SABRE Project Kickoff

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SABRE Project Kickoff

• Student Admissions Billing Registration
  Enrollment Management
• Welcome

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Today is

• the culmination of several years of planning and
  decision-making
• the beginning of a new phase of the project

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What will we do with this hour?

• Hear from Computing Services about their
  perspective on the SABRE project
• See and hear an overview of the SABRE project to
  date
• Hear from a member of the SABRE team about the
  project

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What else will we do with this hour?

• Look at the SABRE Informational Web Site
• Look at an example of a Student Information
  Services web site, to illustrate the direction in
  which we are headed
• Answer your questions

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We are embarking on

• A dive into an exciting, challenging time for our
  campus
• A commitment by the members of the SABRE project
  team to achieve our stated mission

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SABRE Mission Statement -- 1

• The SABRE team will design and deliver a
  state-of-the-art student information
  systemthat enhances services to
  ourconstituencies by

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SABRE Mission Statement--2

• fostering student enthusiasm and providing
  students with timely, accurate,interactive
  enrollment managementservices

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SABRE Mission Statement--2

• empowering faculty, staff, and administrators
  via transformed academicadvisement, student
  services, and the availability of useful
  information

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SABRE Mission Statement--3

• Strengthening the image of Buffalo State
  College

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What are Student Information Services at
Buffalo State?

• The SABRE Student Information System will
  include
• Admissions (Undergraduate and Graduate)
• Financial Aid
• Graduate Studies
• Registrar
• Student Accounts

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These student information services(or enrollment
management units)are working together in new ways
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What exactly will the SABRE Project team do?

• 1999-2000 Gather information and ideas from BSC
  while Oracle programmers develop software
• 2000-2001 Pilot test the web-based software
• 2001-2002 While students, faculty, and staff
  use the new software, the Project team will
  finalize on-going support for SABRE, before
  returning to their respective units

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What will be different when the SABRE project is
completed?

• Data will be accessible in new ways
• Web-based, streamlined campus activities will be
  available for students, faculty, staff and
  administrators
• New types of interactive planning can take place

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What resources will the SABRE project use?

• SABRE team members will make use of ideas
  gathered from campus to develop an effective
  program (via newletters, web sites, and meetings
  like this one)
• There will be collaboration between the members
  of the SABRE Project team, Computing Services and
  Oracle

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Ideally, the SABRE team will enable our campus to
reach long-sought goals
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Information obtained can be used in various ways
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Who are the SABRE Project Team Members?

• Admissions Paul Bink, Gwen Wooten
• Computing ServicesCheryl Foster, Marcy
  Zulawski
• Financial Aid Connie Cooke, Sharon Spagnoli
• Graduate Office Mary Lou Hartnett

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SABRE Project Team Members

• Institutional Research Yves Gachette
• Registrar Carole Schaus, Colleen Meeks
• Student Accounts Michael Broderick, Leslie
  Dixie-Smith
• Staff Assistant Tina Sutherland

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SABRE Project Team Leaders

• Stan Kardonsky, Sponsoring V.P.
• Sharon Cramer, Executive Director
• Carole Schaus, Associate Director

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What can the campus expect SABRE team members to
do?

• Keep a fast, steady pace throughout the project
• Keep the campus involved and informed
• Learn more about the needs of the campus and the
  possibilities of reengineering

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What else can the campus expect SABRE team
members to do?

• Communicate with campus leaders throughout the
  project
• Involve students, faculty and staff throughout
  the project
• Avoid belly flops

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What wont the team members on the Project do?

• Go off the high dive too soon -- in other words,
  we will not
• Rely on an untested system
• Expect people to do new work without sufficient
  preparation and training

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We plan, instead, to work as a team, bringing

• Enthusiasm
• Energy
• Willingness to learn
• to this challenging new project

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We have Life Guards for the SABRE project

• SABRE Steering Committee
• College Senate members on the Project team and on
  the Steering Committee

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What kind of involvement do we seek from the
campus?

• Enthusiasm or
• The benefit of the doubt or
• Healthy skepticism
• Nevada Barrs distinction between a skeptic and
  an embittered person humor and hope

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We hope youll take the plunge with the SABRE
team into a new approach to Student Information
Services
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Now, Carole Schaus will show us the SABRE
informational web site