InCommon Pilot Call
September 25, 2014

PARTICIPANTS: George Laskaris (NJEDge.net), Bernie A'cs (IlliniCloud), Guy Jones (MDREN), Jennifer Griffin (The Quilt), Frank Seesink (WVNET) Mike Zawacki (Internet2), Scott and Mike Danahey (Nebraska), Janet Yarbrough and Salvador Acuna (Aegis Identity) Mark Welte and Victoria Marquesen (CSU Pueblo), Emily Eisbruch (Internet2) Jordon Clark (Nebraska) Shaun Abshere (WiscNet) Ann West (Internet2)

MEETING NOTES: (Call Recorded)

Policy Reminder

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  1. CSU-Pueblo Pilot Update
    see link to CSU-Pueblo Pilot wiki page
    see link to slides from today's presentation
    1. CSU Pueblo is located in Southern Colorado and is rural
      1. Goal is to expand the pilot into a larger program
      2. Initial activities include bridging a disconnect between K-12 and College
        1. High school students can take college courses
        2. Once accepted into these higher-ed courses, The high school student must maintain two separate identities
    2. Regional University servicing the CSU system
      1. Mainly Hispanic servicing
      2. Pueblo County District 70
        1. Resources are stretched very thin and is one of the least funded school districts
        2. César Chavez Academy – Urban charter school
        3. Goal Academy – Online Charter school serving the entire state of Colorado
          1. 3400 students in that system
        4. Canyon City School District
          1. t is beneficial to have an online presence because of the geography of the State of Colorado
          2. Aegis Identity is the glue that holds everything together
    3. CSU will be the IdP Provider and Shibboleth will be the backend. There will also be campus service providers like Block Board office 365, CSU Pueblo Library and CUS Student Management System. Will be using InCommon and follow their steps. Aegis Identity will be the interface.
      1. Initial participation – CSU Pueblo=4700 students, District 70=1000 students, Canyon City=600 students
        1. They will be working with District 70 first
      2. Overall Goals
        1.  Short term
          1. Seamless transition of taking the friction point between moving from High school to college. This needs to be an efficient path.
          2. The State is incentivizing students to move through school in 4 years
          3. CSU also wants to keep students engaged by providing a path to employment
          4. Southern Colorado partnership for Career Preparedness
        2. Long term
          1. To create a pathway though out K-20
      3. Challenges
        1. School districts have never worked together
        2. Data – Who tracks what who keeps what are there common identifiers (each school district is different)
        3. Staffing and Time
        4. CSU Pueblo is changing it’s domain name
        5. Funding
        6. Participation with other school districts as it roles out
  2. Q & A
    1.  Q:  What s the role of Aegis in this roll-out / implementation process?
      1. A:  Aegis is working with CSU Pueblo and will be working with them to implement their software technology to manage the ID and Ultimately help manage the IdP and stand them up in the school district
    2. Q:  Is the plan to implement the IdP proxy solution we have been working on together or are will you be considering another path?
      1. Aegis is under consideration and is reaching out to another team to see what makes best sense for that implementation.
    3. Q:  With a long term goal that consists of a P-20 career planning and mentoring initiative and a short term goal that consists of a seamless transition for students between high school and college, how do you handle the identity side of that? There are two separate school systems
      1. A:  Two pronged approach
        1. CSU Pueblo and CSU Fort Collins have two different identity solutions for their students. The idea is to get a common identity from School district 70 up in to CSU Pueblo and then work with CSU in another CSU branch so all three are seamless. It is easier to pull them out of shibboleth
      2. Illinois is considering joint enrollment with assigned IDs from K-12 institution in order to utilize the community college and when that student transcends the K-12 environment, their identity expires. That doesn’t mean the notion of profile where and individual won’t have multiple identities. The equations of joint enrollment where is their authoritative ID being handled or are they using two different identities. Is this similar to the approach you are taking?
      3. Colorado Department of higher ed doesn’t know who to handle this and have asked CSU for help. Once you get to higher ed each college is different. Hopefully someone had a good idea to determine the best path forward.
      4. This is a common problem space though out the program.
  3. Updates\
    1. WiscNet - Open data collection data system
      1. Challenge was dealing with an active directory in a low resource school district. ¾ of public school districts are members of WiscNet
        1. 90% directory
        2. 50% Google Apps
        3. May be on opportunity to influence some specifications to that are given to SIS vendors so some thing can be built through some interrelationship with SIS or local authority. Helped with making a time line
        4. There are a lot of potential points of connection and points of collaboration
        5. There was a conversation with Interenet2 about taking advantage f the Internet2 connectivity. In respect to Microsoft / Azure there isn’t a direct link but there is though WiscNet. There currently isn’t an avenue though Net+ Services to Azure.

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