The owner of the Nissan is a temporary employee at the TCU Physical Plant but was unavailable for comment. Cleveland State administrators have hired three consulting firms to pull the university out of an administrative crisis that began two years ago when it installed new software from PeopleSoft Corporation. According to the Feb. 28 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Cleveland State was one of the first universities to convert to PeopleSoft's software for student information systems. We're having problems with the student module. David Edmondson, TCU assistant provost for information services, said the human resources module is designed to handle things such as staff and faculty information and payroll and payment information.
Finance handles general ledger, budgets, management and inventory.
Student administration handles administration, financial aid and degree audit, Edmondson said. Reid said Cleveland State is considering suing the PeopleSoft Corporation. Joseph Nolan, the Cleveland State's vice president for human resources development and labor relations and the official spokesperson regarding the issue, was not available for comment. But according to his interview in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Nolan said Cleveland State hopes to resolve the problems it has had in processing financial aid and student records for two years. All three companies have extensive experience in fixing problems with PeopleSoft student-information systems installed at other universities, said Joseph Valencic, a Cleveland State spokesperson.