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More Financial Aid, Student Financials, and Reporting Functionality Implemented in PeopleSoft

6/03/08

The STARS Project is pleased to announce that additional functionality to support new and continuing student financial aid and student accounts was implemented in the Student Administration area of the Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9 system at Cornell today, Monday, June 2, 2008.

A new release of the Student Data Mart with student financials data will start to be implemented on June 6th to be available for use on Monday, June 9th 2008.

Student Records, Student Financials, and Financial Aid Go Live in PeopleSoft Monday, March 24!

3/20/08

The STARS Project is pleased to announce that all of the core processes for managing student records, new and continuing student financial aid, and student accounts will be implemented (will “go live”) in the Student Administration area of the Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9 system at Cornell starting Monday, March 24, 2008. This implementation includes a new Just the Facts, called the Student Center and offers students a way to access their information 24/7 from their computer. The Student Center contains a suite of services that allow a student to update their addresses, verify their registration status and current class schedule, view grades, order official transcripts, add and/or drop classes, review their bursar account and financial aid records and pre-enroll in classes.

A new Faculty Center provides a single entry point to the tools faculty need to advise students and to view class information (teaching schedule, class rosters, and grading information). The new Student Services Center will provide designated academic administrative staff the ability to access student information to support faculty and students. A new release of the Student Data Mart with student records data will be implemented on March 28th.

Cornell Production PeopleSoft System Outage as Student Records and Student Financials Go Live Mid-March

3/5/08

Student Records and Student Financials, part of the STARS Project, will be implemented (will go live) in the Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9 system during the third week of March.  The conversion of student information from SIS and bringing over Bursar balances will take place over the course of several days.  This email will provide some of the specifics about system downtime and how various applications will be impacted during the go-live process.  There are several parts to the overall PeopleSoft system.  Impacts to each will be discussed below.

PeopleSoft 8.9 (HR, Payroll, Alumni Affairs and Development, and Student Administration)
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The process to convert students into the PS Production system will commence after close of production processing on March 14th, 2008.  PeopleSoft will be unavailable Friday after 5:00pm, Saturday and Sunday, March 14th through March 16th.

The PS Production system will be available for normal processing for Human Resources, Payroll, Alumni Affairs and Development, Admissions and Financial Aid on Monday at 7AM, March 17th.  The Student Records and Student Financial functionality will not go live until March 24th.  This includes the new self service features of  Student Services Center and Faculty Center.

PeopleSoft Data Warehouses
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The PeopleSoft data warehouses will be updated with Friday's data during the evening of Friday, March 14th as usual.  The warehouses will not experience any downtime during the conversion.  The Student Records Data Mart will go live on March 28th.
 
Custom Applications
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The following applications will be unavailable starting at 5pm on Friday, March 14th.


The following applications will be up and available through the conversion week-end:
The following applications will be available at 7AM on Monday, March 17th:
The following applications will be available at (new, earlier date) 7AM on Thursday, March 20th:

The following applications will be available at 7 AM on Monday, March 24th:

Grad Resident Units and Special Committee Selection and Change (SCSC) will be replaced with PS functionality.

The Student Data Mart implementations are as follows:

The legacy SIS and Bursar systems will no longer contain the University data of record for Students after the conversion weekend.  The Financial Aid system will be used to complete the 2007 Aid Year.  PeopleSoft will be the data of record Financial Aid for 2008 onward. Limited read-only access will be available.  More information will be sent out to users of these systems by OUR, Busar and Financial Aid Offices.

Further information about use of the PS Student system for your business area will be distributed via the established communication mechanisms in effect in your area.
The PS outage may extend to 7:00am on Tuesday March 18th if unexpected problems occur over the conversion weekend.  Other contingency plans are being prepared to address catastrophic scenarios.

Please check this site again before March 14th for any changes that may occur.

 

Financial Aid Goes Live in the Student Data Mart

12/11/07

The STARS Data Delivery Team is pleased to announce that on December 3rd, Financial Aid went live in the Student Data Mart.

Data models and reports that support preliminary Undergraduate Financial Aid Packaging and Student Budgeting are now available.  As Financial Aid is a tiered release, we expect that new and modified models and many more reports will be delivered over the next few months, including those required in the support of needs analysis and loan processing.

Financial Aid Early Decision Processing Goes Live November 27

11/21/07

The STARS Project is pleased to announce that many of the core processes for managing data for undergraduate students who apply for financial aid at Cornell will be implemented (will "go live") in the Student Administration area of the Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9 system at Cornell starting Tuesday, November 27, 2007. This will take place just after the first round of annual financial aid regulation changes are implemented in the new system using a rapid deployment of patch/fix releases. Financial Aid staff will begin their work in the Oracle PeopleSoft system focusing primarily on Early Decision program financial aid applications. New functionality will include: loading and managing the PROFILE; aid year activation; financial aid term build; creating student worksheets; assigning student budgets, packaging variables, and self help amounts; performing file reviews; packaging; and assigning, tracking, and completing checklists, comments, and communications. The graduate and professional schools will begin their use of financial aid processes in the Oracle PeopleSoft system in March of 2008.