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Banner is coming! Banner is coming! To Your Purchase Requisitions!
by Barbara Mormando
Yes, Banner is here at the Purchasing Department and it will be up and live sooner than you think. Purchasing will be going live with Banner on May 17th. All FY2012 Purchase Requisitions will be submitted to Purchasing through the Banner Purchase Requisitioning module.
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Steve Barcus, our Finance Module trainer, has worked hard to get us set up and trained on Banner. I look forward to sharing my knowledge about Banner Requisitioning/Receiving and Approvals with you.
Simplifying Business Practices: Reducing Levels
by Alan Candiotti
During the months of January and February, our student services teams worked with the consultants from Strata Information Group to plan the structure of the student services part of Banner. Fundamental to that structure is the concept of a level. The word level, as it applies to the Banner software, denotes a division of the academic program into parts – such as undergraduate, masters and doctoral. Each such level has its own academic rules, course schedules, transcripts, fee structures and other academic procedures. We quickly discovered that, in order to follow the business practices we had been following, we would need some twenty levels, comparable to a very large university, because so many of our academic programs had small variations in academic rules and were accustomed to issuing transcripts that applied only to those programs. As we observed that this practice caused heavily increased workloads in offices of the registrar, bursar and other student services offices, and we wished to use the occasion of the Drew 360 project to simplify our business practices, we decided to bring the interested parties together to try to reduce the number of levels in our student system.
On February 9, the deans of the three schools met with Provost Gunter-Smith, the registrar, two of our SIG consultants and myself and confronted the issue. We emerged from the meeting with an agreed upon simplified structure. When Banner is implemented, there will be seven rather than twenty levels. Those levels will be undergraduate, masters and doctoral in the Caspersen School, academic masters and doctoral in the Theological School, and professional masters and doctoral in the Theological School. We hope that this simplification of our business practices will be one of many that will allow Drew to take full advantage of the Drew 360 project.
Reporting and Data Standards
by Karen Yeaw
With the decision to upgrade our University-wide software, the Reporting and Data Standards Team was formed to help in establishing standards for data entry and assist with determining a reporting solution. To that end, two software products were selected to assist the University in meeting those goals.
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