Posted: 10/11/2021
The ESR Student Information System (SIS) project team had the pleasure of kicking off the annual UC San Diego Campus LISA 2021 technical conference with a presentation about the project. In the session, the team covered what’s been done, what’s happening now and what’s on the horizon for the...
Posted: 10/8/2021
The Enterprise Systems Renewal (ESR) program leverages the talent and experience of staff, partners and departments across campus to update software applications and review business processes in key service areas, including Student Information. The leveraging of talent extends into the ESR and Student Information...
Posted: 8/11/2021
The “expert sourcing” approach of Enterprise Systems Renewal (ESR) is all about harnessing, leveraging, and retaining the expertise of UC San Diego employees. Besides making sure that the planning, configuration, and on-going support of our systems are guided and informed by people who have a detailed knowledge of what we do...
Posted: 7/26/2021
The Student Information System (SIS) project is searching for a new Change Lead (Academic) to join the team in Fall 2021! Kathleen D. Johnson is retiring after December 2021, so a new team member is needed to help lead this exciting project. Applications from current UC San Diego staff employees are being accepted through August 16, 2021. As SIS...
Posted: 7/7/2021
Although we aren’t implementing a new student information system (SIS) right away, the SIS project team is still working hard to prepare for the change to a new system with a new Reporting workstream. The vision is to position existing reports into a comprehensive Activity Hub source prior to the Go Live of a new SIS. The work...
Posted: 5/12/2021
You may have seen the campus notice that the Request for Proposal (RFP) that we issued to Student Information System (SIS) vendors was closed without making an award. As a project team, we want to clarify how that impacts UC San Diego’s journey to a new SIS. The Conference Room Pilot sessions were incredibly effective in that we now...
Posted: 4/13/2021
Calling all decision makers, analysts and data aficionados. We are proud to announce that reports.ucsd.edu, the current location for enterprise system and cross-system reports, will be upgraded soon to the Business Analytics Hub, also known as BAH! Starting late April 2021, all reports that are currently available via reports.ucsd.edu...
Posted: 3/9/2021
The Student Information System (SIS) project team has built a rich body of knowledge developing a process landscape and current state maps. We’ve arrived here with the help of 233 subject matter experts from campus and UC San Diego Extension. After conducting over 200 working sessions we identified 117 processes on the process...
Posted: 2/9/2021
If you add up all of the days, the Student Information System (SIS) project team, subject matter experts (SMEs), and technical experts have been locked away in Zoom Conference Room Pilot (CRP) sessions for nearly a month! Harnessing UC San Diego’s own expertise and insight into what we do and why we do it, the CRP sessions...
Posted: 1/8/2021
With multi-day Conference Room Pilot (CRP) sessions complete for two of three vendors, the Student Information System (SIS) project team is close to meeting the most important CRP goal: learning.Vendors were given a set of 35 UC San Diego scenarios across Enrollment, Academic Records, Billing and Financial Aid, Extension, and School of Medicine,...
Posted: 12/4/2020
What does it mean to implement a Student Information System (SIS) “solution?” It means that selecting the best product is just the beginning of what we need to do to provide a true 21st century student experience!The Enterprise Systems Renewal (ESR) program knows that a system replacement requires not only a core...
Posted: 11/19/2020
ESR projects - new, in progress and already launched - have been going non-stop with project planning, implementation and all of the work that follows a system's go-live. Here's a look at some of what's been happening as reported by members of each project team: AP Next Biobib Project – Change Practitioner: Heather...
Posted: 11/10/2020
With its growing popularity among UC San Diego alumni, Social Login- as part of the Enterprise Identity Management project- offers newly added functionality as of November 5, 2020. This new enhancement now focuses on helping those users who are unsuccessful in using their Google, Microsoft or LinkedIn account login information to easily and...
Posted: 11/9/2020
With business process mapping of current state in full swing, the Student Information System (SIS) project team is already busy planning for the analysis of a system-agnostic ideal state. But what does all of this analysis have to do with implementing a new SIS?A student information system is one of the engines of a...
Posted: 10/13/2020
Part of the Enterprise Identity Management project, Social Login is a continuing success with UC San Diego community members. Social Login helps users, namely alumni, easily and securely access select university resources and services using their Google, Microsoft or LinkedIn account login information. The service has created a more secure...
Posted: 10/5/2020
Currently, UC San Diego operates with two student information systems: one for undergraduate, graduate, and the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy; and one for UC San Diego Extension. An exciting aspect of the Student Information System (SIS) project will be the transition to a single system for all student and learner data.The SIS project will...
Posted: 9/9/2020
For UC San Diego students - whether undergraduate, graduate, professional or Extension - the Student Information System (SIS) is the most important behind-the-scenes software system in their academic lives. It's behind-the-scenes in the sense that students do not interact with it on a daily basis, but most important in the sense that the...
Posted: 8/18/2020
The University of California recognizes that community involvement is important for faculty and the university. While faculty are encouraged to participate in professional work and research outside of their role with their UC university, there are policies in place to determine the amount of outside work that can interfere with the duties of...
Posted: 8/11/2020
“Getting into the weeds” is often invoked in a pejorative context – especially in a work setting. Discuss too much detail and people tend to zone out! However, “getting into the weeds” is exactly what’s needed for...
Posted: 7/8/2020
The Student Information System (SIS) renewal effort has been charging ahead for over a year now. It is designed to concurrently replace outdated student systems with new, more flexible technology, improve business processes and practices, and offer a more user-friendly experience for students.Despite having had to to rapidly transition to remote...
Posted: 6/17/2020
On May 20, 2020, UC San Diego brought alumni access to systems into the 21st century. As part of the ESR Enterprise Identity Management (EIM) project, Social Login officially launched, ushering a new era in identity and access management. This new, user-friendly...
Posted: 6/10/2020
Hi y’all! My name is Katie and I’m the Business Process Lead for the Student Information System (SIS) project. My day job is in the Division of Biological Sciences where I am a Technical Project Manager with a background in user experience design. As part of the Biology Computer Services business unit, I lead a great team of...
Posted: 6/9/2020
In March, as the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the shift to remote classes, on-campus residents were given the option of voiding their housing contracts and receiving housing credits. Approximately 9,500 students took this option.For Student Financial Solutions (SFS), applying credits is a manual, student-by-student process. While we were...
Posted: 5/19/2020
Have you ever missed a deadline because you were waiting for access to a campus system or service? How many times have you encountered delays because different campus systems could not recognize that you were in fact the same person? How many of you struggle to remember the difference between your Business Systems and Active Directory...
Posted: 5/8/2020
As University Registrar, I’m responsible for supporting the instructional mission of the university by providing core enrollment services to students, faculty, colleges and academic departments in the areas of academic records, class scheduling and registration. It’s a job I take seriously, but also...
Posted: 2/14/2020
Congratulations to the Department of Literature and the Department of Pediatrics in Health Sciences—both were the only departments to have 100% compliance for 2018-19 reporting in the Online Activities Tracking System (OATS) by the November 2019 deadline. UC Oats is the faculty solution for entry, review and pre-approval of activites...
Posted: 9/13/2019
Add the University of California Outside Activity Tracking System (UC OATS) to the list of ESR project launches! UC OATS went live on September 3 as the new faculty solution for entry, review and pre-approval of activites they engage in outside of their work on campus. “We are excited to partner with our fellow UC campuses in bringing...
Posted: 9/13/2019
The Student Information System (SIS) project has launched! With SIS, UC San Diego will be replacing the current Integrated Student Information System, ISIS, in order to achieve modern efficiencies, streamline reporting needs and improve the student experience. “We are excited to kick off the Student Information...
Posted: 7/12/2019
We are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the University of California Outside Activity Tracking System, known as UC OATS. UC OATS is a system-wide program, customized for each campus, that helps faculty, deans and faculty administrators efficiently track, manage and certify outside professional activities. Replacing the current paper...
Posted: 3/19/2019
AP Next officially launched the Faculty180 pilot, an exciting new system for improving faculty activity collection and curriculum vitae (CV) creation. The system more efficiently documents faculty’s academic activities for their reviews, including their publications and/or creative work, student instructional commitments and university...
Posted: 2/13/2019
I am pleased to announce the formal launch of UC San Diego’s next generation Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS). On January 23, the Office of the Registrar, in partnership with IT Services, colleges, divisions, academic departments and programs, delivered an enhanced version of our 23-year-old degree audit to all...
Posted: 11/20/2018
Since July 2018, UC San Diego has disbursed more than $145M in graduate and undergraduate financial aid using a new solution called ProSAM. ProSAM replaces “classic” SAM, otherwise known as Student Aid Management, which has been in use at UC San Diego for 30 years or more. “SAM is the...
Posted: 10/19/2018
Fall Quarter is upon us, and thousands of students are back on campus. Sure, they’re focused on the day-to-day – papers due, lab assignments, what’s for lunch. But they’re also looking down the road to their expected graduation. Right now they can only get a rudimentary view of what that road will be like....
Posted: 10/19/2018
UC San Diego’s new faculty orientation took place September 24, and the APNext team was on hand to talk about Interfolio, the new faculty review solution we’re currently piloting. At our booth we provided live demonstrations and talked about Enterprise Systems Renewal (ESR). Having a presence at this event was important to...
Posted: 8/20/2018
Jenna Lucius and Cindy Palmer work on APNext Interfolio. UC San Diego is growing more rapidly than ever. No one would dispute that the campus is undergoing a radical and exciting transformation. In order to support the expected growth of student enrollment in the coming years, now more than ever, we have to work smarter and more...
Posted: 6/20/2018
One of the first ESR projects to be implemented is a streamlined undergraduate admissions process using a solution called Slate. In the past, Enrollment Management used a mishmash of tools for the admissions process: one for applications, another for campus tours, another for communications…The systems were outdated, difficult to use...
Posted: 6/20/2018
At a recent town hall meeting, the uAchieve team announced that the campus-wide launch date of the uAchieve system will be January 23, 2019. Timing a project as long and complex as this is not an easy task, but with the help of campus-wide partners, uAchieve is set to deliver an evolutionary way of auditing student degrees at UC San Diego.The...