Institutional Research FAUG (Functional Area User Group)
2005-2007 Chair: Jackie Andrews, SUNY New Paltz
Alternate: Julie Rao, Monroe Community College
Notes from IR FAUG meeting held in Syracuse on January 12, 2007
Present:
Nancy Shearer
Tammy Wellington
Jerrett LeMay
Jill Heneghan
Cathy Gentile
Lillian Zhu
Michelle Bonn
Judy Singh
Marty Wisniewski
Merle Canfield
Richard Nabinger
Barbara Lawrence
Susan Duncan
Maryanne Kinsella
Carol Marriott
Annette Zuber
Alfred State
Alfred State
Binghamton
Binghamton
Binghamton
Brockport
Buff State
Canton
Cayuga
Cortland
Delhi
Downstate Medical
Dutchess
Dutchess
Genesee
Genesee
David Seguin
Mark Radlowski
Angel Andrea
Marian Whitney
Susan Bello
Althea Oenga
Jackie Andrews
Christine Work
Betsy Gray
Peter Hoyt
Bev Baker
Nate Trost
Jennifer Martin Tse
Jennifer Abbott
Bobbi Larrabee
Jamestown
Mohawk Valley
Monroe
Morrisville State
Nassau
New Paltz
New Paltz
Orange
Orange
Potsdam
SICAS Center
SICAS Center
Upstate Medical
Upstate Medical
Upstate Medical
Purpose:
Build relationships
Inform members
Member preferences
Outcomes:
Knowledge of FDRs
Start of new FDR, if appropriate
Awareness of needs of implementing campuses
Awareness of what we are all doing
The campuses present fit into three categories: long-term, recent and new.
Long-term (last century)
Alfred
Canton
Delhi
Genesee
Mohawk Valley
Morrisville
Potsdam
Recent (this century)
Brockport
Jamestown
Monroe
Upstate Medical
New (implementing now)
Dutchess
New Paltz
Cayuga
Suffolk
Orange
Nassau
Buff State
Binghamton
Downstate Medical
FDRs
 Little movement on any of the IR FDRs because of the work on the System
IR redesign. Not much will happen until that work is done. Group indicated
a continued interest in having SICAS work on the SED reports, as well as
the Common Data Set. As preparation for working on the CDS (not course
data submission, but the common dataset), send Jackie
(andrewsj@newpaltz.edu) the SQL select statements you, or your
programmer, have written to draw the data for the CDS. Jackie will pass
them along in bulk to Nate, and then pass this role over to the next IR
FAUG chair. Nate will benefit from knowing the variables, the definitions
and the select statements as much as possible.
SICAS Center
 The SICAS Center has hired three people in the new role of Solution
Specialist. They are functional (as opposed to technical) people and will
assist especially the implementing campuses. They are Shirley Clark
(Financial Aid), Francine Grappa (HR/Finance) and Bill Grau (Student). The
SICAS Center continues to hire programmers.
 The SICAS Center will plan a meeting with implementing campuses
sometime this spring.
Reporting Environment
 Some campuses will buy/have bought the Operational Data Store (ODS)
and/or the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).
 Some have bought the ODS only.
 Some will buy neither.
 Some have developed their own data warehouse and will not buy the
Banner products.
 We have to support all flavors of reporting environments.
 Please let Jackie know what flavor you are, so that consciousness can be
shared.
 The ODS is a single snapshot of a table/tables at some interval. It will not
include SICAS tables. This snapshot consists of flattened data, similar to
the object access views that Banner has had for a long time. The EDW
builds on the ODS, but consists of multiple snapshots.
Dynamic Environment
 (I think this is a fair statement) After a period of relative stability re Institutional
Research, we are speeding toward a period of great dynamism. Some of us
will have ODS/EDW and some will not. We will use a variety of reporting
tools. Some of our systems will rely heavily on the web and some will not.
We will need to communicate very well to continue to help each other out.
Next Meeting
 Our next planned meeting will be at the June AIRPO June 14 -15 at the Inn
on the Lake in Canandaigua. Send topics and questions to Jackie. The
implementing campuses will have a conference call every other month
starting in February (February, April, a session at the meeting in June,
August, October, November, meeting in January) until the campuses are
implemented. Anyone who would like to join that conference call should let
Jackie know. If the FAUG wants to meet either virtually or in 3D between
now and June, let Jackie know. The SunGard Summit is in March, so let
Jackie know if you are going.
FAUG Chair
 Elections are held in the fall. Jackie will not run for the post again, so
please think about it.
Have a GREAT spring semester!