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Operation ELM: Macalester College's electronic systems transformation intended to enhance the campus experience for all members of the Macalester community. Project Updates June 4, 2007 With Student Accounts and the TouchNet product going to "live" status as of June 1, Macalester College has implemented all of the primary modules that are the basis of Operation ELM. Macalester College is now a SunGard® Banner institution!!! Congratulations everyone! There is still much work to be done with project transition and close-out. For further project updates, please monitor the College's web portal, 1600grand, and individual College department webpages, accessible through the online College Directory at 1600grand. April 13, 2007 CELEBRATION!!! All students, staff and faculty employees are invited to an Operation ELM celebration to be held Friday, April 20, starting at 3:00 p.m. in the Fourth Floor lounge in Old Main. Everyone is invited to join our employees who have been working on the project to date to mark this date on our project timeline. Join us for this informal moment to celebrate what we have achieved so far. April 3, 2007 1600grand Goes Live: Macalester's New Portal 1600grand connects its users to the online resources they use most from one convenient location. All of the main online services you rely on are "under one roof." Web Services and ITS are offering drop-in sessions to introduce you to the new portal and to help you configure your portal pages so that they will be most useful to you. Sessions are open to anyone-students, faculty, staff. The next session is scheduled from 11 a.m.-noon, Wednesday, April 4, in Humanities 302. There is no need to pre-register. Additional drop-in sessions will be scheduled if there is enough demand. March 30, 2007 1600grand Portal Is Coming! Macalester's new web portal, 1600grand, is coming April 2. The portal will serve as your "front door" to many online resources including functions of our new college administrative system (Banner) such as course registration, advising and grading, viewing pay stubs and benefit information, viewing vacation and medical leave accumulation, and (in the future) accessing purchasing and budgeting data. Got Firefox 2? In order to take advantage of all that our new 1600grand portal has to offer, including integration with our new college administrative system (Banner), you will need to run the latest version (2) of our campus supported web browser, Firefox. To determine what version of Firefox you have loaded on your computer, run Firefox and then from the Firefox menu (Macintosh) or the Help menu (Windows) select About Mozilla Firefox. Look for Firefox/2.0.x at the end of the block of text. If you are not running version 2, you can download it at www.macalester.edu/firefox. March 27, 2007 The Faculty Information System is Changing - Learn More Over Lunch With the change over to Banner, the Faculty Information System will be changing as of the first week of April, so you will need to use the new system to help your students register for classes a in a couple of weeks! To help you prepare, the CST, the Registrar and ITS have scheduled two demonstration / Q&A sessions for March 27 and 29. Come have lunch on us, and learn about how the new system works! March 15, 2007 Fall 2007 Registration Information All registration-related activities for fall 2007 will happen on a new system! The unveiling of the new system will coincide with the availability of registration and schedule information for fall 2007. The fall class schedule will be available beginning April 2nd. Registration for fall 2007 classes will happen on the Banner system from April 16th through April 27th. This new system will be accessed through the 1600grand portal. All spring 2007 activity (e.g., grading and graduation) will be maintained on the CARS (FIS, SIS) system, and will be converted to the Banner system over the summer. We appreciate your flexibility and patience during this transitional semester. Use the FIS/SIS for all spring semester 2007 related activity. Grading and graduation auditing will be done here, and this will be the *only* place to get an academic audit. Use 1600grand to access the fall semester 2007 class schedule, starting April 2nd. Registration for fall will happen here between April 16th and 27th. Both systems will have some academic record (transcript) data, but only the FIS/SIS is completely accurate. Banner is a work in progress in that area, and there is no data in Banner for spring 2007 courses. That will mean that prerequisite-checking during registration won’t recognize that you’re taking the prerequisite course now. A quick trip to the Registrar’s Office will take care of that and most of any other registration difficulties you may have. March 9, 2007 Mock Registration and the Real Thing! On Tuesday, Feb. 27, a group of students, faculty, and staff gathered in a computer lab for a role-playing game. The purpose of this gathering was to test various scenarios that occur during a real registration period using the Banner system to register. During the course of the afternoon, faculty and staff pretended to be students and registered for scenarios scripted by the Registrar's Office staff. The student participants registered for the courses of their choice. By the end of the day, we had many successful registrations, and others that were unsuccessful. While some the unsuccessful registrations were intended not to succeed, others helped to identify issues of set-up within the registration system. Staff members from the Student Accounts Office were there to make sure that the registrations generated appropriate charges. Volunteers also got the first peek at the 1600grand portal. The new portal will serve as the "front door" to course registration, and also as the entry point for staff and faculty to access other functions of the new Banner administrative system. The 1600grand portal is scheduled to be available on April 2. February 2, 2007 Budget Reports Have you heard that Budget Reports are up and running in Banner? Did you know that you can run your reports any time you want? January 12, 2007 Operation ELM Celebration Today, Jan. 12 January 8, 2007 The Human Resources/Payroll Module is Live. On time! CELEBRATE! Four stages to go... Paycheck and Policy Changes for 2007 As of January 1, 2007 payroll checks will be processed through the Banner system. As a result, the following changes will be in effect:
Direct deposit stubs will be e-mailed to each employee no later then the day before payday. Printed paper deposit stubs will no longer be distributed.
In addition, some deductions are calculated slightly differently in Banner than in CARS. You may notice changes in your net pay for the following types of deductions:
Further information about these changes will be available via the Human Resources Web Site. Visit http://www.macalester.edu/hr for current up-to-date information. December 20, 2006 Direct Deposit Forms Signing up for direct deposit with Payroll also automatically signs you up for direct deposit in Accounts Payable. No need to submit direct deposit forms to both departments. Banner allows us the functionality to enter your banking information for both Payroll and Accounts Payable at the same time. Direct Deposit for Reimbursements from Accounts Payable is Not Only Back, It Has New Enhancements Too! We have successfully brought back direct deposit in the Accounts Payable department for reimbursement payments. If you received a reimbursement this week, a printed direct deposit advice has been sent to you by campus mail. Starting next week we will deliver the direct deposit advice to you via your Macalester email. The body of the e-mail will look like this:
To view your direct deposit advice, double click on the .pdf attachment icon. You can expect to have the payment deposited into your personal bank account on the date stated in the upper right hand corner of the direct deposit advice. Please note that anyone who is signed up for direct deposit with Payroll will automatically be set up for direct deposit in Accounts Payable for reimbursements. December 6, 2006 "1600grand" The online portal for Macalester, set to launch this spring, now has a name thanks to over 90 students, staff and faculty who submitted 160 entries for "Name It and Win," a naming contest held in October. December 6, 2006 The Student Accounts Office will be closed from noon to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11. We will also be closed from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 12, Wednesday, Dec. 13, and Thursday, Dec. 14, because of Operation ELM training. December 1, 2006 The next module scheduled for "go-live" is the Human Resources (HR) module. The go-live date is Monday, January 8, 2007. All four collaboration school HR implementation teams met today at Bethel University to "build a calendar" of critical tasks which will take place before and immediately after that date (or the specific go-live date on each of the four campuses). Please follow this link Macalester College HR Module Go-Live Calendar if you would like to see a summary of those activities. November 28, 2006 An advisory from the Macalester College Human Resources department: Please note that paychecks issued during December 2006 will not include the regular medical and dental insurance deductions. Up until this month, health insurance premiums have been deducted one month in advance. For example, the premiums deducted on your November 2006 paychecks paid for your December 2006 coverage. October 27, 2006 Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, PCards and Banner If you use Banner or a PCard, DO NOT upgrade to Internet Explorer 7. October 27, 2006 BANNER SECURITY NOTICE Security in Banner is being updated. If you have any difficulty accessing your Banner fund or org after the update contact Tracy Arndt x6577. October 24, 2006 BANNER OPEN HOUSES THIS WEEK An opportunity to practice accessing Banner, querying, and running Banner reports with your FOAPAL. Stay as little or as long as you like. October 17, 2006 BANNER OPEN HOUSES THIS WEEK An opportunity to practice accessing Banner, querying, and running Banner reports with your FOAPAL. Stay as little or as long as you like. October 16, 2006 HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AVAILABILITY LIMITED As Operation ELM moves ahead, Human Resouces department personnel may be pulled away from their normal jobs for extended periods of time for systems implementation activities. Those directly involved in implementing SunGard® Banner ask for everyone’s understanding as brief lapses in service may occur as the implementation work continues. Human Resources may be closed for short periods of time and response times may be temporarily lengthened. The Human Resources department, including Payroll, will be significantly impacted from October 17th to 27th for these activities. All of us working on Operation ELM appreciate your continued understanding of the time being invested to improve our administrative operations and your campus experience! October 11, 2006 "Banner Reports" Open House for Department Coordinators and Administrative Assistants This is an Open House for department coordinators and administrative assistants to practice running Banner reports with their FOAPAL's. Stay as little or as long as you like. October 6, 2006 We're building a new online gateway to your life at Macalester. All of the main online services you've come to rely on will soon be under "one roof." It'll be the new way to access, organize, simplify and connect with your world at Macalester. October 3, 2006 Banner Open House gives you some time to practice Banner navigation with your FOAPAL, practice accessing FGIBDST, and practice using your login and password. September 30, 2006 WEB PORTAL NAMING CONTEST!!!!! NAME It!!!! We’re building a new online gateway to your life at Macalester. All of the main online services you’ve come to rely on will soon be under one roof. It’ll be the new way to access, organize, simplify and connect with your world at Macalester. September 19, 2006 For the past several months as part of Operation ELM, the Admissions Office has been implementing new student software. Recruitment PLUS, owned by the College Board, enables enrollment offices to easily track and use data on prospective students, as well as other people connected to the admissions process. Many institutions similar to Macalester, including Carleton, Beloit, the University of Chicago and Colorado College, also use R+. September 13, 2006 Text of Registrar Jayne Niemi's remarks to the faculty at today's monthly faculty meeting: "During the course of the last year, the College embarked on an effort to replace an aging administrative computer system. You may know that the new system is called Banner, and it will be used by most departments of the College – the notable exceptions are College Advancement and Admissions. Advancement continues with their Advance system, and this summer the Admissions office moved to using a system called Recruitment Plus. The efforts to implement and integrate all of these systems at Mac are spearheaded by a group that has dubbed itself “Operation ELM: Effectively Linking Macalester”. Our fearless leader is Chuck Standfuss and we are over a dozen folks representing administrative functions across the College. By the way, the Banner portion of Operation ELM is a cooperative project among four Twin City colleges (College of Saint Catherine, Bethel University and Northwestern College are the other three) with whom we are sharing implementation and training costs. It’s also true that we have committed to a “vanilla” implementation – no special modifications to accommodate how we do things. "This is a phased project that is projected to last 30 months and we are smack-dab in the middle of the timeline. This means you may have seen some changes already, and you will see many in the future. On June 1st, the Business Services area went live with the Finance module of Banner – this means that if you buy things or get reimbursed for something, you know that you need a FOAPAL, which is Banner language for an account number. Next player in the line-up is the Financial Aid office (awarding aid to students entering in Fall 2007 using Banner, this November), HR/Payroll (producing our paychecks and hiring new people using Banner starting January 1st), and then the Registrar’s Office. We’ll go live April Fool’s weekend. Your first “event” in Banner will be course registration for Fall 2007. For a time, you may be using both the Faculty Information System that we have now, and the new Banner system. Once fall semester begins, we hope and expect that we will only be using Banner. "This is a heads up that there are changes afoot. Stay tuned, remember that we are learning and building this system at the same time (which might explain some glazed eyes and fried brains), and do call on me or Chuck if you have questions! Thanks for your time!" August 31, 2006 As a student, faculty member or staff employee at Macalester College returning for Fall 2006, you are already being served by the first successful stages of Operation ELM, Macalester College’s electronic systems transformation. Operation ELM began at Macalester College in July 2005 and will be completed in late 2007. The goal of “ELM” is to integrate campus systems so that they are easier for you to use. The staged implementation will improve processes such as how you get paid, how you order and pay for things to do your job, how you post grades, how you view grades, and other college functions. These changes are intended to enhance the campus experience for all members of the Macalester community. Watch for campus meetings, including training events, which will be held throughout the course of the coming year to inform the community of the opportunities provided by our new system tools. The College’s goal is a seamless, effectively connected network for learning and achievement. Be informed! Engage change! Watch ELM grow! August 2, 2006 A key support strategy utilized by our implementation partner, SunGard® Higher Education, is the Customer Support Center. As Macalester personnel continue to work with the SunGard® Banner product, they are encouraged to report any product issue to SunGard® Higher Education through the Customer Support Center. Instructions on gaining access to the Customer Support Center are posted: Getting a Customer Support Center Account July 27, 2006 Operation ELM and the Unified Digital Campus The three principal technological components of Operation ELM that must be aligned with Macalester College's mission are Recruitment Plus® (Admissions), SunGard® Banner (all non-Admissions and non-Advancement functionalities), and SunGard® BSR Advance (Advancement). Our vendor-partner for Operation ELM, SunGard Higher Education, has developed specific strategies to assist the TCC Collaboration institutions and Macalester College, specifically, to deliver a Unified Digital Campus, the key outcome of Operation ELM. The strategy statement of SunGard Higher Education lays the foundation for Operation ELM: "As higher education evolves, the challenges it faces evolve as well. While colleges and universities grapple with growing budgetary issues and constituent demands, they also face a mounting regulatory burden and increasing competition from both traditional and non-traditional institutions. Equipping colleges and universities to overcome these challenges is a matter of delivering solutions that best meet their needs: offering better access to services for all constituents, aligning technology resources with the institutional mission, maximizing the value of institutional data and keeping it secure, extending the "At SunGard Higher Education, institutions and higher education professionals have always played a critical role in shaping our solutions, which are guided by feedback collected through client forums, research, and industry dialogue. We monitor institutional needs and then work consultatively with our customers to develop solutions for the issues that concern them most. Through this unique commitment to higher education, we have developed our singular vision to unify people, process, and technology in an environment that truly addresses the needs of higher education institutions and the people they serve. We call "Because every institution is unique, so are the specific components of the Unified Digital Campus—varying according to each institution’s own vision, mission, and objectives. And that is why we work to define and achieve the Unified Digital Campus that supports each institution’s goals and priorities. The result is a digital campus that brings together people, process, and technologies of choice into a harmonious whole. "THE UNIFIED DIGITAL CAMPUS: July 24, 2006 The Twin Cities Collaboration (TCC), of which Macalester College is one of four member institutions, has adopted a "report writer" for use with the SunGard® Banner modules and other software applications which are part of Operation ELM. The report writer is a proprietary product from the EVisions company called ARGOS. ARGOS is the acronym for " Ad Hoc Report Generation and Output Solution" which is EVision’s third party software able to create user reports from relational databases. The philosophy adopted by the TCC related to the use of data from the new integrated datbase is to "empower to report," that is, to place in the hands of system users the reporting tools they will need to effectively utilize the management information housed in the enterprise database. ARGOS is the tool that will allow users to develop their own reports without assistance, to a greater degree than before, from programming staff in the Information Technology Services group. This will free up the programming staff to focus on institution-wide programming needs, although they will remain available to assist users with particularly difficult reporting needs. Day-to-day reporting will be placed in the hands of functional users to the greatest extent possible. The TCC Report Writing Team (also known as "The Argonauts"), the only cross-collaboration team that has been tasked to deliver project outcomes across the four member institutions, has been rolling out ARGOS training this month for members of the Finance and Admissions module teams. This training will also be delivered to the other module teams in the upcoming months. For background information on ARGOS and the reporting philosophy of the TCC, please refer to the following documents: ARGOS Training Invitation for July 2006 How To Access EVisions Training for ARGOS ARGOS Training Glossary of Helpful Terms ARGOS Frequently Asked Questions Macalester College's ARGOS Administrator July 20, 2006 SunGard® Banner & FGIBDST With the new SunGard® Banner software system now would be a good time to review your expenses & revenues in FGIBDST. You can access FGIBDST in SunGard® Banner at any time. June 15, 2006 Input from staff members is needed to help guide the development of Macalester's new web portal. The portal project is a key aspect of the Operation ELM administrative system migration. A staff focus group session will be held at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, June 21, in Room 215 of the Campus Center. The session will include a brief demonstration of portal technology and an opportunity for you to share your ideas on what you'd like to see included. The portal will be the launching point for many online services and information sources, including administrative forms and processes, news and event information, and much more. Space is limited for the focus group. Please contact Sara Suelflow, director of web services, at x6307 if you'd like to attend. No technical experience is required! Refreshments will be provided. June 1, 2006 The Finance Module is Live. On time! CELEBRATE! Seven stages to go... May 30, 2006 As of June 1 CARS account codes will no longer be valid for any activity but Payroll and 0506 activity. If you code invoices, purchase/check requisitions, or do PCard reconciliations, journal vouchers & purchases from Corporate Express this change will significantly affect you. It will also affect you if you use any services such as Doc Services, Mailing Services, Media Services, or College Relations, Motor Pool, etc. In order to process transaction you will need to use your new FOAPAL (account code) for all fiscal year 0607 transactions. What's a FOAPAL? What's your FOAPAL? Sign up for Chart of Accounts Training and find out. Training sessions will be offered next week, throughout the summer, and again in the fall. Call Business Services, Tracy Arndt x6567, to get signed up. For further information please see the most recent Bulletin http://www.macalester.edu/bulletin/ or Business Service’s web site (under Operation Elm) http://www.macalester.edu/accounting/ for further information. Get your Chart of Accounts training before you need to use your new FOAPAL!!!! Call Tracy today at x6567. May 26, 2006 Begin Using FOAPAL June 1 This is a reminder to begin using your department's FOAPAL on any requisitions, invoices, check requisitions and journal entries beginning June 1, 2006, for the 2006-2007 fiscal year. What is a FOAPAL, you ask? (Fund Organization Account Program Activity Location) A FOAPAL is the new Banner account code/budget number to use starting with the 2006-2007 fiscal year. Banner Implementation for Purchasing & Accounts Payable Banner Finance implementation go-live is June 1, 2006. Not only will Banner Finance look much different from CARS, there will also be some process changes too. One of the functions that Banner will not perform is the capability to submit online requests for checks (RK). Please begin using the check request form starting Tuesday, May 16, 2006. The form is located on the Business Services web page. We will also have hard copies in the 3rd floor hallway of 77 Mac. May 26, 2006 Training classes are being conducted on the Finance module. It is very important for staff, faculty and students to attend scheduled training for all modules, or to work with the system team leads to reschedule missed training. If our people do not take advantage of system training opportunities, the College will not achieve the improvements in the campus experience which the new system(s) offer. In addition, you may not be able to perform critical functions of your job without training. The module teams are prepared to give you this information. You need to prepare yourself to receive it. As each module rolls-out, if you have any questions about training or other system issues, please do not hesitate to contact the relevant Steering Team member listed under the "Project Steering Team" tab, above, or this writer, Operation ELM Project Manager. May 24, 2006 Significant activity is under way on the SunGard® Banner modules related to Admissions, Registrar, Financial Aid and Human Resources, but the most focus in this final week of May 2006 is on the Finance module. The "go-live" date for Finance is June 1. Yesterday, the Finance implementation teams from all four collaboration colleges met to discuss the hour-to-hour schedules of what needs to happen between now and Thursday, June 1, to accomplish the goal. Several Macalester Finance and Technical personnel will be working a major portion of the upcoming holiday weekend in order to prepare for the cut over of most Finance systems for the start of the new fiscal year. Although Banner Finance and CARS (the old system) will run partially in parallel as the transition occurs, eventually, CARS usage will end, and all Finance activity will be completed through Banner. May 1, 2006 With about 30 days to go before the Finance module "go-live," there is a lot of activity on the project. This week, the first software and process testing will begin for the Finance module. Testing will allow the Finance project team to identify areas in which the software may not be functioning correctly in order to support the College's processes. If problems are identified, the Finance team will have sufficient time to work with the software vendor (SunGard®) to correct the problems before the product is put "into production." All of our project teams are also planning the content of training that will be provided to all future Macalester users of the system. One of our ACTC institutions, the University of St. Thomas (UST), has been using an earlier version of the SunGard® Banner product for some time. Personnel from Macalester and the other collaboration colleges will be meeting this month with UST personnel to review how on-site training was conducted at UST. This will help our teams in the development of training for Macalester College users. Macalester employees and students who will not be around this summer will return in the fall to experience a robust training schedule that will get everyone up to speed in the use of those aspects of the new system that will be available later this year. Some training will be conducted over the summer for year-round administrative staff who will need to begin using the system as of June 1st. April 10, 2006 DATA STANDARDS MANUAL ISSUED The College has adopted Data Standards for Operation ELM. MC_MacalesterDataStandards_v1r4 These data standards will control data entry for the current software implementation (SunGard® Banner) . The standards are instructive, however, for anyone on campus who is maintaining an active database. If you are maintaining data that may eventually become part of the College's integrated database, you will need to follow these standards. The data standards are subject to periodic revision. We will post the most recent revision at this site. April 2 through 5, 2006 Ten of Macalester's team leads or team members were able to attend the SunGard® Higher Education Summit at Disney World this week. The conference was attended by over 7,400 SunGard® Higher Education users. Operation ELM team members had their choice of over 800 sessions to attend to gain more in-depth knowledge of the product. Our four-school collaboration was well represented at the event. All teams will be comparing notes in the coming weeks so that we take best advantage of what we learned at Summit. March 1, 2006 As Operation ELM moves ahead, administrative personnel may be pulled away from their normal jobs for extended periods of time for systems training. Those directly involved in implementing SunGard® Banner ask for everyone’s understanding as brief lapses in service may occur as the implementation work continues. Offices may be closed for short periods of time, response times may be temporarily lengthened, and there may be short term computer interruptions. The following administrative offices will be impacted during the coming weeks for these training activities: Business Services March 7th to 9th (Banner Financial Interfaces training) Information Technology Services March 7th to 9th (Technical training - Student module) Business Services March 21st to 23rd (Endowment training) Financial Aid March 21st to 23rd (Training for Record Creation, Dataload and Tracking) Human Resources/Payroll March 21st to 23rd (Training for Earnings, Leave Accruals, Benefits Administration and Tax Setup) Business Services March 28th to 30th (Non-student Accounts Receivable training) These classes generally are held off-site, so some offices will have limited hours or be closed during these dates. All of those working on Operation ELM appreciate your continued understanding of the time being invested to improve our administrative operations and your campus experience! February 8, 2006 On Tuesday, February 7, the Chief Financial Officers and Chief Information Officers of the four-school collaboration presented an update report to the Presidents of the four institutions. This update presentation included up-to-the-minute information on the progress of the implementation projects at the four institutions. You are invited to review the presentation for current information on the status of Operation ELM and the Banner implementations at each collaboration institution campus. View Presidents' Review presentation of February 7, 2006 (Adobe PDF version). January 24, 2006 Operation ELM now has three modules in implementation phase simultaneously. The Financial Aid module has now entered the implementation phase and will "go live" in two stages: November 6, 2006, and January 22, 2007. The Human Resources-Payroll module implementation continues with the "go live" date scheduled for January 1, 2007. The Finance module implementation continues with the "go live" date scheduled for June 1, 2006. January 9, 2006 The Finance module implementation continues with the "go live" date scheduled for June 1, 2006. The Human Resources-Payroll module has now entered the implementation phase and will "go live" on January 1, 2007. The four school collaboration effort continues to move forward. This collaboration requires substantial coordination between the four institutions. In order to manage, or govern, the collaboration, various agreements between the institutions, and the software vendor, are necessary to make certain that all parties understand their obligations to the project. These "project governance documents" demonstrate the intricacy and institutional commitment of this effort. December 22, 2005 Finance module implementation continues at full speed, with implementation of the Financial Aid and Human Resources/Payroll modules to ramp up in January. Yesterday, Wednesday, December 21, an important meeting of the four school collaboration took place at Macalester. The Chief Financial Officers, Chief Information Officers and Project Managers met to finalize many of the project governance documents that control the relationships between the four participating institutions and the project schedule. As final editing is completed on these documents, we will post them on this site for review by the Macalester community. The overall project time line has been updated and is now posted. View the ultimate project timeline. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Please return to this site in January 2006 for continuing updates. November 28, 2005 Operation ELM, the replacement of the CARS administrative software system with the SunGard Banner administrative software system, has been underway since mid-summer 2005 and will continue through late 2007, a 30-month project timeline. The following modules are being implemented in-full on a staged schedule: Finance, Financial Aid, Human Resources/Payroll, Registrar and Student Accounts. The Finance module implementation has been on-going since September 1, and will continue through its launch date of June 1, 2006 (although some Finance implementation activities will continue beyond that date). Other modules will begin staged implementation in the coming months. This site will keep you posted of those activities as they occur. Admissions and Advancement modules will be implemented during the course of the project to the extent necessary to coordinate other systems used in those departments with the SunGard software. November 21, 2005 Welcome to the new Operation ELM web site! Today is a watershed day for our project as we now have the ability to keep the Macalester Community informed about the day-to-day developments on the project. Early in the implementation of the SunGard Banner product on the Macalester College campus, these updates may be infrequent; however, as the project moves forward, we expect that important information will be conveyed often. You are invited to return to this web site as often as you like to keep yourself informed about Operation ELM developments. November 2, 2005 Members of the Macalester community gathered today at noon in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall to hear an introduction to Operation ELM, Macalester's administrative systems project.
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