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By Linda Perrotto
On December 3, staff members in the Office of Enrollment Marketing, led by director Sherry Rhyno, began entering data in the new PeopleSoft recruiting system, the first PeopleSoft module to be implemented on campus. The smooth implementation marked an important milestone for Project ISIS (Intercampus Student Information System), a cooperative effort by the Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell campuses to develop a shared PeopleSoft student administration system. In addition to developing the recruiting application, the core project team members from three campuses created a technical and user support infrastructure that will serve PeopleSoft modules that will form an integrated student information system.
The new system brings important benefits to the campus. The recruiting module captures and stores information from prospective students who make inquiries by phone, mail, e-mail, or the Internet. In addition, it creates prospect records from those who request that their standardized test scores be sent to the campus. The new system enables the campus to assign and track customized communications to prospects. With more information about each prospect available for analysis, recruiting efforts will be targeted even more effectively. Finally, the new system will streamline the admissions process, as the records of prospects who complete an application will automatically be moved into the PeopleSoft admissions module when it is implemented next summer. The timeline for the remaining modules, student records, financial aid, and student financials, is still under consideration.
In the weeks before the go-live date, Enrollment Marketing staff members participated in an extensive hands-on training program that prepared them to search for records, enter data, develop reports, and schedule and generate mailings to prospective students. Since then, they have entered more than a thousand prospect records.