An interactive graduate student records system

This project involved the development of an interactive storage and retrieval system for School of Education graduate student records.The School of Education wanted to convert from a paper system involving notebooks of graduate student information to an online system allowing for adding, deleting, updating, and displaying of the student records, and also for the generation of reports. Initially, the School of Education wanted the system to include personal data, summary academic data, and academic program data such as courses completed and additional courses required. Due to the complexity of the academic programs, however, the system was designed to maintain only the personal and summary academic data.All programs were written to run on a Data General minicomputer using Data General's FORTRAN 5. Menu selection followed by specific prompts allow for the operation of the system after minimal instruction.The data is stored in a random access file with individual records being identified by social security numbers. A "dictionary" file contains social security numbers along with relative record numbers. The report generation routine uses prompts to construct a SAS program, copies the data into a card-image file which is sent with the SAS program to a state university system for batch processing.