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Banner Implementation: A Focus on Community College Issues. Marie Fetzner November 3, 2005 WIZARD Conference Syracuse, New York. Session Purpose . Review general issues related to Community Colleges and Banner implementations Project Leadership Institutional Issues
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Banner Implementation: A Focus on Community College Issues Marie Fetzner November 3, 2005 WIZARD Conference Syracuse, New York
Session Purpose • Review general issues related to Community Colleges and Banner implementations • Project Leadership • Institutional Issues • Functional and Technical Issues • Facilitate participant discussion
Audience Poll • Not yet committed to Banner as an ERP • Implementation of Banner just about to begin • Early stages of Banner implementation • Mid-way through Banner implementation • Finalizing the Banner implementation • Currently utilizing Banner
MCC Banner Overview • MCC’s legacy system is SCT Plus • MCC is implementing all five Banner modules: • Finance • HR • Advancement • Student • Financial Aid
MCC Banner Timeline Start-up phase March 1 – August 31, 2003 Implementation Dates: Year 1 Finance (September, 2004) Year 2 Human Resources (January, 2005) Year 2 Advancement (September 2005) Year 3 Banner Student (October 2005- September 2006) Year 3 Banner Financial Aid (February 2006)
Reframing Leadership for Banner • Commitment to a common vision • Connect the Banner vision to the College mission and strategic plan • Collaborative process • Appreciate diverse ways of working • Be resilient but confident of the outcome • Executive level support for Banner is key
Vision and Leadership “A vision is an open invitation and an inspiration for people to create ideas and events” –The Art of Possibility, Stone-Zender and Zender
MCC Banner Vision To advance College processes and systems by providing efficient, accessible, secure and dynamic information that supports the College.
Institutional Readiness • Banner system considerations • System modules • Finance and HR for CC’s • 3rd party applications and integration • Implementation and maintenance issues • Cultural change: legacy system to Banner • Communicate with all audiences • Gather input from other CC’s who have implemented Banner
Institutional Readiness • Status of current IT system(s) • Technology Plan • Three to five year IT priorities • Fiscal Assessment • Institutional and IT budget projections • CCBOA as a source for fiscal models • Human Resource readiness • IT staff and HR functional staff
Institutional Readiness • Determine use of INB and/or Self Service • Student considerations • Faculty/Staff considerations • All end user training issues • Basic navigation • Reporting • Set the context for process changes i.e., • Electronic pay stub • Web time entry
Functional and Technical Issues • Develop the Banner organizational structure • Identify timeline for implementation • Identify IT staff assignments • Identify functional team leads • Develop budget for Banner • Hardware, software, 3rd party apps, training rooms, service agreements, travel, misc. and etc. • Utilize SICAS as a resource
Functional and Technical Issues • Develop timeline for hardware and software installation • Consider external hosting or internal support • Develop schema for Banner instances—important for CC’s that may be using all 5 modules • Participate in SICAS and SCT listservs • Participate in SICAS FAUGs • CC’s need to have input for FDR priorities • Review existing CC-specific SICAS enhancements
Dialogueon Topics of Interest • Strengthening the SUNY CC Banner network • Sharing CC Banner module information i.e., COA, HR issues • Maintaining and improving non-CC SUNY Banner school relationships • portal review committee • SICAS board meeting and FAUG participation • Banner CC implementation issues
Contact Information: Marie Fetzner Monroe Community College mfetzner@monroecc.edu