ITS-created programs that improve BC’s administrative capabilities can sometimes have amusing acronyms. SALI and CALI, for example, sound like the names of a friend, a sister or an aunt. Actually, they’re two very useful tools.

SALI stands for SIMS* Access LAN Interface. It’s a windows-based program that provides extracts of SIMS information, and both faculty and staff can use it to produce mailing labels and a wide variety of reports. The beauty of SALI is that it’s an alternative to the more complicated, mainframe SIMS program. It’s extremely user-friendly and fast, and you can select from many parameters for reports. For example, you can produce a report indicating all Asian students in their sophomore year, with a major in physics and a GPA of 3.2 or higher. You can also e-mail students directly from the program. SALI makes student and enrollment information access easy and flexible. (To apply for a SALI account, contact ITS, x 5861.)

CALI stands for CUPS* Access LAN Interface and is a database of information about full- and part-time faculty and staff. The data includes type of appointment, home address and phone number, educational degrees, years employed at BC, etc. CALI is used by the Office of Human Resources and certain BC executives to produce reports and spreadsheets. Like SALI, CALI is far more user-friendly than its mainframe progenitor. With over one hundred fields of information, CALI is capable of reports that reflect every conceivable parameter.

*SIMS: Student Information Management System
*CUPS: CUNY Personnel System

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