Student System Modernization
Project Overview
Welcome to the Student System Modernization website!
RamPortal is officially live for the 2024-2025 academic year. The entire Project Team is excited to have our campus community join us in this new system. We recognize this is a big shift in how things are done, and there's still plenty to accomplish, but rest assured -we are here to assist every step of the way.
For more information on our initial Go-Live Losses and how we are working through some of the most critical items, please visit our Go-Live Losses document.
Reach out to SIS@wcupa.edu with any questions, comments or to get involved in the project.
Guiding Principles:
Implement
Implement to maximize institutional flexibility to prioritize student success for the future.
- Focus on the Student Experience
- Design solutions with student success at the foundational level
- Plan for continual process to improvement to work through changing student needs
Innovate
Innovate WCU business processes to transform the user experience.
- Adopt, don't adapt
- Change the processes, not the software.
- Innovate and Improve
- Consider new approaches and ideas
- Improve services via new technology
- Monitor and measure services for quality and efficiency, and take corrective action, if needed.
- Business Processes and Procedures
- WCU will implement improved business processes and procedure through modernizing our current business processes
Integrate
Integrate people, processes, information, and systems to create alignment, cohesion, and efficiency.
- Keep it simple
- Minimize data entry and modifications of the same information and shared data in multiple systems.
- Utilize one technology to enable efficient and uniform processes across the University.
- Strive for clarity
- Agree on consistent terms and definitions such as “BannerID”, enrolled student, etc.
- System of Record
- Banner will be the official, authoritative data source for student information. Processing external to Banner will not be the system of record.
Inspire
Inspire collaboration and student-centered services across campus.
- Think "One WCU"
- Do what is best for the University, not just for one school or department.
- Be transparent, collaborative, and inclusive.
- Be accountable
- Every data source, process, procedure, and policy require a champion.
- Empowerment and Timely Implementation