About Kuali

The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for sustaining and evolving administrative software that meets the needs of all Carnegie Class institutions. Its members are colleges, universities, commercial firms and interested organizations that share a common vision of open, modular, and distributed systems for their software requirements. The goal of Kuali is to bring the proven functionality of legacy applications to the ease and universality of online services.

The Foundation coordinates the efforts of partners, and manages and protects the Foundation's intellectual property. The Kuali Foundation manages a growing portfolio of enterprise software applications for colleges and universities, such as Kuali Financial System (KFS), Kuali Coeus (KC), and Kuali Student (KS). A lightweight Foundation staff coordinates the activities of Foundation members for critical software development and coordination activities such as source code control, release engineering, packaging, documentation, project management, software testing and quality assurance, conference planning, and educating and assisting members of the Kuali Partners program.

Board of Directors

Brad Wheeler, Chairman
Chief Information Officer and Dean of IT, Indiana University
Joanne DeStefano, Vice Chairman
Vice President for Financial Affairs, Cornell University
Lee Belarmino, Secretary
Vice President for IT, San Joaquin Delta College
Charles Ingram, Treasurer
Associate Vice President Financial Services, University of Arizona
Bruce Alexander
Director, Enterprise Business Systems Projects, Michigan State University
Steve Dowdy
Director, Research Information Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Lassner
Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, University of Hawaii
Ted Dodds
Associate Vice President for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer, University of British Columbia
Shel Waggener
Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer, University of California at Berkeley
Elazar Harel
Chief Information Officer, University of California San Diego
Jennifer Foutty, Executive Director