What is the student administrative information system or database?
A student administrative information system is a series of databases and software programs that support functions including admissions, student records and registration, student accounts (billing), financial aid, and housing. It is often (but not always) provided as part of a package of “integrated systems” that includes alumni records, development, financial accounting, human resources, etc. The student systems are key to the colleges operations and success because they support the academic programs, and because many other systems either feed into or out of these core systems. At present each of the colleges has its own student systems, some of which have common roots but all of which are managed and operated separately. What is the impetus for the colleges to move to a new system? The Council of Presidents has mandated that The Claremont Colleges seek a common solution for student administrative systems. It is the collective recognition that all of our current administrative systems
