Student Tracking Advising Retention System (STARS)
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Security and Warning Messages
The Stars servers are protected by a firewall and its web server has 128-bit encrypted SSL Security. Warning messages may be displayed in certain browsers but these do not reflect any real problems. More ... Reporting Errors Stars, like its creators, is perfect, or at least 99.9% so. Nevertheless, you may occasionally encounter an unexpected or erroneous result. This is almost certainly due to someone else's mistake (for example, a data input error). If we discover an error and it is someone else's fault, you can rest assured that we will aggressively pursue the perpetrator, and when found, corrective action will be taken to the full extent of the law. On the other hand, in the unlikely event that there is an error in one of the Stars web pages, it is probably a very subtle and forgivable oversight. In this case, as is our custom, we will follow our uncompromising drive towards perfection and attend to it as soon as we can. In any case, please let us know if you run into any problems as we have no other way of knowing.Stars Stars is a web application that interacts with a collection of WSU databases. It is designed to enable convenient access to university data at both an individual and aggregate level for advising, retention efforts, curriculum tracking, and program evaluation. Anyone at WSU with a valid AccessID can logon to the Stars Student Profile with the default 'Student' status. In this case the user can only view his/her own student data and will not have access to the reports module. For appropriate WSU personnel (among the faculty and staff), 'Advisor' status can be obtained upon authorization from the Project Manager. More ... The Stars web application draws data from a variety of sources. These include Banner, Testing and Evaluation Researsh (T&ER), Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS), Early Academic Assessment database (EAA), WSU Online Directory (LDAP), and a custom Stars database. Logon to the application using your WSU AccessID and Password. Logon is only possible when Banner is operational. The status of the Banner server can be checked at the WSU System Status web page. Stars Student Profile Data available through this application includes: 
Contact Information
Student Comments (level of privacy determined by user)
Academic Standing, General Student, Application, and Holds
WSU Classes (academic history)
Transfer Courses and Previous Education
GPA Summaries
General Education and Degree Audit
Registration Detail (Fall 2002 and later)
Early Academic Assessment Data
Stars Reports We are constantly updating reports and adding new ones. The detail reports that provide list students enable drill-down to individual student profiles by clicking on the Student ID. As of Winter 2008 we have over 60 reports, some with a variety of sub-reports. Click the following link to display the Reports Menu. Degree Audit This project is sponsored by Associate Provost Howard Shapiro and the Registrar Linda Falkiewicz. The project personnel include:
Plan of Work (POW) The POW web application is not active at this time due to other priorities. We may resuscitate it if time permits. It's purpose is to allow graduate students to submit plans of work and to manage the approval process by advisors and GPO's. In order to use this application, a Stars advisor needs to setup the appropriate curricula within the Stars database. A Brief History of WSU Data Systems As of Fall 2002, WSU moved from the SIS to the Banner System. SIS was used from Winter 1998 until Spring/Summer of 2002 and a large majority of the data has now been converted to Banner. Prior to 1998, the TP system was used. Data in that system was not maintained after the end of each semester so is not completely reliable (though is largely correct). The TP Conversion Project was initiated by WSU to convert TP transcript data into Banner. With just a few exceptions, all students who registered since Winter 2001 have had their TP data cleaned and converted to Banner. Stars Presentations
Cohort Tracking Tool - October 27, 2006
MAIE Conference - April 14, 2005
SCT/Banner Summit Presentation - March 31, 2004
WSU Associate Deans - September 16, 2003
A Brief History of Stars In 2003, we changed our name from Student Retention and Advising System (Sras) to Student Tracking, Advising, and Retention System (Stars), The new name is much perkier, easy to remember, and sounds less like a potentially lethal disease. (More ...) 
Questions or problems regarding this web site should be directed to
R. Berman.
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