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ORACLE'S IDEAS LAB: View My Classes - Allow Show Dropped Classes to Not Show by default

By Carmen Plummer posted 09-15-2023
CAMPUS SOLUTIONS 9.2: Fluid View My Classes Page. As delivered, the Show Dropped Classes checkbox is disabled until a student actually drops a class. Once a class is dropped, the checkbox is enabled and the student can 'uncheck' the checkbox so dropped classes will not appear. This is all done through PeopleCode. This is a cause for concern since students are confused when a student unchecks the Show Dropped Courses checkbox and makes other selections the default settings are reapplied. We feel there would be less confusion if the student view defaulted to not Show Dropped Class and they could make the appropriate selection to display them. Or allow this ...

Webinar: Oracle Student: Designed for change, built for you

By Joyce Kim posted 01-25-2023
The future of higher education is uncertain. Student expectations are changing rapidly and failing to keep pace can have disastrous implications. Students expect more academic control, greater financial transparency, and a closer link between their studies and professional success. But current student systems, grounded in the realities of the past, come up short. Join Oracle on February 16 th at 10 AM PST/1 PM ET for the first of a series of webinars exploring Oracle Student, the only student system that’s designed for the future of higher education. By delivering unparalleled architectural flexibility, intelligent automation, and market-leading analytics, ...

Alliance 2023: Meet us in St. Louis!

By Joyce Kim posted 01-23-2023
We’re looking forward to seeing the HEUG community at Alliance 2023 this year! As a p­­­­remier sponsor, Oracle is proud to support the HEUG community and can’t wait to share about the latest and greatest updates, features, and tools for our Campus Solutions and Oracle Cloud customers. While we’re hosting many sessions on a variety of topics, here are a few you definitely won’t want to miss: Oracle Cloud: What’s in it for you? (Monday, Feb 27 th , 10:30-11:30): Oracle’s Director of Product Strategy Steve Brawn and Distinguished Solution Engineer Susan Hoagland will share how Oracle Student’s unique capabilities, including flexible architecture, ...

Oracle Student: What's in it for me?

By Joyce Kim posted 11-28-2022
“What’s in it for me?” That’s the question we’ve heard over the past several years as we’ve been building Oracle Student. Join us on December 7 th from 12-1 ET to find out. In this webcast, we won’t just tell you the answer – you’ll experience it for yourself! Susan Beidler, Senior Director of Strategy, and Susan Hoagland, Distinguished Solution Engineer, will guide you through our vision, roadmap, and even a live demo of Oracle Student. Over the past several years, our vision for our cloud-native, futureproof student system has become a reality for many of today’s forward-thinking institutions. Oracle Student allows our customers to make the complex ...

See you at Oracle CloudWorld!

By Joyce Kim posted 10-05-2022
Oracle CloudWorld is just a few weeks away, and we hope you’ll be joining us! Whether you’re attending in-person or online , October 17-20 promises to be a week full of new insights, new connections, and new stories about the ways in which Oracle Cloud is transforming our higher education community. While there are hundreds of sessions to attend, from innovation keynotes to technical workshops to product updates, I want to highlight a few: Assessing Postgrad Outcomes with Oracle Analytics and Autonomous Database - LRN3352 (October 18th, 5:15-6:00) – to learn how Bowie State University is using Oracle’s Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Analytics ...

Oracle Student: Designed for change, built for you

By Vivian Wong posted 10-05-2022
As we embark upon the start of a new academic year, I want to extend my best wishes and gratitude to our incredibly resilient higher ed customer community. Despite the challenges of the past several years, your commitment to ensuring excellent services and quality education for your students has never wavered, and we at Oracle are honored to partner with you. I’m thrilled to announce that this academic year will reach an important milestone release of Oracle Student, laying the groundwork for our early adopters to begin their migration to the Cloud. In addition, I am delighted to share that this fall Oracle Student SFP processed $3.7B in financial aid, ...

Learn about Rutgers' and Spring Arbor's Practical Path to Oracle Cloud

By Joyce Kim posted 10-04-2022
Higher education is on the precipice of unprecedented change that will touch nearly every aspect of the academic enterprise and shape the industry for decades. Bold colleges and universities are already on this path, leveraging technology as a tool to fuel the transformation of teaching, learning, and research and have valuable lessons learned to share. With more than 30 years serving higher education, Oracle brings the most complete set of solutions to empower these courageous innovators, including cloud-native services for the entire student and employee lifecycles. Join us on Thursday, October 13 at 10:00 am PT, 1:00 pm ET to learn how Rutgers and ...

Searching for students for Oracle's Student Advisory Groups!

By Joyce Kim posted 08-29-2022
When I was getting my Ph.D., I taught college courses for five years. While I was ostensibly the subject expert in the room, each student in each course brought their own interpretations and perceptions about Modernist poetry or Victorian novels or Elizabethan-era tragedies. Their insights - surprising, poignant, useful - almost always impacted the way that I thought about the texts and how I taught those courses for future students. That experience of collaborating with students is one of the reasons I advocated for creation of a student-focused advisory group, which we kicked off with the Oracle Student Financial Planning (SFP) Advisory Group last year. ...

Job Opening - University of MD, Baltimore - Enterprise Application Administrator or Senior Administrator - (2200010E)

By Rebecca Greenwell posted 08-23-2022
Enterprise Application Administrator or Senior Enterprise Application Administrator - ( 2200010E ) Link: https://umb.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=2200010E&lang=en The University of Maryland, Baltimore Center for Information Technology Services (CITS) has an exciting opportunity available for an IT Enterprise Application Administrator or Senior IT Enterprise Application Administrator for Enterprise Applications . The selected candidate will be part of a team responsible for supporting and maintaining environments in Oracle Cloud and On-Prem People Soft, Ellucian Banner, Banner Suite. Responsibilities ...

Open Position – Change Management and Training Specialist at UNC-Chapel Hill

By Kristine Williams posted 08-11-2022
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a Change Management and Training Specialist . Position Summary : The Change Management and Training Specialist takes a lead role in preparing faculty, staff, student employees, and other groups (such as applicants) for changes to the University’s Human Resources and other enterprise systems. Work activities include taking the lead on analyzing stakeholders and business processes for change initiatives. The Change Management and Training Specialist also designs change management-related communication campaigns and may execute, or may lead others in executing on, those campaigns. This includes designing, ...

E-Academy Webinar: How institutions can construct a smooth cloud journey to Oracle Student

By Joyce Kim posted 08-09-2022
One of the most frequently asked questions the Oracle higher ed team receives from our customers is about the journey to the cloud: how to make the most of your current Campus Solutions application, and when, why, and how to prepare for a move to Oracle Student. If those are topics you’ve been considering, our new whitepaper, “A Blueprint for Your Journey to the Cloud” is for you. In this piece, we provide guidance for our higher ed customers considering their journey to Oracle Cloud. We explore all the different pathways that you can take to build your cloud “muscles,” such as hosting Campus Solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or deploying our out-of-the-box ...

How customers can get more value from Oracle Student Financial Planning

By Joyce Kim posted 07-05-2022
The Oracle Higher Ed team has just returned from NASFAA 2022, where we had a wonderful time talking with our customers about the ways in which Oracle Student Financial Planning helps them spend time on students, not process. However, if you weren’t able to make it to Austin this week, there are many other opportunities for our Oracle SFP community to engage with us – and more importantly, each other! First of all, if you’re a current Oracle SFP customer, you won’t want to miss our Cloud Customer Connect session on July 6 at 11 AM CST. For those of you who have not attended a CCC session before, they offer an in-depth look at the new features and updates ...

Join Oracle for the NASFAA 2022 National Conference!

By Joyce Kim posted 06-15-2022
Oracle is proud to be a premier sponsor of the NASFAA (the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators) 2022 National Conference on June 26-29 in Austin, Texas. As a long-time partner in the higher ed industry, Oracle knows that the combination of increased competition for students, changing student needs, and an unpredictable regulatory environment makes the delivery of financial aid challenging. In other words, while the work of financial aid administrators is more important than ever, it is far more difficult as well. That’s where Oracle Student Financial Planning has played an important role for our institutional customers. Oracle ...

NASFAA webinar: How Florida A&M University is swinging wide the campus gates

By Joyce Kim posted 04-28-2022
Oracle is thrilled to be sponsoring an upcoming webcast for NASFAA (National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators) members on May 3 rd at 2-3 PM ET, where Florida A&M University will discuss how Oracle Student Financial Planning is helping the institution swing wide their campus gates. As the only public HBCU in Florida, the university has an important mission of promoting academic excellence, affordability, and diversity for its students. And with 95% of incoming first-year students receiving financial aid, improving the student experience at each stage of the process -- from determining eligibility through disbursement -- is critical ...

Highlighting customer success at Alliance 2022

By Joyce Kim posted 04-08-2022
It’s been three years since we last met in person for Alliance…and it’s safe to say a lot has happened since then! The higher education industry has changed dramatically in terms of how we deliver teaching, learning, and research, engage with students, and even how we conceive of the college experience. It’s been incredible to see the various ways our customer community is approaching institutional transformation: from deriving new value from Campus Solutions, to implementing Student Cloud and Student Financial Planning, to leveraging value from Oracle Cloud ERP, HCM, ERP, and more. While there are so many inspiring customer stories I could mention, I wanted ...

Oracle and Alliance 2022: See you in Seattle!

By Joyce Kim posted 03-10-2022
Seattle may be called the Emerald City, but for Oracle, there’s no place like HEUG! The Oracle Higher Ed team is excited to be at Alliance 2022 from March 13-16, 2022 and to (safely) connect with our customers, prospects, and partners. “Alliance is all about community, which feels especially important during these uncertain times,” Pam Snyder, VP of Sales for North American Higher Ed, says. “We at Oracle applaud the many ways our higher ed customers are leveraging technology to support their students and improve their services over the past few years, and we are so thankful for the opportunity to share with and learn from our user community.” While Alliance ...

Oracle Student Cloud makes the complex simple

By Vivian Wong posted 01-26-2022
Happy New Year! I hope this month finds you and your loved ones healthy, happy, and ready to tackle your 2022 goals. On a personal and professional note, I have been looking forward to this year for a long time. For years, the Higher Education Development team has been tirelessly working towards a big milestone – and it’s almost here! With our 22D quarterly release, our amazing early adopters will begin their formal implementation of Student Management Cloud to support traditional programs. It may feel like it’s been a long time coming, but that’s because we know you’re counting on us to get this fully right. Our vision is bold and our design is purposefully ...

Making the grade with Oracle Campus Solutions

By Joyce Kim posted 01-18-2022
800+ colleges and universities across the world agree: Oracle Campus Solutions is the most powerful and versatile student system available for higher education today. We’re proud to say that Campus Solutions has been supporting the needs of institutions for nearly three decades, and will be perpetually evolving to support our customers for the years to come. Over the last year, our Campus Solutions team has been hard at work keeping up with all the major regulatory and legislative requirements that will keep your campus running smoothly. Beyond that, we’re continually investing in Campus Solutions with high-value enhancements -- many of which originated as ...

Charting the Future of Higher Education with Oracle

By Joyce Kim posted 12-14-2021
Despite nearly two years of upheaval and uncertainty, colleges and universities have been finding a way forward. The global pandemic necessitated radical transformation across higher education, prompting new ideas and solutions for remote learning, the delivery of student services, and distributed forms of academic research. On January 19, 2022 at 12 PM ET, the Oracle Higher Ed Virtual Summit will bring together some of the leading voices in higher education to explore these changes in the industry. Hosted by Liz McMillen, the executive editor of Chronicle Intelligence , the Oracle Higher Ed’s Virtual Summit will showcase the many ways in which cloud ...

Helping Students Pay for College: A Chronicle of Higher Ed and Oracle webinar

By Joyce Kim posted 10-19-2021
The belief that every student should have access to an affordable, high-quality education is the one of the core tenets underpinning higher education -- and our society as a whole. Yet in the US, this concept is far from reality: the Princeton Review ’s Annual Hopes and Worries Survey reveals that students’ and parents’ top concerns about college are related to cost: 41% are worried about the amount of debt that they will have to take on, while 28% are concerned that even if they get into their first-choice college, they won’t be able to afford it. (When the survey was first released in 2003, the number-one fear that students wouldn’t get accepted into their ...