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This team supports systems for the Admissions Office, Institutional Planning, Academic Senate, and the Registrar's Unit for Class Scheduling. They participate in replatforming the Office of Undergraduate Admissions' Application with UCOP (The CASA Project) and support technology for Evaluation & Transfer Coursework processing, the Academic Senate's Course Curriculum Management, the Registrar's Class Scheduling & Room Reservation, and the Office of Planning & Analysis's Campus Instructional Resources management functions from its current technology to a more modern technology. The team is currently investigating options for converting UGA (Undergraduate Admissions System), TCS (Transfer Course System), COURSE (Course Approval System), CATALOG (General Catalog System), CLASS (Class Scheduling System), ROOM (Room Reservation System), and CSIR (Campus System of Instructional Resources System) from the mainframe to another platform.
In addition to planning for the future, the group is responsible for overseeing the current, ongoing support for the UGA, TCS, COURSE, CATALOG, CLASS & ROOM, and CSIR applications. For Undergraduate Admissions systems, the manager is a partner with management in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (OUA) who sponsor the UGA and TCS systems. IST and OUA management work together to ensure that Undergraduate Admissions systems meet the needs for capturing and maintaining most accurate information on all undergraduate applicants to the Berkeley campus. Admissions data, including demographic, academic, test scores, and all high school or transfer coursework, provide the basis for OUA to perform its comprehensive review before rendering admission decisions on each year's cohort. The unit manager leads the development of project plans for new initiatives for UGA and TCS, and ensures compliance with legislation and Regents' decisions that affect Berkeley's Undergraduate Admissions review and evaluation processes. With the recent advent of the new CASA (Centralized Admissions & Scholarships Application) pilot system being developed by Pearsons Systems, the team participates with Office of Undergraduate Admissions in advisory groups and collaborates with UCOP, other campuses' admissions offices, and Pearsons Systems in the development of design specifications and acceptance testing for CASA.
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