Xap Corporation Wins Contract to Implement Statewide Electronic Transcript System for the California Community Colleges
The new system will facilitate transmission of standardized electronic transcripts from the California Community Colleges to any electronically-enabled institution.
Culver City, CA – August 24, 2005 – The California Community Colleges System Office announced today that Xap Corporation, the leading provider of Internet-based educational services, has been awarded a major contract to develop and implement the CCCTran System.
The proposed system will enable California Community Colleges (CCC), which serves more than 2.9 million students, to improve the student transcript security and turnaround time between request and delivery among its 109 campuses, as well as with other 'trading partners' such as the California State University (CSU) system, the University of California (UC) system, and California Student Information Services (CSIS).
"After an extensive RFP process, we are pleased to have selected Xap to develop an advanced, online student transcript system customized to our specifications," said Catherine McKenzie of the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office.
"As the largest college system in the country, we expect the CCCTran System to set the industry standard for efficient transcript processing and to cut per transcript costs from the current $6-$10 for a conventional manually-issued transcript to $0.50 per electronic transcript."
The CCCTran System is a collaborative effort involving Xap Corporation, community college and district representatives, and the Chancellor's Office.
The new system will be a streamlined, centralized service for securely transmitting transcripts in real time from CCC member schools to authorized educational institutions – regardless of current student information systems or business practices for transcripts.
It will dramatically speed up the sending and receiving of electronic transcripts instead of the manual printing and mailing of transcripts, while delivering a higher level of security between the CCCs and their trading partners.
Conforming to national EDI and XML standards, this comprehensive system will enable CCC schools to import from and export to diverse student information systems, electronically process batches of transcripts or fulfill a single request, automatically process fees and waivers, withhold transcript delivery for financial or other reasons, and utilize numerous other tools.
"The CCCTran project is a forward-looking idea whose time has arrived, and the CCCCO must be commended for undertaking a venture that will ultimately better serve the millions of community college students and the CSU and UC schools where many of the community college students transfer," said Liz Dietz, CEO of Xap Corporation.
"The CCC plays a major role in California's post-secondary educational system, and the CCCTran System will keep them on track with the fast changing needs of higher education today."
The California Community Colleges also operate the CCCApply (www.cccapply.org) site, a statewide web-based system powered by Xap that allows students to learn about and apply to community college campuses throughout the state.
Its purpose is to simplify the research and planning efforts for prospective students, as well as automate and streamline the entire application-to-admission process.
The site contains a wide range of services and information that support outreach and other types of assistance offered by the community colleges.
About Xap
Headquartered in the Los Angeles area, Xap Corporation (www.xap.com) focuses on the creation of comprehensive Internet-based information management systems relating to secondary and postsecondary education.
Founded in 1990, Xap is the leading developer of online student services systems for associations and statewide groups of colleges and universities across the United States.
Xap Corporation now has sites that cover the California State University system (www.csumentor.edu), the California Community Colleges (www.cccapply.org), and the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (www.aiccumentor.org), as well as a statewide site for all colleges and universities in California (www.californiacolleges.edu).
About CCC
The California Community College system of two-year public institutions is comprised of 109 colleges statewide organized into 72 districts.
It is the largest system of higher education in the world, and serves more than 2.9 million students.
