When Lansing Community College registered more than 9,000 students for online courses this spring, it made all the more important the college’s new identity management for its 35,000 users.
“Lansing Community College was the first in the state to offer a degree completely online, and now offers 24 degrees and certificates online through its eCampus. Registrations for online classes totaled 9,174 seats with 422 sections and 197 courses being offered,” says Linda Heard, college information specialist.
“LCC continues to have the largest community college online enrollment in the state,” Heard says.
To make the online experience more secure and ease staff time, the college contracted with New York-based Mycroft to implement an identity management system.
The college uses the Oracle Identity Manager and Mycroft’s proprietary Higher Education OIM framework, gaining greater control over use access protocols, thus resolving some critical information-access challenges faced by all colleges and universities, says Mycroft.
“We determined that our prior identity management system required some operational improvements, particularly to reflect the fact that, as a community college, we tend to build more short-term student relationships than four-year institutions,” says Christopher Bennett, director of information security at LCC.“Mycroft was able to use a far more efficient, consistent and automated process, tailored specifically for higher-education institutions.”
Source: Linda Heard, LCC
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