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Date: October 8, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Intermittent ASSIST Connections
Author: Dale Leaman
Good afternoon.
UCI is having intermittent interruptions in their Internet connections.
As you know, ASSIST servers are located at UCI, and you may have trouble
connecting or using any ASSIST service until the problem is resolved.
Sorry for the inconvenience. We’ll let you know when we get an update.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: October 6, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCA for West Hills Coalinga has been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 2, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCA for Barstow College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 1, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Valley
College, West Hills College Lemoore, Coastline Community College,
Santa Barbara City College, Palo Verde College, Los Angeles Southwest
College, San Joaquin Delta College, Napa Valley College, Southwestern
College, Taft College, Solano Community College, Santa Monica College
and Los Angeles Harbor College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 29, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for De Anza College, Antelope Valley
College, San Diego City College, San Diego Miramar College,
San Diego Mesa College, Cerritos College, Cuesta College,
Cabrillo College and Citrus College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 25, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for MiraCosta College, College of Marin,
Golden West College, Folsom Lake College, Mt San Antonio College,
Irvine Valley College and Gavilan College have been published
in ASSIST.
Date: September 19, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for Imperial Valley College, San Bernardino
Valley College, Glendale College and American River College have
been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 18, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for Fullerton College, Merced College,
Long Beach City College, El Camino College, Mission College,
Cypress College, Crafton Hills College, San Jose City College,
College of the Canyons and Cerro Coso College have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: September 16, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for College of the Redwoods and Grossmont
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 12, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for Bakersfield College, Fresno City
College, Contra Costa College, Santa Ana College and Los
Angeles Mission College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 9, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: How To Be Sure You're Seeing Current Data in ASSIST
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
With the new academic year there’s a lot of recently published
data in ASSIST, and articulation agreements will continue to get
updated throughout the year. Some of you have called to say that
you were told there is updated articulation for your campus, but
when you try to see it in ASSIST you’re still getting an older
version of the data. That’s usually because you’re seeing a
cached report.
The default setting for most web browsers is to store (or cache)
on your local computer a copy of every web page you visit. That
way, when you return to a page, it appears to be much faster
because you’re getting most of the data from your own computer
rather than getting new data. This is a great idea for slower
Internet connections, or for web pages that are mostly static.
For a system like ASSIST, however, which dynamically generates
a new report for each request, it means you don’t always see
updated data.
To be sure you’re seeing current data when you use ASSIST you
should clear your web browser’s cache and make sure it’s
configured appropriately. Below, I’ve outlined the steps for
you to follow for Internet Explorer 7 on a PC, and for Safari
on a Macintosh:
PC - Internet Explorer 7
1. Launch Internet Explorer
2. Click the Tools menu and select Internet Options
3. In the window that opens, select the General tab if
it’s not selected by default
4. In the section labeled Browsing History, click on Delete
5. The top section is labeled Temporary Internet Files. Click
Delete, and then click yes.
Note: This does not delete Favorites or cookies or stored
passwords.
6. After the Temporary files are deleted, click on Close to go
back to the Internet Options window.
7. Again under Browsing History, click on Settings
8. On the window that comes up, under check for newer versions
of stored pages:, select Every time I visit the webpage
9. Click on OK to return to the Internet Options window
10.Click on OK to close the Internet Options window
11.Exit Internet Explorer
12.Re-launch Internet Explorer
Macintosh - Safari
1. Start Safari
2. Click the Safari menu and select Empty Cache
3. In the confirmation box that opens, click Empty
If you use another browser (like Firefox or Opera) there will
be similar steps to follow. Your campus technical support people
will be able to help you.
If following these steps doesn’t help, it could be that your
campus is using something called a proxy server. If, after
clearing your cache and changing your configuration you’re
still not seeing updated reports, ask your technical people
if your campus is using a proxy server. If the answer is yes,
they can contact us at the ASSIST Coordination Site for more
information. (And yes, for you techy-types, we are setting
meta-tags to No-Cache)
Whew, that was a long one! I hope this helps to ensure that
you’re getting the most current data in ASSIST. Let me know
if you have any questions.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: September 9, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCA for Sacramento City College has been
published in ASSIST.
Date: September 5, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCA for Pasadena City College has been
published in ASSIST.
Date: September 4, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for College of the Sequoias, East
Los Angeles Community College, Woodland Community College,
Foothill College, Columbia College and Porterville College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 21, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for Cuyamaca College, Los Medanos College,
Mt. San Jacinto College, Riverside Community College and West
Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 20, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for Butte College, Chaffey College, Evergreen
Valley College, Lassen Community College, Monterey Peninsula College,
Orange Coast College, Oxnard College, Reedley College and Victor
Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 18, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for Allan Hancock College, Shasta College,
Santa Rosa Junior College, Saddleback College, Mendocino College,
Rio Hondo College, College of the Desert and Cosumnes River College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 14, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for Diablo Valley College, Chabot College,
Canada College, Las Positas College and Los Angeles Pierce College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 13, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for City College of San Francisco, Sierra College,
Moorpark College, Lake Tahoe Community College and Ohlone College have
been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 11, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2008-09 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCAs for Modesto Junior College, College of the Siskiyous
and Yuba College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 7, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Silverstream and OSCAR services restored
Author: Cathy Robin
Hi Everyone –
Good News!! The ASSIST Silverstream and OSCAR services have been
restored. Please let me know if you have any further issues.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
Cathy Robin
Date: August 7, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Update on Silversteam and OSCAR Services and UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
Good morning out there in ASSIST land.
As of this morning, the Silverstream and OSCAR services are still down,
however we are making progress. Some services have been restored,
however, until all aspects are back up and running, please do NOT use
OSCAR or articulation maintenance services. I hope to have better news
for you later in the day.
Please be aware that Web ASSIST is up and running and there should be no
issue with services. And on that note, the 2008-09 UC TCAs for Merritt
College, Copper Mountain College and College of San Mateo have been
published.
Thank you all for your patience as we work through these problems.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Cathy Robin
Date: August 6, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Silverstream and OSCAR Services are Unavailable
Author: Cathy Robin
Hi Everyone –
Once again we are experiencing difficulties with all the ASSIST services
that utilize Silverstream software. This includes OSCAR and Articulation
Maintenance. These services are currently unavailable. I will let you
know as soon as I can when you may begin using these services again.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
Cathy Robin
Date: August 5, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 08-09 ASSIST Back UP
Author: Cathy Robin
ASSIST is now back up and running. We had a problem with the publish
of some data yesterday, but the problem has now been resolved.
I apologize for the inconvenience. Please let me know if you have any
continued difficulties.
Cathy Robin
Date: August 5, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 08-09 ASSIST Experiencing Problems
Author: Cathy Robin
Good morning. ASSIST is experiencing some problems this morning.
We are in process of diagnosing the issue and will give you more
information when we have it.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
Cathy Robin
Date: July 31, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 08-09 UC TCA Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2008-09 UC TCA for Laney College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 30, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 08-09 UC TCAs for Hartnell College, Palomar College, Ventura College,
College of Alameda, Berkeley City College, Santiago Canyon College and
Marymount have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 25, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Silverstream and OSCAR Services Restored
Author: Cathy Robin
Hi Everyone
We believe we’ve fixed the problem that was
affecting all of our Silverstream/OSCAR applications today. You should
be able to use these applications without any problem. I apologize for
service outage, but as you are all aware, there are a number of
applications and data entry screens that use Silverstream and we had
make sure that all of them were working.
Please let us know if you
experience any problems with the applications.
Thanks
Cathy Robin
Date: July 25, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Silverstream and OSCAR Service Interruption
Author: Lori Quillen
Good Morning,
For any of you early birds out there, we are currently experiencing problems
with OSCAR and the Silverstream articulation data entry application. We hope
to have the problems resolved some time this morning.
I will send out another notice when we are back up and running.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Lori Quillen
ACS
Date: July 3, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Services Restored
Author: Lori Quillen
Web ASSIST has been restored. Please let us know if you are experiencing
any more problems. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Lori Quillen
ACS
Date: July 3, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Service Interruption
Author: Lori Quillen
Good Morning. For those of you who have not started your long weekend yet,
you may have noticed that we are experiencing problems with Web ASSIST. We
will need to restart the server to correct the problem, so you will not have
access for a few minutes.
I will let you know when the service has been restored.
Thanks for your patience.
Lori Quillen
ACS
Date: June 27, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Explore Majors Available Again
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
The explore Majors feature of ASSIST is now working correctly. Thanks you
for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: June 26, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Explore Majors Feature Not Available
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
The Explore Majors feature of ASSIST is not working properly. You cannot
get articulation agreements from Explore Majors. This is not, as far as
we can tell, related to our server move.
The other features of ASSIST are not affected. You can still view
articulation agreements by selecting the pair of institutions from the
prompting pages of ASSIST.
We apologize for this inconvenience. We’ll let you know when we have
more information about this problem.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: June 24, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Coordination Staff Move Update
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
We’ve completed our move to our new location. All ASSIST services
should be running normally and you should be able to reach us by
phone or email. Thanks for your patience during this transition.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: June 19, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Staff Availability
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
We may be a little hard to reach during the next few days, depending
on how and when you try to contact us. As we physically move our offices
we will not have email access from about Friday morning through Monday
morning. If you send us an email message during that time you may receive
bounced emails and “undeliverable” notices. We will not have phone service
on Monday morning, but we expect to have phone service by lunch on Monday.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: June 12, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Planned ASSIST Temporary Shutdown - Saturday, June 14
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
Many of you probably know that the ASSIST Coordination Site is moving to
a new location on the UC Irvine campus. As part of this move, and to
perform some much needed software maintenance, all ASSIST services
(this includes the public ASSIST web site, as well as all data maintenance
systems) will be unavailable on the morning of Saturday, June 14 from
approx. 10:00 AM until approx. 1:00 PM.
We apologize for any inconvenience. Thanks for your patience as we
go through this transition. If you have any questions feel free to
email or call.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
(949) 824-4385
Date: June 4, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: The ASSIST Coordination Site is Moving
Author: Cathy Robin
Dear Colleagues –
Later this month, the ASSIST Coordination Site will be moving to a
new location on the UC Irvine campus. Our move should be relatively
simple, however, there will be a couple of days when staff or services
are unavailable.
The following outlines times when staff or services will not be
available:
June 4- 18 A number of ASSIST servers will be moved to a new location.
The majority of this move will not affect ASSIST users and Web ASSIST
services will not be affected at any time. However, on June 11 and 12,
the Silverstream server will be relocated to a new location on the Irvine
campus. For those two days, the ASSIST Articulation Maintenance system
and OSCAR will be unavailable. This means that UC and CSU articulation
personnel will not be able to use the system to enter or update articulation
agreements. It also means that community colleges will be unable to enter
outlines or update information in OSCAR. A reminder will be sent to users
the day before Silverstream is taken down.
June 20-24. Our move across campus is scheduled for Saturday, June 21.
On Friday, June 20 we will be preparing desktop computers for the move
although we will be available by phone. On Monday, June 23, Coordination
Site staff will be unavailable since our phone lines will be installed
moved and computers will be set up.
We should be back to business as of Tuesday, June 24.
Our new address is:
ASSIST Coordination Site
5171 California Av Suite 150
Irvine, CA 92697-1005
Our phone number will remain the same: (949) 824-4385.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. We hope to keep
the inconvenience to a minimum.
Cathy Robin
Date: May 20, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 08-09 CSU Baccalaureate, IGETC,CSU GE and CSU AI in ASSIST
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
All of the 08-09 CSU Baccalaureate lists, IGETC lists, CSU GE-Breadth
lists and CSU American Institutions lists have been published in ASSIST.
You’ll also see that 08-09 is now the default academic year on the ASSIST
prompt pages.
The 08-09 UC Transferable Course Agreements and the UC Transfer
Admission Eligibility lists will be published as they are approved in
the coming months.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: April 21, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Larry Coon Leaving ASSIST
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
It is with incredible sadness and joy that I’m writing to inform you
that Larry Coon has accepted a new position on the UC Irvine campus.
Starting May 1, 2008, Larry will be the Director of Decision Support
Services at UCI’s Office of Institutional Research.
As many of you know, Larry began his work with ASSIST way back in 1986.
I cannot begin to tell you how vital and essential his work has been
to the success of ASSIST. While few among you have the pleasure of working
with Larry on a daily basis, his behind-the-scenes work as our Technical
Manager has enabled ASSIST to become the most essential and effective
technology service for California course articulation and student transfer.
Larry’s fingerprints thoroughly cover all of the software, data and
technology services that encompass ASSIST. He has mastered every
technology ASSIST has ever utilized and he has successfully guided
countless efforts to evolve and improve ASSIST technologies over the
past 22 years.
From a personal perspective, I can barely fathom how much I will miss
working with Larry every single day. I’m envious of his new colleagues
at UCI who will soon enjoy his strong intellect, keen insight and warm
heart.
I know that you all will join me in thanking Larry for the indelible
mark he has left on ASSIST and that you will also join me in wishing
him well as he embarks on this next phase of his career.
Eric
Eric Taggart
Director
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: March 18, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Application Programming Staff
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
The two ASSIST Coordination Site Application Programmers, Starling
Walter and Tony Toyofuku, will be leaving their work with ASSIST
in the coming weeks. Star will be retiring and her last day at
ASSIST will be March 31. Tony is moving to a programming position
at UC Irvine Administrative Computing Services and his last day at
ASSIST will be this coming Friday, March 21.
Since Star and Tony have conducted most of their work behind-the-scenes
you may not know much about them, but their work has been essential to
all of ASSIST’s achievements over the years.
Star has been with ASSIST since 1997 and has developed and
enhanced some of your most favorite services including: the
ASSIST Articulation Data Entry System, the ASSIST Curriculum
Update System, and the ASSIST OSCAR System.
Tony has been with ASSIST since 2002 and while much of his work
has been spent improving existing services such as Web ASSIST and
the ASSIST Curriculum/Articulation Maintenance Reports web sites,
he also programmed the ASSIST Explore Majors web site and the newest
ASSIST Course Search and Articulation Summary features.
I know that you will all join me in wishing Star and Tony well on
their future pursuits. Each of you directly benefits from their
many years of hard work, and millions of students have been served
with the ASSIST software that Star and Tony have helped create.
Thanks to Star and Tony, and thanks to all of you for the hard work
you continue to provide in service to California’s students.
Eric
Date: February 29, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Announcement of Change at the ASSIST Coordination Site
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
BERKELEY • DAVIS • IRVINE • LOS ANGELES • MERCED • RIVERSIDE • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO
SANTA BARBARA • SANTA CRUZ
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT — STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
1111 Franklin Street, 9th Floor
Oakland, California 94607-5200
February 28, 2008
Members of CIAC and Other Transfer-Serving Communities:
I am writing to inform you about an important development occurring at
the ASSIST Coordination Site.
As you all are well aware, these are challenging times for public
higher education in California. Here at the University of California
Office of the President (UCOP), we have been undergoing an organizational
restructuring effort aimed at creating new operational efficiencies and
cost savings – an initiative that actually began late last summer. For
more information on the progress of our restructuring, see:
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/future/orgupdates.html.
You may, or may not, know that the University of California has been
the fiscal agent for ASSIST since its inception in 1985 and that the
ASSIST Coordination Site (ACS) staff members are considered UCOP
employees. As part of the restructuring efforts, in January 2008 UCOP
employees were offered a Voluntary Separation Program. The program
is designed to help the ongoing restructuring effort by giving
additional support to those employees interested in transitioning
out of UCOP. This program is one of several efforts aimed at
minimizing the need for layoffs.
As of this writing, a significant number of UCOP employees have
indicated their interest in participating in the program, including
Eric Taggert, Director of ASSIST. As the founding director of ASSIST,
his departure will result in change for both his colleagues in the
ACS as well as the articulation community. Eric is a passionate
advocate for transfer students and has been a champion for the
importance of clean, accurate and complete articulation data to support
California’s transfer function. During last fall’s SCIAC and NCIAC
meetings I heard again and again that you value ASSIST as a tool
to support transfer and the work that you do, and how much you
have appreciated the responsiveness and commitment of the ASSIST staff.
We are fortunate that Eric has built a strong ACS team, and I am
particularly grateful that Cathy Robin will remain and assume
responsibility for the day-to-day management of ASSIST. We have
begun the process of transition and are committed to doing this in
as smooth a way as possible. While I understand there will be
some concern about ASSIST given this transition, I am committed
more than ever to the primary functions of ASSIST. As well, the
leadership of the three segments – the California Community College
Chancellor’s Office, the California State University Chancellor’s
Office and the UC Office of the President – are united in their
understanding of the need for ASSIST and their commitment to its
place in the future of higher education in California.
I will appreciate your support as we plan for the transition of the
ASSIST leadership, and I will continue to keep you updated as this
work progresses. Page 2 Eric Taggert
If you have questions, or need additional information, please feel
free to contact me at 510.987.9565 (susan.wilbur@ucop.edu).
Sincerely,
Susan A. Wilbur, Ph.D.
Director of Undergraduate Admissions
C: Judy K. Sakaki, Vice President for Student
Rachel Hendrickson, Director, Student Academic Support, CSU Chancellor’s Office
Jeff Spano, Dean, Student Services, CCC Chancellor’s Office
Eric Taggert, Director, ASSIST
ASSIST Coordination Site Staff Members
Date: January 11, 2008
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2007 Usage Statistics and New Server Computers
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
With the start of the new calendar year, I thought I’d pass along some
basic stats about how many people used ASSIST last year.
During the 2007 calendar year, over 1,200,000 people used ASSIST to
view over 10.4 million articulation reports. That’s another dramatic
annual increase compared to 995,000 people viewing over 8.9 million
reports in 2006.
November 2007 was our busiest month when over 174,000 people viewed
just over 1.1 million reports – this just edged out May 2007 when
we were almost as busy as November.
The best news from last year is that all ASSIST production services
are now running on new web/application and database server computers.
Not only are these computers less vulnerable to failure (because
they’re newer and better), but they’re also significantly faster.
If you haven’t already noticed it, the ASSIST web site responds
much more quickly, especially when you view really long reports.
You may have also caught Larry’s note in December announcing that
the ASSIST server computers are now being powered by an electrical
supply that includes a diesel-generator-powered backup service. This
means that if UCI (where the ASSIST server computers are located)
ever loses power, ASSIST services will keep running along with UCI’s
core Internet connectivity. We thank UCI for this outstanding service
in support of students, faculty and staff throughout the State.
We’re now working on configuring full redundancy for the primary
ASSIST server computers so that backup servers will kick-in in the
unlikely event something happens with the primary servers. This final
work is targeted for completion by the end of March 2008.
The steady increases in annual and monthly ASSIST use continue to
encourage us. We may see the numbers of people using ASSIST start
to level off (there are only so many students in California who are
seeking transfer information!) but we’re hoping that with the faster
server computers, people will start looking at more information each
time they visit.
I want to give a special shout-out to all the staff in my office who
worked on the server upgrades, but I especially want to highlight
Larry Coon’s work. I can’t begin to tell you how hard Larry worked
on this transition, and it’s because of his amazing technical skills,
planning and hard work that the whole process, including the final
cut-over in late December, was completed on-time and with fewer problems
than we had expected. I know you all join me in thanking Larry, Cathy,
Doug, Star, Liz, Dale, Lori, Tony, Heidi and Quentin for all the hard
work they continue to put into keeping ASSIST running during these
challenging times.
Thanks also to all of you who continue to use ASSIST to help students
by advising them with more accurate information and/or by
entering/updating/maintaining the critical information they need in ASSIST.
Here’s hoping you all have a happy new year in 2008,
Eric
Eric Taggart
Director
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: December 21, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: New ASSIST Database Server
Author: Larry Coon
ASSIST User Community,
As of today, Web ASSIST is running on new database server hardware. This
should result in greatly improved performance, reliability and uptime.
If you notice any problems using the web site, please let us know as soon
as possible, so we can track down the issue.
Happy holidays,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: November 14, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: OSCAR Service Interruption Update
Author: Larry Coon
Community College ASSIST Managers,
Mea culpa. While my previous email referred to the status of the ASSIST
databases, I neglected to take into account that OSCAR closes today at
5:00 PM, and will re-open on Monday, January 14 as previously scheduled.
Sorry for getting your hopes up,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: November 14, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Planned ASSIST Downtime
Author: Larry Coon
There will be an interruption of all ASSIST services tomorrow morning
(Saturday, December 15) due to work being performed on the server hardware.
All ASSIST services will be unavailable starting 8:00 AM, and will be
available again once this work is complete, likely in the early afternoon.
Apologies in advance for the inconvenience.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: November 5, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Usage
Author: Larry Coon
Hi all, November is historically ASSIST’s busiest month, and this
year is no exception. Right now we are seeing very heavy usage.
Everything is still running, so please be patient with the site’s
performance.
Thank you,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: October 1, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCA Published in ASSIST
Author: Lori Quillen
The 2007-08 UC TCA for Foothill College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 28, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for San Diego City College, Porterville College,
LA Valley College, Victor Valley College, College of Alameda, Cuesta
College, Antelope Valley College, Monterey Peninsula College, Riverside
Community College, College of the Canyons, Canada College, West LA
College and San Bernardino Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 28, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Planned ASSIST Service Interruption
Author: Larry Coon
UCI will be doing some work on their networking equipment at 7:30 AM next
Monday, October 1. ASSIST services will be unavailable for a few minutes
until this work is completed.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
Date: September 27, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for Santa Barbara City College, Santa Ana College,
Cosumnes River College, College of the Desert, Cerro Coso Community College,
Fullerton College, Saddleback College, West Hills College Coalinga, West
Hills College Lemoore, San Diego Miramar College, Laney College, LA Harbor
College, Butte College, De Anza College, Glendale College, Santa Rosa
Junior College, San Jose City College, Santa Monica College and Merced
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 26, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for Gavilan College, LA City College, Crafton
Hills College, Skyline College, Mt San Antonio College, LA Trade
Technical College, Citrus College, Long Beach City College, College
of Marin, Chaffey College, College of the Sequoias, LA Southwest
College, Cabrillo College, San Diego Mesa College and Fullerton
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 24, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for College of the Siskiyous, East LA College,
Napa Valley College, LA Mission College and Golden West College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 19, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST services are now running normally
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
All ASSIST services are now running normally (including the ASSIST
Information Center web site and Explore Majors).
Thanks for your patience,
Eric
Date: September 19, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Power Outage Early Wednesday Morning
Author: Eric Taggart
Due to an unexpected power outage, ASSIST services were off-line early
this morning from approximately 2:30am to 3:30am. All ASSIST services
restarted properly when power was restored, except for the server that
runs Explore Majors and the ASSIST Information Center. We’re currently
investigating the problem with that server, but it will probably not be
available until approximately 7:45am. We’ll email this listserv again
when all services are fully operational.
Please call or email if you find any other problems.
Date: September 11, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for Sacramento City College, Irvine Valley College,
Imperial Valley College, Solano Community College, Grossmont College,
Cuyamaca College, Folsom Lake College, Cerritos College and American River
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 7, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for Oxnard College, Pasadena City College, Mission College,
Santiago Canyon College, Mendocino College, Evergreen Valley College and West Valley
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 5, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for Allan Hancock College, Cypress College, El Camino College,
Merritt College, Bakersfield College, Barstow College and Palo Verde College have
been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 30, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Elizabeth Sanchez
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for Southwestern, Rio Hondo, Los Medanos, Fresno City,
Copper Mtn, Orange Coast and Ohlone have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 13, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for Las Positas College, City College of San Francisco,
Moorpark College and Coastline College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 10, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCA Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for Ventura College, Mt. San Jacinto College, Lake
Tahoe Community College and College of San Mateo have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 9, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCA Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCA for Contra Costa College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 27, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for Reedley College, Yuba College and Los Angeles
Pierce College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 26, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for San Joaquin Delta College, Sierra College,
Lassen College and Shasta College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 13, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCA for MiraCosta College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 12, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Slowness
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Looks like we're back in action. Not sure what was happening,
but we cleared everyone out and got everything running again. We'll keep
an eye on things from here and let you know if anything else comes up.
Eric
Date: July 12, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Slowness
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
The ASSIST web site is experiencing some extreme slowness and we're
working on identifying and resolving the problem. We're not yet
sure if this is related to yesterday afternoon's hiccup, but I'll
e-mail again in a little while to provide an update.
Eric
Date: July 12, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2007-08 UC TCAs for Modesto Junior College, Marymount College, Palomar College,
Columbia College, Berkeley City College, Chabot College, Taft College and Diablo
Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 10, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Temporary Unavailable
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
At 3:50pm this afternoon, the primary ASSIST database server and the primary
ASSIST web server computers both stopped responding. We’re not sure why, but
they’re being restarted now and all ASSIST services should be back on-line
within 10 minutes. If it’s any longer than that, I’ll email again with more
information.
Sorry for any inconvenience,
Eric
Date: June 25, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Connectivity Restored
Author: Lori Quillen
Hi Again,
Now that we have alerted the world, it appears that UCI has retored our
connetivity. Things may be shaky for a bit until they have resolved their
issues there.
Thanks,
Lori Quillen
ASSIST
Lori
Date: June 25, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Connectivity
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Our network provider, UC Irvine, just lost network connectivity for an
unknown reason and they are troubleshooting it now.
The result is that no on can access ASSIST services (unless you happen
to be within the UC Irvine network).
I'm not sure if this e-mail will reach you all immediately, and so I'll
ask Lori to send a note as well.
We'll let you know when connectivity is returned.
Eric
Date: May 21, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 07-08 CSU Baccalaureate, IGETC,CSU GE and CSU AI in ASSIST
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
All of the 07-08 CSU Baccalaureate lists, IGETC lists, CSU GE-Breadth
lists and CSU American Institutions lists have been published in ASSIST.
The 07-09 UC Transferable Course Agreements and the UC Transfer
Admission Eligibility lists will be published as they are approved in
the coming months.
Be sure you select 07-08 as the academic year on the ASSIST prompt page
if 07-08 is not the default selection in the list.
Dale Leaman ASSIST
Date: May 8, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST issues
Author: Larry Coon
All ASSIST services are up & running again.
Sorry again for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: May 8, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST issues
Author: Larry Coon
There was an unexpected power outage at UCI overnight, which affected
all ASSIST services. Power is now restored, and we hope to have all
our services up & running very soon. I will send out another announcement
once everything is back running.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: May 1, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST issues
Author: Larry Coon
The earlier issues with ASSIST reports and response times should now
be resolved.
Thanks for your patience.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: May 1, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST issues
Author: Larry Coon
Some first-of-the-month processes got tangled last night (one was supposed
to finish before the other started, but it didn't work out that way). As
a result, one of these processes needs to be re-run. There
are two consequences to this -- first, some course and department information in
Web ASSIST reports will not be correct (but this is only true for a small number
of institutions). Second, ASSIST may respond more slowly this morning
under the extra load.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: February 14, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Down -- UCI Power Outage - All ASSIST Services OK as of 8:40am
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
UCI got their cooling systems up and running, power has been restored and as
of 8:40am all ASSIST services are now running normally. Please let us know
via phone (949) 824-4385 or email (eric@assist.org) if you find any problems.
Thanks again for your patience,
Eric
Date: February 14, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Down -- UCI Power Outage - Continuing as of 8:10am
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
UCI is still working on getting their cooling system functioning for
the power systems in the building that houses the ASSIST server computers.
Their current estimate is that these services will be back on line by
9:00am, but it may be longer.
We know the negative impact this is having on many of our customers and we
are monitoring the status so that we can activate all ASSIST services as
soon as power is restored.
We’ll email another update when service is restored or if service is still
unavailable by 9am.
Thanks for your patience,
Eric
Date: February 14, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Down -- UCI Power Outage
Author: Larry Coon
UCI is having power issues in the facility that hosts ASSIST servers.
As a result, our servers have no power and all ASSIST servers are,
consequently, down. I just spoke to the technicians and they hope to
have power restored around 7:00 or 8:00. We'll let you know when
there's any update.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: February 7, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Currently Responding Normally
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues:
Good news. We've done some work that appears to have returned things
to normal, but we can't know if the problem is really solved until
we reach a typical level of use. We'd like to encourage you to go
back to using ASSIST as you usually would. We're going to closely
monitor things for awhile to make sure the problems don't recur.
If the system does bog down again we'll send another announcement.
Thanks again for your patience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: February 7, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Continued Problems with ASSIST
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues:
Unfortunately, the problems we're having with ASSIST are proving
to be very difficult to solve. We're aware that this is a critical
time for our users, particularly those involved in evaluations.
Coordination Site staff have been working literally around the
clock to diagnose and solve the current problem, and we will
continue to work diligently until we find the solution. When we're
confident we have services back to normal we'll send an announcement.
Until then there may be very short periods when the response is very
good, followed by extended periods when ASSIST is extremely slow.
We apologize for the inconvenience and will keep you informed as we
make progress.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: February 6, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Slowness This Morning
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
A few people have emailed about how slowly ASSIST is running this morning.
We're looking at the problem now and as soon as we have more information
we'll send an update.
Thanks for your patience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: February 5, 2007
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Slowness
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
For reasons that are yet known, the ASSIST web site was responding very
slowly at times this afternoon. We are working to diagnose the problem
and will email again if we find out something. It could be that there
is a hidden system problem, or it could be that there was a surge in
site activity.
Thanks for your patience,
Eric
Date: December 8, 2006 To: ASSIST-L Subscribers Subject: ASSIST Statistics - So Close Author: Eric Taggart Hi Everyone, Some people have commented to me on how busy the ASSIST Web site appeared last month and I thought I’d pass along some numbers that may be of passing interest. November 2006 was the busiest month ever for ASSIST when almost 150,000 people viewed almost 1 million course articulation reports. The actual numbers from the ASSIST General Activity Report (http://info.assist.org/dbgen1.html) were that 149,197 people viewed 996,412 articulation reports. I was hoping November would officially top 1 million reports, but it looks like we’ll have to wait for May 2007 for that. Thanks for your inquiries, and have a great holiday season! Eric
Date: December 8, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Service Interruption Friday December 15
Author: Larry Coon
UCI will be servicing the power on the building that hosts ASSIST's server
computers in the early morning on Friday, December 15. All ASSIST services
will be unavailable during this time. The work will commence at 3AM, and
they plan to have the power up again by 7AM. Once power is restored,
ASSIST will be fully functional within 15 minutes or so.
If anything happens to delay the process, we'll send out another announcement.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: October 31, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Santa Ana College and Barstow College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 30, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Hartnell College, San Joaquin Delta College,
Victor Valley College, Porterville College, West Los Angeles College
and Feather River College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 27, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Long Beach City College, Cuesta College,
Santa Monica College, Citrus College and College of the Canyons
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 27, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Compton College in ASSIST
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
As I'm sure most of you know, Compton College now operates as an
educational center of El Camino College. As of the fall 2006 term,
El Camino College courses are now being taught at the Compton Center.
In ASSIST, when users select Compton College for the 06-07 academic
year they will be redirected to the El Camino College information. A
brief explanation is also shown. When users choose an earlier year
they will still get the historical information for Compton College.
For users, this process is similar to the one already used when
institutions change names (Vista College to Berkeley City College,
CSU Hayward to CSU East Bay, etc.).
Please let us know if you have any questions about this change.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: October 26, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Antelope Valley College, Butte College,
Foothill College, LA Southwest College, LA Mission College,
East Los Angeles College, College of San Mateo, Fresno City
College, Contra Costa College and Imperial Valley College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 25, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Glendale College, Cerro Coso College, San
Bernardino Valley College, LA Harbor College, Gavilan College,
College of the Desert and Cerritos College have been published
in ASSIST.
Date: October 21, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Los Angeles City College, College of the
Siskiyous, and MiraCosta College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 16, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Santa Rosa Junior College, Berkeley
City College, West Hills College, Crafton Hills College,
College of Alameda and Fullerton College have been published
in ASSIST.
Date: October 13, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Orange Coast College, Cosumnes River
College and College of Marin have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 12, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Irvine Valley College, Oxnard College,
LA Valley College, El Camino College, LA Trade Technical College
and Santa Barbara City College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 11, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for San Diego City College, San Diego Mesa College
and San Diego Miramar College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 3, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 2006-07 UC TCA for Coastline College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 2, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Los Medanos College, Merced College,
Mission College and Saddleback College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 29, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Palo Verde College,
City College of San Francisco, Canada College
and Grossmont College have been published
in ASSIST.
Date: September 26, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCA for Cabrillo College has been
published in ASSIST.
Date: September 25, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Cypress College, Golden West College,
De Anza College, LA Pierce College, Shasta College and Taft
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 20, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Montery Peninsula College, Napa Valley College,
Skyline College and West Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 19, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for American River College, Cuyamaca College and
Folsom Lake College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 2, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 06-07 UC TCAs for Bakersfield College, Mendocino College, Mount San Antonio
College and San Jose City College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 31, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 06-07 UC TCAs for Chaffey, Copper Mountain, Rio Hondo, Solano and
Mt. San Jacinto have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 22, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 06-07 UC TCAs for Southwestern College and College of the Sequoias
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 18, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Ventura College, College of the Redwoods, Ohlone College
and Evergreen Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 17, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Allan Hancock College and Sacramento City College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 8, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Sierra College, Merritt College, Santiago Canyon College and Reedley
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 7, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCAs for Chabot College, Lassen College and Modesto Junior College have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: August 4, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2006-07 UC TCA for Las Positas College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 27, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 06-07 UC TCAs for Palomar College and Pasadena City College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 26, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 06-07 UC TCAs for Columbia College, Lake Tahoe Community College and Marymount College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 13, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 06-07 UC TCAs for Moorpark College and Diablo Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 12, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 06-07 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 06-07 UC TCAs for Laney College and Yuba College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: June 19, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Scheduled ASSIST Downtime
Author: Larry Coon
On Saturday, June 24 from 7:00 AM to about 8:30 AM, UCI will be doing work that
will affect the networking equipment which connects ASSIST's servers to the Internet.
As a result, all ASSIST services weill be unavailable during this time. Apologies
in advance for any inconvenience.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: June 12, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2006-07 Community College Course Lists Published inASSIST
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues:
Good morning. Over the weekend we published the following updated information in ASSIST:
2006-2007 CSU Baccalaureate lists for all California Community Colleges
2006-2007 IGETC lists for all CCCs
2006-2007 CSU GE-Breadth Certification lists for all CCCs
2006-2007 CSU American Ideals lists for all CCCs
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: May 16, 2006 To: ASSIST-L Subscribers Subject: ASSIST Board Meeting: June 6, 2006 Author: Eric Taggart The next meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors will be held on June 6, 2006 in Long Beach. If you have items to suggest for the agenda or if you would like to attend as a guest, please contact me no later than Monday May 22. As usual, a preliminary agenda and any meeting materials will be posted on the ASSIST Information Center web site (http://info.assist.org) 10 working days prior to the meeting and final meeting summary notes will be posted approximately two weeks after the meeting. Agendas, meeting materials, and summary notes from past meetings are also available on the Info Center web site.
Date: May 10, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST 2006 Conference Presentations
Author: Doug Koeppen
All presentations from the 2006 ASSIST Conference are now available,
in PDF format, on the ASSIST Information Center. You'll find them in
the Publications menu under Conference Materials. You may also click
this link to open that page: http://info.assist.org/conf06.html
Doug Koeppen
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: April 12, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Now Running Well
Author: Dale Leaman
Good afternoon.
ASSIST is now back up and running well. Thanks for your patience when
we have these problems.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: April 12, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Unavailable
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
Unfortunately, we're having problems similar to those of a couple days ago.
ASSIST is going to be unavailable for a time while we work on the issue.
We'll keep you informed of the status of things as soon as we have more
information.
Thank you for your patience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: April 10, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Available Again
Author: Dale Leaman
Colleagues:
Thank you for your patience. ASSIST is running again and we think
we have the issue resolved. Please let us know immediately if it
stops responding again.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: April 10, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Intermittent ASSIST Problems
Author: Dale Leaman
Colleagues:
We're continuing to have intermittent problems with ASSIST.
We think we have the issue diagnosed, but it may be a little
while before things are stable and reliable.
Thanks again for your patience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: April 10, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Now Running
Author: Dale Leaman
ASSIST is again available for use. Thank you for your patience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: April 10, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Temporary ASSIST Interruption
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues:
We're having an as-yet unknown problem with ASSIST and the public ASSIST
site is temporarily unavailable. We'll let you know as soon as we have
some details.
Thanks for your patience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: March 28, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Conference - Descriptions of Breakout Sessions Available
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
We've posted brief descriptions of all of the breakout
sessions that will be offered at the 2006 ASSIST Conference.
You can find those descriptions in the full agenda. The
agenda and all other conference information is available here -
http://info.assist.org/conf06.html
If you have questions about the conference, please call
Heidi Speare at 949-824-4385.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: March 9, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Back Up
Author: Dale Leaman
Colleagues -
All ASSIST services are now available. Thanks for your patience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: March 9, 2006
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Temporarily Unavailable
Author: Dale Leaman
Colleagues -
We're experiencing some problems with ASSIST right now,
and it's temporarily unavailable. We'll send a status
update as soon as we know more details.
Thanks for your patience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: January 2, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Intermittent ASSIST outages
Author: Larry Coon
Hi all,
We're still experiencing problems stemming from our
monthly publish. I'm fixing things as quickly as I
can, but that means ASSIST will be unavailable
intermittently. Everything should be back up shortly
-- sorry for the inconvenience.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: January 2, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST is back up
Author: Larry Coon
ASSIST is back up again.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: January 2, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Down
Author: Larry Coon
ASSIST is not generating reports, so we have taken
it down until we get the problem resolved. Hopefully
we'll be back up shortly.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: November 10, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: New "Using ASSIST" Demos
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues,
Here's the good news -
We hear from some users that they're not sure how to
get started when they use ASSIST. To try to help with
that, we've just published some basic "How To Use
ASSIST" demonstrations. These audio/video presentations
provide simple examples of how to use ASSIST to find
articulation and transfer-related course information.
We hope that these will help first time or infrequent
users. These are the first set; we'll soon publish
additional demos that focus on Exploring Majors and
on other choices in ASSIST.
Getting to the demos -
They are available on both the public ASSIST site
(http://www.assist.org) and on the ASSIST Information
Center (http://info.assist.org). To see the demos on
ASSIST, from the Welcome to ASSIST page, click on Using
ASSIST on the left sidebar. Then click on Click here to
learn about using ASSIST. Then click one of the links.
On the ASSIST Information Center, point your mouse at
Publications, then Training Presentations, then Using
ASSIST Demos. Then click one of the links.
Or, if you're impatient, go to -
http://www.assist.org/web-assist/help/help-using_assist.html
and click the link.
Playing the demos -
The demos are Flash movies. They use Flash Player, a
free media player available at www.macromedia.com.
Most computers have Flash Player installed. They
movies play automatically when opened on any
computer with Flash Player installed, and they
include playback controls.
Here's the bad news -
The bad news about the demos is - you have to
listen to me.
If you have any questions feel free to email or call
at (949) 824-4385.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: October 31, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Compton College and West
Los Angeles College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 27, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Foothill College, City College
of San Francisco, Merritt College, Mendocino College,
Vista College, Hartnell College, Butte College and
Marymount College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 26, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Laney College, Fullerton College,
Victor Valley College, LA Mission College, Feather River
College, LA Trade Technical College and San Diego Miramar
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 25, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Bakersfield College, Santa Ana
College, Copper Mtn College, Santiago Canyon College,
Palo Verde College, Barstow College, MiraCosta College
and Cerro Coso College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 24, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Mt. San Antonio College,
Antelope Valley College and West Hills College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 21, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Orange Coast College,
Mission College, Santa Barbara City College and
Cypress College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 18, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Citrus College and Chaffey
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 17, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Cerritos College, Crafton Hills
College, LA City College, San Bernardino Valley College
and Santa Monica College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 14, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Contra Costa College, LA Harbor
College, Modesto Junior College and Santa Rosa Junior
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 13, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Lori Quillen
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for College of Alameda and Oxnard
College have been published in ASSIST
Date: October 12, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Irvine Valley College and San Jose
City College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 11, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Gavilan College and Long Beach
City College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 10, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Cuyamaca College, Los Angeles
Southwest College and Skyline College have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: October 7, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Mt. San Jacinto College, Los Medanos
College, Solano College and College of the Sequoias have
been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 6, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Golden West College, Rio Hondo
College and LA Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 5, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCA for Porterville College has been published
in ASSIST.
Date: September 29, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST services now available
Author: Larry Coon
All ASSIST services are once again functional. Apologies
again for the inconvenience.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: September 28, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST services unavailable
Author: Larry Coon
UCI is having a power outage that is affecting the building that
houses ASSIST's production servers. Right now, all of our
services are down. We don't have an ETA yet on when we'll
be back up.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: September 26, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Coastline College and San Diego
Mesa College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 23, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Glendale College, Grossmont College,
Napa Valley College, East Los Angeles College, Fresno City
College, and Taft College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 21, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Board Meeting – October 11, 2005
Author: Eric Taggart
The next full meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors will be
held on Tuesday October 11, 2005 in Sacramento. If you
would like to attend the meeting as a guest or if you have
items you would like to submit for the agenda, please
contact me via email by this Friday, September 23.
Information from the last Board meeting, including summary
notes, is available on the ASSIST Information Center at:
http://info.assist.org/board_meetings/board_meeting_june2005.html
Date: September 7, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Evergreen Valley College, Cabrillo
College and San Diego City College have been published
in ASSIST.
Date: September 6, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCA for El Camino College has been published
in ASSIST.
Date: September 1, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST is back up
Author: Larry Coon
All ASSIST services are working again. Apologies once more
for the inconvenience.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: September 1, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Outage
Author: Larry Coon
One of ASSIST first-of-the-month data maintenance processes
had a problem last night. In order to get it fixed, I've had to
take down Web ASSIST temporarily. It should be back up
around 8:00 this morning.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: August 31, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for College of the Redwoods, Merced
College and American River College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 29, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for College of the Siskiyous and West
Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 25, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Columbia College and Imperial Valley
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 23, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Folsom Lake College, Pasadena City
College and San Joaquin Delta College have been published
in ASSIST.
Date: August 18, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for College of Marin, Monterey
Peninsula College and Riverside Community College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 17, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCA for Canada College has been
published in ASSIST.
Date: August 12, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for LA Pierce College, Shasta College and
Reedley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 3, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Allan Hancock College, Las Positas
College, Sacramento City College and Yuba College have
been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 1, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Ventura College, Moorpark College,
Southwestern College and College of San Mateo have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: August 1, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST is Back Up
Author: Larry Coon
All ASSIST services are now available. Apologies again
for the inconvenience.
Larry Coon
Date: August 1, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Monthly Publish of Curriculum Data
Author: Larry Coon
Our monthly publish of curriculum data, which runs overnight
on the 1st of every month, hit a snag last night. As a result,
Web ASSIST is currently unavailable (although all other
ASSIST services are still running). We're re-running the
curriculum publish now, and it should be finished before
9:00. I'll send out another announcement once Web
ASSIST is available.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
Date: July 28, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Lake Tahoe Community College
and Ohlone College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 28, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Board of Directors meeting 6-6-05 summary notes
Author: Eric Taggart
We have just posted the final summary notes from the
June 6, 2005 meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors.
You can access them on the ASSIST Information Center
at: http://info.assist.org/board_meetings/board_meeting_june2005.html
Date: July 27, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCA for Cuesta College has been published
in ASSIST.
Date: July 26, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Sierra College, Palomar College and
Chabot College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 21, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 05-06 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2005-06 UC TCAs for Diablo Valley College and Lassen College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: June 23, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Planned Downtime
Author: Larry Coon
On Saturday, June 25, ASSIST's server computers will be without
power from 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM while UCI does electrical maintenance.
This means all ASSIST services will be unavailable from approximately
6:30 AM (we need to shut everything down prior to losing power)
until approximately 12:30 PM. If UCI finishes their work ahead of
schedule, we will have everything up sooner.
Apologies in advance for any inconvenience.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: May 13, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Fall 2005 Transferable Course Information in ASSIST
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues:
Thanks for your patience during all of the delays this morning.
Today, we published the following updated information in ASSIST:
2005-2006 CSU Baccalaureate lists for all California Community Colleges
2005-2006 IGETC lists for all CCCs
2005-2006 CSU GE-Breadth Certification lists for 80 CCCs
The remaining CSU GE-B lists, as well as the CSU American Ideals lists,
the UC Transferable Course Agreements, and the UC Transfer Admission
Eligibility lists will be published as they are completed.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: May 13, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST User Satisfaction Survey
Author: Cathy Robin
As part of our ongoing efforts to provide you with the most
helpful transfer tool possible, ASSIST is seeking input regarding
our software and services. The ASSIST User Satisfaction Survey
is now available from a link on Web ASSIST. The survey will be
available for the next month, so please take some time to fill
out our survey and give us your thoughts on ASSIST.
We would also appreciate it if you would make other ASSIST
users on your campus aware of the survey.
Thank you for your efforts in helping us improve ASSIST.
Cathy Robin
Date: May 13, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST services are now up
Author: Larry Coon
All ASSIST services are now up & running. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Larry Coon
Date: May 13, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Temporarily Unavailable
Author: Eric Taggart
Our nightly processing is running long due to an extensive about
of data being published. To help move it along faster and ensure
that no ASSIST users get incomplete data, we’re going to disable
Web ASSIST temporarily. I’ll send another email when it is back
up and running. We are estimating that this should be around
7:30am.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.
Date: March 29, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Here's Yet Another Link
Author: Dale Leaman
It seems I'm not getting much cooperation from various email
programs, so here's yet another way to reach the newsletter
article with the description and walk-through of the Exploring
Majors feature in ASSIST -
http://tinyurl.com/6sjq8
Exploring Majors, of course, is available on the Welcome to
ASSIST page at -
www.assist.org
Thanks for your patience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: March 29, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: A Better Link
Author: Dale Leaman
Sorry, the link in the last message might have broken in some
email programs. Try this -
http://info.assist.org/Newsletter/2nd%20Edition/transferchannel_feb_05.htm
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: March 29, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Exploring Majors Now Includes Information
for CSU Campuses
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
We are very pleased to announce that the Exploring Majors
feature of ASSIST now includes data for every California State
University campus. The data for University of California campuses
were already available, so users may now browse or search
through majors offered at every public university campus in
California.
Exploring Majors should be pretty easy for everyone to use,
and we've got a very nice description and walk-through in the
Spring edition of the ASSIST Transfer Channel newsletter. You
can find that here -
http://info.assist.org/Newsletter/2nd%20Edition/transferchannel_
feb_05.htm#majors
Of course, if you have any questions feel free to contact us at
the ASSIST Coordination Site.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: March 28, 2005
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Service Interruption
Author: Larry Coon
Tomorrow morning (Tuedsay, March 29) from 6:00 - 7:00 AM,
UCI will be doing some network maintenance, during which
time all ASSIST services will be unavailable. We should be back
online by 7:00 AM.
Sorry for any inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: January 12, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: CSU American Ideals Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The CSU American Ideals lists for Sacramento City College
and Shasta College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: January 10, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: CSU American Ideals Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The CSU American Ideals list for College of San Mateo
has been published in ASSIST.
Date: January 7, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: CSU American Ideals Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The CSU American Ideals list for Palomar College has
been published in ASSIST.
Date: January 6, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: CSU American Ideals Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The CSU American Ideals lists for Cuyamaca College and
Grossmont College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: January 4, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: CSU American Ideals Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The American Ideals lists for Copper Mountain College,
Pasadena City College, San Bernardino Valley College,
West Los Angeles College and Oxnard College have
been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 17, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for West LA College, LA City College,
Laney College, Cerro Coso College, Modesto Junior College,
San Diego City College, San Diego Mesa College,
San Diego Miramar College and Shasta College have
been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 16, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for College of the Desert,
Santa Ana College, Victor Valley College,
Marymount College, College of Marin, Copper
Mountain College, LA Trade Technical College, and
Cypress College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 15, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for LA Mission College, Cosumnes
River College, Evergreen College, Palomar College,
Sierra College, College of the Sequoias and Santiago
Canyon College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 15, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Bookmarks or Shortcuts
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
As we discussed in the ASSIST-L message of December 3,
we are now re-directing to the Welcome page of the new
ASSIST interface any link, shortcut, bookmark, favorite or
alias that pointed to the previous (pre-September) ASSIST
interface. If you were using a link or other shortcut that took
you directly to a report in the old interface, you will need
to update your links.
Thank you.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: December 9, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Cerritos College, Fullerton College,
Pasadena City College, Vista College and West Hills College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 8, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Information Now Available Reliably
Author: Dale Leaman
Good afternoon.
Many of you have already found this out; the earlier
networking issue at UCI has been resolved, and you
can reach the Information center (http://info.assist.org)
without problem. We wanted to get verification from
the UCI network folks that there would be no lingering
issues before we sent out this note.
Thanks for your patience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: December 8, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Information Center Outage
Author: Lori Quillen
Hi All,
We are experiencing some connection problems with the
server on the UCI campus. This is effecting the Information
Center only at this point. All other services should still be
available. If you need to log onto OSCAR, the direct URL is
http://silver.assist.org/curric_prod/SilverStream/Pages/pgOLogon.html
We will let you know when the situation has been resolved.
Nice to see so many of you at the conference this week!
Lori
Date: December 3, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Bookmarks to older version of ASSIST
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
We're seeing that quite a few users (about 120 yesterday) are
still getting to ASSIST by using a link or bookmark (or Favorite,
or desktop shortcut, or alias) that points to the previous version
of ASSIST. We will soon (next week) be re-directing any old
bookmarks to the new Welcome to ASSIST page. Any old links
on existing campus web pages will be redirected also.
This would be a good time to use the new interface to update
any old bookmarks, shortcuts, or links on your campus web
pages.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: December 1, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs and American Ideals Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Fresno City College, Foothill College,
Coastline College, LA Southwest College, East Los Angeles
College and Butte College have been published in ASSIST.
The American Ideals list for College of Alameda has
been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 30, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs and American Ideals Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Monterey Peninsula
College and Barstow Community College have
been published in ASSIST.
The American Ideals list for Folsom Lake College
has been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 29, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The following 2004-05 UC TCAs have been published in ASSIST:
Porterville College, City College of San Francisco,
Long Beach City College, Moorpark College,
Mt. San Antonio College, Compton College,
Antelope Valley College and Contra Costa College.
Date: November 19, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Citrus College, Chaffey College
and Gavilan College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 18, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs and CSU American Ideals Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Crafton Hills College, West
Valley College and Irvine Valley College have been
published in ASSIST.
The CSU American Ideals list for Coastline College
has been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 17, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Golden West College, DQ University,
Taft College and Canada College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 16, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Registered Attendees for ASSIST Conference, 12/6/04
Author: Heide Speare
Hello,
On the attached file please find the names of individuals who
have registered for the ASSIST Conference. The list is in order
by first name / last name, and then by institution. If your name
does not appear on this list, but you are planning to attend
the conference you can register online at:
http://www2.assist.org/conference/registration.do
If you have any questions, please contact us at 949-824-4385.
Best,
Heidi
Date: November 16, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for American River College, LA Harbor College,
MiraCosta College, Mission College and San Bernardino Valley
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 15, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Lassen College, Feather River College
and College of Alameda have been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 9, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Information Center
Author: Dale Leaman
Greetings.
We noticed that some students were trying to use http://assist.org
as the address to access the transfer and articulation information in
ASSIST. That URL, as most of you know, took them to the ASSIST
Information Center, which is intended for ASSIST managers and
other personnel. To make it easier for students to find what
they're looking for, we've made a minor change in the address
for ASSIST and the ASSIST Information Center.
Now, either http://assist.org or http://www.assist.org can be
used to get to the first selection page in ASSIST, the Welcome to
ASSIST page. Maintenance users and others should now use
http://info.assist.org when they want to go to the ASSIST
Information Center. It might take a couple days for the name
change to trickle through all the back-channels of the Internet.
If you have any questions feel free to email or call.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: November 5, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST is back up
Author: Larry Coon
Web ASSIST is back up & running now. Sorry again
for the inconvenience.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: November 5, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Temporary ASSIST Outage
Author: Larry Coon
Web ASSIST is currently down, but will be back up a little
later this morning. Some automatic processes didn't run
correctly last night.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: November 4, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Another ASSIST Conference Reminder...
Author: Dale Leaman
Hi, there. Just a little gentle nagging this morning.
Please forgive me if this nag doesn't apply to you -
If you'll be attending the 2004 ASSIST Conference, on December 6
in San Jose, please register as soon as possible. If you register
by tomorrow you'll receive a $10 early registration discount.
We understand that there might be delays in getting the
registration fees processed, but we'd like to get a good idea
of the number of attendees as soon as possible. You can
register now and pay your discounted fees later; we trust
you, and, well, we know where you work.
Currently registered to attend are representatives from:
70 Community Colleges
14 CSU campuses
7 UC campuses
We strongly advise that at least one person from each community
college, CSU campus, and UC campus attend. Don't make me name
names.
For details about the 2004 ASSIST Conference go to -
http://info.assist.org/conf04.htm
You'll also find links to information concerning the CIAC
Conference on December 7. It's one-stop conference shopping
convenience!
If you have any questions feel free to email (dale@assist.org)
or call (949-824-4385).
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: October 27, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Conference - December 6
Author: Dale Leaman
As someone has pointed out for me, I had the wrong dates on
the last message. (Usually, I can find some lame excuse. This time,
though, it was just plain denseness.)
The ASSIST Conference is December 6th, and the CIAC conference
is the 7th. I'm sure you all know that, and were all being gracious
about pointing out how dense I was being.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: October 27, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Conference Registration
Author: Dale Leaman
Just a reminder that the registration form for the 2004 ASSIST
Conference, December 5 in San Jose, is available on the ASSIST
Information Center - http://info.assist.org. You'll find general
information about the conference, an agenda (including short
descriptions of the planned breakout sessions), and a link to
the hotel's web site. You'll also find a link to information about
the CIAC conference on December 6.
We'd like to encourage everyone that works with ASSIST to
attend the conference. If you plan to attend and haven't already
registered, please take a few minutes to do so. You can send
the registration fee at a later date.
If you have any questions, feel free to email or call.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: October 22, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCA for Glendale Community College
has been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 21, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Grossmont College and Santa Rosa
Junior College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 18, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Subscribing to ASSIST-Channel-L
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Just a note to help clarify something in the new ASSIST Transfer
Channel newsletter. We have already subscribed everyone who
was on ASSIST-L to the new ASSIST-Channel-L. So if you get this
email, you don't have to subscribe to ASSIST-Channel-L. If you
do, it will most likely send you a return email that says you are
already subscribed.
However, please encourage others on your campus who may not
be on ASSIST-L to subscribe to ASSIST-Channel-L so that we can
more easily send them future editions.
Thanks,
Eric
Date: October 18 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: The New ASSIST Newsletter
Author: Doug Koeppen
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ASSIST Transfer Channel
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Welcome to the ASSIST Transfer Channel, the official newsletter
of the ASSIST Coordination Site informing you of ASSIST activities
and adventures. This first issue includes information about user
activity, our new look, new features, and background and basics
about ASSIST for new users. We hope you'll find the ASSIST
Transfer Channel interesting, informative, and useful.
We welcome your feedback and encourage you to tell us about
articles you think will be useful to ASSIST users. Future editions
will be sent only to subscribers, so please take a moment to
subscribe https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/assist-channel-l.
Links to the other articles in the ASSIST Transfer Channel are
included below the letter from the director.
To go directly to the ASSIST Transfer Channel articles, click
http://info.assist.org/transferchannel.htm.
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Letter from the Director
Welcome to the first edition of the ASSIST Transfer Channel, a
semi-annual newsletter for counselors, advisors, faculty, evaluators,
articulation officers, and everyone else who is interested in the
latest information about ASSIST.
As you've all seen by now, the ASSIST web site has undergone
some big changes. We said goodbye to the "Backpacker" who
graced the splash page for the past six years. After successfully
transferring the perfect 60 units (that all applied to GE and major
requirements) our student graduated with a bachelor's degree
and is working somewhere in cyberspace making lots of money
and giving back to the community by encouraging more students
to use ASSIST as they plan to transfer.
There are some other key changes you've seen, all of which are
aimed at clarifying the purpose of the ASSIST web site and making
it easier to use. The most important change is that all prompting
for reports has been consolidated onto one page so that users
an see all of their choices at once and new users don't feel like
they're navigating through some crazy maze.
All of the articulation reports in ASSIST are the same as before
(plus some new ones discussed in the "ASSIST - New and Improved"
article of this newsletter) and you can still get printed reports by
clicking the "Print Report" button.
The Exploring Majors feature is now more prominent. If you haven't
used it yet, check it out by clicking the "Explore Majors" button on
the Welcome page. There's only data on UC majors right now but
we're working hard on adding information for all CSU campuses to
better serve more students.
We'll continue to make some minor adjustments to the look and
language of the site, but the basic functionality will remain stable.
And, in case you haven't noticed, you will probably have to update
your bookmarks (and web links) for ASSIST so they reference the
new site.
Thanks to all the staff at the ASSIST Coordination Site for their
hard work on this project - we've received a lot of very positive
feedback on the redesigned site.
On a more mundane matter, funding for ASSIST in 04-05 remained
the same as in 03-04. Coupled with a few specially funded projects
we've been working on, there is enough funding to maintain basic
ASSIST operations throughout the year. We're keeping our fingers
crossed that there will be no cuts for 05-06.
We're e-mailing the first edition of this newsletter to many of our
colleagues but we would appreciate your forwarding it on to any
others at your campus who might be interested. If you would like
to have future editions of the ASSIST Transfer Channel automatically
delivered to your e-mail, please check out the Subscribe section
of this edition for instructions.
Lastly, one feature that we plan to include in each edition of the
ASSIST Transfer Channel is a special section for students that you
can print and hand out in transfer centers and other key places
on campus.
In this edition you'll find a handy beginner's guide for new users
under the heading "Using ASSIST."
Thanks for your continued support of ASSIST and please feel free
to contact any of us at (949) 824-4385 if you have comments
or questions.
Tune into the next edition of the ASSIST Transfer Channel in
February 2005 - until then...
Eric Taggart
Director
ASSIST Coordination Site
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ASSIST: New and Improved
This fall, ASSIST is sporting a new look with easier access to articulation
and new transfer related information. The new design gives users more
information about ASSIST right from the start...
Continued at: http://info.assist.org/transferchannel.htm#new
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Just the Facts
How many people are actually coming to ASSIST for information about
transferring from a community college to a university? Probably more
than you think...
Continued at: http://info.assist.org/transferchannel.htm#hits
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Using ASSIST
If you're reading this you're probably already familiar with ASSIST.
Every new school year means thousands of new ASSIST users, though,
and we thought this would be a good time to give everyone a quick
general guide to using ASSIST. This article won't go through every
possible selection, but should help a first-time user get started.
There are two ways to use ASSIST...
Continued at: http://info.assist.org/transferchannel.htm#basics
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ASSIST Overview
For those of you who are new to ASSIST, this is a brief overview that
introduces you to our beginnings, what ASSIST provides, and the kind
of information you'll find in ASSIST...
Continued at: http://info.assist.org/transferchannel.htm#overview
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Date: October 13, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: American Institutions List Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The CSU American Institutions list for Las Positas College
has been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 11, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for De Anza College, Sacramento City
College and Orange Coast College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 8, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for LA Valley College and Santa Monica
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 7, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs and American Ideals Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The American Ideals list for Moorpark College and the
2004-05 UC TCAs for El Camino College and San Jose City
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 29, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for San Joaquin Delta College
and Skyline College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 28, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Napa Valley College and
Oxnard College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 27, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: The New Web ASSIST User Interface
Author: Eric Taggart
Over the weekend we activated the improved Web ASSIST
prompting pages so that everyone who uses ASSIST at
www.assist.org is now using the latest and greatest.
Thanks to everyone who provided comments during the
testing period.
The new site still supports bookmarking specific
prompt and report pages (where the selections will
be remembered), however given the new structure
of the site, old bookmarks will no longer function
correctly. If you have embedded links to ASSIST on
your campus or departmental web pages that go
deeper than www.assist.org, you will need to work
with your local web site staff to update the links.
Over the coming months we will be updating the
ASSIST Online Orientation to align with the new site.
If you find any problems, please contact the ASSIST
Coordination Site at (949) 824-4385.
Date: September 27, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Bakersfield College and Chabot
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 23, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCA for Palo Verde College has been published
in ASSIST.
Date: September 22, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Saddleback College and Los Medanos
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 20, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs and American Institutions Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The American Institutions lists for Columbia College, Southwestern
College and Modesto Junior College have now been published
in ASSIST.
In addition, the 2004-05 UC TCAs for College of the Canyons,
Folsom Lake College, Imperial Valley College and Las Positas
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 16, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCA and American Institutions Lists Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCA for Rio Hondo College has been published in ASSIST.
Additionally, the CSU American Institutions lists for College of Marin,
Santa Ana College, Santiago Canyon College, West Hills College and
West Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 13, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Testing the new Web ASSIST user interface
Author: Eric Taggart
One of the many activities approved by the ASSIST Board in the current
ASSIST Strategic Plan is an effort to redesign the first few pages of
Web ASSIST in order to help clarify the intent of ASSIST, especially for
first-time users, and make the system a little bit easier to use. The ASSIST
Coordination Site staff have been working over the summer on this
project and we now have a new user interface that is fully functional
and ready for testing. Next year we will conduct some focus group
testing with students and consider further refinements based on that
feedback.
This morning we activated the test version of the new Web ASSIST user
interface and it can be accessed at http://www.assist.org/web-assist.
This version of Web ASSIST provides all of the same articulation reports
as the regular Web ASSIST system and gets the data from the same
database. The only difference is in the look and feel of the prompting
pages and the help.
This test site will be active for one week from today through Friday,
September 17th. During that time we encourage everyone to check
out the site and let us know if you find any problems. Please report
any problems via email to Lori Quillen at lori@assist.org and she will
make sure we keep track of everything. One item we do know about
is the feedback forms that you'll find via links at the bottom of the
left-hand sidebar. After filling out a feedback form the user is taken
to the old Web ASSIST system (instead of staying in the new test system).
This will be fixed once we active the new user interface for real.
After September 17th we will deactivate the test site and work on a final
cut-over plan. Once the final cut-over is complete, everyone will access
the new Web ASSIST system at our usual address and the test site will
no longer function.
Thank you for your help in testing this site. All of us at the Coordination
Site hope you enjoy the new user interface and find it a bit easier to use.
Date: September 9, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Planned ASSIST downtime
Author: Larry Coon
We will be doing some hardware maintenance on our primary
database server this Sunday, September 12, from approximately
10:00 AM to 12:00 noon. All ASSIST services will be unavailable
at this time.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: September 9, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: CSU American Institutions List Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The CSU American Institutions list for Evergreen Valley College
has been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 8, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Cabrillo College, LA Pierce College and
Santa Barbara City College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 7, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for College of San Mateo and Riverside
Community College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 31, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: CPSLO Homecoming?!
Author: Jane Leaphart
Dear Articulation Colleagues,
Articulation changes are occurring at Cal Poly SLO. Marcia Friedman
is retiring today, August 31st; please remove her from Articulation
and Catalog lists on your campus. It is with great excitement that
I get to announce the "new" Articulation Officer for Cal Poly SLO.
As of September 1, 2004, Jane Leaphart will be reassigned to
Articulation! My phone # is 805-756-2157; the fax # remains/is
805-756-7237, and my email is jleaphar@calpoly.edu. This is a
wonderful "homecoming" and I look forward to being involved
with CIA0, ASSIST, and CAN again.
We will start with working on 2004-05 agreements immediately.
We expect to be fully operational by Winter term, after I complete
training staff to take over my former position.
I appreciate your continued support and patience as we begin the
arduous task of restarting articulation and updating our articulation
agreements. Obviously, there are large numbers of requests and
CAN verifications to be done. We will need to carefully prioritize our
workload, and be realistic about what can be done in an eight hour
day! I do not know how long it will take to cycle through and update
all of our agreements, 1-2 years?!
We will be contacting each Community College individually when we
are ready to start working on our new agreement with you. I would
be very grateful if you would hold your new articulation requests until
we contact you regarding the 2004-05 or 2005-06 update with your
college. What would be very helpful now, is for you to start reviewing
our old agreements to determine gaps, changes, or proposals so that
you are ready when we contact you for your suggestions to make our
Articulation Agreements current.
It feels so good to be back "home."
Have a great day!
Jane
Date: August 23, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for Allan Hancock College, Yuba College, Cuyamaca
College, Southwestern College and Diablo Valley College have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: August 20, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 20040-05 UC TCA for Columbia College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 12, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: American Institution and UC TCA Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The American Institutions lists for Monterey Peninsula College
and Skyline College and the 2004-05 UC TCA for Mendocino
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 11, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: American Institutions List Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The CSU American Institutions list for San Joaquin Delta College
has been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 6, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: American Institutions and TCA Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The American Institutions list for El Camino College
and the 2004-05 UC TCA for Reedley College have
been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 5, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: American Institutions and UC TCA Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The American Instituitons list for Fullerton College has
been published in ASSIST.
The 2004-05 UC TCA for Cuesta College has been
published in ASSIST.
Date: August 4, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2004-05 UC TCAs for College of the Redwoods,
Mt. San Jacinto College and Merritt College have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: August 3, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: American Institutions Lists Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The CSU American Institutions lists for LA Valley College,
Contra Costa College, Cerro Coso College, Foothill College
and Ohlone College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 30, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: American Institutions Lists Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The CSU American Institutions lists for Los Medanos College
and LA Pierce College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 29, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST server upgrades Sat 7-31-04
Author: Ken Segroves
The ASSIST server computers will be powered down
on Saturday, July 31st from 9:00 AM until about
10:00 AM. All ASSIST services will be unavailable
during this time.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Ken Segroves
ASSIST
Date: July 28, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs and American Institutions Lists Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 04-05 UC TCAs for Merced, Lake Tahoe, Solano and
Hartnell have been published in ASSIST.
The CSU American Institutions list for Lake Tahoe has
been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 27, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: American Institutions Lists Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The American Institutions lists for Taft College, Saddleback College
and Mt. San Antonio College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 26, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: American Institutions Lists Published in ASSIST
Author: Cathy Robin
The CSU American Institutions lists for Imperial Valley College
and LA Harbor College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 26, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Service Interruption
Author: Larry Coon
UCI will be updating the software on their network routers
on Tuesday, July 27 between 6:00 AM and 6:30 AM. They
say there will be a period of about ten minutes that UCI
(and therefore ASSIST) will lose Internet connectivity.
All ASSIST services will be unavailable during this time.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: July 23, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Additional American Institutions Lists Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The CSU American Institutions lists for San Diego City College,
San Diego Mesa College, San Diego Miramar College, LA Trade
Technical College, Laney College, Merrit College, LA Southwest
College and Irvine Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 22, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Additional CSU American Institutions Lists Published
Author: Cathy Robin
We have published the American Institutions requirements
for two additional schools: Yuba College and Chabot College.
They are now available on Web ASSIST.
Date: July 22, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 04-05 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 04-05 UC TCAs for College of the Siskiyous, Ohlone and
Ventura College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 20, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: CSU American Institutions Lists
Author: Cathy Robin
We are pleased to announce that we have published in ASSIST
the reports which detail how the CSU American Institutions
requirement can be fulfilled at community colleges. We have
received finalized lists for 48 colleges. ASSIST will publish
the CSU American Institutions requirements beginning with
the 04-05 academic year. Combinations of courses that fulfill
the CSU American Institutions requirements prior to 04-05 will
not be available in ASSIST, but the reports will refer students
and academic advisors to community college catalogs for that
information.
If the list for your college is not currently available, it
indicates that we have not yet received the finalized data
from the CSU Chancellor's Office. We will be publishing
additional lists as they become available.
The lists published today are:
Allan Hancock College
American River College
Cabrillo College
Canada College
Cerritos College
Chaffey College
Citrus College
College of the Desert
College of the Sequoias
De Anza College
Feather River College
Golden West College
Hartnell College
Lassen College
Long Beach City College
LA City College
Mt. San Jacinto College
Napa Valley College
Orange Coast College
Palo Verde College
Reedley College
Riverside Community College
San Jose City College
Santa Rosa Junior College
Solano Community College
Vista College
Crafton Hills College
Cuesta College
Bakersfield College
Butte College
City College of San Francisco
College of the Canyons
College of the Redwoods
Cosumnes River College
Cypress College
Gavilan College
Glendale College
Marymount
Mendocino College
MiraCosta College
Rio Hondo College
Sierra College
Ventura College
LA Mission College
Mission College
Santa Barbara City College
Merced College
Fresno City College
Date: July 19, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST-L Forged Messages
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues:
You may have just received a message from ASSIST-L that
included text concerning a virus. It was sent through ASSIST-L
by someone using the "spoofed" email address of a listserv
administrator, so it went out without our knowledge.
The good news is, the system's anti-virus protection worked
and the malicious attachment was removed. Your own system
was not put at risk.
I'm sure you all know how difficult it is to stop these kinds of
malicious emails, and how important it is to keep your own
anti-virus programs up-to-date.
If you have any questions, feel free to email us or call.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: July 19, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST-L Forged Messages
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues:
You may have just received a message from ASSIST-L that
included text concerning a virus. It was sent through ASSIST-L
by someone using the "spoofed" email address of a listserv
administrator, so it went out without our knowledge.
The good news is, the system's anti-virus protection worked
and the malicious attachment was removed. Your own system
was not put at risk.
I'm sure you all know how difficult it is to stop these kinds of
malicious emails, and how important it is to keep your own
anti-virus programs up-to-date.
If you have any questions, feel free to email us or call.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: June 30, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: New Web ASSIST Report - UC Transfer Admissions Eligibility Course Lists
Author: Eric Taggart
This morning we activated a new report in Web ASSIST and
in the UC Major Preparation Explorer. This new report provides
lists of Community College courses that UCOP has qualified for
meeting the UC Transfer Admissions Eligibility requirements.
For further information on the UC Transfer Admissions Eligibility
requirements you can go here:
http://www.ucop.edu/pathways/infoctr/at/atadmiss.html#min (option 3)
The data for this report comes from the UC TCAs which are
updated each year by UCOP (Dawn and Sheila). The UC TCAs
have been noting the UC Transfer Admissions Eligibility areas
for many years. This new report is a subset of only those UC
transferable courses that can be used to meet the transfer
admissions eligibility requirements - and the report is organized
by the eligibility areas to make it easier for students and
evaluators to look up related courses.
Date: June 29, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Temporary ASSIST Problem
Author: Larry Coon
From about 11:00 to about 11:25 this morning, Web ASSIST
slowed down considerably due to a database problem. This
has been corrected, and Web ASSIST should now be responding
normally.
Sorry about any inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: June 25, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Planned ASSIST Outage - Reminder
Author: Eric Taggart
Here's a reminder in case you may be using ASSIST on Saturday
and forgot about receiving our earlier note -
Due to planned electrical work at the UCI campus, the ASSIST
server computers will be powered down on Saturday, June 26th
from 8:00 AM until about 11:00 AM. All ASSIST services will be
unavailable during this time.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Eric Taggart
ASSIST
Date: June 15, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Problem with Web ASSIST
Author: Larry Coon
This morning from about 10:45 to 11:00 we had an issue with
our database server that caused Web ASSIST requests to back
up. During this time, you might have experienced either slow
response, an error message, or an "ASSIST is currently
unavailable" message. We've addressed the issue, and
things should now be back to normal.
Sorry about any inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: June 3, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 04-05 IGETC and CSU GE/Breadth Lists Now Available
Author: Cathy Robin
As of today, all of the 04-05 IGETC and CSU GE/Breadth
lists have been published in ASSIST.
Date: June 1, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Planned ASSIST Outage
Author: Larry Coon
Due to planned electrical work at the UCI campus,
the ASSIST server computers will be powered down
on Saturday, June 26th from 8:00 AM until about
11:00 AM. All ASSIST services will be unavailable
during this time. I'll send out another announcement
the week prior.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: May 27, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST now running
Author: Eric Taggart
Web ASSIST is now running correctly. We're not sure
what caused the problem, but we are looking deeper
into the system to see what might have gone wrong.
Please let us know if you find any further problems.
Date: May 27, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST problem
Author: Eric Taggart
Web ASSIST is currently not responding and we are in
the process of diagnosing the problem. We will email
the ASSIST-L listserve once the problem is fixed.
Hopefully it won't be more than 30 minutes.
Eric
Date: April 15, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Future Course Removals Showing on IGETC and CSU GE/Breadth Reports
Author: Cathy Robin
Colleagues --
In the ASSIST reports for IGETC and CSU GE/Breadth
there are occasionally instances when a course is to
be removed from certification at a date in the future
(ie: the next academic year). As ASSIST reports are
currently configured, a report for the current or any
previous academic year does not show the future
removal date for a course.
There has been a suggestion to have ASSIST show
any removal date for IGETC and CSU GE/Breadth
even if it becomes effective in a future academic year.
The reasoning is that it would provide useful
information to students in planning their academic
coursework. We agree with this suggestion, but
since it means a change to the way in which ASSIST
currently functions, we want to see if there are any
objections or concerns to making this change before
going ahead and doing so.
For example: ANTHR 1 will be removed from IGETC
beginning F04. Should the 03-04 IGETC report show
a F04 removal date or should the removal date be blank?
We would appreciate your feedback by April 30. If you
have any questions regarding this, please feel free to
give me a call.
Thanks for giving this your consideration.
Cathy Robin
ASSIST
Date: April 13, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Back Up
Author: Dale Leaman
Thanks for your patience. We've resolved the issue and
all ASSIST Services are up and running again.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: April 13, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Problems
Author: Dale Leaman
Hi, everyone.
We're having a problem here, and need to reboot a
server. Starting in just a few minutes Web ASSIST will
not be available for awhile. I'll send another message
when it's back up and running.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: April 8, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST now displaying CAN identifiers
Author: Eric Taggart
This morning we activated the display of CAN Identifiers
in select articulation reports from Web ASSIST.
CAN Identifiers will display in CSU Baccalaureate List
reports for all CCCs. You will see CAN Identifiers display
beneath any courses that are qualified for CAN at the
beginning of the year of the report.
In departmental and major preparation articulation
agreements with CSU campuses you may also see CAN
Identifiers displayed in the same way. However, each CSU
articulation officer has the authority to either allow or
disallow the display of CAN Identifiers on agreements with
individual colleges.
This is the culmination of a project we've been working
on with the CAN System Office for the past two years.
The display of CAN Identifiers in ASSIST conforms to the
specifications reviewed and approved by the CIAC membership
last summer. The information about CAN qualifications that is
displayed in ASSIST comes directly from the CAN System Office.
The CAN office will provide ongoing data updates on whatever
schedule fits their needs.
If you have any questions about the qualification of courses
for CAN, please contact the CAN System Office.
Date: March 19, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST UC Major Preparation Explorer
Author: Eric Taggart
Last October ASSIST developed and activated a new web
site called the UC DAP Compendium that added new features
for exploring UC articulation. While the site was initially
developed for the UC DAP (Dual Admissions Program) initiative,
we intentionally created new features that would be of
general benefit to all UC transfer students.
In keeping with changes at UC in the DAP and GTO (Guaranteed
Transfer Option) initiatives, ASSIST has made some cosmetic
changes to the Compendium web site. First, the name has
changed. It is now called the ASSIST UC Major Preparation
Explorer and we've changed the graphic on the Web ASSIST
splash page accordingly. Second, the descriptive language
on the site has been changed to address the needs of any
students seeking transfer to UC. Third, all of the core
functionality of this site remains the same, except that we
have activated additional features related to IGETC that
were originally planned but not included in the earlier
version of the site. We have also refined the data used in
calculating distances between colleges.
For more information on changes in the UC DAP and GTO
initiatives, see the recent issue of UC Notes:
http://www.ucop.edu/pathways/ucnotes/
We encourage you to share information about the UC Major
Prep Explorer with students who may be seeking information
about transfer to UC. You can access the site from the splash
page of Web ASSIST or you can access it directly at:
http://www2.assist.org/Welcome.do
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments.
Date: March 10, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST is receiving e-mail again
Author: Larry Coon
Our e-mail server is back up & running, so we are again
receiving e-mail.
Larry Coon,
ASSIST
Date: March 10, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Coordination Site e-mail problems
Author: Larry Coon
The ASSIST Coordination Site's e-mail server is currently
down, so any e-mail sent to anyone at assist.org will
not be received. We will send out an announcement
as soon as service is restored. It may be necessary
to re-send any e-mail you sent us in the last day or so.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: March 1, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: New Administrative Assistant at the ASSIST Coordination Site
Author: Larry Coon
I am happy to announce that Heidi Speare started work
today as the new Administrative Assistant at the ASSIST
Coordination Site. Heidi comes to us from the UC Irvine
campus where she worked for many years in the library.
Next time you call the Coordination Site and Heidi answers
the phone, take a few minutes to say "Hi" and introduce
yourself.
Date: March 1, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Planned network downtime
Author: Larry Coon
UCI will be doing maintenance on their Internet connection
tomorrow, March 2nd, beginning at 6:30 AM. They say they
will be done by 7:45 AM. ASSIST services may be unavailable
during this time.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: February 24, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST services are running
Author: Eric Taggart
Web ASSIST is back up and running. We are not sure
about the exact problem, but we will continue to investigate.
Please contact the ASSIST Coordination Site at (949) 824-4385
if you encounter any further problems.
Date: February 24, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Problems
Author: Eric Taggart
The Web ASSIST servers are currently experiencing unknown
problems and we are working on a resolution.
Web ASSIST is temporarily unavailable.
I'll email via ASSIST-L when ASSIST is back up.
Date: February 19, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The TCAs for Taft College, Porterville College and Compton
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: February 18, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Service Interruption
Author: Larry Coon
If you were having problems accessing ASSIST services early
this morning--
UCI's Internet connection was down until around 7:45 AM.
Connectivity now appears to be restored, and you should
now be able to connect to us.
Sorry for any inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: January 29, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 02-03 UC TCA for Skyline College has been published
in ASSIST.
Date: January 22, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for Palomar College and Pasadena City College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: January 20, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Oxnard College, Ohlone College and Folsom Lake
College TCAs have been published in ASSIST.
Date: January 15, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Bakersfield College and Cypress College UC TCAs
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: January 14, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for Santa Ana College, Marymount College
and College of the Siskiyous have been published in ASSIST.
Date: January 13, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for Fullerton College, Santa Monica College,
Santiago Canyon College and Gavilan College have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: January 12, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The East Los Angeles Community College and Evergreen
Valley College TCAs have been published in ASSIST.
Date: January 9, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Modesto Junior College TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: January 8, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The San Jose City College, College of Alameda, Feather River
College and West Valley College TCAs have been published
in ASSIST.
Date: January 7, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Long Beach City College and Monterey Peninsula College
UC TCAs have been published in ASSIST.
Date: January 5, 2004
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Vista College, Sierra College, Shasta College and
College of the Sequoias TCAs have been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 19, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Santa Rosa Junior College TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 18, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Cosumnes River College and Los Angeles Southwest
College TCAs have been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 17, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for Coastline College, Moorpark College,
Laney College and Victor Valley College have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: December 16, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Fresno City College and Cerro Coso College TCAs
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 11, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The City College of San Francisco TCA has been published
in ASSIST.
Date: December 6, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The MiraCosta College and LA Mission College TCAs have
been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 5, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The American River College TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 4, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The LA Valley TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 3, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Copper Mountain College and LA Harbor College TCAs
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 2, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The TCA for Los Angeles Trade Technical College has
been published in ASSIST.
Date: December 1, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for West Los Angeles College, Citrus College and
Barstow College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 25, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCA for Chaffey College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 20, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Riverside Community College and El Camino College TCAs
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 19, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Cerritos College and Golden West College TCAs have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: November 18, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Crafton Hills College and San Bernardino Valley College
TCAs have been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 14, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for Butte College, Southwestern College, Orange Coast
College, Contra Costa College and Hartnell College have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: November 13, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Los Angeles City College and West Hills College TCAs have
been published in ASSIST.
Date: November 7, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST planned downtime
Author: Larry Coon
To accommodate an equipment relocation all ASSIST services will be
temporarily unavailable starting at 5:00 this afternoon. We should have
everything running again by around 5:30.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
Date: November 5, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The College of the Canyons TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 15, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Sacramento City College and Glendale Community College TCAs
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 14, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The TCA for Mt. San Jacinto College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 9, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for College of Marin, Las Positas Community College
and Ventura College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 4, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST services are back up
Author: Larry Coon
UCI has completed their work, and all ASSIST services are
back up & running.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: October 3, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Outage Reminder
Author: Larry Coon
Just a reminder -- all ASSIST services will be unavailable
Saturday morning, 10/4/03, from 4:00 AM until power is restored,
which could be as late as 11:00 AM. I'll send an e-mail when
we're back up.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: October 2, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for Mt. San Antonio College and Canada College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 1, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for Irvine Valley College, Mission College and
Imperial Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: October 1, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Coordination Site Email Now Operational
Author: Eric Taggart
The ASSIST Coordination Site email services are now back on-line.
You can email us at our regular @assist.org addresses, or call
(949) 824-4385. It does not appear that we have lost any email.
However, if you sent us a message and received a response from
your mailer system stating that the message could not be delivered
and no further attempts will be made, you should resend the
message to us.
Thanks for your patience.
Date: September 29, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Coordination Site Email Unavailable
Author: Eric Taggart
The computer that serves email for the ASSIST Coordination
Site is malfunctioning and we are not able to send or receive
email via {name}@assist.org.
We are working on the problem now and will notify you when
email service is restored.
If you need anything in the mean time please call us directly
at (949) 824-4385.
Date: September 26, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST is back up
Author: Larry Coon
We're up and running again. Sorry for the
inconvenience.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: September 26, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Downtime Reminder
Author: Larry Coon
Just a reminder -- all ASSIST services will be unavailable
starting at 5:00 as our server equipment is relocated. We
should be back up & running by 5:30.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: September 26, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Lassen College, Antelope Valley College and Cabrillo
College TCAs have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 25, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Santa Barbara City College TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 23, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Planned ASSIST Outage
Author: Larry Coon
This Friday, September 26th at 5:00 PM, all ASSIST services (Web ASSIST,
data entry and OSCAR) will be unavailable for a few minutes while our server
computers are being relocated. Everything should be back to normal by 5:15.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: September 17, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The College of the Desert and Los Medanos TCAs have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: September 16, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Allan Hancock and Los Angeles Pierce UC TCAs have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: September 15, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Saddleback College and San Diego Mesa College UC TCAs have
been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 9, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Changes in ASSIST - Model Articulation Format
Author: Dale Leaman
I'm sure most of you are familiar with the Model Articulation Format
project that was begun a couple years ago. Details of the development
of Model Articulation Format can be found at:
http://assist.org/pdf/assist/2001_10_15_Model_Articulation_Format.pdf
Many of the changes for the Model Articulation Format are optional;
each university can decide whether or not they will implement them.
Most users will see little change in the reports because the
universities have already been complying with many of the suggestions
of the Model Format.
Other changes are controlled by the ASSIST software. We've completed
all of the programming changes that were needed to implement those
changes to the model format, and those changes are now in ASSIST.
Here are the changes that you will see in ASSIST -
1. Some universities used to include dates in the lower right-hand
corner of each instance of articulation, called sign-off dates. These
dates are no longer displayed.
2. Previously, universities could choose to display IGETC and/or CSU-GE
codes for courses in articulation agreements between two institutions.
ASSIST will no longer display IGETC or CSU-GE codes for courses in
articulation agreements.
3. Previously, universities could choose to display only the course name
(prefix and number) in articulation, suppressing the course title and
units. Now, the course title and units will always be displayed.
4. ASSIST will now display any cross-listing (Same As) information for
courses in articulation agreements. This information will display
automatically and universities do not have to directly enter the
information.
5. Previously, the institution selected first on the ASSIST selection
pages was displayed on the left side of the articulation. Now, the
receiving institution will always appear on the left side of an
articulation agreement.
6. Previously, ASSIST used the department list of the institution
selected first. ASSIST now needs to know which institution's
departments should be used in a By Department report. When you
want to choose articulation by department you'll need to choose
from either the department list for the sending institution, or
the department list for the receiving institution.
7. Courses on a By Department articulation agreement will always
be ordered, top to bottom, alphanumerically using the receiving
institution's courses.
8. The end of a department on a By Department articulation
agreement is always noted by the phrase "END OF DEPARTMENT"
after the final instance.
9. The end of a major on a By Major articulation agreement is
always noted by the phrase "END OF MAJOR" after the final instance.
10. IGETC, CSU GE-Breadth, CSU Baccalaureate and UC TCA reports
will include "END OF REPORT" at ... well... at the end of the
report.
11. The "Transfer Policies" button has been removed from the html
ASSIST reports.
12. A "Printer Friendly Version" button has been added to the top
of every html ASSIST report. This button performs the same function
as the "Print" button in the left sidebar; it creates a pdf version
of the currently displayed report.
13. The text "www.assist.org" will be added as the top line of
every pdf report from ASSIST.
If you have any questions about any of these changes feel free
to call us at (949) 824-4385, or email me, Dale Leaman, at
dale@assist.org.
Date: September 8, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for De Anza College, San Diego Miramar College and
Napa Valley College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 5, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The San Diego City College UC TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: September 3, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The San Joaquin Delta UC TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 28, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Merritt College TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 27, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Reedley College TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 26, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCAs for College of the Redwoods and Palo Verde College
have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 19, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST is now up and running
Author: Eric Taggart
Web ASSIST is now running correctly - sorry for any inconvenience.
We do not expect any further problems.
Date: August 19, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Down
Author: Larry Coon
We're having a computer problem which is affecting Web ASSIST.
We hope to have things running again soon.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: August 19, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCA for Cuyamaca College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 18, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2003-04 UC TCA for Mendocino College has been published
in ASSIST.
Date: August 14, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Chabot College UC TCA for 03-04 has been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 12, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Service Interrupution
Author: Larry Coon
UCI is planning maintenance to their internet connection on
Tuesday, August 19 between 6:00 AM and 7:00 AM. All ASSIST
services will be unavailable during this time.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: August 8, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2003-04 UC TCAs for Rio Hondo College and Solano Community
College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: August 4, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Merced College 03-04 UC TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 22, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: New ASSIST Coordination Site Administrative Assistant
Author: Eric Taggart
Next time you call ASSIST you may hear a new voice. Please join
me in welcoming our new Administrative Assistant, Donna Duddy.
Donna started at ASSIST on July 16th and comes to us with a
wealth of experience working at UC for about 20 years.
Please feel free to contact her if you've changed your email
address or phone number, if there's a new ASSIST Manager at
your campus, or if you just want to say Hi! Donna can be
reached at the regular ASSIST phone number (949) 824-4385
or via email at donna@assist.org.
For those of you who didn't already know, Suzanne left us in
May for an analyst position in the UC Irvine School of Humanities.
We all wish Suzanne the best in her new job.
Date: July 22, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCA for Foothill College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 18, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Lake Tahoe UC TCA for 03-04 has been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 16, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Yuba College UC TCA for 03-04 has been published in ASSIST.
Date: July 15, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Now Available
Author: Dale Leaman
UCI's network work took longer than expected to complete,
but it looks like they've now finished, and all ASSIST
services are available again.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: July 14, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Two 03-04 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Grossmont College and Columbia College UC TCAs have been
published in ASSIST.
Date: July 10, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The first two UC TCAs for 03-04 have been published in ASSIST.
They are Cuesta College and Diablo Valley College.
Date: July 7, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Possible ASSIST Service Interruption
Author: Larry Coon
UCI has informed us that on Tuesday, July 15, between
6:45 AM and 7:45 AM they will be upgrading the campus
link to the Internet. It is possible that UCI's Internet
connectivity will be interrupted, which would in turn
affect all ASSIST services. However, UCI says they expect
this work to be fairly uneventful.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: June 30, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Two 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2002-03 UC TCAs for College of the Redwoods and
Copper Mountain College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: May 30, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 03-04 CSU Baccalaureate Lists, 03-04 IGETC Lists and 03-04 CSU GE-B Lists Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the following data was published to
the public Web ASSIST site:
03-04 CSU Baccalaureate Lists for all Community Colleges
03-04 IGETC Lists for all Community Colleges
03-04 CSU GE-B Lists for all Community Colleges
Please let us know if you find problems with
any of these updates.
Date: May 28, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Coordination Site Staffing Change
Author: Eric Taggart
The Coordination Site's Administrative Assistant,
Suzanne Bolding, has accepted a position at the
UC Irvine School of Humanities and as of today is
no longer with ASSIST. Suzanne worked with ASSIST
for over 5 years and many of you know what an
excellent job she did for all of us.
We are currently in the process of recruiting a new
Administrative Assistant and if you know of anyone in
the greater Orange County area who may be interested,
please encourage them to apply by June 13, 2003 at
http://jobs.ucop.edu/iASE_External/ASEPage_JobListMenu.asp
under the "Clerical/Administrative Positions" category.
During the interim all of us at the Coordination Site
will be pulling double duty in order to keep everything
running smoothly. If you require anything specific that
you would have normally requested via Suzanne, please
contact me directly at (949) 824-4385 or eric@assist.org.
Thanks in advance for your understanding during this
transition.
Date: May 21, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2002-03 UC TCA published
Author: Cathy Robin
The UC TCA for Vista College has been published in ASSIST.
Date: May 19, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2002-03 UC TCA published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Fresno City College UC TCA has been published in ASSIST.
Date: May 16, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2002-03 UC TCAs published
Author: Cathy Robin
The following UC TCAs have been published in ASSIST:
Cuesta College
San Joaquin Delta College
Victor Valley College
Date: May 15, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs published
Author: Cathy Robin
The following 2002-03 UC TCAs are now available in ASSIST:
Ohlone College
Cosumnes River College
Taft College
Date: May 14, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Additional 02-03 UC TCAs published
Author: Cathy Robin
The following 2002-03 UC TCAs are now available in ASSIST:
Santa Ana College
Santiago Canyon College
Feather River College
College of the Siskiyous
Mission College
Date: May 13, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2002-03 UC TCAs published
Author: Cathy Robin
The following 2002-03 UC TCAs are now available in ASSIST:
San Diego City
San Diego Mesa
San Diego Miramar
Antelope Valley
Bakersfield
Los Angeles City
Los Medanos
Date: April 15, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Four more TCAs published
Author: Cathy Robin
The following 2002-03 UC TCAs have now been published in ASSIST:
Coastline College
Imperial Valley College
Lassen College
Laney College
Date: April 14, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2002-03 Santa Barbara City College TCA has been published in ASSIST
Date: April 11, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Two more TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2002-03 UC TCAs for American River College and MiraCosta College have been published in ASSIST.
Date: April 10, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2002-03 UC TCA for San Bernardino Valley College has now been published in ASSIST.
Date: March 21, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2002-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Citrus College and Chaffey College UC TCAs for 02-03
were published last night in ASSIST.
Date: March 19, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 02-03 TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The 2002-03 UC TCAs for Cabrillo College, Pasadena City
College and Southwestern College were published in ASSIST
last night.
Date: March 5, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Current Activities Page
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
As part of some minor changes we're making to the ASSIST
Information Center (http://assist.org), we've created a
new Current Activities page. This page summarizes the
projects we're working on and gives a brief status report
for each. We'll update this page at the beginning of each
month, so if you have a sudden hankering for one of Eric's
updates you can go to http://assist.org, and under the
About ASSIST menu, select Current ASSIST Activities.
Here's a direct link, in case you can't wait another
second - http://assist.org/activities.html.
Other changes on the ASSIST Information Center include
the implementation of the Search feature for the
Information Center, the rearrangement of some menu items,
a more complete calendar, and the cleanup of some older
documents.
Date: March 3, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Another 02-03 TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The Fullerton College UC TCA 02-03 was published in ASSIST last night
Date: February 28, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The College of Marin UC TCA for 02-03 was published in ASSIST last night.
Date: February 27, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The following UC TCAs were published in ASSIST last night:
Los Angeles Valley College
Mt. San Antonio College
Cypress College
Marymount College
Date: February 26, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The following 02-03 UC TCAs were published in ASSIST last night:
Reedley College
Sacramento City College
Santa Rosa Junior College
Solano Community College
Date: February 4, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 2002-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
Last night two more UC TCAs were published
in ASSIST:
West Los Angeles College
Los Angeles Trade Technical College
Date: January 31, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Dale Leaman
Last night the 02-03 UC TCAs for the following
colleges were published:
Barstow College
Hartnell College
Rio Hondo College
Date: January 24, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST is back up and running
Author: Eric Taggart
At 4pm we were able to get the primary ASSIST
database server running again and all services
appear to be operating correcly. We do not yet
know what caused the initial problem but will
continue to research it.
Date: January 24, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Database Server Problem
Author: Dale Leaman
We are continuing to have a problem with the primary
ASSIST database server. We're working on it, but we
still don't have an estimate on when we'll be up and
running again.
Sorry for the inconvenience; at least it's a Friday
afternoon.
We'll let you know as soon as we know something
concrete.
Date: January 24, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Database Server Problem
Author: Eric Taggart
We are experiencing a problem with the primary ASSIST
database server. All ASSIST services are currently
unavailable and we do not have an estimate of when they
will be running.
I will email soon with an update.
Date: January 16, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Additional 02-03 UC TCA Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The College of the Sequoias UC TCA 02-03 has been
published in ASSIST.
Date: January 15, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Cathy Robin
The following 02-03 UC TCAs were published last night:
Columbia College
Evergreen Valley College
Shasta College
Sierra College
West Valley College
Date: January 14, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the 02-03 UC TCA for Cerro Coso College
was published in ASSIST.
Date: January 10, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the 02-03 UC TCA for City College of
San Francisco was published in ASSIST.
Date: January 8, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the 02-03 UC TCAs for the following colleges
were published:
Los Angeles Mission College
Monterey Peninsula College
Moorpark College
Riverside
Palomar
Date: January 7, 2003
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night we published the 02-03 UC TCAs for Butte College
and Long Beach City College.
Date: December 13, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night we published the 02-03 UC TCAs for
the following schools:
Modesto, LA Southwest, Golden West, Yuba, West Hills,
College of the Canyons, Glendale, Crafton Hills,
LA Pierce, San Jose City, Merritt, Grossmont,
Contra Costa, Las Positas, Porterville, Napa Valley,
Foothill
Date: December 10, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Yet More 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night we also published the 02-03 UC TCAs
for the following colleges:
Orange Coast College
El Camino College
College of Alameda
Gavilan College
Date: December 10, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night we published the 02-03 UC TCAs for the
following colleges:
Cerritos College
East Los Angeles College
LA Harbor College
Santa Monica College
Date: November 25, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Email Running
Author: Eric Taggart
The ASSIST Coordination Site email is now back up and
running. If you had sent an email to anyone at ASSIST
since late Friday and received a bounced message, you
can resend your email now if you need.
Date: November 25, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Email Problems
Author: Eric Taggart
Over the weekend we made some changes to our email
configuration for ASSIST, but not all of the changes
got made by UCI who we rely on for part of our email
configuration. As a result we can send email but we
cannot receive email.
We hope to have this problem resolved very quickly,
and will notify you via email when it is working
correctly.
In the mean time, if you need anything from ASSIST,
please phone us at (949) 824-4385.
Date: November 21, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Problems
Author: Eric Taggart
For reasons yet unknown Web ASSIST is intermittently
reporting that there are "too many users". We are rebooting
that server to see if the problem gets cleared up.
Web ASSIST should be available by 8:30am.
Date: November 19, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2002 ASSIST Conference Materials are On-Line
Author: Eric Taggart
We have just posted materials from the 2002 ASSIST
Conference on the ASSIST Information Center at:
http://assist.org/conf2002materials.html
These materials include a list of attendees, agenda,
powerpoints used throughout the day, and handouts used
in sessions.
Date: November 7, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Directions to Crowne Plaza Hotel, Irvine, for 2002 ASSIST Conference
Author: Dale Leaman
For those attending the 2002 ASSIST Conference next
Tuesday, November 12th, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in
Irvine, please note the directions to the hotel below.
Although the address of the Crowne Plaza is 17941
Von Karman Avenue, there is no entrance to the hotel
from Von Karman. Use Gillette off of Main Street
(between MacArthur and Von Karman) instead:
Coming from the North:
405 South, exit MacArthur;
Turn right onto MacArthur;
Turn right onto Main Street;
Turn right onto Gillette;
Crowne Plaza is located at the end of Gillette on the left.
Coming from the South:
405 North, exit Jamboree;
Turn right onto Jamboree;
Turn left onto Main Street;
Turn left onto Gillette;
Crowne Plaza is located at the end of Gillette on the left.
See you on Tuesday!
Suzanne Bolding
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: November 7, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Connecting to the new ASSIST Server
Author: Dale Leaman
We've received a few emails from people who are continuing
to get an error page at www.assist.org.
As I'm sure you know, we moved ASSIST to run on new,
upgraded hardware over the weekend. The new hardware
has the same "name" as the old server (www.assist.org),
but it has a new IP number, or Internet address.
When a name changes to refer to a new IP number it takes
a few days for that change to propagate through all of
the servers that handle that information for the Internet.
In the mean time, we have a "re-direct" set that gets you
to the right place. The re-direct automatically points
you the new server when you reach the old one.
That re-direct is working correctly (which means
www.assist.org is now pointing to the new server), but it
wasn't set up correctly on Monday. That means the first
time you tried www.assist.org this week you might have
received a page with an error message, and now the error
page might be cached in your browser. That's the page you
might be still seeing.
In most browsers, doing a Refresh or Reload on a page
automatically forces the cache to clear for that page,
and you should then get the right page.
So, you can go to http://www.assist.org, click the Reload
or Refresh button (depending on your browser) in the
browser's toolbar, and you should get to Web ASSIST
correctly.
If the problem continues, feel free to email me.
If you're not affected by this problem, but there are others
on your campus who might be, and who are not subscribed to
ASSIST-L, please forward this along to them.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: November 6, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST is back up
Author: Larry Coon
Things are all running again. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: November 6, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST temporarily down
Author: Larry Coon
We're having a problem with the ASSIST datbase server,
and both Web ASSIST and the data entry applicaiton are
currently down. I'll send out another e-mail when
things are running again.
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: November 6, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the 02-03 UC TCAs for the following colleges
were published in Web ASSIST:
Merritt College
Grossmont College
Date: November 4, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: New ASSIST Server Computers Are On-Line
Author: Eric Taggart
Over this past weekend ASSIST Coordination Site staff made
the final transition to the new server computers to run all
ASSIST services. At this time everything seems to be
working very well. We are seeing a pretty good increase
in the speed of the system, but most importantly the new
servers can handle a much greater number of simultaneous
users than the old systems. This is important as November
is one of our busiest months. Please share this notice
with others at your campus who use ASSIST regularly.
You should not have to do anything to access the new
ASSIST servers as we were able to point www.assist.org
to the new computers. However, if you happen to have
any bookmarks or links on local campus web pages that
pointed to ASSIST at the old IP number address of
128.200.190.9, you will have to change it to
www.assist.org. Please test all of your bookmarks
and campus web page links to ASSIST just to make sure.
Coordination Site staff have done extensive testing on
these new computers and we don't expect any problems.
However, if you or any of your campus users find
problems, please contact us at (949) 824-4385 as soon
as possible.
Please join me in thanking many people at the Coordination
Site who have been working very hard on this transition.
Because of their hard work (and the extra funds provided
by the systemwide offices to purchase the new equipment)
we are all looking forward to faster and more stable ASSIST
services for the next few years.
Thanks for your continued patience and I look forward to
seeing many of you at the ASSIST Conference on November 12.
Date: October 29, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Minor Web ASSIST problem
Author: Larry Coon
We had a problem at about 11:45 this morning which
affected Web ASSIST. The data entry application
was not affected. The problem is now fixed, but
Web ASSIST may be slow for a short time as it
catches up on backed-up requests.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Larry Coon
ASSIST
Date: October 28, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Over the weekend the 02-03 UC TCAs were published for
the following Community Colleges:
College of San Mateo
Diablo Valley
Irvine Valley
Merced
Mt San Jacinto
Saddleback
We will continue to provide updates via ASSIST-L as
more 02-03 UC TCAs are published.
Date: October 24, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UCI Network Outage October 23 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night from approximately 4:30pm to 6:30pm UCI's
networking (which connects ASSIST to the rest of the
Internet) was flooded with traffic by a computer
within the campus. The effect of this was that no
Internet traffic was able to get into or out of
UCI - and since ASSIST is located within the UCI
network all ASSIST services were unavailable during
this time.
UCI blocked the offending computer and everything
returned to normal at about 6:30pm.
Date: October 15, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST is Up and Running
Author: Eric Taggart
The primary ASSIST database server is now up and running
and you can continue to use Web ASSIST. We don't know
precisely what caused the problem but will keep a close
eye on the various systems.
For those campuses using the ASSIST Curriculum Update
System for the Spring 2003 update, that system was not
affected by the outage.
Please let us know if you experience any further problems
with Web ASSIST.
Eric
Date: October 15, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST is Down
Author: Eric Taggart
The primary database server that runs Web ASSIST is
currently having a problem and all ASSIST are currently
unavailable.
We will notify you again via ASSIST-L when the server
is back up and running.
Eric
Date: October 3, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Chabot 02-03 UC TCA Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the 02-03 UC TCA for Chabot College was published in Web ASSIST.
Date: October 3, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: New ASSIST Server Computers
Author: Eric Taggart
I am very pleased to announce that late last week we
received the final shipment of new IBM server computers
that will replace the existing bank of aging and slow
computers that have been running ASSIST for over five
years.
ASSIST Coordination Site staff are working feverishly
to install, configure, transfer data, and test these
new computers so that we can activate them as soon as
possible. We expect that these computers will
significantly improve both the performance and
stability of all ASSIST services.
It will take us about a month to complete our work and
we expect to activate these new computers during the
week of November 4.
If all goes according to plan, you won't notice any
changes (except in speed) and you will not have to
change any of your current configurations, bookmarks,
or web site links - as long as you are referencing
all ASSIST computers by the Internet names
(e.g. www.assist.org) and not their Internet number
(128.200.190.9). The numbers will be changing but
the names will remain the same.
CSU and UC campuses who do all the data entry into
ASSIST will be receiving a supplemental email with
more details that only concern the data entry
processes.
All of the curriculum and articulation data in ASSIST
will be transferred automatically and there will not
be any need to re-review data that you have already
checked.
Thank you for your continued patience and we will
send another email once the final conversion is
completed and the new systems are activated.
Date: Sept. 19, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2002 ASSIST Conference
Author: Dale Leaman
We've posted the complete agenda for the 2002 ASSIST
Conference. You can find all of the information for
the conference on the ASSIST Information Center at
http://assist.org/2002conf_pre.htm. The link to the
agenda is near the bottom of the page.
I'd like to encourage you to register soon (if you
haven't already). The conference is a little earlier
than in past years (Nov. 12), and the deadline for
registration is October 18.
If you have any questions don't hesitate to email or
call (949) 824-4385.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: Sept. 13, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: October 7, 2002 ASSIST Board of Directors Meeting
Author: Eric Taggart
The next full meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors
will be held on October 7, 2002 in Sacramento.
If you would like to attend the meeting as a guest or
if you would like to submit an agenda item for the
Board to discuss, please contact me via email by next
Friday, September 20.
Date: Sept. 13, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the 02-03 UC TCAs for the following schools
were published:
College of the Desert
De Anza College
Lake Tahoe Community College
Mendocino College
Date: Sept. 6, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: First set of 02-03 UC TCAs published
Author: Eric Taggart
We are very pleased to announce that the first set of
02-03 UC TCAs were published last night which included
the following schools:
Allan Hancock College
Canada College
Cuyamaca College
Ventura College
You heard me right ... it's early September and UC TCAs
for this new year for the first few schools are already
available on-line. We're actually on top of things and
not a year behind ... It's almost like we're living in
the future.
This is the result of lots of hard work over the last
year by Louise, Sheila, Cathy, Lori, and others in
getting caught up with the UC TCAs and a new process
which is helping to speed the submission, review, data
entry, and publishing of this information. We are
looking forward to continuing a smooth process for the
rest of the year where UC TCAs should be published in
a much more timely manner than in the past.
Date: Sept. 4, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2002 ASSIST Conference Web Site and Registration
Author: Eric Taggart
We have just activated a site for the 2002 ASSIST
Conference on the ASSIST Information Center at
http://assist.org/2002conf_pre.htm
You can also get to it from any Info Center page
under "Activities" - "2002 ASSIST Conference"
On this site you will find basic conference information,
a link to the hotel's web site, a preliminary agenda,
and an on-line registration form. All conference
attendees much register using this on-line form.
Over the next few weeks we will be adding more detail
to the agenda as we finalize the topics for the general
and break-out sessions.
The conference will be held on November 12, 2002 at the
Crowne Plaza Hotel in Irvine (near the John Wayne Airport).
The 2002 CAN Conference will be held at the same location
on the following day, November 13. Within the next week
or so the CAN System Office will be activating a site on
the CANSystem.org web site with conference and registration
information for the 13th.
Date: August 29, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Coordination Site Telephones
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi All,
The UC Irvine campus is having a problem with their
primary telephone circuits this morning. The net
effect is that the ASSIST Coordination Site cannot
place or receive calls until this is fixed. UCI does
not yet know how long this will take, but they hope
to have it fixed by the end of the day.
In the mean time, network access is working and you
can always contact us via email.
I'll send another note when the phones are operational.
Eric
Date: August 28, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Problem with Tuesday Nightly Publish Process
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night there was a problem with the nightly publish
process that resulted in a number of publish requests
not being handled correctly.
We have corrected the problem and are rerunning the
complete batch of publish requests this morning. This
means that if you received an automated email regarding
a publish from last night, later this morning you will
receive a redundant email restating the same information.
Date: August 22, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Conference
Author: Eric Taggart
The ASSIST Coordination Site will be hosting the 2002
ASSIST Conference on November 12, 2002 at the Crowne
Plaza Hotel in Irvine from 9:00am to 4:00pm (continental
breakfast at 8:30am).
The Crowne Plaza Hotel is close to the John Wayne Airport
http://irvineca.crowneplaza.com/ and we will be reserving
a block of rooms at approximately $85/night. Southwest
Airlines currently serves San Jose, Oakland, and Sacramento
with direct and fairly low-cost flights. Monday November 11
is a holiday for some and there is plenty of fun stuff to do
in Orange County. Crowne Plaza has offered to extend the
offer of $85/night to the prior Friday for anyone looking
at a long weekend.
Within the next week we will publish additional conference
information on the ASSIST Information Center and will email
again when this is ready.
Please save the date and share this announcement with others
at your campus who may be interested in attending.
Date: August 8, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UCI Power Outage
Author: Eric Taggart
On Saturday August 31, 2002 the UCI campus is planning
a major power interruption so that Southern California
Edison can repair a damaged transmission line. They
are expecting the outage to last 14 hours.
We do not know whether or not access to ASSIST will be
hampered by this outage since UCI networking equipment
has redundant power backup including generators, however
if you are unable to access ASSIST services on the 31st
this will be the reason.
Date: July 29, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Board Policy on Data for Independents in ASSIST
Author: Eric Taggart
The ASSIST Board of Directors has finalized a new policy
on the inclusion of data in ASSIST for independent colleges
and universities.
You can read the new policy on the ASSIST Information Center
at:
http://assist.org/pdf/assist/abd/2002-07-29_Policies_for_Independents_Final.pdf
Date: July 29, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Crafton Hills 02-03 CSU GE List Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the 02-03 CSU GE List for Crafton Hills College was published.
Date: July 25, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Temporary Web ASSIST Outage and Board Meeting Summary Notes
Author: Eric Taggart
Between about 12:30pm and 1:00pm this afternoon Web ASSIST
stopped responding due to an internal problem resulting from
a failed nightly backup process last night. All is OK now.
Also, today we posted the Summary Notes from the May 20, 2002
ASSIST Board of Directors Meeting. You can read them on the
ASSIST Info Center at:
http://assist.org/board_meetings/board_meeting_may2002.html
under the second PDF link.
Date: July 24, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 CSU GE Lists Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the 02-03 CSU GE Certification List for Shasta College was published.
Date: July 19, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 01-02 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the following 01-02 UC TCAs were published:
Hartnell
Los Medanos
Palo Verde
Skyline
Taft
West LA
Date: July 18, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 CSU GEs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
The following 02-03 CSU GE/Breadth lists were published
last night:
City College of San Francisco
Lake Tahoe
Mission
Sierra
Date: July 17, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 CSU GE Lists Published
Author: Eric Taggart
The following 02-03 CSU GE/Breadth lists were published
last night:
Allan Hancock College
Cerritos College
Chabot College
Compton College
Columbia College
Evergreen Valley College
Fullerton College
San Bernardino Valley College
San Diego City College
Solano College
Date: July 16, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 01-02 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
The 01-02 UC TCAs for the following colleges were
published in ASSIST last night:
Bakersfield
Barstow
Citrus
Cypress
Feather River
LA City
LA Mission
Laney
Mission
San Diego City
San Diego Mesa
San Diego Miramar
San Jose City
Santa Barbara City
Victor Valley
Vista
Date: July 10, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Data Extract Policies
Author: Eric Taggart
The ASSIST Board of Directors has recently approved
new policies regarding the use of the ASSIST Data
Extracts.
You can view the new policy at:
http://assist.org/pdf/assist/abd/2002-07-09_Data_Extract_Policies.pdf
If you're not familiar with the data extracts,
you can view the specifications at:
http://assist.org/pdf/assist/artic_data_extr_spec_mar02.pdf
Date: July 10, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Contra Costa 02-03 CSU GE Cert List Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the 02-03 CSU GE Cert List for Contra Costa
College was published in Web ASSIST.
Date: July 9, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 01-02 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night we published the 01-02 UC TCAs for the
following schools:
Allan Hancock
American River
Antelope Valley
Cerro Coso
Fullerton
Marymount
Mendocino
Sacramento City
Santa Ana
Santiago Canyon
San Joaquin Delta
Solano
We also published the 00-01 UC TCA for:
West Los Angeles
We also published the 02-03 CSU GE lists for:
Canada College
College of the Sequoias
Mendocino College
Pasadena City College
Date: July 1, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: All 02-03 IGETC Lists Published
Author: Eric Taggart
We have just published the 02-03 IGETC Lists for all
Community Colleges.
I'd like to thank everyone else who worked on the
02-03 IGETC and CSU GE lists for getting them done
so quickly this year.
At this time there are only 28 CSU GE Lists for 02-03
that are not yet published and we expect to get that
information soon and publish them. We are also very
close to completing the remaining 01-02 UC TCAs and
publishing them (maybe in 2 - 3 weeks). This means
that for the first time in a long time, all of this
data is back on track as it is supposed to be (CSU
Bacc Lists, CSU GE Lists, IGETC Lists, and UC TCAs).
I'm looking forward to the coming year when we will
all be able to follow a normal schedule for working
on and publishing all of this data.
I strongly encourage each Community College articulation
officer to carefully review their 02-03 CSU Bacc List,
CSU GE List, and IGETC List. The lists in ASSIST are
the official record of this information and if you find
any problems, the only way to get them corrected is to
report them using the on-line "Late Additions and Error
Corrections" form at:
http://aix.assist.uci.edu/cgi-bin/ErrCor_2/error_form.pl?seldb=err_corr
Date: June 28, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 01-02 UC TCAs published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night we published the 01-02 UC TCAs
for the following schools:
Chaffey College
MiraCosta College
Date: June 27, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 01-02 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
The following 01-02 UC TCAs were published
last night:
Cerritos
College of Alameda
College of the Sequoias
Copper Mountain
Cosumnes River
LA Pierce
LA Valley
Riverside
Santa Rosa
Sierra
West Valley
Date: June 26, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 01-02 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
The following 01-02 UC TCAs are ready to be
published:
City College of San Francisco
College of Marin
College of the Redwoods
Evergreen Valley
Fresno
LA Southwest
Monterey Peninsula
Pasadena
Reedley
Rio Hondo
San Bernardino
Date: June 19, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 CSU GE Lists Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night we published the 02-03 CSU GE/Breadth
lists for the following schools:
The following 02-03 CSU GE lists are ready to be
published:
Cerro Coso
Citrus
College of the Redwoods
Cuesta
Cypress
E. Los Angeles
Grossmont
Riverside
Skyline
There are only a handful of 02-03 CSU GE Lists left
to go, and we are hoping to publish most of the 02-03
IGETC lists late next week.
Date: June 18, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 02-03 CSU GE Lists Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night we published the 02-03 CSU GE/Breadth lists
for the following schools:
College of Marin
College of the Desert
College of the Siskiyous
Copper Mountain
Feather River
Glendale
Hartnell
Las Positas
LA City
LA Harbor
LA Trade Tech
Palo Verde
Rio Hondo
San Joaquin Delta
San Jose City
West Hills
There are only a handful of 02-03 CSU GE Lists left to go,
and we are hoping to publish most of the 02-03 IGETC lists
late next week.
Date: June 14, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: De Anza 02-03 CSU GE Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the 02-03 CSU GE List for De Anza
College was published.
We will continue to provide email updates as
more 01-02 UC TCAs and 02-03 CSU GE and IGETC
lists are published
Date: June 11, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Glendale 01-02 UC TCA Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night the 01-02 UC TCA for Glendale College
was published.
We will continue to provide email updates as more
01-02 UC TCAs and 02-03 CSU GE and IGETC lists
are published
Date: June 8, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 01-02 UC TCAs Published and Coastline's 02-03 CSU GE Cert
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night we published the 01-02 UC TCAs for the
following schools:
Butte
Cabrillo
College of the Canyons
Columbia
Crafton Hills
El Camino
Gavilan
Golden West
LA Harbor
LA Trade Tech
Long Beach
Modesto
Moorpark
Mt San Antonio
Mt San Jacinto
Napa
Orange Coast
Palomar
Santa Monica
Shasta
Southwestern
West Hills
We also published the 02-03 CSU GE Certification
list for Coastline College.
We will continue to provide notices via ASSIST-L
as more TCAs are published.
Date: May 31, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Premature Clicking
Author: Eric Taggart
I sent the previous message about new 02-03 CSU Bacc and
CSU GE lists a day too early. This information will be
available in ASSIST as of tomorrow, June 1, 2002.
Eric
Date: May 31, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: CSU Baccalaureate and CSU GE/Breadth Lists for 02-03
Author: Eric Taggart
On June 1st, we published the 02-03 CSU Baccalaureate lists
for all Community Colleges into the public database for Web
ASSIST. We also published the 02-03 CSU GE Certification
Lists for the following 52 schools. We will publish the
remaining 02-03 CSU GE Cert lists as we receive them from
the CSU Chancellor's Office. We will also publish the 02-03
IGETC lists after we receive the final information and enter
the data (most likely in a couple more weeks).
American River
Antelope Valley
Bakersfield
Butte
Cabrillo
Chaffey
College of Alameda
College of San Mateo
College of the Canyons
Cosumnes River
Cuyamaca
De Anza
Diablo Valley
El Camino
Foothill
Fresno City
Gavilan
Golden West
Irvine Valley
Laney
Lassen
Long Beach
LA Mission
LA Pierce
LA Southwest
LA Valley
Marymount
Merced
Merritt
MiraCosta
Modesto
Monterey
Moorpark
Mt. Sac
Mt. San Jacinto
Napa
Ohlone
Orange Coast
Oxnard
Palomar
Porterville
Reedley
Saddleback
San Jose
Santa Barbara
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Southwestern
Ventura
Victor Valley
VIsta
Yuba
Date: May 29, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Interruption
Author: Larry Coon
In order to address the current speed issue, we
will bring Web ASSIST and the maintenance reports
down for a few minutes in order to make an adjustment
on our server. This will happen at 10:10 AM. During
this time, Web ASSIST and the Maintenance Reports will
be unavailable, but the data entry application will
not be affected. We should be back up by 10:15.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: May 29, 2002 - 9:50am
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Slowness
Author: Eric Taggart
Web ASSIST is extremely busy today and many reports
are taking so long to generate that they are timing
out (and the user may get a blank page or an error
message). Some reports are coming through correctly.
All of the systems are working as expected but the
extremely high number of users is overwhelming our
servers.
Not much we can do here except hold on and hope
nothing breaks.
We'll keep you informed if any problems develop.
Date: May 23, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Outage
Author: Eric Taggart
Due to an excessive load we had the same problem and
Web ASSIST was unavailable from 11:15 to 11:50 this
morning.
We reconfigured some disk space and this will hopefully
avoid the problem in the future as usage increases.
We'll continue monitoring for this problem.
Date: May 23, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST is back up and running
Author: Eric Taggart
From approximately 8:45am to 9:15am this morning Web
ASSIST was not working correctly. The problem was
caused by an extremely heavy load overwhelming a
certain aspect of the primary database server.
This problem has been resolved and Web ASSIST is now
operating normally. We will continue to monitor for
this problem.
Date: May 23, 2002 9:00am
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Down
Author: Eric Taggart
At approximately 8:45am today Web ASSIST began acting
erratically and has been giving blank pages as results.
We're not sure of the source of this problem, but we
are working on it and will let you know when it is back
up and running.
Date: May 17, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More 01-02 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Last night we published another batch of UC TCAs for the
following schools that had not been available previously:
01-02 UC TCAs:
Chabot
Contra Costa
Cuyamaca
East LA
Imperial Valley
Irvine Valley
Merced
Merritt
Ohlone
Oxnard
Porterville
Saddleback
The UC Office of the President and the Coordination
Site are continuing to work on finalizing the remaining
01-02 UC TCAs. I will continue to provide similar emails
in the future as we publish more of this information.
Date: May 10, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Changes
Author: Larry Coon
ASSIST-L subscribers:
We have modified Web ASSIST to be more compliant
with the standards of the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA). Most of the changes are "under the hood"
and won't be noticed by most people who use ASSIST.
Some of the changes that ARE visible are as follows:
-- Any graphic links which appear in the sidebar now
also appear as text links at the bottom of the page.
-- Users can now manuever (navigate) to the various
prompts on each page using the TAB key.
-- The "Continue" button is no longer a graphic button;
it is now a standard button.
-- The "Home" button now always returns the user to
the "splash" page.
-- When a link is unavailable and greyed-out, the text
"(not available)" now appears next to the link.
-- The colors of the text headings have been modified
slightly to provide higher contrast.
We are finalizing some accompanying changes to the
on-line help pages. Until these changes are in place,
you may experience some problems using the help pages.
This will be fixed as soon as possible.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: April 26, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Cross listing information showing now on TCAs
Author: Eric Taggart
We have just completed a project of verifying all
cross-listing information (same as courses) in the
ASSIST curriculum database. The UC Transferable
Course Agreements, CSU Baccalaureate Course Lists,
IGETC Course Lists, and CSU GE Certification Course
Lists are now showing this information when appropriate.
If you find any errors or omissions in the cross
listing of courses for your institution, please have
your campus ASSIST Manager submit corresponding changes
via the "ASSIST Curriculum Corrections and Late
Additions" on-line form.
Date: April 26, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: May 20, 2002 ASSIST Board Meeting
Author: Eric Taggart
The next meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors
will be held on May 20, 2002 in Long Beach.
If you are interested in attending this meeting as
a guest or if you would like to suggest a topic for
consideration on the agenda, please contact me via
email by next Friday, May 3, 2002.
We have posted a preliminary agenda on the ASSIST
Information Center.
Date: April 15, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Database Summaries
Author: Eric Taggart
We have just activated a new feature on the ASSIST
Information Center (http://assist.org) which will
allow anyone to view a summary of data in ASSIST for
any college or university.
The ASSIST Database Summaries are on the Info Center
under the "Database" heading. Choose any institution
(college or university) and academic year (or all
academic years), wait for a while (quite a while if
you choose "all years"), and you will get a summary
report. These database summaries report on data that
is in the same public ASSIST database that Web ASSIST
uses. The database summaries calculate everything
on-the-fly so that you can be assured that you are
getting the most current results. However, this means
that the summaries can take many minutes to calculate
and display the results. Please be patient while using
this feature.
Date: March 1, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: More 00-01 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Last night we published another batch of UC TCAs for
the following schools that had not been available
previously:
00-01 UC TCAs:
Bakersfield
Coastline
College of the Siskiyous
Cypress
DQ University
Hartnell
LA City
Lassen
Los Medanos
Palo Verde
San Jose
Skyline
Taft
This is the last group of schools to have their 00-01
UC TCAs finalized and published (with the exception of
West LA College). All colleges (except West LA) should
now have their 00-01 UC TCAs online in ASSIST.
The UC Office of the President and the Coordination Site
are continuing to work on finalizing the remaining 01-02
UC TCAs. I will continue to provide similar emails in the
future as we publish more of this information.
Date: February 26, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: More 00-01 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Last night we published another batch of UC TCAs for the
following schools that had not been available previously:
00-01 UC TCAs:
Barstow
Chaffey
Evergreen
Fresno
LA Southwest
College of Marin
Pasadena
College of the Redwoods
Reedley
Rio Hondo
San Bernardino
CCSF
The UC Office of the President and the Coordination Site
are continuing to work on finalizing the remaining 00-01
and 01-02 UC TCAs. I will continue to provide similar
emails in the future as we publish more of this information.
Thanks,
Eric
Date: February 19, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Network Interruptions with ASSIST
Author: Dale Leaman
Good afternoon.
We've just heard that the router replacement I
mentioned earlier is complete and our networking
services should now be more consistent. Web ASSIST,
the Articulation Maintenance data entry system, and
the Curriculum Update System should now be working
normally. We'll keep you informed if we hear of any
additional issues.
Thanks for your patience.
Date: February 19, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Intermittent Network Interruptions with ASSIST
Author: Dale Leaman
Good Morning.
We've heard from the UC Irvine network office
(upon whom we rely for our Internet connections)
that there will be some sporadic connections for
awhile as a router gets replaced. This seems to
have been an emergency situation and not something
that was planned.
While this service is taking place Web ASSIST,
the Articulation Maintenance Data Entry, and the
Curriculum Update System will all suffer from
intermittent connections. You may get any of a
number of error messages while trying to use one
of these systems. Your only options are log off
and try again, or wait until we have notice that
full service has been restored.
We'll send another notice as soon as learn that
service has been restored.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: February 12, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: New Listserv System for ASSIST-L
Author: Eric Taggart
This message is to confirm that you are currently
subscribed to the ASSIST-L email listserv. As
discussed in prior communications, we automatically
subscribe all new campus ASSIST contacts each year
and the ASSIST-L list is open to anyone else who is
interesting in receiving general communications about
ASSIST.
The UC Irvine campus hosts the ASSIST-L listserv for
the Coordination Site and they have recently changed
the system that is used to manage the listserv.
Since you are already subscribed to ASSIST-L you do
not need to do anything in order to continue receiving
messages from the listserv.
The new system does have a web page that you can use
to unsubscribe, subscribe, view archives and change
your listserv options.
This page can be accessed at:
https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/assist-l
and we will setup a link to this page from the ASSIST
Information Center.
In order to fully use the listserv options page, you
will first have to use it to request that your password
be emailed to you. Once you have this password you can
change your options (including changing your password).
Again, if you're happy receiving ASSIST-L messages as
you have in the past you do not need to do anything in
response to this message. If you're unhappy receiving
ASSIST-L messages - I apologize, but you probably need
to continue receiving them anyway.
Date: February 8, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: Primary Database Server Down
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
I guess our last few weeks of good luck have
run out. The primary ASSIST database server
crashed at 3:40pm this afternoon and all ASSIST
services are currently unavailable. We are in
the process of restarting everything and hope
to have all services running again by 4:15pm.
I won't bother sending another email unless the
problems last beyond 4:15pm today.
Thanks,
Eric Taggart
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: February 8, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: More 00-01 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Last night we published another batch of UC TCAs for
the following schools that had not been available
previously:
00-01 UC TCAs:
Butte
Cerritos
Columbia
Gavilan
LA Trade Tech
Long Beach City
Monterey Peninsula
Mt San Antonio
Orange Coast
Palomar
Santa Monica
Shasta
Southwestern
The UC Office of the President and the Coordination Site
are continuing to work on finalizing the remaining 00-01
and 01-02 UC TCAs. I will provide similar emails in the
future as we continue to publish more of this information.
Thanks,
Eric
Date: February 5, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: More 00-01 UC TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Last night we published another batch of UC TCAs for
the following schools that had not been available
previously:
00-01 UC TCAs:
Cabrillo
College of the Canyons
Crafton Hills
El Camino
Glendale
Golden West
LA Harbor
Modesto
Moorpark
Mt San Jacinto
Napa Valley
West Hills
The UC Office of the President and the Coordination Site
are continuing to work on finalizing the remaining 00-01
and 01-02 UC TCAs. I will provide similar emails in the
future as we continue to publish more of this information.
Thanks,
Eric
Date: February 1, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: More 00-01 TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Last night we published another batch of 00-01 UC TCAs
for the following schools that had not been available
previously:
00-01 UC TCAs:
Citrus
Compton
Laney
LA Mission
Mission College
San Diego City
San Diego Mesa
San Diego Miramar
Victor Valley
Vista
01-02 UC TCAs:
Canada
College of the Desert
Cuesta
De Anza
Diablo
Foothill
Grossmont
Lake Tahoe
Las Positas
San Mateo
Ventura
Yuba
The UC Office of the President and the Coordination
Site are continuing to work on finalizing the remaining
00-01 and 01-02 UC TCAs. I will provide similar emails
in the future as we continue to publish more of this
information.
Thanks,
Eric
Date: January 25, 2002
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: More 00-01 TCAs Published
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Last night we published another batch of 00-01 UC TCAs
for the following schools that had not been available
previously:
Allan Hancock
American River
Antelope Valley
Cerro Coso
College of Alameda
College of the Sequoias
Copper Mountain
Cosumnes River
Feather River
Fullerton
LA Pierce
LA Valley
Marymount
Mendocino
MiraCosta
Riverside
Sacramento
San Joaquin Delta
Santa Ana
Santa Barbara
Santa Rosa
Santiago Canyon
Sierra
Solano
West Valley
The UC Office of the President and the Coordination Site
are continuing to work on finalizing the remaining 00-01
UC TCAs as well as all of the 01-02 UC TCAs. I will
provide similar emails in the future as we continue to
publish more of this information.
Thanks,
Eric
Date: November 26, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Legislative Report
Author: Eric Taggart
In the 2001 Budget Act passed by the Legislature the
past summer, ASSIST was requested to produce a report
addressing a number of issues. The ASSIST Board has
finalized this report and the report has now been
officially transmitted to the Legislature.
Since Appendix B of the report includes statistics
on the amount of information available in ASSIST by
campus, you may want to review the report in case you
get questions from others at your campus. The CCC,
CSU and UC systemwide offices may distribute this
report to various segmental and campus constituents.
You can access the report at the following URL:
http://assist.org/pdf/assist/abd/2001_Leg_Report.pdf
Please feel free to direct any questions or comments
to me at: eric@assist.org
Date: November 20, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST is now running fine
Author: Eric Taggart
We have fixed the problem with Web ASSIST and it
is now running at full speed.
Date: November 20, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Unavailable
Author: Eric Taggart
Due to reasons not yet determined, Web ASSIST is
working so slowly that it appears to not be working
at all. This has apparently been happening since
about 1:30am this morning. We have been working
on it for about an hour and have not yet made any
progress.
We will notify you via ASSIST-L when Web ASSIST is
back to acting normally.
Date: November 19, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Sunday night/Monday morning ASSIST Outage
Author: Eric Taggart
Last night (Sunday November 18) at about
10:30pm the building that houses the ASSIST
Coordination Site lost all power for about
an hour. When the power was restored two
of the three primary ASSIST servers did not
restart automatically and no ASSIST services
were available until 6:40am this morning when
we were able to successfully restart those
servers. Everything is running fine now and
we hope it stays that way.
Date: November 9, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Power Restored
Author: Eric Taggart
At about 11:30am this morning the entire area
around the ASSIST Coordination Site including
our building lost power. There's been lots of
construction going on around the area so we
assume someone did something they weren't
supposed to do.
All ASSIST services are now back up and running
as of 12:20pm, including Web ASSIST, ASSIST
Articulation Maintenance, and the ASSIST Curriculum
Update System.
Date: November 8, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 2 Changes to Web ASSIST
Author: Eric Taggart
All ASSIST services are currently up and running,
but there are a LOT of people using Web ASSIST
right now and it is very slow. If you start
getting "Server Errors" it is probably because
of the heavy load. We'll email as usual if there
are any more serious problems. Thanks to everyone
for being patient and understanding about our
frequent notifications of problems via ASSIST-L.
On the positive side, PDF (printable) reports
are now working.
We have just published two minor changes to the
Web ASSIST software in order to address some minor
problems.
First, you will now see that for each
Major/Department/Area prompt, the list now starts
with an item labeled "Click here to select a ..."
This was added to help clarify to novice users that
they can select other choices that the first one
that was showing (since we've moved the ALL choices
to the bottom of the lists). If a users clicks the
"Continue" button without making a choice they will
get a short message.
Second, you will now see that for any printable PDF
reports that were under 4 pages long, there are now
1, 2 or 3 blank pages added to the end of the printout.
This had to be done to resolve an incompatibility
problem with Microsoft Internet Explorer which was not
showing short PDF files to users.
Date: November 8, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Database server is down
Author: Eric Taggart
The primary ASSIST Database server just went
down and we are restarting it. We do not know
if it is related to our problems earlier this
morning. All services should be back up and
running within 15 minutes. The ASSIST
Curriculum Update System was not affected
and it is still running fine.
Also, our building is having a fire drill from
11am to 2pm and we will have to leave the
building at some point which means we won't
be able to monitor the servers. If the servers
have problems during this time we will have to
fix them when we return. We'll email you this
afternoon if we have any problems during the
fire drill.
Date: November 8, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST services now available
Author: Eric Taggart
All ASSIST services are now available. We do
not know what was the problem, but it affected
two of our primary Unix server computers. Now
that everything seems to be running OK, we will
do a post-mortem to try and determine what
actually happened.
The only function that is not currently available
are PDF (printable) versions of reports from Web
ASSIST. This is due to another problem and we
are actively working on it. When it is working
again we will notify you via ASSIST-L. In the
mean time you can still use the regular reports
from Web ASSIST.
Date: November 8, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Down Thursday am
Author: Eric Taggart
Web ASSIST is experiencing as-yet-to-be-determined
problems this morning. We are restarting all of our
services to try and figure out what's happening.
We'll email ASSIST-L when services have been restored.
Date: November 7, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Oct 3rd ASSIST Board Meeting Summary Notes
Author: Eric Taggart
The summary notes from the October 3rd ASSIST
Board meeting have just been posted in the ASSIST
Information Center under the "Board Info",
"October 2001 Board Meeting" section.
Date: November 5, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST back up
Author: Larry Coon
We were having problems with the ASSIST database
server from about 12:45 to about 1:30 PM. Everything
is back up and running now.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: November 5, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Unavailable
Author: Eric Taggart
The primary ASSIST Database server decided to take
a long lunch and all ASSIST services are currently
unavailable. We expect service to be restored
by 1:30pm
Date: November 5, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 20 Minute ASSIST Outage
Author: Eric Taggart
At 9:20am this morning the primary ASSIST database
server decided it didn't have a long enough weekend
and stopped responding. We identified the problem
immediately and all ASSIST services should be fully
restored within 20 minutes.
Date: November 1, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Database Server is Down
Author: Eric Taggart
At approximately 3:05pm this afternoon the primary
ASSIST Database server crashed due to unknown
reasons. We are in the process of bringing it
back up and all services should be restored within
20 minutes. I won't bother sending another message
unless it is going to be down longer than 20 minutes.
Date: November 1, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST "Server Errors"
Author: Eric Taggart
Since many people have been calling today regarding
"Server Errors" while using ASSIST, I would like to
provide you with some further information.
There are a great many people using ASSIST today
which is causing two problems. First the system
is very slow and there's nothing we can do about
the performance of the system given our current
situation. The hardware and software are working
as efficiently as they can. As the activity
increases, the response time drops.
Second, as the amount of activity gets too high,
our database server rejects any subsequent requests
for information until earlier requests are processed.
When this happens, users will see some version of a
"Server Error" in their web browser. Usually the user
can reload the current page and they will get the
desired results. If not, they can wait a few minutes
a try again. If the database server did not reject
new requests in this manner when it is really busy,
the system would eventually lock-up and not respond to
any requests.
The ASSIST Board is continuing to work on addressing
our short-term needs, but I do not have any new
information at this point.
Date: October 11, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Down and Back up again
Author: Eric Taggart
When it rains it pours! A different
problem occurred at about 2:45 that
forced us to turn off Web ASSIST for
a while in order to conduct some repairs.
Everything is back up and running again -
The good news is that it is running
pretty quickly for now since we removed
the backlog of user requests.
We'll keep you posted.
Date: October 11, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Slowness
Author: Eric Taggart
As many of you may already know, at about
12:45pm this afternoon all ASSIST services
(Web ASSIST and the data entry systems)
started running very slowly and sometimes
Web ASSIST returned a server error instead
of the requested page.
After extensive checking, all of the various
parts of the system are working correctly.
The problem is that there is a lot of activity
on Web ASSIST coming from lots of places -
this time it does not appear to be a single
classroom of students using it simultaneously
(as we experienced a few mornings ago).
Given our current configuration of server
computers, when Web ASSIST activity rises
past a certain threshold, the systems have
to spend more time juggling lots of
processes and it makes the problem worse.
When the activity reaches a critically high
point, the system responds with a general
server error on any new requests. Sometimes
the user can retry their request and it will
go through fine (although slowly).
Not much can be done about this. All we can
do is wait for the activity to subside. In
the mean time, although it is slow, most
requests are being served eventually.
Historically November is a high point of Web
ASSIST use during the year so we may experience
more days like this. We will continue to keep
you updated as to when there is a system problem
versus the system being overworked.
Date: October 10, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Up and Running
Author: Eric Taggart
We successfully restarted the ASSIST
database server and fixed the problem
that caused the server to stop responding.
Web ASSIST is now available for public
use and we do not expect any further
problems related to this incident.
Date: October 10, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Down
Author: Eric Taggart
At approximately 11am this morning the
Web ASSIST database server stopped
responding and since then all Web ASSIST
and data entry users have been unable to
use any ASSIST services. We are in the
process of restarting the database server
and diagnosing the problem. We do not
yet know the precise nature of the problem
or how long it will take to fix. We will
send another ASSIST-L notification once
ASSIST is back up and running.
Date: September 14, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Service Interruption Reminder
Author: Larry Coon
Just a reminder that all ASSIST services
will be unavailable starting around 6:30
AM tomorrow, Saturday September 15. We
will return to full operation soon after
our power is restored.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: September 10, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: October, 3, 2001, Board Meeting
Author: Eric Taggart
The next full meeting of the ASSIST Board
of Directors will be held on Wednesday,
October 3, 2001 in Oakland. If you have
any agenda items for the Board to consider
or if you would like to attend as a guest,
please contact me by this coming Friday,
September 14. Next week we will post a
preliminary agenda on the ASSIST Information
Center.
Date: September 4, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: New Feedback Form
Author: Eric Taggart
Although the funding augmentation for ASSIST was
vetoed this year, the Legislature did pass some
accompanying "Supplemental Report Language" for
ASSIST. Among other things, this language
directs ASSIST to:
1 - "Provide an online mechanism for students
to report if a UC or CSU campus does not honor
an online articulation agreement"
2 - Preliminarily report to the Legislature in
November 2001 on the status of this mechanism
As follow-up to this request, the Coordination
Site has activated a new graphic (at the bottom
of the left side bar on the first prompting page
of Web ASSIST) and an accompanying form.
Students can use this form to report incidents
when
articulation is not honored by UC and CSU
campuses. When such an incident is reported,
Coordination Site staff will contact the student
to get pertinent details and will then contact
the ASSIST managers at the institutions involved
to determine what has happened. The Coordination
Site will not get involved in individual cases
and will instead collect information and provide
reports to the Board so that a summary report can
be provided to the Legislature as requested. This
new form is in addition to the feedback form that
has always been part of Web ASSIST.
Please let your college and university counseling
staff know that this new form is available for
students. Students should feel free to come back
to ASSIST after they have transferred to report any
problems they encountered. I expect that this form
will be available for at least one year and it may
be a permanent addition to the site.
As always, feel free to contact me with any
questions or comments.
Date: August 23, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Interruption and Restoration
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
Very early this morning (sometime
after midnight) the web server for
Web ASSIST went down for a while.
It was a problem unrelated to the
database server problems of the last
two days. We got the system back up
around 7:15 AM. We apologize for any
inconvenience this might have caused
the night owl set.
Thanks for your continued patience,
we're monitoring the systems closely.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: August 14, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: First set of 00-01 UC TCAs are published
Author: Eric Taggart
ASSIST_L Subscribers:
As you know, The Coordination Site
has been working with Louise Randolph
and Sheila Lau on the cleanup of UC TCA
data to make it consistent with the
rest of the curriculum data in ASSIST.
This has been a monumental task on both
our parts and we are finally ready to
begin publishing the UC TCA lists for
last year.
Last night we published the 00-01
UC TCAs for the following colleges:
CANADA, CUESTA, DE ANZA, DESERT,
DIABLO, FOOTHILL, GROSSMONT, TAHOE,
POSITAS, MATEO, VENTURA, YUBA, CHABOT,
CONTRA COSTA, CUYAMACA, EAST LA,
IMPERIAL, IRVINE, MERCED, MERRITT,
OHLONE, OXNARD, PORTERVILLE,
and SADDLEBACK.
We are now moving very quickly on the
final cleanup and will be publishing
the rest of the 00-01 UC TCAs in batches
of about 10 colleges at a time over
the next few weeks as Louise and Sheila
give us their final approval.
Now I'm sure your next question is
"What about the 01-02 UC TCAs?" We
are hoping there will not be any
significant delays in publishing
the 01-02 UC TCAS according to the
usual schedule where Louise and
Sheila review and approve about 13
schools per month throughout the year.
Each college will be notified in the
usual manner when their 01-02 TCA has
been completed and then it will be
published in ASSIST.
If you are on the ball, you might be
ready to ask when your 01-02 IGETC
and CSU GE lists will be published
in ASSIST. Although we have not yet
received all of the 01-02 CSU GE
approvals we are hoping we will be
able to publish the 01-02 IGETC
and CSU GE data that we do have in
a few weeks. I'll email you when
these are ready.
Thanks,
Eric Taggart
Director
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: August 6, 2001
To: All CCC, CSU and UC Campus ASSIST Managers
Subject: Status of ASSIST and the Requested Budget Augmentation
Author: Eric Taggart
As many of you already know, due to
the current and projected economic
conditions in the State the Governor
vetoed the $1,100,000 budget
augmentation for ASSIST as he signed
the 2001-2002 State Budget on July 26th.
ASSIST was one of many budget requests
that was vetoed in order to meet desired
budget reserves and this action does not
seem to reflect any specific bias against
ASSIST or articulation.
Unfortunately, the ASSIST Board of
Directors and the ASSIST Coordination
Site were depending on these new funds
in order to keep ASSIST operating at
required levels and to expand ASSIST
in a variety of ways to meet the growing
demands of students, faculty and staff.
In light of the veto of these funds,
ASSIST is facing a severe budget
shortfall. Many ongoing and newly
planned activities will need to be
eliminated and the ASSIST Executive
Committee and Board of Directors are
actively working determine the most
effective plans for conducting ASSIST
operations.
While no final decisions have been made
regarding how ASSIST will function
during the current academic year, the
following are some of the activities
that are not expected to continue unless
additional funding can be secured:
* Purchase of new equipment, software
and networking to increase the performance
and reliability of central ASSIST systems
* Hiring of 2 new programmers to work
on the develop of a wide range of changes
and enhancements to the ASSIST software
* Student Focus Groups to learn more about
student needs and to test alternate design
approaches
* Planned marketing and public relations
activities to increase student awareness
and use of ASSIST
* The Annual ASSIST Conference planned
for December 3 and 4, 2001
The new ASSIST Strategic Plan that the Board
had almost finalized includes a wide range of
other activities that will most likely need to
be eliminated or severely restricted.
I will work to keep you updated on the current
status of ASSIST as the Board makes progress on
alternate plans.
Date: July 17, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Outage
Author: Larry Coon
Just a note to let you know that ASSIST
was off the air for 2-3 hours yesterday
(Monday, 7/16). This was due to a
problem on the network that connects the
Coordination Site to the UCI campus. The
problem is now fixed, and our service was
restored at about 2:00 PM. We expect no
further problems related to this incident.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: May 31, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Interruption
Author: Eric Taggart
At approximately 12:15 this afternoon we
temporarily suspended access to Web ASSIST
for about 15 minutes while we fixed a
problem that was causing the system to run
even slower than normal.
If anyone tried to use ASSIST during this
time, they would have gotten a special
screen that states that the system is down
temporarily.
Service has now been restored and life
should be a little better.
We are seeing a continued increase in use of
Web ASSIST which is slowing everything down.
During May we've received over 4.1 million hits.
This is even higher than April when we saw 3.2
million hits and we considered April to be a
pretty busy month. We are continuing to work
on various aspects of the slowness problem as
described in earlier emails.
Thanks for your continued patience
Date: May 29, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST 5-Minute Network Interruption
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Just after 2pm this afternoon, connectivity
between UC Irvine and the rest of the Internet
was lost for about 5 minutes. As most of you
know, ASSIST relies on UC Irvine for our Internet
access. So, if you were using ASSIST a few
minutes ago and thought something was strange -
you were not alone.
Eric
Date: April 30, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Guest Attendance and Agenda Items for the May 21st ASSIST Board Meeting
Author: Eric Taggart
The next meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors
will be held on May 21st, 2001 in Long Beach. If
you are interested in attending this meeting as a
guest or if you have any issues that you would like
the Board to address, please contact the ASSIST
Coordination Site (949) 824-4385 by this coming
Friday, May 4.
Next week we will post a meeting information packet
on the ASSIST Information Center with a preliminary
agenda and other related materials.
Date: April 26, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Minor Improvements
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to let you know that on Monday we
activated some minor changes that have improved
the overall performance of Web ASSIST and our other
systems a bit. We have received a number of
positive comments from people noticing some
improvement, but we still have much more to do
until performance is where it should be. We've
also noticed that our daily usage numbers have
continued to increase over the past weeks, so
we're happy that we have realized a small
performance increase even with more utilization.
I'll keep you informed as we activate other changes
that will continue to improve performance.
Thanks for your continued support and patience,
Eric
Date: April 17, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Status of Web ASSIST and other ASSIST services
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi Everyone,
Since ASSIST continues to have very slow response times,
many of you are probably wondering what we are doing
about it and how long it will take to get back to normal.
I would like to take this opportunity to provide you with
some details of our current and near term work to help
you better understand the nature of our situation and
the path back to normalcy. You can be assured that
improving performance is our top priority at this time.
Please feel free to share this information with others
on your campus who are expressing concern and wondering
if anything can be done about it.
Background:
As you know, in January we activated the new ASSIST
Articulation Maintenance System that finally provides
a server-based system for all CSU and UC campus
articulation staff to use in entering and updating
articulation. During January and February, Web ASSIST
continued to run from our older database system while
the universities transitioned to using the new system.
In March we activated the new Web ASSIST system so
that Web ASSIST, the ASSIST Articulation Maintenance
System, and the ASSIST Curriculum Update System all ran
in our new integrated environment. This new environment
provides a number of key new capabilities that are
important to the long-term success and growth of ASSIST
(greater consistency of information for students,
overnight publishing of data updates, automated email
notifications of data changes, improved software for data
entry, centralized and integrated database technology,
etc.).
When we activated the new Web ASSIST system in March we
expected slower initial performance, but after consulting
with the universities it was agreed that it was more
important to provide access to the most up to date
articulation information from the Maintenance System
while we continued to work on tuning the performance of
Web ASSIST and the overall system. At this same time,
we began experiencing an approximate 30% increase in
utilization of the public Web ASSIST system. While this
would normally make us very happy, it has caused the
overall performance to degrade even more.
The good news is that all of the new systems and features
are working together as planned. The bad news is that at
peak times (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 10am to 4pm)
these system run so slowly they can be nearly unusable.
However, our statistics do show there are still a high
number of articulation reports begin provided successfully
via Web ASSIST even at these peak times.
Solutions:
The various ASSIST software and database systems
currently run on three IBM RS/6000 servers. One of
these runs our Sybase database server, one runs the
Web ASSIST site and report programs, and the other
runs the Maintenance and Curriculum Update systems
and their related reports.
Our first step to improve performance in March was to
carefully balance the load of various processes among
these three server computers. That was done pretty
quickly but only helped a bit.
Next we began identifying specific significant
bottle-necks in our systems and worked to resolve
them as much as possible. We have one remaining
item in this category that we are working on (it
has to do with something called the temporary
database but I don't think you really care). We have
been releasing small parts of this as we progress
and we expect to finish this step in a few days.
So far we don't expect to fully resolve the
performance problems with this step.
Our next step after that will make a significant
difference, but it is much harder to implement. We
will do something called "denormalizing" our reports
database that Web ASSIST runs from. This is a
technical term I won't bother explaining, but it
involves restructuring the behind-the-scenes way data
is organized in the public Web ASSIST database and
rewriting certain programs to use this new structure.
This step will take a while to implement and we do
not yet have an estimate (a couple of weeks most likely).
To fully resolve the problems long term and allow us
the growth and flexibility we need for the future,
the California Legislature is in the process of
approving a $1.1M Budget Change Proposal for ASSIST
that will provide us with sufficient funds to
establish a technical environment appropriate for
the functions ASSIST is serving. This BCP has moved
smoothly through the approval process so far and
everyone involved expects full funding effective
July 1, 2001. Immediately upon approval of these
funds, we will be purchasing three new IBM RS/6000
servers (about $60,000 each) to double our server
capacity and provide a fault-tolerant, load sharing
environment. We will also be relocating most of our
servers to a special machine room with improved
network access and more reliable electrical power
(since we are expecting continued electrical problems
for the next year).
This should position us for a smooth Fall 2001 term
where students, faculty and staff can again access
ASSIST services with normal response times
(and improvements along the way before then).
We will continue to keep the campuses and the ASSIST
Board of Directors up to date on these activities
as we make progress.
Thank you for allowing me to go on a bit and explain
the situation. And, thank you for your patience and
understanding during this important transition.
As always feel free to contact me at (949) 824-4385
or eric@assist.org with any questions or comments.
Sincerely,
Eric Taggart
Director
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: April 3, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST back up and running
Author: Eric Taggart
We have just reactivated Web ASSIST and
everything seems to be working. Please
let others at your campus who may not be
subscribed to ASSIST-L know that they can
resume their use of Web ASSIST.
Date: April 3, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST still down
Author: Eric Taggart
As of 7:30am this morning Web ASSIST is still
unavailable for public access. We have been
working all night on restoring access, but it
is not yet ready. We have been making progress
but still have one more step to go.
Thank you for your patience. I will send out
another ASSIST-L note as soon as it is up and
running.
Date: April 2, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Down - 11:00am Monday April 2
Author: Eric Taggart
At approximately 11:00am this morning, the Web ASSIST
database encountered a serious problem that is not
allowing anyone to get articulation agreements from
ASSIST.
We are currently working on the problem and will let
you know when Web ASSIST will be available.
In the mean time, we are disabling access to Web
ASSIST for the general public.
Date: March 13, 2001
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: New Web ASSIST System
Author: Eric Taggart
At long last, we are ready to switch Web ASSIST over
to the new system. Tomorrow morning around 8am we are
going to activate the new system.
The look and feel and all of the prompting pages and
reports are similar to what you've been seeing in Web
ASSIST all along, but underneath the hood there's lots
of new stuff going on.
If you've been hiding in a cave for the past year and
don't know what I'm talking about, here are some of
the specifics:
1) Web ASSIST will now access the central ASSIST
curriculum data for showing articulation reports.
This means that course names, titles and unit values
for a school's courses should be much more consistent
across agreements. This also means that as colleges
submit historical error corrections, there is a much
quicker turn-around time on those corrections showing
for the general public.
2) CSU and UC articulation officers can now publish
new and updated articulation on a nightly basis instead
of only monthly.
3) We have a new automated email notification system
that notifies the college and university articulation
officers whenever a university publishes a new or
modified agreement. Note that these emails only go
the official ASSIST Contacts at each campus and it is
their responsibility to forward this information to
others at their campus.
4) The behind-the-scenes programs and database are
totally different from the prior Web ASSIST system.
Hopefully none of you will notice this as everything
works the same as it did before.
5) If you have bookmarks to Web ASSIST in your browser
or on your campus web site that just point to
http://www.assist.org you're fine and nothing needs
to change. However, if you have bookmarks to deeper
levels of Web ASSIST in your browser or on your campus
web site, you will need to update those links
accordingly. If you follow old links, you should be
taken directly to the home page for ASSIST.
6) We are still working on the cleanup of UC TCAs,
CSU Bacc Lists, IGETC Lists and CSU GE Cert Lists.
Therefore, when you access these information in the
new system, you will only be able to receive archived
PDF reports from the November database. Since not much
of this information has been updated since November
(except for some historical error corrections) this
should not cause much inconvenience. Once we have
finished the cleanup of these data, we will notify
you again via ASSIST-L and the cleaned-up data will
automatically start showing in Web ASSIST. We expect
this cleanup to take a couple more months.
7) The new system reacts a bit slower than before.
We will be working over the next few months on making
it run faster, but we felt it was more important to
open up public access to the new system rather that
waiting for us to make it run more efficiently.
As always, if you have any questions or comments,
please email or call us at (949) 824-4385.
Date: October 19, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Curriculum System Now Up
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues:
We've solved the problem that was making the
Curriculum Update System so unstable. It is
again operational and you can now log on to
complete your Spring 2001 updates. You can reach
the Curriculum Update System at http://assist.org,
then go to Database (in the left sidebar), then
click on the link labeled Curriculum Update System.
The Late Additions & Error Correction Form is
also now available again. The link to that form
is immediately below the link to the Curriculum
Update System.
Please rest assured that none of the work that was
previously saved and/or submitted has been lost or
damaged.
We are extending the deadline for submitting Spring
2001 updates by one week. The system will be open
until Friday, October 27, 4:30 PM.
Thank you all for your patience. Please accept our
apologies for any inconvenience this problem may
have caused.
If you have any questions, feel free to call
(949-824-4385) or email me.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: October 12, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Curriculum Update System - Running Again
Author: Dale Leaman
The server that runs the Curriculum Update
System is back up and running, and colleges
and universities may now log on to complete
their curriculum updates. No saved data was
lost, but if you were logged on at the time
of the failure, had made some changes,
deletions or additions, and had not saved
your work recently, you will need to re-do
any work that was not saved. Let me repeat,
though, that no previously saved and/or
submitted updates were lost.
The system was unavailable for about a day,
and at this time we're not planning on extending
the deadline for submission of changes to
Spring 2001 curriculum data. The deadline is
still Friday, October, 20th, 4:30 PM.
If you have any questions about this message
please email me or call at (949) 824-4385.
Campus ASSIST managers will receive a duplicate
of this message, I apologize in advance for
the duplication.
Thank you for your patience.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: October 11, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Outage
Author: Larry Coon
The server which runs Web ASSIST and the
curriculum update system is currently down.
In the meantime, we have switched Web ASSIST
over to a backup server, so Web ASSIST is now
back up and running. The curriculum update
system is a more difficult problem, and we will
decide what to do with it once we know more
about the nature of the problem. We will keep
you posted with any news.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: October 9, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: RE: Question
Author: Dale Leaman
Carolyn (and everyone else):
The ASSIST Curriculum Update System is currently
open for updates to Spring 2001 information, as
Janet Harris said, and will remain open until
4:30 PM Friday, October 20. The email reminder
was sent on Sept. 26 to all ASSIST campus contacts.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: October 9, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Question
Author: Carolyn Buck
Question
when is the open window for community colleges to
enter their information for the Bacc List?
new courses
title prefix changes
deactivations etc.
Did I miss a notice?
Carolyn Buck
San Diego Mesa College
Date: October 6, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Proposed Agenda for ASSIST Conference
Author: Dale Leaman
The proposed agenda for the 15th Annual ASSIST
Conference is now available on the ASSIST
Information Center. Go to http://assist.org
then click on Current Activities, and then on
About the Conference.
This year's conference will be held on December
5 & 6 at the Walnut Creek Marriott, Walnut Creek,
CA. Complete details are available on the ASSIST
Information Center; just follow the path above.
You'll notice that one breakout session at the
conference is still To Be Arranged. If you have
an idea for a session you'd like to see at the
conference, please contact me directly by email
(dale@assist.org) or by phone (949-824-4385).
If you're planning to attend, take a moment to
review the agenda and register for the conference.
The registration form is also available online at
the location above.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: October 3, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Board Meeting October 23
Author: Eric Taggart
The next full meeting of the ASSIST Board of
Directors will be Monday October 23rd in Oakland.
If you have any issues or topics you would like
addressed by the Board, or if you would like to
attend the meeting as a guest, please email or
call me by this coming Friday, October 6 -
(949) 824-4385 or eric@assist.org.
Date: September 29, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 15th Annual ASSIST Conference
Author: Dale Leaman
Mark your calendars!
The 15th Annual ASSIST Conference will be held
on December 5th and 6th at the Walnut Creek
Marriott in Walnut Creek, CA.
Each California Community College, California
State University campus, and University of
California campus is asked to have at least
one representative attend this annual meeting.
Any other interested faculty or staff from
your campus are also welcome to attend.
Preliminary conference information, including
hotel details and an on-line registration form,
is now posted on the ASSIST Information Center
( http://assist.org) in the "Current Activities"
area. Over the next few weeks we will add the
agenda and other conference materials.
If you have any specific recommendations for
sessions that you would like to see provided
at the conference, or if you would like to
present or conduct a session at the conference,
please contact me by phone (949-824-4385) or
email (dale@assist.org) as soon as possible.
See you in December.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: September 29, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Scheduled Outage
Author: Larry Coon
ASSIST Users:
We will be doing maintenance to the computes on which
ASSIST runs tonight (Sept. 29). Web ASSIST will be
unavailable from 5:30 PM until approximately 6:00 PM.
The ASSIST Information Center will be down from 5:30
PM until approximately 8:00 PM.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: September 8, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ACS Email
Author: Eric Taggart
Last Friday the Coordination Site switched to a new
email system. Our email addresses are the same as they
were before, such as eric@assist.org.
The behind-the-scenes information about our new server
spreads around the Internet automatically, but for some
reason this is not happening very quickly.
If you have been trying to send email to anyone at the
Coordination Site over the past week and have had it
bounce back or have not heard back from us, please call
us directly at (949) 824-4385.
Date: July 19, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Service Interruption
Author: Eric Taggart
From Tuesday July 18th at about 6:30pm to Wednesday
July 19th at 7:15am, Web ASSIST was not fully
servicing requests for articulation reports. The
problem has been corrected and we are looking
into enhancing our monitoring/alarm programs to
detect the type of problem that was experienced
last night.
We hope that this interruption did not cause too
much difficulty. Thanks to Ann Williams at UCI
for contacting us about the problem. If you
ever experience problems with Web ASSIST and
are still able to use other web-based services,
please contact the Coordination Site to
determine if the problem is on our side.
Thanks,
Eric Taggart
Director
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: May 16, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Network Interruption
Author: Eric Taggart
Today from about 11:00am to 1:15pm, the UCI campus
Internet connection to the ASSIST Coordination
Site (and all of our web servers) was down. UCI
fixed their problem and they do not expect any
further outages related to this specific problem.
Please pass this information along to anyone at your
campus that may have contacted you about not being
able to access ASSIST during this time.
Date: May 11, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Native American RC Director Recruitment--UCSC
Author: Jessica A. Matson
Please pass this on to all who may be interested.
---Tammy
>>Dear Colleagues:
>>
>>The Office of Student Development and
>>Community Service is excited to announce
>>this new opportunity within our campus
>>community and encourages those with
>>directly related and/or transferable
>>skills to apply.
>>
>>The Native American Resource Center
>>will provide a central resource for our
>>students, building a community that supports
>>awareness, advocacy and the development of
>>programs fostering leadership, scholarship,
>>and social responsibility.
>>
>>The new director will join our congenial,
>>committed team of eight student support
>>service directors working in partnership
>>with students to meet the goals and objectives
>>of the Student Affairs Division.
>>
>>We offer an excellent benefits package
>>including medical/dental/vision care, tax
>>deferred savings and a retirement program.
>>
>>Please visit http://www2.ucsc.edu/staff_hr/
>>employment/listings/000476.htm for a full
>>list of responsibilities and qualifications.
>>
>>Feel free to forward this information to
>>clients, community members, or interested
>>organizations; this position is open for
>>all campus and non-campus applicants.
>>
>>Thank you in advance for referring qualified
>>candidates!
>>
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>Jessica A. Matson
>>Student Affairs Service Center
>>Human Resources Analyst
>>(831) 459-5250 (831) 459-3188 FAX
>>Email: jmatson@cats.ucsc.edu
>>Student Affairs www site:
>>http://www.ucsc.edu/ucsc/student-affairs/index.html
Date: May 10, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST and recent virus problem
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues:
(Aren't you tired of hearing from me?)
Most of you, I think, know that the ASSIST
Coordination Site relies on UC Irvine for our
email and Internet connectivity. Last week's
"I Love You" email worm prompted UCI to change
some security configurations on their servers,
and as a consequence we had to make some
changes to our systems to accommodate them.
That took us about a day.
The result is we have about 24 hours worth of
email that we are trying to reconstruct. If you
sent us email between 7PM on Wednesday, May
3rd and 7PM Thursday, May 4th, please resend it
so we can be sure we have everything. You might
have received a "bounced mail" message, but
that's not guaranteed. We have resent everything
from our end, so you haven't missed anything
important from us (aren't YOU the lucky ones?).
PLEASE NOTE: The Curriculum Update System is an
entirely different system, server, function, and
process. Work you might have done in the Curriculum
Update System was never at risk and is unharmed.
Thanks for your understanding and help. If you have
any questions feel free to call me at (949) 824-4385.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: May 2, 2000
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: May 15th Board Meeting Packet
Author: Eric Taggart
For those of you who may be interested, we have
just posted the agenda and materials for the
upcoming ASSIST Board of Directors meeting on
May 15, 2000.
You will find these documents on the ASSIST Information
Center at http://assist.org in the "Board Info" section
under the "May 2000 Board Meeting" link. Some
documents are not yet ready, but should be posted
soon.
If you are planning on attending this meeting as a
guest, you must contact me at eric@assist.org or
(949) 824-4385. Board meetings are open to the
public, but space is limited and we need to plan
accordingly.
Date: April 11, 2000
To: CCC, CSU & UC Campus Representatives
Subject: May 15, 2000 Board Meeting Anouncement
Author: Eric Taggart
The next meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors
will be held on Monday May 15, 2000 at the CSU
Chancellor's Office in Long Beach.
If you are interested in attending this meeting
as a guest, or if you would like to submit an
item for the agenda, please contact me directly
at eric@assist.org or (949) 824-4385 no later
than Thursday, April 27.
A meeting agenda and information packet will
be posted on the ASSIST Information Center by
Monday May 1, 2000.
Date: February 1, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: Back up and running - no damage
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi All,
Thanks to Kathryn for helping to distribute our
note since our downed network access meant we
couldn't send any email either!
Fortunately, as Murphy would have it, about 5
minutes after the message went out
from Kathryn, UCI restored our network service.
ASSIST was unavailable from about 2:50pm to
3:45pm.
We don't expect any further outages from this
incident.
Thanks,
Eric
Date: November 9, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: Final Documents for Nov 22 Board Meeting Packet
Author: Eric Taggart
We have just posted the final 2 documents
for the November 22 Board meeting, the
Director's Report and the draft policies
for independent colleges and
universities participation in ASSIST.
Please note that the document on independent
institutions contains two separate documents,
a final version of the policies for
independents as receiving institutions and
a draft version of policies for independents
as sending institutions.
Date: November 8, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST: Nov. 22 Board Meeting Packet
Author: Eric Taggart
In preparation for the next meeting of the
ASSIST Board of Directors on November 22, we
have just posted most of the meeting packet
including an agenda. As directed at our last
meeting, Board meeting packets are now posted
in the public area of the ASSIST Information
Center http://assist.org under the "Board Info"
category.
I have not yet received official notification
of who the new faculty reps are for each segment,
so please pass this information along to them
when they are appointed to that they can get
the corresponding materials.
At this time, we have not completed the
"Director's Report" or the "Draft Policies for
Independents as Sending Institutions." Once
these are ready and posted I will let you know.
For ASSIST-L subscribers, the deadline for
adding agenda items and getting on the meeting
guest list has passed. However if you have any
questions, please contact me directly at
(949) 824-4385 or eric@assist.org.
Date: November 3, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Re: CSUDH Articulation
Author: Barbara Robinson
I'll review our updated agreement on ASSIST and
then get back to you. Thank you for all the hard
work you've done to maintain articulation between
our two colleges. Your college continues to be
our #1 transfer institution. Therefore, on behalf
of our students and faculty, thank you very much!
-------------Barbara, LASC
Date: November 3, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Re: CSUDH Articulation
Author:Ross Miyashiro
Reply to: Re: CSUDH Articultion
Thank you Cynthia for your hard work. I will look
at the new data and alter my systemwide report to
the Chancellor.
Ross Miyashiro
Assc. Director of Transfer & Student Programs
Access and Retention
Academic Affairs
Phone: (562) 951-4728
Fax : (562) 951-4981
rmiyashiro@calstate.edu
Date: November 3, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Re: CSUDH Articulation
Author:Cynthia Speare
My phone number is (310) 243-2899.
Cynthia Speare
Articulation Officer
CSU Dominguez Hills
>>> "Cynthia Speare"
11/02 3:35 PM >>>
Dear Community College Articulation Officers:
1999-2000 articulation agreements (by department only)
are now posed on the ASSIST website. Articulation
agreements by majors are being revised and will be
posted at a later date. I appreciate your patience
while I have learned to use ASSIST Revelation. Please
feel free to call me if you have any questions or
concerns about your articulation agreement with CSU
Dominguez Hills.
Sincerely,
Cynthia Speare
Articulation Officer
CSU Dominguez Hills
Date: November 2, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: CSUDH Articulation
Author:Cynthia Speare
Dear Community College Articulation Officers:
1999-2000 articulation agreements (by department only)
are now posed on the ASSIST website. Articulation
agreements by majors are being revised and will be
posted at a later date. I appreciate your patience
while I have learned to use ASSIST Revelation. Please
feel free to call me if you have any questions or
concerns about your articulation agreement with CSU
Dominguez Hills.
Sincerely,
Cynthia Speare
Articulation Officer
CSU Dominguez Hills
Date: November 2, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: November 22, 1999 ASSIST Board Meeting
Author: Eric Taggart
Dear Colleagues,
The next meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors
will be held on Monday, November 22 in Sacramento.
If you are interested in attending this meeting as
a guest or if you would like to propose an item for
the Board's agenda, please contact me no later than
this Friday, November 5.
As the meeting approaches, we will be posting a full
agenda and meeting materials on the ASSIST Information
Center for your reference.
See you all on December 1 and 2 at the Annual ASSIST
Conference. If you have not yet registered, please do
so as soon as possible to assure your spot.
Eric
Date: October 11, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 14th Annual ASSIST Conference Agenda
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues-
The proposed agenda for the 14th Annual ASSIST
Conference is now posted on the ASSIST Information
Center web site. To find all of the conference
information, including the registration form, go to
the ASSIST Information Center (http://assist.org),
click on "Current Activities," and follow the link
labeled "14th Annual ASSIST Conference Information."
We would like to provide one more session of interest
to conference attendees from the community colleges. If
you have an idea for such a session, please contact me
by email (dale@assist.org) or phone (949-824-4385).
Please note:
If you use the Reply feature of your email program to
respond to this message, your response will be addressed
to everyone on the ASSIST-L list. Please respond directly
to dale@assist.org.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: October 1, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Re: October Web ASSIST update delayed
Author: Corki Brucelas
Hi...all of you in assist land....I would like to
invite all of you to are Technology Day Event and
Business Mixer..Wed. Oct. 6 th . 4:30 pm to 8:00pm
Love to have all of you here. Any Q& A about the event
...Corki Brucelas (1800597-1333 X 5441...or 562 997-5441
..E-mail cbrucela@admin.lb.devry.edu
Date: October 1, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: October Web ASSIST update delayed
Author: Larry Coon
Due to some technical problems at the Coordination Site,
the October database update for Web ASSIST has been
delayed. We hope to have the update on-line over the
weekend.
Sorry for any inconvenience,
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: September 9, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Planned Power Outage
Author: Eric Taggart
On this coming Saturday, September 11, the building
that houses the ASSIST Coordination Site server computers
will have the power turned off for two or three hours
while the local fire authorities perform required testing.
Web ASSIST and the ASSIST Information Center will be
unavailable from approximately 7:30am to 10:30am during
this outage.
Thanks,
Eric
Date: August 18, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Outage
Author: Larry Coon
Dear ASSIST Users:
The ASSIST Coordination Site experienced an Internet
outage today, during which Web ASSIST and the ASSIST
Information Center were not available. We are back up
& running now, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: July 30, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Transfer and Articulation Coordinators' Trainings
Author: Gwyn Tracy
We are mailing out materials concerning all the Student
Services coordinators' trainings. Transfer Directors are
scheduled for September 1, and Articulation Officers are
scheduled for September 2. These both will be conducted
from 10:00 - 4:30 in Sacramento. As in the past, there is
a small fee to cover lunch and materials. It is possible,
if you are interested, to attend both trainings.
Registration will be available (hopefully by Monday, August 2)
on the Chancellor's Office web site, under the Student Services
Division, "What's New." The tentative agenda for each day will
also be posted. The deadline for registration is August 20.
I hope the trainings will be of practical value to you. As
these are tentative agendas, please feel free to call me if
you have a dire need for a topic not listed.
I look forward to meeting all of you in September!
Gwyn Tracy
Coordinator, Transfer and Articulation
Student Services
Chancellor's Office
1102 Q Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 327-0749
Date: July 29, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: June 1999 ASSIST Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Author: Eric Taggart
The agenda and minutes from the June 15, 1999 Board
meeting have just been posted in the ASSIST Information
Center, under the "Board Meetings" sub-heading of the
"Board Info" section.
Date: July 28, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 14th Annual ASSIST Conference
Author: Eric Taggart
Save The Date!!!!
The 14th Annual ASSIST Conference will be held on
December 1st and 2nd in Southern California near
the John Wayne Airport.
Each California Community College, California State
University, and University of California is asked to
have at least one representative from their campus
attend this annual meeting. Any other interested
faculty or staff from your campus are also welcome to
attend.
Preliminary conference information, including hotel
details, will be posted on the ASSIST Information
Center within the next few days in the "Current
Activities" area. Over the next few weeks, we will
add an on-line registration form, agenda, and other
conference materials.
If you have any specific recommendations for sessions
that you would like to see provided at the conference,
or if you would like to present or conduct a session
at the conference, please contact Dale Leaman at the
Coordination Site as soon as possible.
See you in December - if not sooner!
Eric
Date: July 22, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Network Interruption
Author: Larry Coon
This Friday, July 23, at 10:00 PM, UCI will be doing
maintenance on the networks that connect the ASSIST
Coordination Site to the Internet. During this time,
Web ASSIST and the ASSIST Information Center will not
be available. We have been told that the work will be
completed by 4:00 AM Saturday. While it is unliklely
that any of you will be using ASSIST at this late hour,
we nevertheless apologize for any inconvenience this
outage may cause.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: July 7, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Marketing Survey
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues-
We're gathering information about the ways colleges and
universities are informing students and other users about
ASSIST. To help us, we've prepared a short online survey.
Please take few moments to go to the ASSIST Information
Center at-
http://assist.org
Click on
Current Activities
then
Marketing ASSIST Survey
and complete the form. After you've completed the survey,
click the Submit button at the bottom of the page to send
us your responses.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to do this.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: June 24, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Explanation of CSU Net Interruptions on June 21 & 22
Author: Eric Taggart
Hi All,
As I mentioned in my previous note, on this past Monday and
Tuesday, we received a number of calls from campuses not
being able to access ASSIST. We have received a follow-up
on the precise problem and I wanted to pass it along.
As indicated in the note below, the CalRen2 people are going
to start provide notices of planned outages or service.
When we receive any notices in the future, we'll pass it on
to ASSIST-L so that you can have a bit of advanced warning.
Thanks,
Eric
------------------------------------------------------------
Eric,
I spoke to the 4Cnet folks on Wednesday. Here is what caused
the outage between UC and CSU Monday and Tuesday.
CalREN2 (C2) is a high speed network which UC, CSU, Stanford,
ISI/USC, JPL and CalTech participate in. This is California
Internet2 project.
The CSU facility at WestED in Anaheim has poor connectivity
to C2. This is a problem since this is where the C2 NOC is
located. A commitment was made by CSU to the NSF to get their
facility connected to C2 by the end of June.
On Monday, without notice, CSU tried to route to C2 members
via their new C2 connection. They left this circuit up until
Tuesday at 11:00am.
I asked them when they expected to continue this work. I was
told early next week. I then asked to have this announced to
the C2 TAC members such that we could warn our clients. It
was agreed that we would receive a notification.
So in a nutshell, the cause of Monday and Tuesday's
connectivity trouble between UCI to 4Cnet was CSU's attempt
to implement the new connection at WestED and the trouble
getting it going. Once the new connection is working, CSU's
(and the Community Colleges) connectivity to UCI via C2 will
be better.
Mike
Date: June 22, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: UC/CSU Network Problems
Author: Eric Taggart
Earlier today we began receiving reports that many CSU
and Community College campuses were unable to access
ASSIST.
Upon further investigation, we found there there was a
significant problem routing Internet traffic from the
UC network that ASSIST is on to the CSU network that many
CSU and Community College campuses are on. Naturally
this problem was far outside of the control of the ASSIST
Coordination Site, but we have been trying to get details
on the problem and its resolution.
The problem seems to have started some time on Monday
and would have made it so that many CSU/CCC campuses we
unable to reach many UC campus sites and vice versa.
Around noon today we say the problems subside and
everything seems to have returned to normal. Hopefully
it will stay that way.
If we find out any more details about what actually
caused the outage, we'll pass it along.
Eric
Date: June 14, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Activity Reports
Author: Dale Leaman
The Web ASSIST Activity Reports (Usage Reports) are now
available at the ASSIST Information Center. Go to-
http://assist.org, click on Database, then select the link
labeled "Web ASSIST Activity Reports."
These reports reflect the number of times transfer course
agreements and articulation agreements for a particular
institution or pair of institutions were displayed in Web
ASSIST. You should know that we are not keeping track of
who is using ASSIST, or who is looking at any particular
report in ASSIST. We are keeping track of the number of
times a report is displayed in ASSIST, without recording
who displayed the report.
There are generally three kinds of reports:
1. General Activity
Total numbers of site hits and reports per day,
week, and month These reports are for general
knowledge, and are probably more useful to the
ASSIST Coordination Site than to any campuses.
2. Community College TCA Activity Reports
Number of times a UC TCA, CSU Baccalaureate list,
IGETC list, or CSU GE-Breadth Certification list
from a particular community college was requested.
3. Articulation Activity Reports
The number of times information pertaining to a
pair of institutions (sending and receiving) was
requested. There is an activity report for each
university sorted by other institution, department,
GE, and major (where appropriate).
Remember when you look at the articulation activity reports
that when displaying articulation by department, ASSIST uses
the department of the institution that was selected first in
the Web ASSIST prompting sequence. This means there will be
departments in the university report that are not the
university's, but are the community colleges'. For example,
the university may have a Communications department, and
there will also be Speech Communications, Communication Arts,
Journalism and Communications, etc. in the report of
articulation displayed by department.
The same is true of universities that have articulation as
both receiving and sending institution, for both departments
and majors.
Since you might find some of the reports to be a little
confusing, be sure you read the text on each page, and
follow the "More Information about..." links to get more
details.
If you have any questions about using the activity reports,
email me at dale@assist.org or call me at (949) 824-4385.
Please DO NOT REPLY to this ASSIST-L message, as that reply
must be manually stopped from going to all recipients of
this message.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: May 25, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Quarter Vs. Semester
Author: Cathy Robin
We want to verify that ASSIST has correct information about
which institutions are on the quarter system and which are on
the semester system. According to our records the following
institutions are on the quarter system:
Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CSU Bakersfield,
CSU Hayward, CSU San Bernardino, De Anza College, Foothill
College, Lake Tahoe, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSD, UCSB and UCSC.
All other institutions are on the semester system. Please
let us know if any of this information is incorrect.
Please note that September will be the time period of all
quarter system schools to enter any curriculum changes
effective Winter Quarter 2000.
Thanks
Cathy
Date: May 17, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: June 15th ASSIST Board Meeting
Author: Eric Taggart
Dear Colleagues,
The next meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors will be
held on June 15th in Southern California.
If you have any items that you would like to have placed
on the ASSIST Board agenda or if you would like to attend
this meeting, please contact me by this coming Friday,
May 21, 1999.
Thanks,
Eric Taggart
Director
ASSIST Coordination Site
eric@assist.org
Date: May 17, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Curriculum Update System - Final Numbers
Author: Eric Taggart
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to personally thank each of the ASSIST Campuses
Managers and their staff at all CCC, CSU and UC campuses for
their diligent work in using the new web-based ASSIST Curriculum
Update System to provide Fall 1999 course list data.
Now that our first attempt at this has come to a close, I am
very pleased to report that there were only 6 out of 136
campuses that did not fully complete their work. And, we
have already spoken with the 6 campuses who were not able to
complete everything to determine their precise status.
In 15 years, we have never see this kind of response! Given
the importance of clean curriculum data at the core of the
ASSIST database, I believe that your work over these past six
weeks is yet another positive and measurable statement about
your commitment to serving California's transfer students.
We expect that some time in July 1999 you will begin to see
the new curriculum data you have submitted for Fall 1999
reflected in the ASSIST Database as we post the 1999-2000
CSU Baccalaureate Lists, IGETC Lists and CSU GE Certification
Lists.
As your local curriculum committees continue to make changes
late into the summer for your Fall 1999 curriculum, please
remember to use the "Late Additions and Error Corrections Form"
on the ASSIST Information Center to provide us with this
information.
All of us at the Coordination Site hope that you found the
system easy to use and hope you find the same success as we
begin to move into an annual cycle of using this system for
reflecting curricular changes each term.
For a bit of advanced warning --- our current schedule calls
for the following:
- A 3-week update period in early September for quarter-
system campuses to reflect Winter 2000 curricular changes,
- A 4-week update period in October for all campuses to
reflect Spring 2000 curricular changes,
- A 3-week update period (probably in February) for all
campuses to reflect Summer 2000 curricular changes,
- And then starting over again in April for all campuses to
reflect Fall 2000 curricular changes.
We will be in contact with you as we move forward with this
schedule to ensure you and your staff have a specific schedule
and receive any needed training.
Thank you again for all of your hard work and please contact us
if you need anything more related to this important activity.
Eric Taggart
Director
ASSIST Coordination Site
cc: ASSIST-L
ASSIST Board of Directors
Date: May 13, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: RE: ASSIST Curriculum System
Author: Ruth De Tro
I just want to send kudos to all at the ACS. This maintenance
program is more than great! It is easy, allows us to view our
modifications and additions AND our terminations (separately).
This is really time saving as it allows us to view possible
editing errors and correct them before submitting!
I love it! And, coming from one campus who had lots of
problems rising from our sea of data - that is saying a lot!
Take the day off - and have a great weekend!
Ruth De Tro
Date: May 13, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Curriculum System
Author: Dale Leaman
Good morning.
I want to thank all of you for working so hard on your
curriculum information updates. The entire process, in
general, has gone extremely well.
As of this morning (Thursday, May 13), out of the 136
community colleges and universities that are using the
system, 79 have completed and submitted their updates,
51 are working on courses, 3 are on prefixes, and 3 have
not yet logged on.
Just a reminder, the system will be turned off tomorrow
(Friday, May 14) at 5:00 PM PDT. The Error Correction Form
will be available after that time.
If you have completed your updates, and are waiting until
tomorrow afternoon to hit that "Submit" button, please go
ahead and submit your updates today or early tomorrow. Any
last minute changes can be entered using the Error Correction
Form.
If you've entered error corrections to previous years' data,
it's going to take us some time to go through those and make
the changes in the data base. Those corrections won't appear
on Web ASSIST articulation and TCA reports immediately.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: May 7, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Curriculum Update System
Author: Dale Leaman
Just a reminder that the deadline for submitting your updated
curriculum information is rapidly approaching. The deadline is
Friday, May 14th, 5:00 PM PDT.
At this time:
34 campuses have submitted their course and are completely done
48 campuses have submitted their prefixes, and are working on
courses (or are done and waiting for the last second to submit
them, you sneaky rascals) 42 campuses have logged on and are
working on prefixes 12 campuses have not logged on
I know many of you are waiting until Friday to make your final
submission. Please try to make that submission early on Friday
afternoon to avoid a potential log-jam at 4:45 PM. If you have
additional courses to add after the deadline, the Error Correction
and Late Addition form will continue to be available.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: May 7, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Service Interruption
Author: Larry Coon
There was a network problem at UCI this morning which interrupted
both phone and network service at the ASSIST Coordination Site.
As a result, Web ASSIST and the Curriculum Maintenance System were
not available until about 8:45 this (Friday) morning. The problem
has been fixed, and both systems are now available.
We apologize if the outage inconvenienced you in any way.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: April 19, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Curriculum Update System
Author: Eric Taggart
This is a reminder that only 4 weeks remain for all campuses to
complete their curriculum updates for Fall 1999 using the new
on-line ASSIST Curriculum Update System.
Many of you are moving swiftly through the update process and
a small number have already completed their updates.
If you need any assistance in updating your curriculum, please
do not hesitate to call the ASSIST Coordination Site at
(949) 824-4385.
Date: January 25, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Reminder 1998-99 CSU Baccalaureate Updates Due
Author: Cathy Robin
Note: The following update is directed to the attention of the
Community College ASSIST participants
This is a reminder that updates to the 1998-99 CSU Baccalaureate
lists are due to the ASSIST Coordination Site on or before
February 19.
Information and instructions regarding updating the lists was
sent to all ASSIST contacts at community college campuses several
weeks ago. If you need further information regarding the updating
the list for your campus, please see the ASSIST manager on your
campus.
To date, we have received only a handful of updates. We would
like to enter changes and make the new lists available on ASSIST
in March, so it is important that we receive all bacc list updates
on time.
If you have any questions or comments about this process, please
call me at (949) 824-4385 or email me at cathy@assist.org
Thanks
Cathy Robin
Date: January 15, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Online Orientation
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues-
Hard to believe I know, but the ASSIST Online Orientation is
finally available. This program is a multi-media introduction
to ASSIST, suitable for counselors, administrators, staff or
students. It makes use of one of the latest Internet
technologies, streaming audio and video. You will need to
download and install the Real Media Player plug-in to use
the orientation.
I've tested this program on several campuses using a
variety of combinations of computer, browser and RealMedia
Player, and the factor that affects performance the most is
Internet connection speed. Please be patient if it takes awhile
for the a/v files to load.
The orientation is available by going to the ASSIST Information
Center at:
http://assist.org
then click on:
About ASSIST
and then:
ASSIST Online Orientation
This link will take you to some explanatory material about
using the orientation. Please review the material on this
page. Your campus technical staff should be able to answer
any questions you have about installing the Real Media Player.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: January 12, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Revised ASSIST Course List Training Schedule
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues-
In order to fit around the CC Mega-Conference and some
other activities we've made some slight revisions to our
Course List Maintenance Training schedule. There are three
differences between this schedule and the one I sent out
previously:
1. The session at CSU San Bernardino has been changed
from Tuesday March 23, to Monday, March 8, 10 AM to 1 PM
2. A session has been added at UC Santa Barbara on
Thursday, March 25, 10 AM to 1 PM
3. The CSU Fresno session is also scheduled for March 25,
but for 12 Noon to 3 PM.
Here's a complete list of scheduled sessions:
CSU San Bernardino, Monday, March 8, 10 AM - 1 PM
Saddleback College, Tuesday, March 9, 9 AM - 12 Noon
LA Mission College, Wednesday, March 10, 9 AM - 12 Noon
CSU Sacramento,Thursday, March 11, 10 AM - 1 PM
CSU Hayward, Friday, March 12,9 AM - 12 Noon
Palomar College, Tuesday, March 16, 9 AM - 12 Noon
CSU Long Beach, Wednesday, March 17, 10 AM - 1 PM
Shasta College, Thursday, March 18, 1 PM - 4 PM
UC Santa Barbara, Thursday, March 25, 10 AM - 1 PM
CSU Fresno, Thursday, March 25, 12 Noon - 3 PM
Mission CC (Santa Clara), Friday, March 26, 10 AM - 1 PM
The ASSIST Information Center website will be updated
to reflect this new schedule.
The ASSIST Course Lists will be the real foundation of
the new ASSIST Online Articulation Maintenance, and
keeping them accurate and updated will be critical. The
Course List Maintenance system will be used by campuses
to update and verify all of the vital curricular information
in ASSIST. It will be very important for every campus to
send at least one person to a course list training session.
Please make plans to attend one of these sessions.
You'll receive more information when the registration
form is posted.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: January 5, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Updates to 1998-99 CSU Baccalaureate Lists
Author: Cathy Robin
Happy New Year!!
In the next couple of days, ASSIST contacts at community
college campuses will receive a request to submit updates
to the CSU Baccalaureate lists for 1998-99. Complete
instructions for submitting the Bacc lists will be provided
with the request.
As you are aware, we finally completed the data entry and
review of the 1995-96, 1996-97 and 1997-98 Bacc lists.
The ASSIST database now contains lists for each community
college for the years 95-97.
We are now ready to add the current Bacc lists to the
database. 1998-99 Bacc lists will be due to the Coordination
Site by February 19, 1999.
This will be the last time updates to IGETC, CSU GE/Breadth
or Baccalaureate lists are requested via hard copy. Beginning
Fall, 1999, updates to the lists will be made on-line using
the new ASSIST course list maintenance system. The new system
should simplify the update process by curricular changes that
affect the Bacc list, IGETC and CSU/GE breath courses to be
made all at once rather than through separate processes.
Training sessions for the new course list maintenance system
are planned for March, 1999. You will receive information soon
about the dates and locations of the sessions.
Thanks for all your time and effort in getting the Bacc lists to
us. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Cathy Robin
Date: January 5, 1999
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Course List Maintenance Training
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues-
Thanks to everyone who volunteered their campus to host a
course list maintenance training session. (It's amazing how
cooperative and generous everyone can be if they think they
can get out of a little driving. ;-))
The ASSIST Course Lists will be the real foundation of the
new ASSIST Online Articulation Maintenance, and keeping
them accurate and updated will be critical. The Course List
Maintenance system will be used by campuses to update
and verify all of the vital curricular information in ASSIST.
To prepare for the implementation of this system, we will
be providing a series of training sessions around the state.
These training sessions will be hands-on, working with real
data over the Web; exactly as the course list maintenance
will be done beginning in April. It will be very important for
every campus to send at least one person to a course list
training session.
There will be no charge to attend these training sessions,
but we would like attendees to register in advance to facilitate
our planning. A registration form will be posted soon at the
ASSIST Information Center (http://assist.org).
We've scheduled sessions for the following campuses and
dates. There will be one additional session for the Central
Coast area, but the time we currently have reserved is a
Friday afternoon, and I'm trying to schedule something a
little more convenient.
The following are confirmed times and places:
Saddleback College Tuesday, March 9 9 AM - 12 N
LA Mission College Wednesday, March 10 9 AM - 12 N
CSU Sacramento Thursday, March 11 10 AM - 1 PM
CSU Hayward Friday, March 12 9 AM - 12 N
Palomar College Tuesday, March 16 9 AM - 12 N
CSU Long Beach Wednesday, March 17 10 AM - 1 PM
Shasta College Thursday, March 18 1 PM - 4 PM
CSU San Bernardino Tuesday, March 23 10 AM - 1 PM
CSU Fresno Thursday, March 25 10 AM - 1 PM
Mission College Friday, March 26 10 AM - 1 PM
We realize that March is a busy month, with an early Spring
break this year and the CCCO Mega-Conference, but we must
put the new Course List Maintenance system into place in April,
so that data can be in place for the launch of the Articulation
Maintenance System in August.
Please make plans to attend one of these sessions. You'll
receive more information when the registration form is posted.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: November 12, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Community College ASSIST Training Survey
Author: Cathy Robin
To: Community College ASSIST Contacts
Thanks to the many of you who have taken the time to
fill out the ASSIST Training Survey. The information
and your comments have been very helpful.
As a reminder to the rest, please take a few minutes and
complete the survey for us. Because the ASSIST Information
Center has been unavailable for the past few days, we are
extending the deadline for receiving responses. Please
respond by November 17, 1998. This will allow us to tabulate
the information for use in several of the sessions at the
ASSIST Conference on December 1 and 2.
To complete the survey, go the the ASSIST Information Center
(assist.org). Click on Current Events listed in the side bar.
Then look for the link for Community College Training Survey.
It should only take a couple of minutes to fill out.
Additionally, I would also like to remind you that the deadline
for registration for the 13th Annual ASSIST Conference is November
20. Registration can be done online on the ASSIST Information
Center. We are hoping that each campus will be able to send at
least one representative to the conference.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact
me at (949)824-4385 or email me at cathy@assist.org
Cathy Robin
Date: November 11, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Web Site Back Up
Author: Larry Coon
The ASSIST web site at http://assist.org was unavailable
Wednesday morning and all day Tuesday. We have fixed the
problem that caused the interruption, and the web site is now
back up. Web ASSIST (at http://www.assist.org) was unaffected
by this problem.
If you are still having a problem accessing our web site,
especially the section for CSU Baccalaureate review, please
contact the ACS at (949) 824-4385.
Thank you,
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: October 27, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Survey of Community College Campuses
Author: Cathy Robin
In preparation for the ASSIST conference in December, we
are seeking information about the training needs of community
college campuses with regards to ASSIST.
We have developed a survey form for community colleges which
is located on the ASSIST Information Center. The survey is very
brief. Please take a few minutes to fill it out and submit it
to the ASSIST Coordination Site. Please submit the survey by
November 15.
The ASSIST Information Center is located at assist.org. Click
on the Current Events section in the sidebar and look for the
link to Community College Training Survey.
If you have any questions, please feel free to give me a call
at (949) 824-4385 or email me at cathy@assist.org.
Thanks for your help.
Cathy Robin
Date: October 9, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Board of Directors Meeting
Author: Eric Taggart
The next meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors will be held
on Monday, November 2, 1998.
If you would like to attend this meeting as a guest, or if you
would like to place an item on the agenda, please contact me by
phone or email by Friday, October 16, 1998.
Here is a list of the current campus and systemwide office
representative on the ASSIST Board if you would like to discuss
any issues with them prior to the meeting:
CCC Chancellor's Office - Betty Sundberg - 916-322-5617
Campus Rep - Mary Jennings-Smith - 760-795-6881
CSU Chancellor's Office - Judy Osman - 562-985-2944
Campus Rep - Helena Bennett - 916-278-7700
UC Office of the President - Steve Handel - 510-987-9559
Campus Rep - Bob Ferrando - 530-752-3711
Date: October 9, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Status of Transfer Course Agreements in ASSIST
Author: Eric Taggart
This message is being sent to both ASSIST-L and the CIAC list.
If you are subscribed to both, you will receive this message twice.
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Dear Colleagues:
A number of people have called recently inquiring about the
status of various TCA information in ASSIST. I'd like to take
this opportunity to provide you with an update on our progress.
As you probably know, we are way behind in a number of areas.
As explained below, this is almost exclusively due to a major
clean-up project we have been coordinating (closely tied to the
historical CSU Bacc Lists) that is required for us to acheive
more clean and consistent data for students as well as to
complete the new Web ASSIST Maintenance System.
CSU Baccalaureate Lists:
We have finally completed the data entry of all 95-96, 96-97 &
97-98 CSU Bacc lists that individual campuses submitted last
Spring. We are doing a final pass on ensuring that we have
correct course prefix information to ensure consistency between
databases. We are planning on posting the individual lists for
each colleges in a password protected area on the ASSIST
Information Center so that the campus articulation officers can
take a final look at them and submit any final changes before
they get posted on the public Web ASSIST site. We hope to do
this in about a week from now and colleges will have about a
month to complete this final review.
After this has been done, we will coordinate the 98-99 update
of CSU Bacc Lists.
This project is providing a critical base-line of consistent
course data for use throughout all of the articulation in
ASSIST, and it is very important that we get it right to
ensure the highest possible accuracy of data.
98-99 CSU GE & IGETC Lists:
We finally received the 98-99 CSU GE changes in mid-August
(about 4 months late). We are now entering the 98-99 IGETC
& CSU GE updates including new courses and technical updates.
During the entering of the 95-97 CSU Bacc lists, however, we
uncovered a very high number of inconsistencies between
CSU Bacc, IGETC, and CSU GE lists that we absolutely had to
resolve before we could proceed with the 98-99 IGETC & CSU GE
list data entry. We expect to publish the 98-99 IGETC & CSU GE
lists in early November.
98-99 UC Transferable Course Agreements:
Louise Randolph at the UC Office of the President has been
working hard again this year on updating UCOP TCA lists for
colleges. While she and her staff are on track with their
work, the final printouts for 98-99 from her office and in
Web ASSIST do not currently show IGETC areas because we have
not yet finished the entry of the 98-99 IGETC lists. Once we
publish the 98-99 IGETC lists, Web ASSIST will automatically
begin showing the IGETC areas on UCOP TCA reports.
I will be attending the NCIAC meeting on Oct 16 and the SCIAC
meeting on Oct 20, and will be discussing this and other related
items in more detail. Please feel free to call or email with any
comments or questions.
Eric Taggart
Director
ASSIST Coordination Site
(949) 824-4385
eric@assist.org
Date: October 2, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Area Code Change
Author: Bob Sperry
To those of you who are Articulation Personnel, the CIAC
Directory already has the changed area codes. They have
been in effect on a dial-either-one basis for six months.
If you need a new copy, please see:
http://enrollment.csusb.edu/articulation/ciac
Bob Sperry
Course Articulation Officer
California State University, San Bernardino
Campus Steward, Academic Professionals of California,
Local 1002, LIUNA, AFL-CIO
Voice: 909-880-5191
FAX: 909-880-7106
Email: bsperry@csusb.edu
Date: October 2, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: South Orange County Area Code Change
Author: Doug Koeppen
Dear Colleagues,
As of October 16, the telephone area code is changing from
714 to 949 for the ASSIST Coordination Site, UCI, Saddleback
College, and Irvine Valley College. The northern part of the
county still uses the 714 area code. You can check a telephone
directory to see which areas of the county have changed to the
new area code or refer to Pacific Bell's web site to view a
map of the parts of the county that have changed. Here is the
url for Pacific Bell's site:
http://www.pacbell.com/about-pb/areacodes/areacodes-714.html
Doug Koeppen
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: October 2, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 13th Annual ASSIST Conference
Author: Eric Taggart
The tentative agenda for the 13th Annual ASSIST Conference
(December 1 and 2 in Walnut Creek) is now posted on the ASSIST
Information Center at assist.org
The agenda is listed with the other conference materials under
Current Activities.
You may register for the conference on line. Remember, you must
register by November 20. We are looking forward to seeing you
there.
Date: September 23, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 13th Annual ASSIST Conference Information
Author: Eric Taggart
We are in the process of finalizing the agenda for the
13th Annual ASSIST Conference to be held in December.
The agenda should be posted on the ASSIST Information
Center (assist.org) in the next week.
We have made room on the agenda for campuses that might
like to present a workshop related to ASSIST. If you are
interested in providing a workshop on some ASSIST-related
topic, please contact Cathy or Dale at the ASSIST
Coordination Site no later than Monday, September 28.
As a general reminder, the ASSIST Conference will be
held on December 1 and 2 at the Walnut Creek Marriott.
Registration information is available on the ASSIST
Information Center.
Date: July 16, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: July '98 ASSIST Distribution Database Now Available
Author: Larry Coon
WEB ASSIST USERS: Web ASSIST is now using the July '98
Distribution Database, which includes all data submitted
to the Coordination Site for the June 20 call for data.
REVELATION ASSIST USERS: The July '98 Distribution Database
is now available. Packets with software updates and a cover
letter have been mailed to all campuses that use the Revelation
software. As with the January database update, tapes and
instructions are mailed only to campuses that are unable to
obtain them on-line. Installation instructions can be viewed
from our web site (http://assist.org) with the Adobe Acrobat
Reader software.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: July 16, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Version 2
Author: Larry Coon
We are pleased to announce that Web ASSIST Version 2.0 is
now online at http://www.assist.org.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Since the web pages used for Version 2
are different from the web pages used for version 1, any
bookmarks you have set for Version 1 will no longer work.
If you want to continue using bookmarks, you must delete
your existing ASSIST bookmarks and set new bookmarks in
the appropriate pages in Version 2. Call us if you need
help doing this. (Bookmarks are called "Favorites" in
Microsoft Internet Explorer.)
Improvements over the previous version of Web ASSIST include:
-- The color scheme for Web ASSIST has been changed. This
will make it easy to tell that you're using the new version.
-- The prompting pages have been revised to reduce the number
of pages that must be visited to produce a report. The
institution and academic year are now selected first, not
the type of articulation. A single page is now used from which
all types of articulation can be selected. Selecting transfer
course agreement types has been combined with selecting the
departments or areas for the TCA.
-- The "Go" button has been re-labeled "Continue." An effort has
been made to ensure that the "Continue" button is always
visible without scrolling, even with 800x600 screen resolution.
-- Additional text is provided on prompting pages to help guide
the user.
-- The organization of information in the sidebar has been improved.
-- A warning message is now displayed on the opening "splash" page
if the user is using ASSIST with an unsupported Web browser.
-- The ASSIST Information Center (Web site) can now be reached
from a link in the opening "splash" page.
-- The report of articulation agreements by course name has
been removed. It was intended for use primarily by articulation
staff, and its inclusion in Web ASSIST was often a source of
confusion for end users.
-- Text has been revised to avoid the use of terminology that
might not be familiar to end users. This includes terms such
as "Transfer Course Agreement," "TCA," "Articulation Agreement"
and "transferability."
-- A "Related Sites" page has been added which contains links to
Web pages for UC, CSU and community college campuses, as well
as UC Pathways, CSU Mentor, the California Virtual University,
and the CAN System Office.
-- Articulation Agreement reports now contain a link to information
describing the campus' transfer and articulation policies,
if provided by the campus.
-- Reports have been widened from 78 to 80 columns.
-- Course names that appear in Transfer Course Agreements now
display in the institution's local format. Previously, the
ASSIST standard format was used.
-- The headings of reports are now underlined when viewed in
the web browser.
-- The process of printing a report has been improved. Reports
are no longer split into multiple parts for printing. The
"Transfer the report" link has been eliminated.
-- Alternate access methods are now available for ASSIST reports,
which allow campuses to link their Web sites to ASSIST by
pre-selecting the institution and academic year and bypassing
the introductory screens. (Call us if you want more information
on doing this.)
-- The "Last updated" information has been improved. In addition
to providing the dates when ASSIST information was last updated,
these are now links that take the user to pages with additional
information. The "Database" link takes the user to summaries of
articulation information in ASSIST. The "Software" link takes the
user to a log of software changes.
-- The on-line help has been revised and improved. This includes the
addition of a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document, and our
own instructions for installing the Adobe Acrobat Reader software.
-- A "Feedback" form is now available. This form can be used to send
feedback regarding Web ASSIST or articulation information.
Enjoy the new software!
Sincerely,
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: July 15, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Version 2 Now Online
Author: Larry Coon
We had previously announced that Web ASSIST Version 2
would be released today. However, we uncovered a problem
when we transferred the software to our production server,
and it will take a day or two to fix it and re-test
everything to make sure we're happy with it. We'll
release Web ASSIST Version 2 when that happens, and an
ASSIST-L announcement will accompany the release.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: June 24, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Minutes from May 18, 1998 ASSIST Board Meeting
Author: Eric Taggart
The minutes and agenda from the May 18, 1998 meeting of the
ASSIST Board of Directors are now available on the ASSIST
Information Center at http://assist.org/board_frameset.html
As always, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed
in order to view these documents.
Date: April 29, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Service Interruption
Author: Larry Coon
Due to maintenance at the ASSIST Coordination Site, Web
ASSIST and the ASSIST Information Center will be temporarily
unavailable this Thursday starting at 7:15 AM. Barring any
complications, this process should only take a few minutes.
In the worst case, we should be back up no later than 8:30 AM.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: April 28, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Some Important Reminders
Author: Cathy Robin
Colleagues:
A couple of important reminders to all colleges and
universities:
1. Course curriculum information and updates effective for
Fall 1998 are due to the ASSIST Coordination Site by MAY 29.
For colleges and universities that have been regular participants
in ASSIST and have the Revelation maintenance software, please
follow the regular process in submitting your course updates to
ASSIST.
For colleges and universities submitting course curriculum
information for the first time, please contact Dale Leaman at
the ACS immediately for information on the submission process.
The course curriculum data is criticial to the updating of CSU
baccalaureate, IGETC and CSU GE/Breadth lists, as well as
articulation information. Please help ensure that data is
submitted for your campus.
2. For four-year institutions, all articulation information
must be submitted to the ACS by MAY 29. You must submit all
your articulation information and a directory letting us know
which data to release for distribution, even if you have been
submitting updates on a monthly basis. Twice yearly we collect
all articulation data and distribute data to all campuses. If
you have any questions regarding the submission of this data,
please call Lori Quillen at the ACS.
3. The monthly update of data, submitted as of April 20, is
now available on the Web. Information about new and updated
data can be found through the Database Summaries for each campus.
The Database Summaries are found in the ASSIST Information Center
(assist.org).
4. The series of ASSIST regional meetings kicks off tomorrow at
Irvine Valley College. There is still time to register if you have
not already done so. We will be giving a project update and
previewing the new ASSIST maintenance software.
Please feel free to call with any questions or comments. I'm looking
forward to seeing you at the regional meetings
Cathy Robin
Date: April 16, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Coordination Site Area Code Change
Author: Larry Coon
This is just a reminder that the area code for the ASSIST
Coordination Site (along with all of south Orange County)
will change from 714 to 949 this Saturday, April 18. There
will be a six-month transition period during which you can
dial either 714 or 949 to reach us.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: April 6, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: An ASSIST Reminder
Author: Dale Leaman
Just a little reminder-
If you haven't already registered for one of the Spring
Regional Meetings, please take a moment to do so, either by
phone: (714) 824-4385 or by e-mail: dale@assist.org as soon
as you can. Currently there are very few people registered
for the May 12 meeting in San Jose. Without a higher turnout
we will have to consider canceling. If you're planning to
attend this meeting please let me know as soon as possible.
If you want to check that we've received your RSVP, point
your Web browser to http://assist.org, click on Current Activities,
and ASSIST Spring Regional Meetings. You'll find a list of the
scheduled meetings and those who have registered.
If your campus has not been a traditional participant in ASSIST
it is even MORE important that the ASSIST campus contact attend
one of these meetings. The issues discussed and the software
previewed affect how articulation is managed at every public higher
education campus in California.
Thanks for your time.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: April 2, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST email down
Author: Larry Coon
If any of you tried e-mailing the Coordination Site this
week and had your mail bounce, it's because the Coordination
Site's mail server was down. Everything is back up and running
now, so if you re-send any bounced mail, it should now reach us.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: March 26, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Another Web ASSIST Outage
Author: Larry Coon
One more Web ASSIST outage to tell you about.
This Saturday, March 28, the building that houses the
Coordination Site will be doing maintenance work on the
building's power. The power to the Coordination Site will
be off while the work is performed, so the server for Web
ASSIST will be off as well.
We're planning to turn off Web ASSIST this Friday evening,
March 27. We'll have it back up once they restore power,
sometime Saturday evening. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: March 25, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: More About Regional Meetings
Author: Dale Leaman
Thanks to everyone who has confirmed for the Spring
Regional Meetings already. I appreciate the early
response. If you haven't confirmed your plans to attend,
please take a couple of minutes to call (714) 824-4385
or e-mail dale@assist.org with your plans. Sometime within
the next couple of days you will be able to go to
http://assist.org/meetings.html and review the names of
the people who have responded.
I want to emphasize one point about these meetings in case
there have been any misconceptions.
This will not be a formal training session. Besides the
project update, we will be previewing a prototype version
of the new Maintenance system, specifying the hardware and
software required, and discussing some of the implications
of this new system. Formal training sessions will not be
scheduled until after the system has gone through our regular
process of development and testing and the software is in the
release version.
In other words, think of this as a heads-up, not a hands-on.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: March 25, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Outage
Author: Larry Coon
We're beefing up the server that runs Web ASSIST, and Web
ASSIST will be incommunicado while the upgrade is taking place.
This will be this Thursday, March 26. The work will begin at
5:30 PM, and will be completed later that evening. Sorry for
any inconvenience.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: March 23, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Agenda For Regional Meetings
Author: Dale Leaman
Here is a more complete agenda for the Regional Meetings.
Please note that some meetings are scheduled 9-12, and some
are 10-1, but the relative schedule is the same.
ASSIST Regional Meetings
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome & Introductions
(10:00-10:15)
9:15 - 10:30 Project Update
(10:15-11:30)
Web ASSIST Status & Usage
Revelation ASSIST
Transition to New Maintenance System
Course Lists
CSU Baccalaureate Lists
IGTEC Lists
CSU GE Lists
Articulation Updates from 4-year campuses
Complete Data Policies
Data Extracts
Transcript Analysis Tool
Results from Focus Groups
Fall Marketing Plans
10:30 - 10:45 Break
(11:30-11:45)
10:45 - 12 Preview of New Maintenance System
(11:45 - 1)
Course List Maintenance
Articulation Agreement Maintenance
Hardware/Software Requirements
Timeframe
How to Prepare
For your convenience I have again listed the schedule of
meetings below. Please indicate which meeting you plan to
attend by contacting me:
By phone - (714) 824-4385
By email - dale@assist.org
PLEASE DO NOT USE THE AUTOMATIC REPLY FEATURE IN YOUR
EMAIL PROGRAM.
PLEASE DO NOT ADDRESS YOUR REPLY TO ASSIST-L.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. As the
meeting dates approach I will distribute parking information,
room information, and maps to those who are registered.
April 29 - 9AM - 12Noon - Irvine Valley College, Irvine
April 30 - 9AM - 12Noon - MiraCosta College, Oceanside
May 1 - 10AM - 1PM - Los Rios Comm. College District
Office, Sacramento
May 5 - 10AM - 1PM - Laney College, Oakland
May 6 - 9AM - 12Noon - UC Riverside, Riverside
May 7 - 10AM - 1PM - CSU Fresno, Fresno
May 12 - 9AM - 12Noon - San Jose Comm. College District Office,
San Jose
May 13 - 9AM - 12Noon - Rio Hondo College, Whittier
May 14 - 10AM - 1PM - Santa Barbara City College,
Santa Barbara
Date: March 23, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Service Interuption
Author: Larry Coon
This Thursday, March 26, UCI will be doing some network work
that will interrupt the ASSIST Coordination Site's connection
to the Internet. Web ASSIST will not be available during this
time. Fortunately, the work is scheduled from 5:45 to 7:45 AM,
so we will be back up before most of you will notice. Sorry
for any inconvenience.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: March 20, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Spring Regional Meetings
Author: Dale Leaman
It's that time of year again! The crack of the bat rings in
your ear, billowing clouds of pollen fill the air, and the
bright green jacket you only wear on St.Patrick's Day has
been in and out of the closet. Yes, it's time for the ASSIST
Spring Regional Meetings!
We have scheduled nine meetings at campus locations around
the state. We hope that this will allow more people to attend
and ease a little of the travel burden for many of you. The
dates and locations are listed below. There is no cost to
attend, and in most cases light refreshments will be available.
(Ooh! Snacks!)
We strongly encourage ASSIST Campus Contacts and operational
staff to attend one of the meetings. In addition to a complete
project update we will be demonstrating a preview of the new
Web-based Maintenance system, including functional entry screens.
This system will be used for the entry and maintenance of all
ASSIST data, including articulation agreements and course list
data.
April 29 - 9 AM - 12 Noon - Irvine Valley College, Irvine
April 30 - 9 AM - 12 Noon - MiraCosta College, Oceanside
May 1 - 10 AM - 1 PM - Los Rios Comm. College District
Office, Sacramento
May 5 - 10 AM - 1 PM - Laney College, Oakland
May 6 - 9 AM - 12 Noon - UC Riverside, Riverside
May 7 - 10 AM - 1 PM - CSU Fresno, Fresno
May 12 - 9 AM - 12 Noon - San Jose Comm. College District
Office, San Jose
May 13 - 9 AM - 12 Noon - Rio Hondo College, Whittier
May 14 - 10 AM - 1 PM - Santa Barbara City College,
Santa Barbara
Please indicate which meeting you plan to attend by contacting me:
By phone - (714) 824-4385
By e-mail - dale@assist.org
PLEASE DO NOT USE THE AUTOMATIC REPLY FEATURE IN YOUR
E-MAIL PROGRAM.
PLEASE DO NOT ADDRESS YOUR REPLY TO ASSIST-L.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. A
detailed agenda will follow shortly; I know many of you need
one to get approval to attend. As the meeting dates approach
I will distribute parking information, room information,
and maps.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: March 17, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 & ASSIST
Author: Dale Leaman
You probably remember a post last month from Eric reviewing the
relative speed of ASSIST on the Web when using different browsers.
The most interesting (and vexing) result was the extremely slow
performance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4. IE4 could take up
to 10 times longer to display a report than IE3 or Netscape
Navigator 3 or 4. This was true on both PCs and Macs. IE4 also
seemed to have more problems launching Adobe Acrobat Reader when
reports were being printed.
After a little research (OK, and a lot of trial and error) I
found a setting which can be changed in IE4 for PCs which
significantly speeds up the display of reports, bringing IE4's
speed up to the level of the other browsers. It also seems to
improve the reliability of Acrobat Reader in IE4.
Please note that the following instructions apply to Microsoft
Internet Explorer 4 for PC only.
Please also note that the following configuration change may
affect how other Web pages appear. If there are mission-critical
websites that you use, please go to them immediately after
making this change to determine the effect, if any. You can
always change the setting back to its default.
1. Launch Microsoft Internet Explorer 4. It doesn't matter which
web site you are on.
2. Click on "View" in the menu bar to pull down the menu.
3. Select Internet Options...
4. A window will pop-up with several tabs at the top. Click on
the tab labeled "Advanced."
5. Scroll down (if necessary) in the resulting list of settings
to a pair of settings with the heading "HTTP 1.1 settings."
6. Uncheck (if already checked) both "Use HTTP 1.1 through proxy
connections" and "Use HTTP 1.1" Both check boxes should now be
empty.
7. Click the "Apply" button at the bottom of the small window,
then click "OK."
8. Exit (quit) and then relaunch (open) Internet Explorer 4.
9. Go to ASSIST and see if there is a performance difference
when displaying a report. It should be significantly faster.
(Of course, if you have a dog-slow Internet connection, no
amount of tweaking with the settings will speed that up.)
10. Assuming Adobe Acrobat Reader is loaded correctly, try
printing a report.
11. Visit some other mission-critical web site.
12. Go back to ASSIST and marvel at the blazing speed at which
you can now access articulation data on the World Wide Web.
The performance of your browser should now be close to what
it was before you... "upgraded."
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: March 16, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Campus Web ASSIST Training Sessions
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues-
A number of you have mentioned recently that you are planning
to conduct a Web ASSIST training session on your campus for
counselors and other users.
I wanted to let you know that we have the following materials
available:
1. An outline for your session in PowerPoint
Go to http://assist.org (The ASSIST Information Center) Click
on Publications in the side bar, and download ASSIST Training
and Campus Management
For help with downloading a file with a web browser, contact
your campus technical support or give me a call
After you've downloaded the PowerPoint file you can modify it
to meet your needs. It was created with PowerPoint 97, so
you'll need Office97 for PC (or Office98 for you lucky Mac
users!)
Slides 6-16 provide an outline for an ASSIST Training
Presentation
You can also run the presentation directly over the Web
if you have the PowerPoint Viewer Plug-in installed for your
browser
2. A guide to setting bookmarks in ASSIST
I HIGHLY recommend you take a look at this
Go to http://assist.org (The ASSIST Information Center)
Click on Publications in the side bar, and download
Bookmarking Web Pages
You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print this
document
This should be distributed to every faculty/staff user of
ASSIST
Bookmarks allow a user to skip several of the prompts and go
directly to the information of interest
A manager can create a set of bookmarks on one computer and
load that set into several other computers very easily
If you have more questions about bookmarks or want to learn
about creating a set of bookmarks you can share with other
users, please give me a call or contact your campus support
people.
The printed guide is by fairly general, but if you call about
a specific browser in your operating system I can walk you
through the process
3. A "demonstration-only" version of ASSIST
This runs from a floppy disk or off your hard-drive without an
Internet connection. It appears to be running on the Web exactly
as ASSIST does, but is accessing a limited set of prepared files
This set of files must be prepared in advance specifically for
your campus. The scope of the demonstration is limited by the
time necessary to prepare the files, and the space available on
the disk
Your browser is used to open a prepared file that looks exactly
like www.assist.org. You then proceed through the prompting
sequence as usual, choosing the pre-selected institution(s) and
reports
Please contact me if you're interested in this kind of "demo"
version. It has definite limitations and requires a good deal of
preparation
If there is anything else I can do to help you prepare for a
training session or demonstration email me at dale@assist.org
give me a call at (714) 824-4385.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST
Date: March 11, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Web ASSIST Printing Problem
Author: Larry Coon
You may have noticed a problem today if you tried to print
reports from Web ASSIST. Some temporary disk space on our
server became full, which prevented the reports from being
prepared correctly for loading into your Acrobat reader.
This problem is now fixed, and reports should now print
correctly. Sorry if this caused you any inconvenience.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: March 11, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Any questions asked frequently?
Author: Larry Coon
The ASSIST Coordination Site is currently designing changes
to Web ASSIST which will make it easier to use. One of the
things we are doing is adding a Frequently Asked Questions
document, or FAQ. These documents answer questions that are
commonly asked by users. We're seeking your input as to the
questions that are commonly asked about Web ASSIST.
Examples of frequently asked questions might be:
-- Can students access Web ASSIST?
-- The reports use unfamiliar terminology. Where can I go
for definitions
to these terms?
-- Can I use Web ASSIST with Version 1.0 of Mosaic?
-- Are Web ASSIST reports exactly the same as Revelation
ASSIST reports?
If you have any questions you'd like to see included in the
FAQ, please e-mail them to me at larry@assist.org.
Thank you for your help,
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: March 10, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Presentation
Author: Gil Maez
Hi Eric,
Next month in April (Date not known yet) I will be making a
presentation to the faculty on our campus on the ASSIST Web
site. As you know I was instrumental in pushing for assist at
our campus since 1990 when I wrote the first proposal.
If you have any materials or suggestions, I would appreciate
them. I will using one of our computer labs for a hands-on
demo.
Thanks
Gil Maez
San Bernardino Valley College
Date: February 19, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Tips on Using Web ASSIST
Author: Eric Taggart
Tip # 1:
We have received a number of phone calls recently from users
asking how they can start ASSIST with their institution already
selected (bypassing the first 3 screens).
The answer is pretty simple and involves the use of Bookmarks
(or Favorites) in your browser. All you have to do is go to the
page in Web ASSIST where you would like to start from in the
future, and set a Bookmark. In the future you can go directly
to that Bookmark without having to start from our pretty splash
screen. Some people set a number of Bookmarks to key places
within ASSIST that they go often.
Dale Leaman wrote a brief 2 page article on this topic and you
can find it on the ASSIST Information Center (http://assist.org)
under the "Publications" area. The Acrobat PDF document is under
the "Training Presentations" section and is titled "Bookmarking
Web Pages."
If you're not familiar with setting Bookmarks, read this document
and try it out. If you like how it works, share it with others
at your campus.
Tip # 2
Another question we've gotten recently is how to view a full
report when you're computer has to run in 640 X 480 screen
resolution (instead of the better 800 X 600 resolution that
ASSIST was designed for). If your computer has to be set at
this lower resolution, you may find that you have to scroll
ASSIST reports left and right to see all of the information.
The answer for this one is in the help and guidance sections of
ASSIST under the heading "Display Settings." There you will
find a sub-section on "Tool Bars and Fonts" that shows you how
to change the "Fixed Width Font" size to a smaller setting.
Yours is probably set to 12 point now. If you change it to 10
point, you may find that the next time you view a report, you
will be able to see the whole thing and not have to scroll left
and right anymore.
These tips, and others, are the types of information that we
are looking to include in a "Frequently Asked Questions" area
so that they are easier to find.
Please share these with others at your campus, and don't
hesitate to call us with any questions or suggestions.
Date: February 4, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: New ASSIST Coordination Web Site
Author: Doug Koeppen
Dear Colleagues:
We are pleased to announce that we have redesigned the ASSIST
Coordination Web site. This is the site that contains a variety
of information about ASSIST and ASSIST-related activities.
(This is not the ASSIST transfer-planning software.) This new
site simplifies navigating to the various types of information.
This site is still available to all at http://assist.org.
Doug Koeppen
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: January 21, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: January '98 ASSIST Database Now Available
Author: Larry Coon
How is the ASSIST database distribution better than the Publisher's
Clearinghouse Sweepstakes?
1. You -are- already a winner.
2. We don't ask you to buy magazines.
3. We send out announcements just twice a year, instead of twice
a day.
The January 1998 ASSIST Distribution Database is now available.
The packets hit the mail on Tuesday, January 20, and should
arrive shortly. All packets contain a cover letter and software
update diskettes. But to reduce time and expenses, tapes and
installation instructions are only sent to campuses that need
them. Campuses with Web access should download the installation
instructions from our Web site. This requires a Web browser with
the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. >From our home page (http://assist.org),
select "Information for ASSIST Users," then "Software and Database
Update/Installation Information," then "January 1998 Distribution
Database." There you'll find the following documents:
-- Cover letter: All users should read this document. This
document is included in all packets.
-- Summary of Software Changes: This document describes all
changes made to the ASSIST software following the release of the
July 1997 database. This document is not included in your packet
if you have Internet access.
-- Supplement to Installation Instructions: We discovered
that some data was missing after we made the tapes. We fixed
the FTP copies of the files, but tape users should follow these
instructions to replace the missing data. This document is
included in all packets in which we included tapes.
-- Minimal Installation Instructions: These are instructions
for installing a copy of the database that does not include data
for other schools. This document is not included in your packet
if you have Internet access.
-- FTP Installation Instructions: These are instructions for
installing the database via tape. This document is not included
in the packets.
-- Tape Installation Instructions: These are instructions for
installing the database via FTP. This document is not included
in your packet if you have Internet access.
It is important that you use the correct set of instructions.
Since Web ASSIST is now the primary tool for displaying ASSIST
data, we have adopted a new approach for distributing data to
campuses. Since most community colleges have access to Web
ASSIST, these campuses only need Revelation ASSIST to maintain
their own course list data. Community colleges with access to
Web ASSIST should therefore use the "Minimal Installation
Instructions." UC Campuses, CSU Campuses, and community
colleges that do not have access to Web ASSIST should use "FTP
Installation Instructions" or "Tape Installation Instructions,"
depending on your preferred method for installing the database.
Please call us at (714) 824-4385 if you have any questions or
problems.
Sincerely,
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: January 21, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Information Request
Author: Dale Leaman
Dear Colleagues:
We've been discussing low cost, high impact ways to make
students more aware of ASSIST. One idea we're fairly enthused
about is the inclusion of a small article or "ad" about ASSIST
in a community college's schedule of classes. This ad would
appear with other transfer-related information.
I've spoken directly to a few of you and have learned that,
in general, the Director of Public Information or a similarly
titled individual or office is responsible for the production
of the schedule of classes. So far, I've had great cooperation
from these offices. My problem is finding a convenient way to
contact this individual or office on each community college
campus. This is where I could use your help.
If you know the name and email address of the person or office
on your campus responsible for the production of the schedule
of classes please send me an email with that information. (If
I've already spoken to you directly about this, you don't need
to send it again.)
Please send your response to dale@assist.org. Please DO NOT reply
directly to the listserv. This will spare Andre the trouble of
filtering the responses and forwarding them to me.
One other note-
The last of the ASSIST "Planning To Transfer?" Announcement
Cards have been distributed, so I won't be able to fill any
more requests for them. (I have heard, however, that a thriving
underground market may be developing.)
Dale Leaman
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: January 16, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: The ASSIST Staff Email Change
Author: Andre Humphrey
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!
The list below is the new email list for the ASSIST staff.
Please update your email list to reflect the new addresses.
larry@assist.org larry coon
eric@assist.org eric taggart
andre@assist.org andre humphrey
lori@assist.org lori quillen
star@assist.org starling walters
liz@assist.org elizabeth sanchez
bill@assist.org bill cooper
john@assist.org john sealey
cathy@assist.org cathy robin
dale@assist.org dale leaman
doug@assist.org doug koeppen
Date: January 15, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Announcement Cards - Last Chance
Author: Dale Leaman
Don't worry, this isn't about a deadline or anything. We have
about 5000 of the "Planning To Transfer" announcement cards
left, and I'd like to get them out of here. If anyone would
like some more, up to 5000, send an e-mail to dale@assist.org
or call me at (714) 824-4385. First come, first served. We
won't be ordering any more, so these may quickly become
collectors' items. (Hey, you never know. Look what happened
to Barbie.)
Dale Leaman
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: January 7, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Link to Web Page
Author: Eric Taggart
Bob,
I'm going to also post this information to the ASSIST-L listserv
since a number of other people have asked this same question.
The easiest way to setup a link from one of your web pages to
somewhere in the middle of ASSIST is to start Web ASSIST and go
through the prompts until you get to the page where you would
like to start, write down (or cut/paste) the complete URL shown
in your browser's "location" window, then give that full URL to
your local web tech person to setup as a link. There's a lot of
junk in that URL that doesn't make much sense to people, but the
computers sure like it!
For example, to set a link that always starts w/ CSUSB and 97-98
selected, the URL would be:
http://www.assist.org/cgi-bin/6c31.pl?pgid=Page2c&kind=3&ia=
CSUSB&ay=97-98
Hope this helps,
Eric
____________________Reply Separator____________________
Subject: Link to Web Page
Author: Bob Sperry Date:
1/7/98 10:04 AM
Eric,
It looks as though I am going to get to create an articulation page
on our campus web site. I'd like to create a link to your web site,
going directly to CSUSB as the receiving institution. Can you give
me some guidance as to how to do that?
Bob Sperry
Course Articulation Coordinator,
California State University, San Bernardino
Campus Steward, Academic Professionals of California, Local 1002,
LIUNA, AFL-CIO
Date: January 5, 1998
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: January Data Distribution
Author: Lori Quillen
Campus ASSIST Managers:
We are preparing to distribute the January '98 ASSIST Distribution
Database on Thursday, January 15. As with previous databases, you
may perform the installation using either tapes or FTP. However,
in order to reduce the number of tapes we have to make, we would
like to find out which campuses intend to use the tape method.
If you intend to use the tape method to perform the database
installation, we'd appreciate it if you'd either call or e-mail us
to let us know.
Sorry for the short notice, but we need to know by this Friday,
January 9. Please respond to Lori Quillen either by e-mail at
lori@assist.org or telephone at (714) 824-4385. Please -do not-
reply directly to this message -- it'll be sent to all subscribers
of ASSIST-L, and you'll make a hundred people up & down the state
mad at you for sending them e-mail that doesn't apply to them.
If you do not respond to Lori by Friday, January 9, we'll assume
that you -do not- want to receive tapes with your database packet.
Thank you,
Lori Quillen
ASSIST Coordination Site
lori@assist.org
Date: December 19, 1997
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: 12th Annual Conference Materials
Author: Doug Koeppen
The presentation materials from the 12th Annual ASSIST
Conference, held on December 2 and 3, 1997, are now
available on the ASSIST Web site (assist.org). The URL
for this page is:
http://assist.org/conference12.html
There are two types of files available:
1) PDF files, which require that the Adobe Acrobat
plug-in is installed in your browser, and
2) PowerPoint files, which require that the PowerPoint
Animation Player for Windows95 is installed in your
browser.
Both of these plug-ins are available from the ASSIST
Coordination Site Web site. Click on the "Web Site Info"
button located at the bottom of most of the screens to go
to the page where you can begin downloading these plug-ins.
The PowerPoint Animation Player for Windows95 can be
downloaded directly from the page of presentation materials.
NOTE:
After the plug-ins are downloaded to your computer, they need
to be installed. If you are not sure how or where to download
and install these plug-ins, ask your campus technical support
person for assistance.
Date: December 5, 1997
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: No subject given
Author: Ruth De Tro
Calling all colleagues
HELP!
Butte College is conducting a job reclassification study.
Because my unique position is split between two job
classifications (ASSIST Articulation Dbase Manager and
Transfer Center Administrative Secretary II) it does not
fit into any of the general job classifications on campus
(Secretary I, II, or III) that the study group is
focusing on. Which makes it difficult to complete the
study.
> Since many of you hold the same or similar position(s)
> on your campus (be it Transfer Center Management articulation
> technician, or ASSIST Data Manager, I would greatly
> appreciate it if you would e-mail (or fax) a copy of your
> job description(s) to me by Dec. 12, I can complete my job
> reclassification in a manner most consistent with other school
> employees holding this (or a similar) position.
You can fax it to me at 530-895-2530, or 2411. I would
greatly appreciate your assistance with this!
Date: December 5, 1997
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Power Outage
Author: Larry Coon
The ASSIST Coordination Site lost power from 12:00 to 1:00 PM today,
Friday December 5. Web ASSIST was not accessible during this time.
Hopefully we won't lose power again, but if we do, you again won't
have access to Web ASSIST. If this happens, we will restore access
to Web ASSIST as fast as we possibly can.
Sorry about any inconvenience,
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: December 4, 1997
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Articulation Extract
Author: Larry Coon
ASSIST-L SUBSCRIBERS:
The ASSIST Coordination Site recently distributed Articulation
Extract software to all UC and CSU campuses that use the
Revelation ASSIST product. From time to time the specification
for the extract files or the extract software itself may be
updated. The Coordination Site plans to send an e-mail
announcement to all interested parties whenever the
specification or the software changes. If you would like
to receive these announcements, please e-mail andre@assist.org
and ask to be added to the list. Do not reply directly to this
message, as it needlessly duplicates your message to all
ASSIST-L subscribers.
The Articulation Extract is available only to campuses using
the Revelation ASSIST product. If you do not use the Revelation
ASSIST product, and use only Web ASSIST, then this information
does not apply to you.
If you are from a Community College that uses the Revelation
ASSIST product, the extract software was not distributed to you.
However, feel free to subscribe to these announcements. This
will enable you to keep up to date with the latest news regarding
the articulation extract.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: November 6, 1997
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: A Couple of Reminders
Author: Dale Leaman
A Couple of Reminders -
Reminder #1 -
The 12th Annual Statewide ASSIST Conference is fast approaching.
Representatives from all Community College, CSU, and UC campuses
are strongly encouraged to attend this free two-day event,
regardless of your campus's participation in ASSIST in the past.
We will be discussing a number of issues that affect ASSIST,
articulation, and Student Services in general. Please take a few
minutes to review the agenda and abstracts at:
http://assist.org/conference2.html
We think you'll find a number of interesting and important sessions.
TIME & PLACE
Tuesday, December 2, 1997, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm & Wednesday, December 3,
1997, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Atrium Hotel
18700 MacArthur Blvd.
Irvine, CA
(714) 833-2770
(Across from the John Wayne Airport)
REGISTRATION
Even though this is a free event, it's important we have a
good estimate of the number of attendees so we can make plans
for seating and lunch. We can accommodate approximately 200
people.
We are using on-line registration for this event. If you plan
to attend, and have not yet registered, please go to the on-line
registration form at:
http://assist.org/conference2.html
This page also includes the agenda and abstracts for each session.
If you have already registered there is no need to do so again.
You may want to look over the agenda and abstracts to identify
those sessions that interest you. We will be contacting some
registrants with recommendations for which sessions we think would
be of most value to you. By the way, if you happened to accidentally
register more than once, don't worry, it's OK. We sort those multiple
entries out by hand, so we're not expecting any clones.
Sorry if this next part sounds like nagging, but...
We often have quite a few conference attendees who do not register
in advance. Everyone is encouraged to attend, but we cannot make
plans for lunch, seating, or printing without a good estimate of
the number of attendees. Conversely, we also have many people who
register but don't attend. (You'd think these two numbers would even
out, but it never quite works out that way.) If you register and
find later that you will not be attending, please let us know as
soon as you can.
OK, nagging mode off.
Reminder #2
DATA COLLECTION
This is a reminder that it's time for the semi-annual ASSIST
database update. All data is due to the ASSIST Coordination
Site on or before Wednesday, November 26, 1997.
FOR FOUR YEAR INSTITUTIONS:
Please be sure to submit a complete backup of all data for
your institution. You must submit data by November 26 in order
for your campus to be included in the January database. Prior
submissions do not carry forward. NO EXCEPTIONS! Please
remember to include a listing of which data is available for
distribution or fax the list to (714) 824-2309.
FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES:
Community colleges are expected to submit their Spring 1998
course list update information by November 26. If you have
not submitted course list changes effective as of Fall1997,
that file should be submitted as well.
If your campus has been a previous ASSIST participant and
has the Revelation-based ASSIST software, please remember
that course list update files must be provided in ASSIST
format and must be linked with the other course list files
for your institution in ASSIST. Data should not be sent to
the ACS directly from your Data Processing department.
If your campus is NOT a previous participant you are
STRONGLY encouraged to attend the session at the Annual
ASSIST Conference pertaining to Course Lists.
SUBMITTING YOUR DATA
The instructions for submitting your data are located on
the ASSIST Coordination
Web Site at:
http://assist.org/assist_ftp_info.html
In this section you will find instructions for submitting
data on tape, using the Colorado Tape system or via FTP.
If you have the ability to FTP data, we prefer you use
that method.
Thanks for wading through this whole thing. See you
all on December 2nd & 3rd.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST Coordination Site
NOTE-
This message is distributed on ASSIST-L only. Please
forward it to anyone else on your campus that would be
interested in the conference or involved in the data
collection procedure. We will also be mailing this
information to community college Transfer Center
Directors and Deans of Counseling.
Date: October 24, 1997
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: ASSIST Annual Conference Agenda
Author: Eric Taggart
As announced earlier, the 12th Annual Statewide ASSIST
Conference will be held on December 2 and 3 at the
Atrium Hotel across from the John Wayne Orange County
Airport.
We have a detailed agenda, break-out session abstracts,
and on-line registration form now available at
http://assist.org/conference2.html
If you're not sure whether or not you've already
registered, go ahead and do it again - it won't
hurt anything.
Since this announcement is only being distributed
via ASSIST-L, please help us by distributing it to
anyone else at your campus who you think might be
interested. We'll have plenty of room.
Speaking of rooms, if your staying overnight, I'd
suggest setting up a reservation soon. If the Atrium
fills up, there are some other good hotels close by.
See you all on December 2nd and 3rd!
Date: October 10, 1997
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers
Subject: Upcoming Board Meeting and Listserv Update
Author: Eric Taggart
The next meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors will be held
on November 3, 1997.
These meetings are open and campuses are welcome to raise issues
for consideration by the Board in advance of their meetings.
If any of you would like to:
- add an item for consideration on their agenda;
- provide any materials for distribution to Board members;
or - attend the meeting
please contact me directly at (714) 824-4385 by next Friday,
October 17, 1997.
I'll also take this time to apologize for this week's
blitz of garbage email from my office. We are trying
to get the ASSIST-L mailing list as complete and clean
as possible and every-once-in-a-while we make things a
bit worse while trying to make them better. Thanks for
your patience.
We have also added a number of new people to ASSIST-L
(articulation officers from the CIAC list so that we don't
have to "double send" messages). If you receive this
message and DO NOT want to continue receiving ASSIST-L
postings, please email me directly at eric@assist.org.
Remember the upcoming seminars on October 15 & 16. We will
NOT be sending any further information or agendas as we
mistakenly led you to believe if you registered via the ACS
web site. If you need any information on meeting times or
locations please email or call me directly:
eric@assist.org or (714) 824-4385.
While I'm at it, remember December 2 & 3 will be the Annual
Statewide ASSIST Conference. Go to http://assist.org and
follow the links to "User Info" and "Current Events" to register.
Date: October 1, 1997
To: ASSIST-L and CIAC-L Subscribers
Subject: Annual Statewide ASSIST Conference
Author: Eric Taggart
Note: You may receive multiple copies of this email if you are
subscribed to both ASSIST-L and CIAC-L.
On December 2nd and 3rd, 1997, ASSIST will be sponsoring
its Annual Statewide Conference. This free two day event
will be held at the Atrium Hotel across the street from the
John Wayne Airport in Irvine.
Representatives from all Community College, CSU, and UC
campuses are invited to attend, regardless of whether or
not your campus has been a full participant in ASSIST in
the past. More information, including registration instructions,
is available on the ACS Web Site (http://www.assist.org) in
the "User Info", "Current Events" section.
For those of you who will be traveling and needing a room,
the Atrium Hotel has informed us that they currently have
rooms available. A single or double room should be $89 + tax
based on their corporate rate (all you need to do is show your
business card). The Atrium Hotel can be reached at
(714) 833-2770.
Date: 9/17/97 10:12 AM
To: ASSIST-L and CIAC-L Subscribers
Subject: Oct 15 & 16 ASSIST Seminars
Author: Eric Taggart at assist
Just a reminder that there is still plenty of space left
at both of the ASSIST Seminars coming up on October 15
in Walnut Creek and October 16 in Irvine. We have spoken
with a number of people who say they are coming, but have
not yet registered on our web site.
If you and others at your campus would like to attend,
please register now by visiting the ASSIST web site at
http://www.assist.org and following the links to "User Info"
and "Current Events." If you cannot access the Web, please
call our office at (714) 824-4385.
At these seminars, we will be covering a range of
information in addition to ASSIST on the Web, so all
ASSIST campus managers should plan to attend.
I am only sending this note to ASSIST-L and CIAC-L, so
please help us spread the word by passing this information
on to other staff and faculty groups that might be
interested in attending.
See you on the 15th or 16th!
Date: August 28, 1997
To: ASSIST-L Subscribers and CIAC-L Subscribers
CCC-TRANSFER-LIST Subscribers
CCC-CCCCA-LIST Subscribers
CCC-MIS-LIST Subscribers
CCC-MATRIC-LIST Subscribers
From: Eric Taggart - ASSIST Coordination Site
Subject: ASSIST on the Web Preview Seminars
Note: Well connected individuals who are subscribed to more
than one of the above listservs will receive multiple copies
of this message.
As most of you are aware, in the past ASSIST has only
been available to limited numbers of students and staff
at participating colleges and universities. We are excited
to announce that beginning Monday, October 6, 1997 all of
the articulation information in ASSIST will be freely available
to everyone via the World Wide Web. All CSU & UC campuses
continue to provide data for ASSIST which is now the official
statewide repository for California articulation information.
The ASSIST Coordination Site is sponsoring two half-day seminars
where we will be describing and giving a live demonstration of
ASSIST on the Web. Topics to be covered include:
- ASSIST as the official repository of California articulation
- Data available in ASSIST
- Student uses of ASSIST on the Web
- Advising uses of ASSIST on the Web
- Technical requirements for optimal use of ASSIST on the Web
The first event will be held on October 15, 1997 in Walnut Creek
and the second event will be held on October 16, 1997 in Irvine.
We can accommodate about 200 people at each event and would like
to invite anyone at Community College, CSU, and UC campuses who is
interested. These morning events are free and attendees must
register in advance. Register on-line by visiting the ASSIST Web
Site at http://www.assist.org and follow the links to "User
Information" and "Current Events." Those interested in attending
must register on-line before Friday September 19th so that we can
make appropriate arrangements. First come, first served on
reservations.
For those remote campuses who cannot make it to Walnut Creek or
Irvine, we can arrange a limited number of remote meetings via the
Internet using Microsoft's NetMeeting 2.0 software. Please email
dale@assist.org directly if you would like to discuss arranging one
of these remote sessions.
In mid-September, we will be mailing samples of our new ASSIST
announcement cards along with information on how your campus can
request more copies. These cards can be distributed widely to
students in transfer centers or via campus mailings to provide
information on how they can access ASSIST.
Thanks for your continued interest in ASSIST and we look forward
to seeing you on October 15th or 16th.
Date: Mon, 31 July 1997 4:02 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: ASSIST Articulation Data Extract
As many of you are aware, the ACS has been working to
provide the capability to extract data from the ASSIST
database for use in your local degree audit systems. A
teleconference was held on March 12 to review the draft
specification and to solicit feedback. We have now receivied
your feedback and have created a revised specification.
This specification is available on the ASSSIST web site at
http://www.assist.uci.edu. From the main page, choose
"Information for ASSIST Users," then "Important Publications
for Universities and Colleges," then "Articulation Data Extract
Specifications." The Adobe Acrobat reader is required to read
this document.
We currently anticipate releasing the software to produce
the data extract from the ASSIST database in early September.
Please call the ACS if you have any questions or comments.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
Date: Mon, 7 July 1997 12:15 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: July ASSIST Database
Campus ASSIST Managers:
We are preparing to distribute the July '97 ASSIST
Distribution Database on Monday, July 14. As with previous
databases, you may perform the installation using either
tapes or FTP. However, in order to reduce the number of
tapes we have to make, we would like to find out which
campuses intend to use FTP.
If you use FTP to perform the database installation, and do
NOT intend to use the tapes, we'd appreciate it if you'd either
call or e-mail us to let us know. If you do, we won't send you
tapes.
Sorry for the short notice, but we need to know by this
Wednesday, July 9. Please respond to Lori Quillen either
by e-mail at lori@fs2.assist.uci.edu or telephone at (714) 824-4385.
Please DO NOT reply directly to this message -- it'll be sent to all
subscribers of ASSIST-L, and you'll make a hundred people up & down
the state mad at you for sending them e-mail that doesn't apply to
them.
If you do not respond to Lori by Wednesday, July 7, we'll assume
that you DO want to receive tapes with your database packet.
Thank you,
Larry Coon
Technical Manager, ASSIST
larry@fs2.assist.uci.edu
Date: Wed, 18 June 1997 3:10 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: An ASSIST Reminder
A reminder for Community College participants:
As you are aware, one of the requirements for participation
in ASSIST is the submission of a semiannual usage report to
the ASSIST Board of Directors. Usage reports are requested each
December and June, with this year's end-of-the-year report to
be submitted no later than June 30, 1997.
In the past, blank report forms were distributed to campus
ASSIST managers who completed the form and returned it to
the ASSIST Coordination Site. Now we are asking that community
colleges with access to the World Wide Web complete and submit
their report using the Community College Semiannual Usage
Report Form available on the ASSIST World Wide Web Site.
The URL for the ASSIST World Wide Web Site is
http://www.assist.uci.edu
Go to this site, then click on
Information for ASSIST Users
then
Current Events, Issues, and Topics
then
Community College Usage Reports
then
Semiannual Usage Report Form.
Please provide the requested information and submit the
form on-line.
To help with tracking ASSIST usage, we strongly encourage
you to use the ASSIST Usage Tracking System included in the
ASSIST software. The ASSIST Usage Tracking System is turned on
when ASSIST is installed. This system automatically records any
interactions with ASSIST, and enables you to produce reports which
you may use to complete the Semiannual Usage Report form. For
details about the ASSIST Usage Tracking System refer to the
Configuring ASSIST User's Guide.
Any questions or comments regarding this report should be
addressed to the ASSIST Coordination Site, (714) 824-4385,
or by email to . (Using the automatic
reply feature of your email program sends your message
to all subscribers of the list.)
Note- This reminder was sent to ALL subscribers to the
ASSIST-L mailing list. "Thank you" to those of you who have
already submitted your end-of-the-year usage report.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST Coordination Site
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 12:19:31 -0700
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Semiannual ASSIST Usage Reports
Dear Colleagues:
As you are aware, one of the requirements for participation
in Project ASSIST is the submission of a semiannual usage
report to the ASSIST Board of Directors. The Board is
interested in receiving information about the current use
of ASSIST articulation information at community colleges.
Usage reports are submitted each December and June, with the
end-of-the-year report to be submitted no later than June 30,
1997.
In the past, blank report forms were distributed to campus
ASSIST managers who completed the form and returned it to
the ASSIST Coordination Site. Now we are asking that community
colleges with access to the World Wide Web complete and submit
their report using the Community College Semiannual Usage
Report Form available on the Project ASSIST World Wide Web Site.
The URL for the Project ASSIST World Wide Web Site is
http://www.assist.uci.edu
Go to
Information for ASSIST Users
then
Current Events, Issues, and Topics
then
Community College Usage Reports
then
Semiannual Usage Report Form.
Please provide the requested information and submit the form
on-line.
To help with tracking ASSIST usage, we strongly encourage
you to use the ASSIST Usage Tracking System included in the
ASSIST software. The ASSIST Usage Tracking System is turned
on when ASSIST is installed. This system automatically records
any interactions with ASSIST, and enables you to produce reports
which you may use to complete the Semiannual Usage Report form.
For details about the ASSIST Usage Tracking System refer to the
Configuring ASSIST User's Guide.
Any questions or comments regarding this report should be
addressed to the Project Director, Eric Taggart, at (714) 824-4385.
Kaylene Hallberg
Chair, ASSIST Board of Directors
cc:Community College ASSIST Campus Managers
ASSIST Community College Chief Student Services Officers
Thelma Scott-Skillman - Community College Chancellor's Office
ASSIST Board of Directors
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:31:44 -0700
From: "Cathy Robin"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Database Collection for May 30, 1997
This is reminder that it is time to collect data for the
semi-annual ASSIST database update. All data is due to
the ASSIST Coordination Site on or before MAY 30, 1997.
The instructions for submitting your data are located on
the ASSIST Web Site: http://www.assist.uci.edu
To access the instructions:
go to "Information for ASSIST Users"
then "Software and Database Update/Installation Information"
then "Submitting Data to the ACS"
In this section you will find instructions for submitting
data on tape, using the Colorado Tape system and via FTP.
If you have the ability to FTP data, we prefer you use that
method.
CAMPUS INFORMATION
As of July, 1997, ASSIST will no longer include Campus
Information in the database. If you have been maintaining
Campus Information documents, or have old Campus Information
documents in the database for your institution, please delete
these files BEFORE submitting data to the ACS.
PROGRESS CHECK
Additionally, as of July, 1997, the Progress Check component
will no longer be available except to three community colleges:
Long Beach City College, Irvine Valley College and Fullerton
College. If you maintain Progress Check and/or ILOT files, or
have old Progress Check and/ or ILOT files in the database for
your institution, please delete these files BEFORE submitting
data to the ACS.
INSTRUCTIONS TO FOUR YEAR INSTITUTIONS
Please be sure to submit a complete backup of all data for
your institution. You must submit data by MAY 30 in order
for your campus to be included in the July database. Prior
submissions do not carry forward. NO EXCEPTIONS!!! Please
remember to include a listing of data which is available for
distribution with your data or fax the list to (714) 824-2309.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES
All community colleges are required to submit their Fall
1997 course list update information by MAY 30. If you have
not submitted course list changes effective as of Spring 1997,
that file should be submitted as well.
Please remember course list update files must be provided in ASSIST
format and must be linked with the other course list files for your
institution in ASSIST. Data should not be sent to the ACS directly
from your Data Processing department.
Campuses who do not comply with the requirement for course list data
will NOT receive the new ASSIST database to be distributed in July.
If you have any questions regarding the data collection process,
please feel free to call the ASSIST Coordination Site staff
at (714) 824-4385.
Thanks
Cathy Robin
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 13:57:33 -0700
From: "Eric Taggart"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re[2]: Web ASSIST Beta Testing
Carol,
Yes, Imperial Valley is already on the list of Beta test sites.
Ralph should be receiving some information tomorrow via email
about the Beta testing process.
Thanks for the info on your local training, sounds great!
Eric
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 10:09:09 -0700
From: "Carol Lee (Transfer Center)"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Web ASSIST Beta Testing
If it's still possible Imperial Valley College would like
to be a BETA test site. It is my understanding the Ralph
Marquez has already requested on our behalf but I just want
to confirm that IVC is being considered. Also, for your
information and to share - IVC has conducted three hands-on
training sessions with our counseling staff (over 20 people)
and we will be offering additional ASSIST training as a flex
activity in the FALL.
Carol E. Lee
Transfer Center Director
(Articulation, ASSIST, CAN & 2+2+2)
Transfer Center
Imperial Valley College
P.O. Box 158
Imperial, CA 92251-0158
DIRECT: (619) 355-6274 or 6263
EMAIL: caroll@imperial.cc.ca.us
FAX: (619) 355-6107
Date: Thur, 24 Apr 97 15:34:03 PST
From: "Eric Taggart"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: ASSIST Board of Directors Meeting May 19, 1997
The next meeting of the ASSIST Board of Directors will be held
on May 19, 1997. If you have any issues or information for the
ASSIST Board, please contact an ASSIST representative from your
systemwide office or the ASSIST Coordination Site at (714) 824-4385.
The deadline for submitting information for this meeting is next
Thursday, May 1, 1997.
Board meetings are open, but space is limited. If you are
interested in attending or would like more information, please
contact me directly.
Thanks,
Eric Taggart
Director
ASSIST Coordination Site
eric@fs2.assist.uci.edu
Date: Thur, 24 Apr 97 15:29:03 PST
From: "Dale Leaman"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Web ASSIST Beta Testing
Dear Colleagues:
Web ASSIST represents the next big step for Project ASSIST as
we move to deliver universal access to ASSIST articulation
information on the Internet. Our target date for "turning on"
Web ASSIST is October, 1997.
Beta testing of Web ASSIST will begin Monday, May 5 and will
continue for two weeks. We will be asking for feedback concerning
the user interface, system performance, and data accuracy from a
variety of users, including articulation officers, counselors,
Transfer Center directors, faculty, staff, and students.
If you are interested in being a beta-tester (and have not already
done so) please complete and submit the survey form on the ACS web
site by 4:30 PM, Tuesday, April 29. The URL for the ACS web site is:
http://www.assist.uci.edu
Once there, follow these links:
Information for ASSIST Users
then
Current Events, Issues, and topics
then
Latest Information on Web ASSIST Development
then
Web ASSIST Beta Testing Interest Form.
We will notify the selected beta-testers and provide them with the
appropriate URL and testing instructions. During the testing period
a form will be available to beta-testers that will allow them to
submit their observations directly to us.
If you have any questions about this process please send an email to
dale@fs2.assist.uci.edu or call us at (714) 824-4385. This notice is
only being distributed via ASSIST-L. To facilitate feedback from a
variety of sources, please distribute it more broadly throughout your
campus as you see appropriate.
Dale Leaman
Project ASSIST
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 97 15:47:03 PST
From: "Eric Taggart"
To: assist-l@uci.edu
Subject: ASSIST-L Archive on ACS Web Site
We just found and fixed a problem with the ASSIST-L
listserv where a number of campus reps were not receiving
messages.
If you have not received an ASSIST-L message in the past
month or so and this is the first message you have seen in
a while, you were one of the people affected.
For those people, and for everyone else's general information,
there is now an archive of all ASSIST-L messages on the ASSIST
Web Site at www.assist.uci.edu. Look under "User Info", then
"ASSIST-L Listserver" for more information. You can also check
there periodically if you think you've missed some communications.
Sorry for any inconvenience, and please let us know if there
are others at your campus who should be subscribed and are not
receiving messages.
Thanks,
Eric Taggart
ASSIST Coordination Site
To: Community College and CSU Campus IGETC/CSU GE-B Contacts
From: Eric Taggart
Date: April 21, 1997
re: Technical Changes
-----------------------------------------------------------------
If you receive this message and are not the official IGETC/CSU
GE-B contact for your school, please do us a favor and pass this
note along.
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Just a reminder that the deadline for submitting technical
changes to your lists for 97-98 is Friday May 2nd. To date
we have only received about a dozen lists and I'm sure that
all of your curriculum committees have been a bit busier than
that. The earlier we receive your list, the easier it will
be for us to get them entered in time for our next distribution
of the ASSIST database.
Any technical change lists submitted after Friday May 2 will
not be included in the general distribution set to hit the
streets around July 15 (it takes us a while to enter the updates
and process all the data). So please help us to ensure that we
get full compliance.
Also, please remember that you must also provide us with an
update to your course prefix listing. Many of these are
desperately out of date and this is the only opportunity we
have set up to get them corrected.
Thanks for all of your help!
P.S. Also, remember to sign up immediately for beta testing
Web ASSIST during this coming May. Check out our web site at
www.assist.uci.edu for more information.
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:35:00 -0700
From: "Dale Leaman"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Web ASSIST Beta-Testing
Dear Colleagues:
Web ASSIST represents the next big step for Project ASSIST
as we move to deliver universal access to ASSIST articulation
information on the Internet. Our target date for "turning on"
Web ASSIST is October, 1997. We are nearly ready at this time
to begin early testing of Web ASSIST. We would like feedback
concerning the user interface, system performance, and data
accuracy from a variety of users, including articulation
officers, counselors, Transfer Center directors, faculty,
staff, and students. Testing will be conducted during a
two-week period in May, with the specific dates to be
determined.
This notice is only being distributed via ASSIST-L. To
facilitate feedback from a variety of sources, please
distribute it more broadly throughout your campus as you
see appropriate.
If you are interested in helping us beta-test Web ASSIST,
please go to the ACS web site at
http://www.assist.uci.edu
and follow these links:
Information for ASSIST Users
then
Current Events, Issues, and topics
then
Latest Information on Web ASSIST Development
then
Web ASSIST Beta Testing Interest Form
and complete and submit the form. We will notify the selected
beta-testers and provide them with the appropriate URL and
testing instructions.
If you have any questions about this process please call us
at (714) 824-4385. Just a reminder; automatic replies to this
message will go to the entire ASSIST-L list. To send an email
to someone at the Coordination Site use the person's first name
followed by @fs2.assist.uci.edu or refer to the list of email
addresses on our web site.
Dale Leaman
Project ASSIST
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 11:56:16 -0800
From: "Dale Leaman"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: ASSIST Course List Training
Dear Colleagues:
We've nearly completed the scheduled ASSIST training sessions
for the spring. We've been very happy with the number of attendees
and the level of discussion at each session. You've brought many
good questions and we feel the sessions have been quite productive.
We recognize that geography and schedules can make attendance
difficult for some project participants and, as I've mentioned
before, we are open to using teleconferences and other methods to
provide institutions the information they need in order to be
successful. Please contact us if you'd like to discuss solutions
for your particular needs.
The last two scheduled sessions of the spring focus on course list
updates. This is a timely subject, as your Fall, 1997 course list
updates are due at the Coordination Site by Friday, May 30.
The next session is scheduled for April 9 at LA City College, from
9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Below is a list of those confirmed to attend.
If you're not on this list and plan to attend on April 9, or if
you're on the list and don't plan to attend, please call me at
(714) 824-4385 or send email to dale@fs2.assist.uci.edu. I will
be sending directions and parking passes out tomorrow.
1. Rick Neumann
2. Dale Pittman
3. Michael Stephan
4. Peggy Garlo
5. Susan Izumo
6. Lee Grishman
7. Fay Dea
8. Teresa Frost
9. Carmen Ilano
10. Leslee Koritzke
11. Susan Faroat
12. Susan Izumo
13. Mervatte Abraham
The final scheduled training session will be held April 11 at
Las Positas College in Livermore. It's scheduled for 9:30 - 12:30,
but I would like to ask a favor. Because of airline schedules it's
unlikely that I will be able to get to Las Positas by 9:30, so I'd
like to delay the start of that session until 10:00 AM. (You can
sleep a few minutes longer!) Earlier sessions have not been taking
the entire time scheduled, so I would anticipate still being finished
by 12:30, but let's plan on 1:00 for a finish time just to be safe.
Thanks for your help with this.
Below is a list of those confirmed to attend. If you're not on
this list and plan to attend on April 11, or if you're on the list
and don't plan to attend, please call me at (714) 824-4385 or send
email to dale@fs2.assist.uci.edu. I will be sending directions and
parking passes out as soon as possible.
1. Paula Kutansky-Brown
2. Carol Baxter
3. Joann Rosebraugh
4. Susan McCarron
5. Lucilla Mangarte
6. Denise Van Horn
7. Maha Sulieman
8. Veronese Anderson
9. Ellie Russell
10. Patricia Issa
11. Greg Keen
After these two sessions are completed we will still be happy
to discuss setting up special workshops (via teleconference or
at our facility) to address your needs.
As a reminder-
This message is being distributed via the ASSIST-L Listserv.
If you use the reply function in your email program the
message will go to all of the subscribers to the list. This
can be inconvenient if many people respond and everyone gets
those responses, and the following message and the following...
You get the picture, I'm sure.
To send a response to me at the Coordination Site address
it to:
dale@fs2.assist.uci.edu
or to send email to any member of the staff here simply insert
their first name (instead of mine) in front of the @ sign.
Dale Leaman
Project ASSIST
To: ASSIST-L subscribers
From: Eric Taggart
Date: March 20, 1997
re: New Revelation Sales Rep
For anyone who might be needing to contact Revelation
Technologies Inc. regarding purchase of Revelation software
or LanPacks, there is a new sales representative taking
the place of Ian Stuard.
The new contact is:
Robert Kearney
Revelation Technologies Inc.
(800) 262-4747 x7108
rkearney@revelation.com
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:43:00 -0800
From: Keith McLellan
To: Multiple recipients of list
Eric,
Thanks for the opportunity for feedback on the "draft
definition and policies for ASSIST as the official
statewide database of articulation and transfer information".
Here is some feedback:
It is unclear why there a primary goals and secondary goals.
The inference is that the secondary goals are less important
and as
such need not be given as much attention. Yet there is an
expected outcome by 1999. Suggest you simply have Goals.
Page 3 uses language such as " Secure broad-based commitment...
to the concept of.." (Goal 1 Objective 4) and "...plans to
become.." (Goal 2 Objective 4) with regards to an official
statewide database. This is very tentative language allowing
for much wiggle room in terms of accountability. Is ASSIST to
be the statewide data-base or not? If yes, then the strategic
plan should specify how this will become a reality not just a
voluntary venture.
Page 2, Secondary Goal 1 uses the term "transcript analysis
tool". This seems very ambiguous. Is the term a euphemism for
something less or more substantial than a Progress Check or
Degree Audit? Clarification will help those of us considering
our options now that the revelation-based Project Check function
is obsolete.
Thanks again for the opportunity for feedback.
Keith McLellan
Dean, Student Development
Santa Barbara City College
To: ASSIST Campus Managers
From: Eric Taggart
Date: February 12, 1997
re: Articulation Repository Review and Comments
At the recent Spring 1997 ASSIST Regional Meetings on
March 4 and 6, we distributed and discussed the initial draft
definition and policies for ASSIST as the official statewide
database of articulation and transfer information.
This note is just to remind you that we are seeking broad
review and feedback on this document. Please share it with
anyone at your campus who you believe might be interested or
have something to say about it. Please send any comments
directly to the ACS or any of the committee members by
March 31, 1997.
In order to save a few forests, we will not be doing a mass
mailing of this document. However, if you were unable to attend
one of these regional meetings, or would like an additional copy
of the draft document, please contact my office at (714) 824-4385
to request that a copy be mailed to you.
Thanks for your help.
From: Rick_WALLACE@mail.redwoods.cc.ca.us (Rick WALLACE)
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: ASSIST Training Sessions
APPRECIATE YOU ADDRESSING OUR MAJOR CONCERN REGARDING
TRAVEL FROM MOST NORTHERN CALIF TO THE URBAN CENTERS
OF THE STATE. WE WILL DISCUSS WHETHER THE VIDEO CONFERENCING
IS A VIABLE OPTION FOR US... WE DO HAVE THE CAPABILITY...
THANKS
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:12:29 -0800
From: "Dale Leaman"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: ASSIST Training Sessions
Dear Colleagues:
This is an update on our current series of ASSIST training
sessions.
This Spring we have completed 7 training sessions at various
locations in California. Those sessions dealt with Installing,
Configuring and Updating ASSIST and Entering Articulation Data
in ASSIST. They were well attended and quite successful.
The 4 remaining sessions we are offering in March & April will
focus on the process of providing ASSIST Course List Updates.
Those locations and dates are:
Los Rios Community College District Office, Sacramento -
March 18, 9:30-12:30
ASSIST Coordination Site, Irvine - March 20, 9:30-12:30
L.A. City College, Los Angeles - April 9, 9:30-12:30
Las Positas Community College, Livermore - April 11, 9:30-12:30
To reiterate, these sessions will concentrate on Course Lists
only. As of 3/5 we have heard from the following people as to
their intent to attend:
Los Rios District Office, 3/18-
KC Mesloh
Margy Austin
Nancy Luke
Russell Van Dewark
Leona Steck
Betty Rogers
Erma Smith
Del'ois McBride
Betty Pearman
Elsie Bruno
Nelsa Paulson
Bob Bracht
Adele Hamlett
ACS 3/20-
Trish Luca
Shirley Blanchard
Paula Begin
Victor Tonelli
Jim Fenningham
Becky Aguilar
Pat Roberts
Jan Kuzmich
Greg Keen
Joe Nemcek
Norma Montano
Susan Fauroat
Diana Scott
Diane Eberharty
Vi Neuman
LA City College 4/9-
Rick Neumann
Dale Pittman
Michael Stephan
Peggy Garlo
Susan Izumo
Lee Grishman
Fay Dea
Teresa Frost
Carmen Ilano
Leslee Koritzke
Susan Faroat
Las Positas 4/11-
Paula Kutansky-Brown
Carol Baxter
Joann Rosebraugh
Mary Ellen Sullivan
Susan McCarron
Lucilla Mangarte
Denise Van Horn
Maha Sulieman
Veronese Anderson
Ellie Russell
Patricia Issa
Directions and parking information will be sent out soon.
Please let me know if your name is not on one of these lists
and you intend to attend a Course List Update session.
If you missed a training session relevant to your needs, or
if you need a reminder about something covered in one of the
sessions, please feel free to call us at the Coordination Site.
We will be happy to help you. Additionally, the new ASSIST
Coordination Site Web Site (scheduled for opening March 31,
1997) will begin to include viewable and downloadable training
presentations which you may view at your
convenience.
There has been some discussion recently about the difficulties
faced by institutions which are removed from large population
centers and transportation hubs. We are very aware of and
sympathetic to your situation. A convenient location for the
majority of campuses, which are located near the larger cities,
can be very difficult to reach for more rural or isolated
institutions. This a real problem in a state as large as
California.
Let me offer at least one solution to this problem. We have
available (at the UC Irvine campus) state-of-the-art video
conferencing facilities and are looking to use this technology
for meetings and training as much as possible in the future. If
you have access to video conferencing, either on your campus or
at a nearby campus, we are very willing to make the necessary
arrangements to do remote training sessions and meetings. Please
feel free to call if you would like to discuss the details of
setting up this kind of conference, or if you would like to
discuss other options.
Dale Leaman
ASSIST Coordination Site
(714) 824-4385
dale@fs2.assist.uci.edu
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 12:17:35 -0800
From: Rick_WALLACE@mail.redwoods.cc.ca.us (Rick WALLACE)
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Training Session - MiraCosta College - Feb. 7
We are concerned about the lack of training sites that region
1 ccc can travel to... has you might be aware, the location
of region 1 ccc often hinders our traveling, especially on
short-term trips... our travel budgets cannot handle the cost
of these trips which are higher because there are not
competitive airlines serving the smaller towns and cities
up this way... we are also going to have to miss the March 6
trip to DVC... we dont have the funds ... it cost over $200
to fly to SF and the flights are not always fitting our
scheduling demands....
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 12:15:35 -0800
From: Rick_WALLACE@mail.redwoods.cc.ca.us (Rick WALLACE)
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: ASSIST Spring '97 Regional Meetings
As I stated in an earlier email... we will not be able to
make this trip... not only for the cost of the flight... but
the cost of a rental car to drive to DVC.. Flights from our
area only fly into SF... counting traffice to and from the
SF airport to DVC... which is not a good location to get into
and out of... we will have to pass... hope we can schedule more
of these further north and in more convienent
venues....
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:21:06 -0800
From: "Dale Leaman"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: ASSIST Training Sessions
Dear Colleagues:
The following people have responded with their intent to
attend these upcoming training sessions:
Entering Articulation Data
Wednesday, 2/26 9:30-3:00 at LA Pierce College
1. Gale James - LA Pierce College
2. Dale Pittman - Pasadena City College
3. Rick Neumann - PCC
4. Michael Stephens - PCC
5. Peggy Garlo - PCC
6. Lee Grishman - Antelope Valley College
7. Fay Dea - LA Valley College
8. Teresa - LAVC
9. Susan Fauroat - UCSB
10. Susan Izumo - Moorpark College
11. Eric Dungan - Alan Hancock College
12. Leslee Koritzke - LA Trade Tech
Installing, Configuring & Updating ASSIST Wednesday, March 5
9:30-12:30 CSU Hayward
1. Sarah Riddle - CSU Hayward
2. Paula Kutansky-Brown - College of Marin
3. Mary Ellen Sullivan - Cabrillo College
4. Russel van Dewark - Contra Costa College
5. Carol Baxter - Vista College
6. Erma Smith - Los Medanos College
7. Del'ois McBride - LMC
8. Betty Pearman - LMC
9. Lucilla Mangarte - Diablo Valley College
10. Veronese Anderson - West Valley College
11. Ellie Russel - WVC
12. Elizabeth Harrinton - Monterey Peninsula College
13. Elsa Sandoval - MPC
If you are planning to attend either session and your name
is not on the list please let me know as soon as possible.
Information concerning the sessions on Course List Updates
will be sent out soon. Those sessions are planned for:
March 18 9:30-12:30
Los Rios Community College District Office Sacramento
March 20 9:30-12:30
ASSIST Coordination Site, Irvine
April 9 9:30-12:30
L.A. City College, Los Angeles
April 11 9:30-12:30
Las Positas College, Livermore
If you haven't already done so, please let me know if you
plan to attend one of the Course List Update sessions.
In response to requests for more discussions about using
ASSIST we have some workshops planned for the March Users
Group Meetings. We strongly encourage you to attend one of
these events. The Southern meeting will be March 4 at the
Atrium Hotel in Irvine. The Northern meeting will be March
6 at the Marriott Hotel in Walnut Creek. If you haven't
returned your registration form please do so as soon as
possible.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact
us. You can call (714) 824-4385 or send an email to
dale@fs2.assist.uci.edu.
By the way, if you automatically reply to this message it
will go to the entire ASSIST list-serv. I'll get the message,
but so will everyone else.
Dale Leaman
Project ASSIST
Date: January 31, 1997 3:00pm
Dear Colleagues,
As described in the new ASSIST Strategic and Technology
Plans (announced at the December 1996 Users Group Meeting)
the ASSIST Board of Directors is working on establishing
ASSIST as the official statewide repository of articulation
and transfer information for the state of California. As
one of the important steps in establishing this, the Board
has requested field consultation on a variety of issues
related to the repository.
We are currently working on preparing information for campus
review and comment and plan to distribute it in February.
This brings us to the Spring 1997 Regional Meetings. We are
going to set them up a little differently than in the past.
This Spring the ACS will be coordinating and hosting 2
regional meetings, one in the north and one in the south.
While this will require a bit more travel for some campuses,
it will provide a more effective forum for discussing these
important issues. Preliminary agenda items are as follows:
- Project Update
- Review and discuss feedback on repository information
- Lunch
- Community College Usage Workshops
We will be sending a letter to all participating college and
university campus ASSIST managers next week with more details
and an RSVP form.
Unfortunately this spring is already packed with a bunch of
conferences and meetings and we cannot wait until May to
address the items on this agenda. We apologize in advance
for the very short notice of these meetings and hope it will
not affect your ability to attend.
The Southern ASSIST Regional Meeting will be held on March 4
from 9:30am to 2:30pm at the Atrium Hotel at the Orange County
Airport in Irvine.
The Northern ASSIST Regional Meeting will be held on March 6
from 9:30am to 2:30pm at the Walnut Creek Marriot Hotel in
Walnut Creek.
There is no fee for these meetings and lunch will be provided.
Every participating campus is expected to have at least one
representative attend regional meetings.
Sincerely,
Eric Taggart
Director
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:56:12 -0800
From: "Dale Leaman"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Training Session - Modesto College - Feb. 6
Dear Colleagues:
We have received confirmations from the following people as to
their intent to attend the February 6 training session on
Installing, Updating, & Configuring ASSIST at Modesto College:
1. Philip Kincaide - UCD
2. Bob Ferrando - UCD
3. Betty Wentz - UCD
4. Carol Hoffman - UCD
5. Elsie Bruno -Columbia
6. Nelsa Paulson - Columbia
7. Greg Keen- Sequoias
8. Leona Steck - Merced
9. Betty Rogers - Merced
10. Carmella Batch - Yuba
11. Sheila White-Daniels - Yuba
Lori Quillen from the ASSIST Coordination Site will
conducting this session. Shirlee Adams is our host at
Modesto College.
If you are on this list and have not yet received directions
and a parking pass from the ASSIST Coordination Site
OR
If you intend to attend this session and have not notified us
please contact me at (714) 824-4385 or by e-mail at
dale@fs2.assist.uci.edu.
Dale Leaman
Project ASSIST
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:22:37 -0800
From: "Dale Leaman"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Training Session - MiraCosta College - Feb. 7
Dear Colleagues:
We have received confirmations from the following people as
to their intent to attend the February 7 training session on
Articulation Entry in ASSIST at MiraCosta College:
1. Jim Fenningham - Grossmont
2. Becky Agiular - Saddleback
3. Debra Gaskin - Saddleback
4. Diana Scott - Saddleback
5. Bob Larsen - Palomar
6. Jan Kuzmich - Palomar
7. Jan Roberts - Palomar
8. Norma Montano - Southwestern
9. Bob Stafford - SBVC
Cathy Robin from the ASSIST Coordination Site will conducting
this session. Trish Luca is our host at MiraCosta College.
If you are on this list and have not yet received directions
and a parking pass from the ASSIST Coordination Site
OR
If you intend to attend this session and have not notified us
please contact me at
(714) 824-4385 or by e-mail at dale@fs2.assist.uci.edu.
Dale Leaman
Project ASSIST
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:40:48 -0800
From: "Larry Coon"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Installing the Jan 97 ASSIST Database
The installation instructions that accompany the January '97
ASSIST Distribution Database are missing one small step.
This applies both to tape and FTP installations.
In Step III, "Install the Software" following item 4-d
(the "Enter letters of drives containing ASSIST data" prompt),
there is an additional prompt that is not mentioned in the
installation instructions. This prompt is "Enter name of
directory containing ASSIST data." When you reach this prompt,
enter "\" (a backslash, without the quotes).
This prompt tells the software where to find the database.
ASSIST Version 3.4 supports installing the database in a
subdirectory, but at this point the software needs to be told
where to find the database CURRENTLY (the backslash indicates
that the database currently resides at the root of the drive).
When you install the new database (later in the installation
process), you will be given an opportunity to specify that the
database should be relocated into a subdirectory. This is done
in Step IV, item 5 for tape installations, or Step V, item 5
for FTP installations.
After you enter a backslash at the "Enter name of directory
containing ASSIST data" prompt, the installation will continue
as indicated in the installation instructions. Please don't
hesitate to call the Coordination Site if you have any
questions regarding this prompt, installing the database in
a subdirectory, or any other aspect of the installation process.
Larry Coon
Technical Manager,
Project ASSIST
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:11:06 -0800
From: "Cathy Robin"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Articulation Data Entry Training at Modesto
Because so few people have signed up for the training in
Modesto, the Articulation Data Entry training session on
January 28 is cancelled. The ACS will be in touch with those
who did reserve a space to make other arrangements for training.
All of the other training sessions will proceed as scheduled.
If you have any questions, please feel free to give me a call.
Thanks
Cathy Robin
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:15:09 -0800
From: "Cathy Robin"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: ASSIST Training Sessions
The feedback from our letter regarding ASSIST training
sessions was excellent. In response to your interest,
I have made arrangements for training sessions on three
different topics to be held from January - April in various
locations throughout the state. You are welcome to attend
any or all of the sessions.
I. Articulation Data Entry
January 28 Modesto Junior College
February 7 MiraCosta College
February 19 Diablo Valley College
February 26 LA Pierce College
The sessions will be held from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. Please
bring samples of the articulation you plan to enter into
ASSIST.
This training will cover in detail the entry of articulation
data into the current version of ASSIST. ASSIST managers and
any other staff members who will be entering data should
attend. Community colleges who wish to enter articulation
data for independent colleges/universities or community
college to community college articulation are welcome, as are
any four-year articulation staff who are entering articulation
data into ASSIST.
This training,however, will not cover how to look up
articulation data in ASSIST, so it is not appropriate for
counseling/advising staff interested in training on using
ASSIST.
II. Course List Updating
March 18 Los Rios District Office
March 20 ASSIST Coordination Site
April 9 LA City College
April 11 Las Positas College
The sessions will be held from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.
This training will cover in detail how to update your
course list files as they change each term/year. This
training is critical for all commmunity colleges new to
ASSIST and to the course list update process. ASSIST
managers, data processing staff responsible for providing
course list information and any other staff members who
work with this data should attend.
Course list updates for Fall 1997 will be due to the
Coordination Site by June 1. If you are unfamiliar with
the course list update process, please plan to attend one
of these sessions so that you will be able to complete your
course list update on time.
III. Installing/Configuring ASSIST
January 23 ASSIST Coordination Site
February 6 Modesto Junior College
February 12 Moopark College
March 5 CSU Hayward
The sessions will be held from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.
These sessions will cover installing the current version of
the ASSIST software and database and ways to customize ASSIST
for best use at your campus. Sessions will be most useful to
new ASSIST campuses and to those who have new staff members
working with ASSIST. ASSIST managers and technical staff
responsible for ASSIST should plan to attend.
If you are interested in any of these sessions and are
unable to make it to any of the locations listed above,
please call the ACS to arrange a training session at the
ASSIST Coordination Site. We will be able to conduct a
limited number of these sessions. We will not, however,
be able to conduct private sessions at individual campuses.
A number of you expressed interest in training for counselors/
advisors/students in the use of ASSIST. This topic will be
covered at the Spring regional ASSIST meetings. Please be
advised that the intention of this training is to provide
information to ASSIST managers regarding how to train staff
on their campus in the use of ASSIST. It is not intended as
a hands-on training for counselors/advisors or students.
Dates, times and locations have not yet been established for
these meetings. You will receive separate correspondence on
this after the first of the year.
If you are planning to attend any of the training sessions,
please call the ASSIST Coordination Site to make a reservation.
Specific information regarding directions, parking and room
location will be provided at that time.
My staff and I are looking forward to working with you during
the next year. I hope to see you at the training sessions.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Happy Holidays.
Cathy Robin
Associate Director, ASSIST
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:44:06 -0800
From: "Cathy Robin"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Training Workshops
Apparently my note this morning is generating some
questions, so let me back up a few steps and provide some
explanation.
In October, a letter was sent to managers at participating
ASSIST sites asking for information on the level of interest
in training sessions on the following topics:
Entry of articulation data into ASSIST
Updating of course list information
Training counselors/advisors/students in the use of ASSIST
Progress Check maintenance and formatting (for Progress Check
participants only)
Installing ASSIST data and configuring ASSIST.
Managers were asked to reply by November 8 and we received
a lot of forms. So, we are in the process of finding dates
and locations for providing these training
sessions.
Once I have dates and locations confirmed (hopefully by
mid-December) I will notify all ASSIST managers so that
you can attend, or send appropriate staff members to
the various sessions.
If you did not respond to the first letter, you will still
be able to attend the training sessions.
None of the sessions are mandatory, but are recommended
to anyone new to ASSIST.
Hope this helps clear things up.
Cathy Robin
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:33:01 -0800
From: "Cathy Robin"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: ASSIST Training Workshops
Thanks to all of you who returned the Project ASSIST Training
Interest Forms.
Based on your responses, we are planning training workshops
to begin mid-late January. Most workshops will be offered
in three to four locations throughout the state. I am in
the process of finalizing dates and times with the campuses
who will host these sessions. I expect to have a complete
list of dates and times in December.
Thanks for your patience with this process, but it takes time
to coordinate workshops for so many campuses spread throughout
the state.
If anyone is in dire need of training and cannot wait until
January, please contact me at (714) 824-4385 and we'll try
to arrange something sooner.
See you all at the User Group Meeting on December 4.
Cathy Robin
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 16:44:14 -0800
From: "Eric Taggart"
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: ASSIST Board of Directors Meeting
Just a reminder that the next ASSIST Board of Directors
meeting will be held in Oakland on November 18, 1996. The
preliminary agenda for this meeting is included below.
If anyone is interested in attending this meeting as a
guest, please contact me directly at (714) 824-4385 as soon
as possible.
Eric Taggart
Director
ASSIST Coordination Site
ASSIST Board of Directors
Fall Meeting - November 18, 1996
9:00 am - 3:30 p.m.
Preliminary Agenda
Review and Discuss Pending Issues from the September Board
Retreat
1996-97 ASSIST Strategic Plan
- Review and approve final plan
1996-97 ASSIST Technology Plan
- Review and approve final plan
ASSIST Database Software Selection
- Review and approve TAC recommendation for Sybase/Powersoft
Annual ASSIST User Group Meeting
- Discuss presentation of the Strategic Plan at the Dec. 4th
meeting
Director's Report
- Review and discuss Director's Report
Refining Board Operating Procedures
- Review and approve recommendations from the ASSIST Board
workgroup
Campus Advisory Committee
- Establish objectives for annual user satisfaction survey
1997-98 Project Budget
- Determine method and time line for discussing and
establishing the 1997-98 budget