Report to the Lane Community College Board
LASR Project
May, 2002

The project is on schedule and within budget.  

FINANCE
Finance is in the final 2 months of preparation for the July 1 ìgo liveî date.  The Accounts Payable Team has entered 2,000 vendors into the Banner database.  This team is also working with programmer Thwing Havens on formatting Accounts Payable checks, using the eVisions software.  The Finance Team has designed and entered 64 purchasing approval queues to automatically route purchase orders generated by departments for approvals, as needed. A sub-team of the Finance Team is working on designing the end-user training for purchasing and finance, which will be offered in June for Lane employees with purchasing and budgeting responsibilities. The plan is to use 

whenever possible for staff to access Banner information, because this is a relatively simple and intuitive interface. Work is progressing on the Grants Module.  The Funded Projects accountants will provide one-on-one training for grant administrators in the summer.  

FINANCE USER TRAINING
The first series of Excel trainings for Lane staff needing access to financial information was completed in April.  Based on feedback from participants and from staff who were not able to attend due to schedule conflicts, the Excel training series will be repeated in May, with Banner user training in June.  We plan to schedule the training on extracting Banner data to a desktop application at a later date.

HUMAN RESOURCES
The Human Resources Team has completed the majority of the rule and validation tables needed to implement Banner Human Resources.  They continue to work on validating payroll outcomes using the 102 test cases they built in the system.  Work also continues on processes that cross departmental boundaries between Human Resources and College Finance.  The next SCT configuration visit the week of May 6 will cover electronic approval processes and web services for Lane employees using 

The Banner HR System will be fully implemented and ready for use by all College employees on January 1, 2003.

STUDENT
The Student Core Team completed their fourth training April 25.  This session focused on registration and fee assessment.  The Student Module Banner trainings serve as an opportunity for the Student Core Team to systematically evaluate current policies and procedures, to examine what the best practice is and how the Banner system can help Lane implement best practices.  The team is also making great progress in the areas of integrating credit and non-credit processing and systems.  The student system will be ìliveî for the 2003-2004 academic year.

FINANCIAL AID

The week of May 20 will mark the beginning of implementing the final module of Banner, Financial Aid.  The core team for this part of the project includes:

Linda DeWitt, LASR Project Director
Shelley Evans, Financial Aid Advisor
Teresa Mauser, Financial Aid Advisor 
Chris McDowell, Financial Aid Systems Advisor
Pam Robison, Financial Aid Loan Advisor
Bert Ewing, Primary Programmer
Alen Bahret, Back-up Programmer

 Finance   Stan Barker, Ext. 5608
 Human Resources Linda Simmons, Ext. 5313
 Student   Helen Garrett, Ext. 5686
 Financial Aid  Linda DeWitt, Ext. 3006