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7/11/2006
The University of Minnesota’s Web site has a detailed summary of the university’s academic program realignments.At the Campus of the Future conference, a joint event of the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA), the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), and the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP)held earlier this week in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Kuali Foundation and the University of California announced that the UC would join Kuali as an investing partner in the development of the Kuali Financial System (KFS), the community source financial system based on open standards.
Mike Allred, Kristine Hafner & Barry Walsh
Three of the UC campuses – UC Davis, UC Irvine, and UC Santa Barbara – along with the UC Office of the President will be investing resources in the ongoing development effort. Associate Vice Chancellor, Finance/Controller J. Michael Allred of UC Davis will serve as their Kuali Board representative. Associate Vice President, Information Resources and Communications and CIO Kristine Hafner, of the UC Office of the President, explained that the institution’s commitment to community source development is a way to address critical business and administrative needs, and that the UC campuses have a strong interest in collaborating to gain efficiencies. Barry Walsh, who is the executive director for the KFS initiative and senior director of e-Business Services at Indiana University, commented on the addition of the UC partners. “I’ve known Mike, Kris, and many of the key UC players for some time and felt that they would make really valuable partners going forward,” he said.
The Kuali Project was launched in 2004, and in 2005 it received a $2.5 million grant from the
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