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Monday, July 15, 2002
Updates/Announcements
Helen Garrett reported the Banner Finance for Managers training session was excellent. A suggestion was made to include the overview at the LASR Update meetings.
August 6 LASR Update Topics
- Schedule 25/Resource 25
- Lag-payroll system
- Major paradigm shifts
- One database for courses
Extended Learning Update
The Reporting Strategy group met last week about investigating reporting tools that are available. The group will meet the second and fourth Wednesday of each month from 1:00 to 2:00 to identify the needs of the campus in terms of reporting and to research tools. Options exist to enhance Banner, without modification, to produce reports that will serve the needs of the entire campus. Stephen Pruch agreed to attend a meeting to discuss what can be accomplished in Banner or through Banner enhancements. The next meeting is Wednesday, July 24, from 1:00 to 2:00p, in ADM 206. Group participants are Jennifer Knight, facilitator, Shirl Meads, Laura Loftus, Sylvia Sandoz, Craig Taylor, James Brunner, Kay Malmberg, Stan Barker, Jane Scheidecker and a computer programmer (not yet identified).
Finance Update
Now that Finance is live, LIMT would like to determine what is working and any concerns people may have. Stan Barker will request time on Peer to Peer’s agenda for a debrief session with the group. A majority of staff who work with financial information have had the Banner training. LIMT plans to offer additional training sessions in September. The Budget Office has a significant task ahead in reviewing COCO account numbers that do not crosswalk smoothly to Banner. The adopted budget is currently in COCO and will be loaded into Banner between August 1 and September 1. Two issues are involved with loading only the adopted budget:
- How to process and pay reimbursement type transactions for July, August, and September
- How users will be able to view the budget
Meeting with union regarding lag-pay issue
HR met again with the faculty union regarding changes to the payroll processing. The current faculty contract states that faculty will be paid 10 or 12 times per year. The faculty union representatives are agreeable to being paid 20 or 24 times per year, but have some concerns about lag pay that HR will continue to work on. The classified union is agreeable with the payroll changes and asked HR to prepare a “to whom it may concern” letter to provide to creditors when staff request that payment due dates be changed to coincide with the new pay dates.
Student Update
The team is making significant progress. They are moving toward entering the catalog in Banner; Pat Croes, the new SCT trainer, will be on campus next week.; weekly meetings are being held with ELAG; and Eilene Welch has joined the Student Core Team to replace Deb Lamb. The team is dealing with huge issues around integrating credit and non-credit courses. The challenge is to define in what area a course is placed. A concern is that the same course may be listed in more than one area and students may want to take a non-credit course for a credit course. Helen Garrett will meet with Cheryl Roberts on July 24 to discuss the issue.
Financial Aid Update
The Financial Aid Director position has not been filled. Sandy Ing-Wiese will continue in the role as interim Director until further notice. The job posting will be out this week for the permanent position. Lane’s Financial Aid consultant has accepted another job at SCT, however, she has arranged to keep LCC as her client. Linda DeWitt doesn’t anticipate any problems. The team feels good about the Financial Aid implementation.
Other
A problem may exist with paying travel and reimbursements for employees until September because all employees are not yet loaded in Banner. A one-time vendor can be used to process the transaction, but the history will be lost as a part of the employee record. HR and Finance will discuss options with Thwing Havens.
The Data Standards document needs to be addressed with employees. Accounts Payable and HR are the core teams currently using the document.
Client-server access to Banner will be discontinued on September 1. The Finance team should be certain that native Banner has the functionality that is needed to do their jobs.
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