About the Project

Presentations and Publications

Project annual reports

• 2000

• 2001

WCET annual conference panel sessions on project

• 2000

• 2001

Project poster

WCET newsletter, Communiqué, with articles on project

• January 2000

• May 2000

• September 2000

• January 2001

• May 2001

• September 2001

• January 2002

• September 2002

WCET Director Sally M. Johnstone article in Syllabus magazine

• Really Serving Students at a Distance
  http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6244

"Providing Student Services to Distance Learners" webcast series archive. Follow the instructions for viewing. When asked for your password, use your first name and last name initial (e.g., RomeoM and JulietC).

• Essential Library Services

• Trends in Electronic Student Services

• Technology in Academic Advising

• Cybercounseling

• Improving Web Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities

• The Role of the SIS in Designing Personalized Student Services

• Student Orientation: Providing an Online Component

• Student Financial Aid as on Online Service

• Bridging the Communications Gap between Student Services and IT Staffs

• LAAP project demonstration — Kapi'olani Community College

• LAAP project demonstration — Regis University

• LAAP project demonstration — Kansas State University

• LAAP project demonstration — SCT

IBM conference in July 2001 

• Distance Learners Need Student Services Too!

• Financial aid

• Academic advising

• Library services

• Cybercounseling

• High tech/high touch

Pat Shea book contribution

• "Innovations in Student Services: Planning for Models Blending High Touch/High Tech"
  http://www.scup.org/studentservices/ISSflyer.pdf

Pat Shea PowerPoint presentations

• Michigan Community College Virtual Learning Collaborative

• 3rd Annual CVC Student Services Conference

• Southeastern Regional Technology & Teaching Conference Distance Learning Institute

• IBM Innovation in Student Services: Integration for the Future Conference, July 2002

• 2002 FIPSE Project Directors' Meeting

Educational Pathways article on Beyond the Administrative Core project

• "Peering into the Future of Web-Based Services for Online Learners" http://www.edpath.com/wcet.htm

FIPSE article on Beyond the Administrative Core project

• "WCET Partnership Creates New Online Student Services" http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/FIPSE/LAAP-article.html

Predecessor project 

• WCET Guide to Developing Online Student Services

Publications used by project partners

• Visual Modeling in Rational Rose 2000 and UML by Terri Quatrani, Addison-Wesley, 2000.
  This book contains a single case study example, spread through all the chapters, executed using UML and taken from the field of academia (course registration). Although the Rose modeling tool from Rational Software Corporation was used to illustrate UML in this book, other modeling tools (for example, Visio) also are available and the UML language can even be used in a handwritten fashion without any software tools.  Rational Software initially sponsored the development of UML before control was transferred to the Open Systems Foundation (OSF) consortium and has many UML resources.

• The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz, Doubleday, 1996.
  This book describes the basic principles of large-scale scenarios based on several actual case studies that are easy to understand. These same principles can be extrapolated downward to the small-scale scenarios through which the LAAP institutions are able to communicate superbly in this project.

• Distance Education at Postsecondary Education Institutions: 1997-1998, National Center for Education Statistics.  This report supports our statements about the nature of distance education and the growing need for web-based student services.