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SABRE Project Kickoff

SABRE Project Kickoff. S tudent A dmissions B illing R egistration E nrollment Management Welcome. Today is:. the culmination of several years of planning and decision-making the beginning of a new phase of the project. What will we do with this hour?.

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SABRE Project Kickoff

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  1. SABRE Project Kickoff Student Admissions Billing Registration Enrollment Management Welcome

  2. Today is: • the culmination of several years of planning and decision-making • the beginning of a new phase of the project

  3. What will we do with this hour? • Hear from Computing Services about their perspective on the SABRE project • See and hear an overview of the SABRE project to date • Hear from a member of the SABRE team about the project

  4. What else will we do with this hour? • Look at the SABRE Informational Web Site • Look at an example of a Student Information Services web site, to illustrate the direction in which we are headed • Answer your questions

  5. We are embarking on : • A dive into an exciting, challenging time for our campus • A commitment by the members of the SABRE project team to achieve our stated mission:

  6. SABRE Mission Statement -- 1 • The SABRE team will design and deliver a state-of-the-art student information systemthat enhances services to ourconstituencies by:

  7. SABRE Mission Statement--2 • fostering student enthusiasm and providing students with timely, accurate,interactive enrollment managementservices

  8. SABRE Mission Statement--2 • empowering faculty, staff, and administrators via transformed academicadvisement, student services, and the availability of useful information

  9. SABRE Mission Statement--3 • Strengthening the image ofBuffalo State College

  10. What are “Student Information Services” at Buffalo State? • The SABRE Student Information System will include: • Admissions (Undergraduate and Graduate) • Financial Aid • Graduate Studies • Registrar • Student Accounts

  11. These student information services(or enrollment management units)are working together in new ways

  12. What exactly will the SABRE Project team do? • 1999-2000: Gather information and ideas from BSC while Oracle programmers develop software • 2000-2001:Pilot test the web-based software • 2001-2002: While students, faculty, and staff use the new software, the Project team will finalize on-going support for SABRE, before returning to their respective units

  13. What will be different when the SABRE project is completed? • Data will be accessible in new ways • Web-based, streamlined campus activities will be available for students, faculty, staff and administrators • New types of interactive planning can take place

  14. What resources will the SABRE project use? • SABRE team members will make use of ideas gathered from campus to develop an effective program (via newletters, web sites, and meetings like this one) • There will be collaboration between the members of the SABRE Project team, Computing Services and Oracle

  15. Ideally, the SABRE team will enable our campus to reach long-sought goals

  16. Information obtained can be used in various ways

  17. Who are the SABRE Project Team Members? • Admissions: Paul Bink, Gwen Wooten • Computing Services:Cheryl Foster, Marcy Zulawski • Financial Aid: Connie Cooke, Sharon Spagnoli • Graduate Office: Mary Lou Hartnett

  18. Institutional Research: Yves Gachette Registrar: Carole Schaus, Colleen Meeks Student Accounts: Michael Broderick, Leslie Dixie-Smith Staff Assistant: Tina Sutherland SABRE Project Team Members:

  19. Stan Kardonsky, Sponsoring V.P. Sharon Cramer, Executive Director Carole Schaus, Associate Director SABRE Project Team Leaders:

  20. What can the campus expect SABRE team members to do? • Keep a fast, steady pace throughout the project • Keep the campus involved and informed • Learn more about the needs of the campus and the possibilities of reengineering

  21. What else can the campus expect SABRE team members to do? • Communicate with campus leaders throughout the project • Involve students, faculty and staff throughout the project • Avoid belly flops

  22. What won’t the team members on the Project do? • Go off the high dive too soon -- in other words, we will not • Rely on an untested system • Expect people to do new work without sufficient preparation and training

  23. We plan, instead, to work as a team, bringing: • Enthusiasm • Energy • Willingness to learn • to this challenging new project

  24. We have Life Guards for the SABRE project: • SABRE Steering Committee • College Senate members on the Project team and on the Steering Committee

  25. What kind of involvement do we seek from the campus? • Enthusiasm or • The benefit of the doubt or • Healthy skepticism • Nevada Barr’s distinction between a skeptic and an embittered person: humor and hope

  26. We hope you’ll take the plunge with the SABRE team into a new approach to Student Information Services

  27. Now, Carole Schaus will show us the SABRE informational web site

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