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UNLOCKING THE POWER OF DATA

"Mobility and changing learning patterns together obsolete long-standing paradigms of how data systems are built and used and drive their reengineering."

PESC is working to become the voice for the efficient and secure exchange of student data from initial access of the student from high school into the college environment through successful completion of the education experience.

PESC is driving the alignment of data across disparate systems, across sectors and eliminating incompatible interfaces that present barriers to students and that inflate costs for institutions struggling to keep up with the demands of technology and real-time data exchange while maintaining competitive tuition rates.

PESC is building a core competency in XML architecture and data modeling and serves as a data standards-setting body for higher education.

PESC is collaborating throughout education and with the strength it derives from the actions and involvement of its membership, PESC is activating interoperability in higher education.

Click here for PESC's guiding principles.

"In California's Community College System, we're implementing the XML Postsecondary Transcript. It will save us time and most importantly resources and money. We are looking for one way to process transcripts and this will be it."

-Catherine McKenzie
Project Coordinator for the Chancellor's Office
California Community College System

"As a college that builds its own homegrown applications, Penn College deals with data exchanges from many different organizations. Providing input while the standards are under development gives us an opportunity to impact how well our own systems will be able to integrate the new standards. We are pleased to join PESC's efforts in creating national, open standards for higher education."

-Mike Cunningham
Chief Information Officer
Pennsylvania College of Technology

"Kaplan University is dedicated to providing innovative postsecondary education with a student-centered service and support approach. With a trend of ever-accelerating student mobility and transfer between institutions of higher learning within and outside of state and national borders, Kaplan University considers PESC's mission of standardized data exchange to facilitate collaboration across educational communities to be a key element in defining higher education in the 21st century. We are pleased to join this association and look forward to taking part in this effort to improve the educational experience for students."

- Afshin Mikaili, Ph.D., MBA
Director of PLA Center
Kaplan University

"Our vision of the Unified Digital Campus relies on system interoperability across the enterprise. PESC standards help us deliver environments in which systems, individuals, and communities interact seamlessly for learning, teaching, administration, and achievement."

-Jack Kramer
Senior Vice President for Solutions Architecture and Enterprise Applications
SunGard Higher Education

In the eleven states of MHEC, "schools not only save time and can improve processes, but also recoup an estimated $6.70 per paper-based transcript processed (according to NCES study on cost per transcript to secondary/postsecondary schools). With an average of 6 transcripts per student being requested, that adds up to over $40 per college bound student. Postsecondary institutions will also see a savings, calculated at over $9 per incoming high school transcript."

-From MHEC's e-Transcript Initiative
http://www.mhec.org/mhecwww/studentAccess/ETI-Aug06.pdf