Lafayette College
Executive Summary
Lafayette College is a small liberal arts college based in Easton, PA with a broad curriculum that synergizes traditional arts with programs in engineering. The College fosters intellectual inquiry, with students assisting faculty in their research at one of the highest percentages of any college or university.
As a long-time member of the InCommon Federation, staff and leadership are actively involved in its advisory and working groups. Lafayette works to champion federation technologies among its peers. The three major pieces of the TIER toolset - Shibboleth, Grouper, and COmanage - are key components of its IAM architecture. Lafayette has an institutional commitment to the TIER program as an investor campus.
Goals for the College’s participation in the TIER Campus Success Program include deployment of the TIER packaged version of the Shibboleth IdP and evaluation of MidPoint as an identity registry. Deployment of the TIER solutions for Grouper and COmanage may be considered dependent upon their availability and Lafayette meeting its primary commitment to the Program.
Lafayette College strives for consistency among its IAM processes and deployment architecture. We are interested in the TIER packages as a path to upgrade component software versions. As part of the cohort to participate in the TIER Campus Success Program, the big wins for us would be the chance to integrate components into the existing IdMS, ease of deployment, doing things the InCommon way, and closing operational gaps relating to digital identity provisioning and identity lifecycle management.
Organization Description
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Containerized TIER Component(s) to be implemented
- Shibboleth IdP and SP
- Grouper Access Management Software
- COmanage Collaboration Management Platform
- Entity Registry, such as midPoint
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