We

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Were glad youre here!

• 6th Annual
• Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
  DARS/u.select
• Users Conference

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Stats and Information

• More of you than ever before!
• 34 of 37 institutions participating
• 72 campus attendees
• Computers available in the Board Room

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Preparing for the Roundtables

• Flip chart add comments and ideas and questions
  and concerns as they come up
• Based on flip chart additions, well determine
  the breakout for roundtables.
• Note takers for roundtables

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DARS/u.select Team Mission and Vision Statement

• Mission
• Support the 37 Minnesota State Colleges and
  Universities by managing the development,
  integration and improvement of the degree audit
  software and the web based course transfer
  system, called u.select, in order to improve
  student access, opportunity, advising and
  achievement of academic goals.

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Mission Vision continued

• Vision
• The DARS/u.select unit will use a teamwork
  approach to excel in the work we do.
• We will be responsive, visionary, proactive,
  flexible and diligent as we lead innovation for
  these projects and offer solution options through
  creative problem solving.

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Mission Vision continued

• We will use collaboration in coordinating with
  related projects, such as eStudent Services,
  MnTransfer, Career One Stop, MnOnline, ISEEK, and
  the Veterans Re-entry Education Project.
• The DARS and u.select projects will support
  system and institutional policies, procedures and
  initiatives.

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Ice Breaker

• (survivor)

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A year ago
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Today
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• State your name institution
• Survival Tip (what helped get you
  through the year)
• Biggest accomplishment of the year
  (most rewarding)
• What would you do with a million
  dollar prize? (Survivor winner)

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Agenda Whats different this year

• Margo is here!
• Last nights entertainment during dinner rather
  than after
• We will have the Roundtables
• More tips tricks
• More user presentations
• End no later than 400 today, unless you wish to
  connect with others

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Schedule

• Back by popular demand Dinner at the Italian
  Gardens Trattoria tonight
• Social hour 530 (Trattoria patio)
• Dinner 630
• Breakfast served tomorrow 630 to 9 a.m.
• Wednesday session begins here at 900 a.m.

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Preparing for the DARwin Award

• Last years winners
• Patrick Running, Alexandria TC
• Opened requirements to update for new catalog,
  then went ahead and made changes to requirements
  instead of cloning, and lost previous info. Data
  had to retrieved from the CAS Server and restored
  into production DARS as it was before Patricks
  ambitious encoding. Did we mention that it wasnt
  just a few requirements?
• Nominated by Sharlene Allen with much pressure
  from the DARS/u.select team Patrick received a
  kings crown made by Angie Alley and the
  traveling DARwin award book.
• Jim Anderson Minnesota State University,
  Moorhead
• Jim deleted Jamestown Colleges entire TA
  catalog. Again, data was retrieved from the CAS
  Server and restored into production DARS.
• Nominated by Ginny Bair, who also accepted the
  award on Jims behalf since he was not at the
  conference Jim received a lovely tiara and the
  second traveling DARwin award book.

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Year in Review Highlights

• We all survived the Internal Audit
• Randy Blankenship joined the team as ITS
  technical support with Fred Forseman consulting
• Miami U DARS changes to redLantern
• CAS has major makeover in January and becomes
  u.select in September
• u.select regularly gets 1 to 1-1/2 million hits
  per month
• Finally some user requested enhancements got
  done
• 4 schools live with Interactive Audit

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Many miles were loggedOctober 1, 2007
September 26, 2008

• 10/1/07 10/3/07 Grand View Lodge 306
• 10/10/07 St. Cloud SU 148
• 10/22/07 10/26/07 Miami University 1294
• 11/5/07 Ridgewater College 147
• 11/6/07 South Central College 88
• 11/7/07 Okoboji, Iowa 311
• 11/19/07 11/21/07 Itasca CC 412
• 11/27/07 11/29/07 Bemidji SU 472
• 11/30/07 St. Cloud SU 148
• 1/23/08 SE Tech-Red Wing 162
• 1/30/08 2/1/08 Arkansas 2312
• 2/6/08 South Central 176
• 2/13/08 2/15/08 Moorhead 639
• 3/5/08 St Cloud 254
• 3/22/08-2/28/08 Orlando (AACRAO) 2608
• 4/2/08 Alexandria TC 244
• 4/8/08-4/10/08 Bemidji SU 481
• 4/21/08 Metro SU eTranscript 4
• 5/2/08 NHCC - eTranscript 24

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