Monday, October 28, 2002

November ExpressLane for Employees training
Approximately 270 employees attended the ExpressLane for Employees training this week.  Feedback indicates that people liked the training and the process was easy to understand.  Linda Simmons suggested gathering training testimonials and printing them in the Daily.  She will send information for the Daily to the LASR Project Office. 

Human Resources Web Approval Training
A series of Web Approval trainings for administrative assistants and managers on how to approve Web time entry after employees input their leave or timesheet hours will be offered beginning November 1.  For the purpose of the Human Resources payroll test in November, administrative assistants will represent the first approval level and managers will be the second approval level.  

Steering Committee Report
Bob Barber shared his concerns with the Steering Committee about shared governance, decision making processes, communication with staff and the instructional and administrative sides of the house as they relate to the Banner implementation.  The role of the Steering Committee is to communicate and advocate for the project.  A suggestion was made to form a faculty advisory group to involve faculty in the implementation process.  The purpose of the Steering Committee will be discussed further at the next  Steering Committee meeting.  Stephen Pruch will send a written description of his original intent when forming a project steering committee in advance of this discussion.

SCT Changes
SCT has offered James Brunner the position of account manager for the Northwest.  James, Linda DeWitt, Stephen Pruch and Jeff Pomponi discussed the following options:

• Assign another full-time project manager to LCC
• Reallocate James’ remaining hours to provide additional consulting weeks to each module

Reallocating consulting weeks was viewed as the most effective use of  the resources.  The proposed distribution will allocate additional weeks to each module as follows:

• Student—6
• A/R—2
• Financial Aid—4
• HR—2
• Finance—2
• Technical—4
• Workflow—4
  

James will continue to be on campus one week each month between now and August, 2003.  LIMT asked that James be available for specific meetings.  Team leaders will identify tasks and assignments and how to best use James’ time when he is on campus.  Stephen Pruch will notify ET of the change and Linda DeWitt will notify Steering Committee members via email.  LIMT will notify team leaders when to inform team members.

Vanguard Learning Project
Stephen reminded LIMT that the  LASR Project is a part of the Vanguard Learning Project.

Touchnet Purchase
Touchnet is a payment gateway software that will enable the college to take payment over the Internet via credit card or personal check and provide a real time check on the availability of funds for credit card payments.  LIMT will purchase  the Touchnet payment gateway from SCT for $29,400 and the Web check software for $17,300.  LIMT must make decisions carefully about purchasing software to ensure the best use of the budget.  A budget update will be provided to LIMT at the November 18 meeting.

Series 25 Update
Four LCC employees will attend the Series 25 training next week in Portland.  The advisory group asked if monies are available to bring a trainer to campus.

Student Update
The Student Team had a good week of training last week.  Discussions included the conversion plan, part of term, faculty workload, learning communities, prerequisites and tests, and variable credit classes. 

Human Resources Update 
Linda Simmons announced she has taken a position as Vice President for Academic Affairs at  Cuyahoga Community College District in Cleveland, Ohio beginning January, 2003.  She has met with Mary Spilde to plan for the transition.  LIMT views the Human Resources module as critical with Linda’s move and the lack of an HR director.  Linda will seek an HR replacement for LIMT.

Reporting strategy group charter
The charter will be distributed at the November 4 LIMT meeting.

Workstation Upgrade Request
The Advanced Technology Division has requested LASR Project Workstation Upgrade monies to upgrade two faculty computers to run drafting software, CAD and online courses.  The Workstation Upgrade budget is intended to purchase computers for staff who need upgrades to run the Banner software needed to do their jobs.  LIMT agreed the request does not meet the criteria for workstation upgrades.