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Student Connections

The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi.

The objective of the Student Connections project is to implement UMMC student and academic processes in UM Oxford's instance of SAP Student Life Cycle Management and Sigma Systems ProSAM.

Informal discussions between the two campuses began in Summer 2007, and the project officially started in June 2008 when it received Mississippi Information Technology Services (ITS) approval.

The project kick-off was held on Monday September 8, 2008 at the UMMC Fall Faculty meeting. "Go live" is scheduled for October 2008 with intermediate milestones in March 2009 (Financial Aid), May 2009 (Student Master Data, Policy Directory) and Summer 2009 (Student Accounting).

Objective

The objective of the Student Connections project is to implement UMMC student and academic processes in UM Oxford's instance of SAP Student Life Cycle Management and Sigma Systems ProSAM.

The major areas to be addressed in Phase 1 are as follows:

• Academic Structure
• Student File and Master Data
• Data Migration
• Basic Prospect Tracking
• Admissions
• Equivalency Determination and Transfer Articulation
• Event Planning and Booking
• Grading
• Progression
• Transcript Generation
• Graduation
• Financial Aid
• Student Accounting
• Digital Imaging
• Admissions and Financial Aid
• Essential Reporting
• Portal with Student, Instructor, Advisor, Department Chair/Dean Self-Service
• Synchronization with UMMC Blackboard
• Interface with UMMC HR, financial systems, and ID Center
• Infrastructure ~ SAP GUI deployment, printing, redundant network connection

Timeline

Major Milestones

• Sigma ProSAM Financial Aid Go Live ~ March 1, 2009
• Student Master, Academic Structure and Online Catalog, Policy Directory ~ May 22, 2009
• Student Accounting ~ Summer 2009 (Exact Date TBD)
• Remaining Student and Academic Processes ~ October 23, 2009
• Admissions Applications ~ TBD

Graphical View of the Project Timeline

Recommendations

The Student Connections project requires the review and analysis of numerous student and academic processes. Issues that are primarily technical in nature will be decided and documented by the UMMC and UM Oxford technical teams. Issues that have functional impact will be addressed by developing recommendations using a standard template and presenting them to the Steering Committee for review and approval.