A Strong Start and Looking Ahead It’s hard to believe we’re already well into February, but first—I want to take a moment to celebrate a successful start to the semester. As always, the beginning of term brings a whirlwind of activity, and you all h…
NeSIS eNews - February 2026
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A Strong Start and Looking Ahead
It’s hard to believe we’re already well into February, but first—I want to take a moment to celebrate a successful start to the semester. As always, the beginning of term brings a whirlwind of activity, and you all handled it with professionalism, flexibility, and a whole lot of teamwork. From problem-solving on the fly to supporting our campus partners and students, the work you do every day truly makes a difference.
As we move through the rest of winter, I’m already looking forward to the energy that spring brings. Longer days, fresh momentum, and new opportunities are ahead, along with continued projects and initiatives that will keep us moving forward together. While the pace never really slows down, this is a great time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished and to stay focused on working smart, sharing knowledge, and supporting one another along the way.
Let’s keep the communication flowing, lean on each other’s expertise, and continue building strong partnerships across teams. Collaboration is one of our biggest strengths, and it’s what helps us succeed—even when things get busy or complicated. The upcoming HEUC conference is one of our best opportunities for collaboration so your feedback on the content and presentations can help ensure that it continues to provide value.
Thanks again for all that you do. I’m grateful to work alongside such a dedicated and talented group, and I’m excited to see what we’ll accomplish together as we head into the spring.
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A Fond Farewell
Just in case you haven't heard the news - Dixie Teten, NeSIS Admissions Functional Coordinator, has announced she is stepping away to embark on the next chapter in her life - Retirement! Almost ten years ago, Dixie came to NeSIS after 20 years at PSC in the midst of the initial NU undergraduate shared application project - so she got thrown into the fire immediately! After a successful implementation, she has worked closely with the Admissions directors, other AD team members and the Enterprise Tools coordinator to continue to enhance the shared admissions application and convert other Admissions applications to the eform tool and all applications to utilize the NeSIS managed backend process. Though this yearly Admissions application enhancement process required a lot of her time, she also coordinated all other Admissions processes.
In the future, Dixie is looking forward to traveling, enjoying time with her family and being a full time grandma. Please join us in wishing Dixie well on her retirement and thank her for all of her hard work over the years!
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Admissions Application - Here we go again!!
It's that time of year again when the NU campuses and State Colleges review and revise their Admissions applications. Enhancement requests have been submitted and the groups are currently finalizing the list of changes. In late February, the NeSIS team will begin working on implementing the approved updates in the lower instances. Frontend changes are previewed, tested, revised, and approved in March so technical teams can start working on backend setup changes in April. Technical staff from the campuses/colleges are given the month of May to make any necessary branding changes and in June and July the admissions staff thoroughly test the applications in the TST and QA instances before migration to production occurs in late July.
Every campus/college has at least one eform application and some have more than one. Both eform and third-party applications utilize the same backend process to import the application data into PeopleSoft. The annual admissions application enhancement cycle provides a consistent timeframe for streamlined resource allocation and consolidation of testing efforts which is a huge benefit to everyone involved. Here's to the start of another successful cycle!
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Susan Lee
Functional Coordinator, Enterprise Tools
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Accessibility Review Project Update
The accessibility review team has shifted focus to keyboard only/screen reader accessibility. Improvements are being made to the dashboards and eforms to improve keyboard/screen reader navigation to ensure functional access. The target date for the accessibility review project to ensure compliance with the new government regulations is April 2026.
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Susan Lee
Functional Coordinator, Enterprise Tools
Upcoming Events
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Tuesday, February 10
9am - SC Financial Aid Team Meeting
10:30am - Student Records Team Meeting
1:30pm - Integration Team Meeting
4pm - EMS Change Control Meeting
Wednesday, February 11
10:30am - NU Student Financials Team Meeting
Thursday, February 12
10am - Enterprise Tools Team Meeting
Tuesday, February 17
9am - Financial Aid Team Meeting
Wednesday, February 18
9am - Admissions Team Meeting
Thursday, February 19
9am - WebFOCUS Campus Admins Meeting
Monday, March 3
3pm - Campus Community Team Meeting
Tuesday, March 4
9am - Financial Aid Team Meeting
2:30pm - SC Student Financials Team Meeting
Wednesday, March 5
10:30am - Student Financials Team Meeting
Don't Forget!
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Query Building Best Practices
* Query names should follow the NeSIS PS Query Naming standards<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uofnebraska.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/sites/… >.
* Avoid building and/or changing queries in PRD. All queries should be built/changed in a lower non-production environment (TST or QA) and then migrated up. This will help to ensure that queries run successfully and efficiently in PRD.
* Make sure to validate the query in TST or QA before requesting the move to PRD
* Public queries which are named appropriately can be migrated by a user using the automated Query Move Request process<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uofnebraska.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/… >.
* The automated Query Move process is not available for private queries and may be limited during the PeopleTools upgrade cycle. To have a query moved manually:
* Send an email to nesis.query(a)nebraska.edu<mailto:nesis.query@nebraska.edu>.
* Include the query name and what environment the query is in and what the destination is (not all moves need to be PRD).
* Please allow 24 hours for response time.
* If an issue with a query is found in PRD, you should migrate the query down to QA, fix the issue and validate before migrating the query back to PRD.
* The NeSIS Sharepoint site contains many resources<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uofnebraska.sharepoint.com/sites/Enterp… > on PS Query and writing queries.
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