Title: CC AG: Who are we and what are we doing for the community?
Author: Stu Churchill-Hoyer, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Article:
This article aims to introduce the greater HEUG community to the CC AG and the resources that we provide. To learn more about us, please view our community page here: heug.org/cc.
What Is Our Mission and Who Are We:
The Campus Community Advisory Group (CC-AG) is a very active group of individuals with a wide variety of backgrounds and experience. Our focus primarily lives at the center of the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions (CS) system holding the biographical information for all constituents (applicants, students, alumni, staff and others). However, we also advocate and support system functionalities known as common or shared functionalities. The mission of the Campus Community AG is to represent the interests of the higher education institutions worldwide that use the PeopleSoft Campus Community module, relevant functionalities, tools and frameworks - alone or in conjunction with other software and services - with a special emphasis on education and advocacy for the community. Recently, this has also included an “eye to the future” with regards to the current use and continued development of relevant shared features functionality in the Oracle Student Cloud.
To view our current membership, please visit our member site here: https://www.heug.org/p/co/ly/gid=1973&req=load&fid=2916.
What We Do:
In general, we cover all areas regarding the shared functionalities and structures of the CS system, which holds all the biographical and demographic information. We also focus on any CS product functionalities, tools, and frameworks that are shared by all the CS modules/products, e.g., Communication Generation, Activity Guides, Notification Framework, File Parser, Work Centers, Common Attribute Framework, etc. In addition, we cover SEVIS functionality, which is the US based Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. The CC AG also interacts often with the other Campus Solutions modules such as the TRAG (Technical and Reporting Advisory Group), Admissions, Student Records and others on a variety of topics and current issues.
What Our Current Priorities Are:
More recently with the increased use of software and services such as CRM, Auto-Marketing, and Student Engagement, combined with an emphasis on global issues, we are also addressing a new set of topics related to Data Privacy/Governance, Duplicate Prevention and Resolution, Identity Management, Security, and Integration.
Additionally, with the development of the Oracle Student Cloud in full swing and with a general release of the product available (initially supporting the Continuing Ed business model,) we are also collaborating with Oracle in a focus group structure that leverages the Advisory Group and other HEUG community members. Our members are participating in the design of the functionality currently known as Shared Products (equivalent set of Campus Community functionality and tools) in the Student Cloud product.
Educational Blogs:
The CC AG currently hosts three blog series – the 9.2 Education Blog Series, the Cloud Blog Series, and the Featured Topics Blog Series. We are regularly posting blogs to these series on topics that are relevant to the community. To access the blogs in these series, please click the links below.
Featured Topics Educational Blog Series: https://www.heug.org/p/bl/ar/blogaid=3635
9.2 Educational Blog Series: https://www.heug.org/p/bl/ar/blogaid=3636
Cloud Educational Blog Series: https://www.heug.org/p/bl/ar/blogaid=3715
Webinars:
The CC AG often hosts webinars for the community on relevant topics and has two webinars scheduled for this month. Please see below for details on those webinars.
November 14th (10:00 AM CST): SMS Integration Using Notification Framework in CS: https://www.heug.org/p/ca/vi/sid=5159
November 26th (1:00 PM CST): CC - New and Upcoming Features in CS 9.2 and Open forum Discussion with Oracle and the CC AG: https://www.heug.org/p/ca/vi/sid=5160
How To Contribute to the CC AG’s Work:
If you are an expert in a topic that you feel would have a great impact on the community and want to write a blog or do a webinar, please let us know by filling out the following survey: https://www.heug.org/p/su/rd/survey=d204862b-6e90-11e8-a406-bc764e101892. Additionally, if you have a suggestion for a blog or webinar topic that you would like us to publish, please also fill out the survey.