Information Technology

I met yesterday with our Registrar, Tina Petersen for a couple of hours to discuss the possibility of digitizing a number of official-use forms.  After drawing up a list of target forms for the project, we had excellent discussion about several methods we could use to manage the information electronically (ASP/MS-SQL for some forms, Adobe PDF + LiveCycle for others).

It seems like we keep running into the tension between:

• Security and Ease of Access
• Temporary, Inexpensive Workarounds and Permanent, High-$$$ Solutions

Not just in this project, but in many things that the university aspires to accomplish.  In this case, the two questions are “How much do we build our own system, considering that a brand-new student information system will already do these things for us?”, and “How do we ensure authenticity for digital signatures without undue account management overhead?”.

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