Student Services Transformation
Past Academic Advising Updates
May 2009
To SSTP Academic Advising Core Team Members and Subject Matter Experts:
Welcome! I would like to take this opportunity to update everyone on the progress of the Academic Advising module of the Student Services Transformation Project. My goal is to continue to give you and other interested parties monthly updates around this module and project - click here to join or signoff from the list.
October seems a long time off from our last full meeting in our module’s Fit Gap sessions. Next week, May 4th, our CIBER module lead, Susan Kretz, will be returning to the University at Buffalo. The next phase of the project plan for Academic Advising will begin.
Since October, Maureen Faulhaber and I have been busy working on preparing for Susan’s return and our emersion into the Academic Advising module. I have also been assisting the Academic Structure module team with the set-up of the Academic Organizations to ensure that it is well integrated with our module and have a basic knowledge of all the Careers, Programs, Plans and Sub plans for which we will have to build rules for our audits.
I have also been working as the Functional Lead on the Campus Community module which lays down much of the structure for people’s Biographical and Demographical data in the PeopleSoft system. A benefit for our module is that I will have a better understanding of many of the processes we will have to do for Advising – configuration, conversion, modeling and others – based on my Campus Community experience.
May 2009 marks the transition to the configuration phase of the project and the pace of the project will increase substantially. As Subject Matter Experts and Core Team members, you will be contacted to provide critical information, to attend functional team meetings and brain-storming sessions. These activities are necessary to prepare our legacy data for conversion and testing, to assess our current business processes, and to make adjustments when required. Because of your expertise, we rely on your feedback and attention so that this transition is successful. I look forward to working with you more closely as we continue the PeopleSoft implementation.
Thank you for all you have done so far and in advance for all you will be doing to make this transition not only successful but exceptional.
Irene Holohan-Moyer
Functional Lead, Academic Advising and Campus Community
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