Illinois CAS Project Update Newsletter

              Contents
Illinois CAS Project Team .............. 1
Supplemental Funding ................. 1
Project Funding.............................. 1
Course Bank Updates................... 2
CAS Training Sessions .................... 2
CAS 4.0 Release............................. 3
CAS Users’ Conference................ 3
Illinois CAS Project Update
Newsletter August 11, 2006 Volume 2, Issue 1
Project Coordinator
Daniel P. Cullen
dcullen@uillinois.edu
807 S. Wright Street
Suite 370
M-C 307
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217.244.0931
Fax: 217.244.3137
Directors
Micheal D. Henry
Parkland College
Sheri C. Kallembach
Northern Illinois University
Marilyn M. M. Marshall
University of Illinois
Board Representatives
Christy England-Siegerdt
Illinois Board of Higher
Education
Carol Lanning
Illinois Community
College Board
Illinois CAS Project Team
The Illinois CAS Project team has
strived to consider the perspectives
of all participating institutions across
sectors. In order to continually im-prove
in this effort as the Project
matures, the team has grown to in-clude
community college represen-tation.
Mike Henry, Parkland College Direc-tor
of Admissions and Enrollment
Management, will be serving as a
Project Co-Director. In addition, we
are increasing consultation with
staff from both the Illinois Commu-nity
College Board and the Illinois
Board of Higher Education.
The expanded team has thus far
met once and looks forward to
working together on a growing
statewide Project.
Supplemental Funding
In response to the FY06 RFP process, a limited
amount of funding has been distributed to
Illinois CAS participating institutions to de-velop
the systems and environment neces-sary
to implement or enhance CAS.
With the grant period coming to a fast end,
all funds must be dispersed and the evalua-tions
received (or on their way!). All institu-tions
that received funds must complete a
brief evaluation.
Please see to it that this document, which
was due August 1, is submitted as soon as
possible if you are a grant recipient and your
award is completed. We must receive all
evaluations before the end of Au-gust.
www.ibhe.org/CAS/
Project Funding
The Illinois CAS Project has recently submitted
a request for continued Higher Education Co-operation
Act (HECA) funding. The hope is
that the Project will receive support for expan-sion
so that we will be better able to assist the
18 currently licensed CAS Receiving institutions
and the 67 participating CAS Sending institu-tions
(which include all Receiving institutions;
39 community college districts comprising 48
colleges; and two independent institutions).
Expect an announcement to be communi-cated
via the Illinois CAS Project listserv soon
indicating the outcome of the request.