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We launched the ProSAM IAM (Institutional Awards Module) Project in Fall 2019 as an enhancement to the larger ESR ProSAM project that went live in Summer 2018. Why IAM? And why now? ProSAM was designed to disburse annual aid awards to undergraduate student accounts on a quarterly basis, which doesn't well serve the varied needs of academic departments/programs/units who may want to commit multi-year funding packages or issue stipends to graduate students. IAM is an overlay technology for ProSAM, specifically designed with graduate student financial support in mind and has been successful at UC Santa Barbara. When fully implemented, this tool will streamline our business processes for requesting and disbursing graduate student stipend and fee payments, while also enabling multi-year funding commitments. In the future state, ProSAM IAM also will enable better fiscal planning for graduate student support at the institutional, divisional, department/unit, and program levels.
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