Academic Record Project, 1987-1994
The Academic Record Project (ARP) series (5 linear feet) documents the computerization of the academic record. The records, compiled by Patricia V. Lehman, a member of various project committees, include information on the Planning Committee for Computerization of the Academic Record (PCCAR), the Student Characteristics Data Base (SCDB), the Michigan Audit Reporting System (MARS), and the Admissions System Production Group Committee (ASP).
The Academic Record Project, which began in 1987, was designed to minimize the duplication of work by record keepers and to maximize accessibility of student record information by way of a cooperatively maintained electronic resource between the Office of the Registrar and the schools and colleges. The SCDB is an assemblage of hierarchical databases, flat files and hard copy that comprised the student information data resources. It was the SCDB Task Team that devised a plan to: determine the functional requirements of the fully computerized academic record; add data elements in appropriate logical segments to the SCDB to serve the functional requirements revealed by the investigation; and develop transactions, screens, and reporting capabilities needed to deliver the required services.