Monroe Community College Banner Implementation: A Focus on Community College Issues Marie Fetzner November 3, 2005 WIZARD Conference Syracuse, New York

Monroe Community College2 Session Purpose Review general issues related to Community Colleges and Banner implementations  Project Leadership  Institutional Issues  Functional and Technical Issues Facilitate participant discussion

Monroe Community College3 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

Monroe Community College4 MCC Banner Overview MCC’s legacy system is SCT Plus MCC is implementing all five Banner modules:  Finance  HR  Advancement  Student  Financial Aid

Monroe Community College5 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 September 2006) Year 3 Banner Financial Aid (February 2006)

Monroe Community College6 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

Monroe Community College7 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

Monroe Community College8 MCC Banner Vision To advance College processes and systems by providing efficient, accessible, secure and dynamic information that supports the College.

Monroe Community College9 Institutional Readiness Banner system considerations  System modules – Finance and HR for CC’s  3 rd 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

Monroe Community College10 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

Monroe Community College11 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

Monroe Community College12 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, 3 rd party apps, training rooms, service agreements, travel, misc. and etc.  Utilize SICAS as a resource

Monroe Community College13 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

Monroe Community College14 Dialogue on 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

Monroe Community College15 Contact Information: Marie Fetzner Monroe Community College