August 2025
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Admissions Application Updates Completed
The Admissions Application Enhancement cycle was completed for this year as of July 28th when we pushed 21 projects into the production environments, just in time to begin thinking about next year’s cycle. Each year in October, the admissions team is asked to start their wish list for enhancements that they would like to propose for their admissions eform applications or for the backend processing configuration that manages 20 different undergraduate and graduate applications across the University of Nebraska and Nebraska State College institutions. We solicit campus feedback for any changes to the eforms, setup and backend changes, operational dashboard modules, revisions/additions to accommodate any policy changes and any other enhancements. All of the enhancement requests or changes are due each year on January 15th.
Review of those requests begins immediately, determining the extent, size and effort for each change, prioritization, as well as discussion and coordination of changes that affect all of the applications. All of the different campus applications share the backend module and therefore, all changes must be vetted through all of the campuses to come to agreement on proposed changes and they must follow the same timeline. We then coordinate the building, revisions, development, backend setup changes, and progression of all of the changes to be moved together so that all campuses can validate and test the behavior of the changes for all of the applications. January through May was devoted as time for collaborating ideas, communicating those ideas out, reviewing requirements, developing and reviewing the eforms, NeSIS development of new requirements, backend setup, rebuilding views and campus development to hit the target of June 1st to begin full testing in the TST environments followed by testing in QA in July. The testing includes several joint and individual testing sessions for both NU and SC during the summer months. The eform applications, NAUTH authentication process, front end dashboards, backend processes, data integration modules, application payment processing, operational dashboard modules is tested each year during this testing window.
This new admissions application cycle era began for NeSIS in 2015 with an initiative by the University of Nebraska system to have one common admissions application that could be shared among four University of Nebraska campuses, including the University of Nebraska at Kearney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska at Omaha and Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture. The application would be utilized for incoming Nebraska freshmen and transfer undergraduate degree-seeking students to apply to multiple NU campuses at the same time within one application. After much planning, designing and collaborating, the NU shared application went live August 1, 2016. The success story of that project instilled a desire by other campuses that eventually led to the end of the old OAA (online admissions application) days and into a new era for admissions applications and processes. Since 2015, the admissions application annual enhancement cycle projects have expanded to accommodate applications for all University of Nebraska and Nebraska State College campuses that all have different needs and requirements and are supported by the new backend processing configuration.
We had approximately 30 enhancements that were approved and implemented in this year’s Admissions Application Cycle. A few highlights for enhancements include:
1. Phone number and email are both being sent to Sailpoint to be included in the enhanced registry scoring to determine whether the overall data points sent will match, suspend or create.
2. Add Text Opt-in checkbox and add it to the views to incorporate a response to CRM teams.
3. Modify the collection of ACT test scores to align with the modified ACT test scores allowing science to be optional and adding the collection of the STEM score on the application.
4. Require prospective applicants to verify their email address by entering it with a matching email address a second time during the NAUTH account creation.
These projects require a large commitment for all involved and many hours of work and dedication have been spent planning, developing, testing and implementing the applications and yearly enhancements. Thank you to all involved for the time and collaboration on all of these projects!
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Dixie Teten
Functional Coordinator, Admissions
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Multi-Job Processor Run Control Now Available!
The Multi-Job Processor run control that was announced in last month's eNews is now available in PRDNU/SC. It is already being used in the Stellic process and is getting rave reviews on how much time it is saving.
For more information, view the Business Process Guide<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uofnebraska.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/… >.
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2025 Accessibility Review Project Update
NeSIS has been evaluating the results from our internal accessibility testing. We submitted 3 sprint projects to address findings. Those projects are currently in various stages of development/testing. Since many of the campuses use the NeSIS framework for their dashboards, addressing the NeSIS issues should clean up some issues before the PUM testing results generated this fall.
For more information, refer to the NeSIS WCAG 2.1 AA Accessibility page<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uofnebraska.sharepoint.com/sites/Enterp… > in SharePoint.
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Susan Lee
Functional Coordinator, Enterprise Tools
Upcoming Events
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Monday, August 4
3pm - Campus Community Team Meeting
Tuesday, August 5
9am - Financial Aid Team Meeting
2:30pm - SC Student Financials Team Meeting
Wednesday, August 6
10:30am - Student Financials Team Meeting
Monday, August 11
PRDNU/SC - Apply FA FISAP PRP
Tuesday, August 12
9am - SC Financial Aid Team Meeting
10:30am - SR Team Meeting
1:30pm - Integration Team Meeting
4pm - EMS Change Control Meeting
5pm - QANU/SC Refresh
Wednesday, August 13
10:30 - NU Student Financials Team Meeting
Thursday, August 14
9am - Enterprise Tools/Dashboard Team Meeting
Tuesday, August 19
9am - Financial Aid Team Meeting
Wednesday, August 20
9am - Admissions Team Meeting
Thursday, August 21
9am - WebFOCUS Campus Admins
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