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Monroe Community College
Banner Implementation: A Focus on
Community College Issues
Marie FetznerNovember 3, 2005
WIZARD ConferenceSyracuse, New York
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Session Purpose
• Review general issues related to Community Colleges and Banner implementations Project Leadership Institutional Issues Functional and Technical Issues
• Facilitate participant discussion
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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
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MCC Banner Overview
• MCC’s legacy system is SCT Plus• MCC is implementing all five Banner
modules: Finance HR Advancement Student Financial Aid
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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)
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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
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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
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MCC Banner Vision
To advance College processes and systems by providing efficient, accessible, secure and dynamic information that supports the College.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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