Student Services Transformation
About Student Services Transformation
The Student Services Transformation Project will fundamentally transform services for faculty, staff and students in areas related to admissions and recruitment, advising, career services, course scheduling and curriculum, data warehouse (reporting), degree audit, grading, housing, registration, self-service (MyUB), student accounts, student financial aid, student health and student records through the implementation of PeopleSoft’s student information system, Campus Solutions.
Updates
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July 1, 2008
The implementation phase of the Student Services Transformation is poised to begin in early July. This represents a major step forward in our ongoing efforts to transform our academic support services and campus infrastructure in support of UB’s vision to become a model public research university for the 21st century.
After a semester of productive contract negotiations, UB has reached agreements with Oracle for PeopleSoft Campus Solutions software and CIBER Inc. to provide systems integration consulting services for the Student Services Transformation project.
Many staff members throughout the campus have invested a great amount of effort in bringing us to this significant milestone, and we would like to extend our thanks and appreciation for their participation and support.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the entire campus community for their commitment in staffing. The membership of the Student Services Transformation project team has been finalized; a list of project team members can be found on the project membership page. We have a strong campus team positioned to participate in this endeavor, and we look forward to working together in bringing fundamental changes to the ways that we provide student services.
The first phase of implementation—project planning—will commence when the CIBER consultants arrive at UB later this month. We will engage a number of campus constituencies in the planning process, which will include development of communications and training plans, a detailed timeline, and the other strategies needed to guide us to success. In late summer and early fall, we will begin our fit/gap sessions, which will engage representatives from across the university in mapping our business needs to PeopleSoft’s Campus Solutions software.
As the project progresses, we will continue to provide you with frequent updates. We welcome your feedback at ub-sst@buffalo.edu.
We look forward to engaging the campus as we move forward, and we hope that you share in our excitement for the improvements that we can achieve.