ConnectCarolina: Enterprise Resource Planning

Starlight is a new version of StARS (Student Award Reporting System), which is a comprehensive system to collect and report all funds, especially departmental awards, given to a student in support of their attendance at the University.

View a presentation about Starlight.

As PeopleSoft (PS) is implemented to replace the University’s legacy student systems, a new version of StARs is needed because:

• There is no component of PeopleSoft that provides the functions needed by campus users, and currently delivered by StARS
• StARS is written in an incompatible computer language and cannot be interfaced with PeopleSoft

The functionality provided by StARs must be maintained because:

• Audit requirements state that campus departments are required to notify the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid (OSSA) of departmental awards so that OSSA will not over-award the student’s financial aid package
• The University needs to maintain a system to administer Graduate School In-state and Tuition Remission Awards
• The University needs to enforce the policy for charging in-state tuition to the student’s salary source (Federal Circular A-21 Guideline, as interpreted by the Office of Sponsored Research)

Starlight will be implemented in two phases:

• Phase I: the data entry phase for Starlight; campus users will enter their data and it will be fed to PeopleSoft Financial Aid; the go-live is Feb. 2010
• Phase II: the accounting phase where we will take what is produced from Student Financials and feed data to the FRS accounting system; the go-live is June 2010