ConnectCarolina: Enterprise Resource Planning

Admissions
During the weekend of Oct. 31-Nov. 1, the Junior Transfer and Intra University Transfer application for the School of Education will be deployed. Residency conversion and interface file functionality (Medical, Dental, Law, Pharmacy and Physical Therapy) will also go live over that weekend.

The team continues to gather and review requirements for Graduate and Professional Schools Admissions Application and Application Evaluation pieces. Areas of focus are complete requirements gathering, open communications, engaging change management/training early in the process and utilizing all project resources (internal project as well as client resources).

There are continued efforts on identifying scope and tasks required to implement the Graduate Admissions project by July 2010.

Student Records
A major milestone is scheduled for the weekend of Oct. 31-Nov. 1 when the program/plan converted data go live. [NOTE: this go-live was postponed on Oct. 30 and will occur during the week of Nov. 2; the Office of the University Registrar states that there are no risks associated with this postponement.] Program/plan is PeopleSoft speak for major and minor; this converted data brings over all academic program and degree records in SIS back to 1953, including more than 1.4 million rows of data, almost 350,000 students and more than 250,000 awarded degrees.

The team is also validating Schedule of Classes and Enrollment conversion data which are scheduled for go-live later in November.

Financial Aid
The team is focusing on additional testing of configuration and modifications, and working with the Financial Aid office testing the Carolina Covenant.

Student Financials
The team continues to run and review tuition calculation and group assignments with new test data created from this month's conversions. The team is also focused on the development and testing of the modifications and interfaces. Integration of the Starlight system, which will replace the StARS system for tracking student awards, has begun and will continue for the next several weeks. Decisions are underway concerning functionality of the third party proxy capability for students to allow parents and other authorized individuals to act for a student for activities such as bill payment and review of selected information identified by the student.

Academic Advisement
Work will remain focused on completing configuring all the majors. This is a very large effort that will continue into November. Work also continues on functional specifications required interfaces and modifications. These will need to be completed by late November.