Support Contact
Dominique Pfaff, (510) 987-0394,
Description
The Corporate Student System (CSS) is a set of databases and processes that provides information to meet the management, analytical, and operational needs of the UC Office of the President related to student enrollment and performance. The seven CSS databases contain information about enrollment, undergraduate and graduate admissions, financial support, degrees conferred, and health science resident and postdoctoral fellow appointees. The databases are created and/or updated with edited data received from the campuses and other sources, and are organized to allow both cross-sectional analyses and longitudinal studies of performance and persistence. Registrant and financial support databases are updated quarterly; remaining databases are updated annually. Among the significant reports produced from the Corporate Student System are the annual "Statistical Summary of Students and Staff," quarterly reports of headcount and student credit hour enrollment used for state funding allocations, and most of the university's student data submissions to the Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).
Customers
Academic Advancement
Budget
Educational Outreach
Planning and Analysis
Student Academic Services:
Admissions and Outreach
MESA
Puente Project
Student Financial Support
Access
Corporate Student data resides in the UCOP Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW). Standard reports are available via the Web through the Corporate Systems Gateway (CSG). These reports are parameter-driven, which allows standard reports to be tailored to meet specific requests. Direct access to the data is also available for those who wish to program their own data requests. See the Corporate Student Data Warehouse Web page for further information on the methods of access that are offered, and how to obtain authorization.
Technical Information
The CSS production system runs in the IBM mainframe environment using the MVS operating system. Data is stored in FOCUS databases and production jobs are written in FOCUS and COBOL. Data from the system is extracted and loaded into the Corporate Data Warehouse on a routine basis. The Corporate Data Warehouse uses the Sybase IQ database management software running on the UNIX platform.
Input Specifications
Data Element Definitions: by request from
