deliver distributed access to information for students and faculty; implementing an advanced digital identification card system for access to services campus-wide; transforming centrally-based end-to-end student services to be on-line based, and leading the university's development of a new student information system together with other major universities. David serves in a student data stewardship role and helped in the development of policies related to data stewardship and custodianship, information security and identity management. He is a member of the National Student Clearinghouse's Board of Directors and its Executive Committee. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois in Chicago; a master's degree in Social Work from New York University.
Andrea M. Beesing
Andrea Beesing is Assistant Director for Cornell's Identity Management Program in the IT Security Office. She assumed this position and began working with campus groups to align program development with the University's business needs and strategic direction. She has 17 years of experience in IT at Cornell University, encompassing the areas of desktop support, voice and data network deployment, enterprise operations management, directory services, and authentication and authorization services. She holds a master's degree in Slavic Studies from Cornell University and received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Albany.
Robert M. Morley
Robert Morley is the Associate Registrar at the University of Southern California where he has served for nearly 28 years, executing a wide variety of duties and responsibilities. During this time he has led or participated in a number of technology initiatives both at the university as well as on the boards of several professional organizations, ranging from the implementation of student systems to the establishment of nationally recognized data standards for the electronic exchange of student information. His most recent technology initiative was the implementation of a secure PDF transcript service for university students and alums. He was also actively involved in the creation of the university's Identity and Access Management (IAM) program and serves as a member of the steering committee that manages IAM. He also serves as a university advisor on matters related to FERPA and privacy\confidentiality in the student records area. He has served in a number of leadership positions on the boards of several professional organizations, including AACRAO and PESC. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern Illinois and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California.
Brendan Bellina
Brendan Bellina is the Identity Services Architect and Manager of Enterprise Middleware Development for the University of Southern California. His career began in corporate Information Technology in 1982 and he has been in higher education IT since 1999. He is a frequent presenter on Identity and Access Management and middleware technologies at regional and national conferences, has edited and authored white papers on directory services for the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI), and is the author of "Look", an NMI-published utility for collecting performance statistics from LDAP directories. He is the chair of the Internet2 Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE) Directory Services working group and is currently developing USC's Identity and Access Management System and Global Directory Service. He manages the Enterprise Middleware Development group with responsibility for USC's Person Registry, Global Directory Service , Computer Accounts System, Guest/Affiliate System "iVIP", Shibboleth Identity Provider, and integration with Google Applications For Education.
Thomas Black
Thomas Black is the Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs and University Registrar at Stanford University. He has worked in higher education for over 30 years in various administrative positions including the registrar offices of the University of Chicago, Duke University and the University of North Carolina. Also, he is an honorary member of SACRAO and CACRAO, and he frequently presents at AACRAO national conferences. Also, he is a member of the National Student Clearinghouse Advisory Board. Most recently, he has worked on perfecting the electronic transcript and a safe means of delivery via the internet. He is interested in the increasing the exchange of student data using national standards while ensuring only authorized access to those data. Thomas received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Pennsylvania State University.
Adriene Doray-Franklin
As a client services representative with the National Student Clearinghouse, Ms. Doray-Franklin manages Transcript Ordering and Student Self-Service, and is responsible for service enhancements and client feedback. She brings more than 15 years of experience working in both the higher education and financial services communities.During her time with the Clearinghouse, Ms. Doray-Franklin was responsible for beginning the Successful Outcomes pilot program (now known as StudentTracker for High Schools) with a single high school. The program has since grown to more than 1,550 high schools. Prior to joining the Clearinghouse in 2003, Ms. Doray-Franklin worked in the financial aid office at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs for five years. She also worked for Lockheed-Martin as a financial analyst. Ms. Doray-Franklin has a BA in Political Science from the University of Colorado.