Student Modernization Initiative
The Student Modernization Project is a transformative, five-year initiative to improve how students are supported through administrative processes. For one part of this project, the modern, mobile-friendly platform, Workday will replace Banner. This project will fundamentally redesign the student academic journey and internal administrative operations by providing students with self-service tools to map their own degree progression and plan flexible, career-aligned academic paths. By unifying student records across academics, financials, and advising into a single source of truth, the initiative will reduce departmental silos, process redundancies, and manual data entry. This will empower faculty and staff to collaborate more effectively and focus on higher-value student support. Ultimately, the project will create a secure, scalable, and adaptable infrastructure with robust reporting capabilities, enabling data-informed strategic decisions and ensuring the institution can evolve with best practices.
Performance Targets Include
- Increase user satisfaction with system usability and key services to ≥75% by Spring 2028 (students ≥80%, faculty/staff ≥75%). Track registration, advising and billing using 5-pt scale (≥4.0/5)
- Achieve ≥95% of project objectives by Fall 2028. Define a benefits register with weighted objectives; count “met”, “exceeded” and “net met”.
Goals Supported
- Goal A.1 : Increase innovation, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration throughout the academic enterprise
- Goal B.3 : Develop and diversify industry, organizational, and community collaborations and partnerships
- Goal C.2 : Strengthen internal communication, engagement, and collaboration among students, faculty, staff, and administrators
- Goal D.2 : Develop coordinated enterprise data systems, analyses, and infrastructure to inform strategic decisions and direction