Report to the Lane Community College Board
LASR Project
November, 2001

The project is on schedule and within budget. 

CAMPUS COMMUNICATION
During the past month, Linda DeWitt and James Brunner have visited various parts of the college community providing information about the project and gathering information about problems, issues and specific concerns.  Visit sites include the Cottage Grove and Florence campuses, the Downtown Center, Flight Technology, and the Business Development Center.  Meetings have also been held with Training and Development staff, Personnel Services, a group of college administrative assistants, the Faculty Council and the Managers' Forum.  Linda also provides regular updates to the Technology Advising and Coordinating Team (TACT) and the general campus through announcements in the Daily and LASR Update sessions, scheduled in the Boardroom from 3:00 to 5:00 on the first Friday of each month. 

STEERING COMMITTEE
As a result of Kyle Hammon's appointment as Interim Science Division Chair, Bob Barber has replaced him as the faculty representative for the LASR Steering Committee.  The student who was serving on this shared governance committee is unable to continue, and the LASR Project Office is working with the student body president to identify a replacement.

FINANCE
The second SCT configuration visit for Finance occurred October 9, 10 and 11. Dennis Wilson, SCT Finance Trainer and Consultant, provided the training. Members of the Finance Core Team are working on the chart of accounts for the college in preparation for Dennis's next visit, November 13, 14 and 15.  Stan Barker, team leader for the Finance implementation attended several of the information sessions over the past month, gathering insights from campus departments about finance issues.

HUMAN RESOURCES
The first SCT configuration visit for Human Resources is scheduled for October 30 through November 1. Participants in the implementation of this module include:
Sharon Daniels, Benefits
Tasha Drake, Budget Specialist
Vicki Ellison, Benefits
Joan English, Payroll
Mary Glenn, Personnel Operations
Carol Goldsberry, Recruitment Specialist
Lida Herburger, Payroll
Jason Mak, Affirmative Action
Germaine Mock, Personnel Operations
Becky Patrick, Federal Work Study
Thwing Havens, Programmer
Sue Iverson, Programmer

USER INTERFACE, VALIDATION PROCESS
The LASR Implementation Management Team (LIMT) is working on processes for users of the system to participate appropriately in the design phase.  While it is not reasonable or cost-effective to provide widespread participation in the configuration sessions, it is important that the users of the system are involved in all phases of planning to make sure that the configuration will work from every perspective and that the user interfaces make sense to the students, staff, faculty and managers who will use the systems.

CATALOG (STUDENT SYSTEM)
Although the Student module is not scheduled to begin until January 2002, the project has begun working on the first part of this implementation, the development of Lane's ìvirtualî catalog.  This is the data about Lane's courses that is stored in the main Banner system and that will drive the development of the printed catalog, class schedule and several internal processes including faculty workload and FTE reporting.  Currently, there is no central database that includes both credit and non-credit offerings.  The challenge of bringing all this information together in the Banner integrated database has prompted college staff to begin working on this prior to the start date for this phase of the project.

For more information about the project, contact Linda DeWitt, Ext. 3006, or visit our web site at http://2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/lasr/.  For information about the Finance implementation, please contact Stan Barker, Ext. 5608.