CR80News | Revamped information system at Ohio State includes new student ID numbers

Friday, May 30, 2008

As part of a new Student Information System project at Ohio State University, students will have new ID numbers to replace their Social Security identifiers. Staff spent Memorial Day weekend converting some 800,000 student records to the new system and intend to imprint the new ID numbers on all BuckIDs in June.

The new information system, scheduled for completion in August 2009, is designed to enable students to get answers about their financial aid, admissions and academic advising from one location. As one administrator put it: “Student records were everywhere and in multiple systems.”

More details about the project, as reported in the The Lantern, OSU’s student newspaper, can be found here.

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Revamped information system at Ohio State includes new student ID numbers