Kuali Coeus Live at Indiana University!   

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Indiana University Office of Research Administration is proud to announce the implementation of Kuali Coeus 3.0.1, a comprehensive grant administration system to better assist faculty researchers at every stage of the grant-making process.  Indiana University is the first Kuali Coeus partner school to implement the proposal and budget development modules with system-to-system Grants.gov functionality.  Additionally, Indiana University is the first school to offer Kuali Coeus system functionality to faculty, department staff, in addition to research administration personnel; thus creating a common portal for proposal development, routing, and submission.

The open-source Kuali Coeus Research Administration system replaces and expands on the university's current Electronic Research Administration system and integrates with components of the legacy Financial Information System, as well as numerous internal research administration systems and databases.  IU Bloomington, the IU Medical School, Indianapolis University Purdue University Indianapolis, and all regional campuses are now using the Kuali Coeus system.   Steve A. Martin, Associate Vice President Office of Research Administration said, "This initial implementation marks a significant milestone in our efforts to position Indiana University to compete for grant funding and manage related administrative matters efficiently and effectively."

IU Vice President for Research Jorge José said, "We see this new system as a game-changer not only for Indiana University, but also for the network of elite research institutions already committed to using a system modeled from MIT's highly-regarded Coeus application.  In replacing Coeus, Kuali Coeus will offer a free, open-source research administration tool that will be accessible from any common web browser." 

Indiana University is one of the founding members of the Kuali Foundation and is instrumental in the development of Kuali Coeus, through its support of a collaborative, open-source environment to deliver enterprise systems for higher education.   Martin also stated, "The implementation of Kuali Coeus is the result of the collaborative efforts of staff and faculty across several units within Indiana University as well as colleagues at other universities involved with the Kuali Coeus community."

A second implementation phase of Kuali Coeus is anticipated by December 2012 when the expansion will provide the ability to create sponsored project awards, award terms and conditions, and to manage complex multi-account awards. Phase 2 will integrate Kuali Coeus with financial components debuting in the Kuali Financial Systems at Indiana University. Kuali Coeus and the Kuali Financial Systems will share component and award attributes, while data sharing and information flow will be streamlined between the two systems.   

Congratulations go to all members of the Kuali Coeus implementation team at IU!  Special recognition goes to James Becker, Executive Director Grants and Contract Services; Terry Durkin, Technical Project Manager; and Lora O'Connor, Functional Project Manager and Executive Director Research Administration Systems and Decision Support, for their leadership and hard work in realizing the Kuali Coeus implementation at Indiana University!  For additional details about the Kuali Coeus implementation, refer to:  http://researchadmin.iu.edu/newsletters.html.

About Indiana University

Established in 1820, Indiana University located in Bloomington, Indiana enrolls over 88,000 undergraduate students, and has more than 20,000 graduate students enrolled in 1,200 degree programs.  With a faculty of approximately 6,000 the highly respected and acclaimed University was awarded a record total of $603.9 million in research grants and awards during fiscal year 2010.  For more information about IU visit: http://www.iu.edu/

About the Kuali Foundation

The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization that coordinates the efforts of colleges and universities to sustain and evolve administrative software that meets the needs of all sizes of higher education institutions, from small colleges to large research universities. The Kuali Foundation began in 2004 as a cooperative effort among partners and a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop an open-source, community-owned financial system.

Success with joint development of Kuali Financial System has led to additional pooled investment projects, including Kuali Coeus for Research Administration, Kuali Student, Kuali Rice, Kuali Open Library Environment, Kuali People Management for the Enterprise, Kuali Mobility, and Kuali Ready.  The software developed by Kuali projects is available, without fee, for anyone to use or modify under the Educational Community License.

 

For further information about the Kuali Foundation contact Jennifer Foutty (jfoutty@kuali.org, voice: 812-345-3948), or navigate to: http://kuali.org/