See individual team reports (Academic Structure, Student Administration, Student Accounting, Reporting, Web / Interfaces, Organizational Readiness, Technology Infrastructure) for additional detail.
Meeting with graduate coordinators 3/28 to discuss input of grad programs.
Denise Knighton, Rick Thurlow, Jill Stribling, and Charlotte Fant met on Friday, March 8 at 2:00 p.m. to discuss the event conflict questionnaire. The response has been forwarded.
Jason and Marlies are working on some outstanding credit card issues. Information sheets on the changes affecting registration and fee payment have been mailed to all currently enrolled students. Students were strongly urged to return a direct deposit form and address update form to the appropriate office as soon as possible.
Work continued on the plan to eliminate the Turner Center registration/fee payment. A letter was sent to various agencies that participate in the University's bank hours program. The letter explained the changes being made, and urged employers to communicate the changes to employees. As a result of the letter, it came to light that the University had an internal problem in awarding the bank hours to the various agencies in a timely fashion. A letter from the Provost will be go out to the various University departments with a deadline for reporting the necessary information to the bank hour coordinator, Dr. Jim Sullivan.
The University's Registration Agreement for web registration was completed as well as the message that students will received when registering via RSVP. A message for departmental users who manually enter schedules for students was also completed.
Work on the student application fee configuration was ongoing during this time.
On Monday, 3/18, we provided an opportunity for all CM team members to try out the web view of the Academic Structure and provide constructive feedback. This was well attended. We especially appreciate the involvement of Business School students recruited by Dr. Canty and also IT student workers. Overall the feedback was positive. Students found the interface easy to use and navigate. See http://www.olemiss.edu/projects/first/cm/status/03-22-2002/webview.txt for suggestions for improvement and the corresponding actions to be taken.
Mantena is making good progress on the authentication interface required for the financial aid award look up. She is also making the web registration changes required to support the Turner proposal.
We plant to have a meeting on Monday, March 25 @ 10:00 a.m. in the SAP Training Room to step through the process as much as we can to try and begin the process of authorization and training materials.
Installation of new tape backup system for SAP systems is complete. Old tapes have been migrated to the new environment.