July 27, 2004 Student Life
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This week's piece is by writer Erin Davis Nielsen from The
Hard News Cafe
Former IT Veep to keep
Utah State on course for Banner year
Move
will not prolong the completion of the Systems and Computer
Technology Corp. "Banner" upgrade
From the The
Hard News Cafe 7-20-04
While Utah State University's vice president for information
technology, Barbara White, is stepping down to take a position
at the University of Georgia, her move will not prolong the
completion of the Systems and Computer Technology Corp. "Banner"
upgrade.
White was appointed by university President Kermit Hall to
head up the SCT Banner project as executive chair.
Though she will be greatly missed, project managers Rory Weaver
and Ray Quattlebaum said she has set up a great network of people
to carry out the completion of Banner. There are now approximately
200 employees involved in the implementation of this project
and 1,900 people being trained.
The old SCT Plus computer software Utah State is currently
operating on is getting a $6.5 million facelift. The Banner
project is a new system that is fully integrated and will have
access to computer data around the clock.
Banner has four components: Banner Finance (a finance record
system), Banner Student (a student information system), Banner
Financial Aid (a financial aid system), and Banner HR/Payroll
(a human resource system). These four components will work together
as an integrated relational system.
Banner was implemented on campus in 2002 and will be completed
in 2005-2006. Prior to 2002, Banner took about two years of
planning. As of July 1, the first of the four Banner components,
Banner Finance is up and running.
Nobody knows who will take White's executive position. Quattlebaum
said the process for finding a replacement could take up to
four to eight months. Ron Godfrey, business and finance vice
president, will lead the search for her replacement.
This does not necessarily mean the new vice president for information
technology will take her place as Banner executive chair.
For more information on Banner go to
http://www.usu.edu/banner/.
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