Tillman mentioned that a future version may have some capability to put work study towards a student bill or deposit it into a bank account. Version 8.0 will expand more into revenue and enrollment management modeling. A common thread picked up in the various meetings was to suggest that we test the heck out of the system before going live. He got some verification that we're on the right track, because we're doing already what people are saying we should be doing. The tenure year tracking module looks really good, and needs acceptance from the college and department levels.
HR has some very dramatic changes in the new version.
He spoke with several vendors, including the Hunter Group. Bill mentioned that he talked to Clive Burnett , who is a Business Information Technology guy, and we may be able to use him. He also spoke with a woman from SRC who has 6 years experience and with Resnet about Vitae. Kim suggested that we should send a thank you note to the Steering Committee for allowing us to go. She attended presentations concerning training and passed along the key points to Bill and Kim.