Annual TLT Conference Convenes this Week
The seventh annual UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference will convene March 15-17, 2006 at the Hilton North Raleigh hotel. Vision, Leadership, and Collaboration is the 2006 conference theme and the plenary speakers will include: Dr. Cyprien Lomas, an EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Scholar in Residence, and Dr. Ron Bleed, the 2005 EDUCAUSE Excellence in Leadership Award winner. This conference provides professional development opportunities for UNC faculty and staff interested in the effective use of technology for teaching and learning. Last year’s conference attracted over 400 participants (a 20 percent increase over 2004). Conference attendees came from all 16 UNC campuses and included information technology staff and faculty from a wide range of disciplines. The event is cosponsored by the UNC TLT Collaborative and the UNC Faculty Assembly. For more information: contact Frank Prochaska, executive director of the UNC TLT Collaborative, prochask@northcarolina.edu.
UNC-GA Debuts Enrollment Management Pilot with SAS
At an organizational meeting on February 2, 2006, UNC staff met with SAS Institute staff to begin a pilot project to utilize SAS business and financial software in improving UNC’s enrollment planning efforts. Meeting participants included representatives from NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, and the divisions of information resources, student affairs, academic affairs, finance, faculty affairs, and strategy development and analysis in UNC-GA. The aim of the pilot is to improve the effectiveness of enrollment planning and monitoring, and generate the UNC’s state budget request for enrollment management. The pilot is due to be completed by mid-June and will involve enrollment projections from all 16 UNC institutions. For more information, contact Laura Young, associate vice president for information resources: lyoung@northcarolina.edu.
SAS Day Symposium for UNC
As a part of the UNC-SAS Partnership, SAS is sponsoring a day long symposium on April 13, 2006, for UNC’s constituent institutions on the SAS Headquarter campus in Cary, NC. The day will be dedicated to information sharing on such topics as analytics, UNC strategic partnership initiatives, and presentations on select SAS technologies to include SAS Bridge for ESRI and SAS Grid Manager for Computing. Registration is free and may be completed online. For more information, contact Alfred Mays, director of IR Affairs, amays@northcarolina.edu or Liz Riley-Young, at liz.riley-young@sas.com.
Banner Reaches Milestone
In March 2006, the 14 participating UNC institutions will hit the halfway mark with 50% of the go live dates achieved for the implementation of Sungard SCT Banner systems. (Six systems went into production in February 2006.) It is anticipated that by July 2006, 75% of the targeted administrative systems will be in production. To view the go live dates for all the UNC campuses implementing Banner, visit: http://www.northcarolina.edu/content.php/ir/alliance/alliance.htm and browse through the calendar.
Karin Steinbrenner, chief information officer, UNC Charlotte, recently gave the following example of immediate cost savings achieved with Banner: “With the implementation of Banner, UNC Charlotte Financial Services promoted the use of direct deposit for payroll and travel reimbursements. In the past, even when a person had signed up for direct deposit, they would still receive a voided check which served as the notification that the money had been deposited in their account. With Banner, all travel reimbursement notices are done automatically via email and employees do receive an electronic payroll notification which instructs them to review their payroll stubs on the Web using Banner Self Services. This new process will eliminate printing and handling of about 50,000 notifications/checks per year. This number is likely to increase as more staff sign up for direct deposit. If one, conservatively, estimates the costs for processing a check at about $2.00, immediate savings amount to $100,000 per year.”
CTM Round Up
The UNC is currently renewing the following software license agreements:
- Red Hat
- Microsoft
- ESRI
- Wolfram Research for Mathmatica Product
- Symantec Antivirus
- Novell ALA
Also, the UNC has completed Strategic Relationship Agreements (SRA) with Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems, Inc. The UNC recently held a set of teleconferences with campus information technology and purchasing officers to discuss these agreements. More information will be available shortly via appropriate email distribution.
UNC-GA's Warner Takes Position with CA
Tom Warner has accepted a position with CA, formerly Computer Associates, as Director, Global Education Vertical. In his new role, Tom will be responsible for building, implementing, and managing the global operations of the education vertical business unit for CA. Tom's last day with UNC GA will be March 23, 2006.
Tom Warner was hired in 2000 as the Director of Collaborative Procurement in the
newly established Division of Information Resources. The area of Collaborative Procurement evolved into an area for which additional resource management resulted in increased leveraging of acquisitions and strategic relationships with vendors. Tom's efforts have been instrumental in the implementation of the UNC IT Strategy.
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