Director's Corner Hot off the HEUG Alliance press from Phoenix, AZ! AI is everywhere - I've probably attended more sessions around AI than anything else. It has an insane adoption rate: ChatGPT had 1M users within 5 days and 100M in 2 months - it is... [View in SharePoint]https://uofnebraska.sharepoint.com/sites/EnterpriseServices/nesis/nesishome/SitePages/March%202024%20NeSIS%20eNews.aspx?from=SendByEmail&NewsLetter=true&origin=header March 2024 [cid:image001.png@01DA715A.A9D53AD0]
[cid:image002.png@01DA715A.A9D53AD0] Director's Corner Hot off the HEUG Alliance press from Phoenix, AZ!
AI is everywhere - I've probably attended more sessions around AI than anything else. It has an insane adoption rate: ChatGPT had 1M users within 5 days and 100M in 2 months - it is the fastest technology adoption rate to date. One presenter described it as simply math - AI is a giant, complex mathematical process that tries to solve your question with the body of knowledge of data you give it or exists in the known, public internet. But it has no idea what it is saying - only what it can compute. If you are asking AI for something, you are asking math...but it still needs people to work. Also, whatever goes into it becomes part of that public space so do not input anything that is not public information.
One piece of advice on its use is tied to the much-reported upcoming 2025 "enrollment cliff" where higher ed enrollments will decline due to declining birth rates that began in the recession of 2008. Four years after the enrollment cliff will start a "knowledge worker cliff" meaning there will be far fewer people in the workforce with degrees to hire. The advice was to find ways now to utilize AI to save staff time and automate as much as possible in advance of an even more difficult hiring effort than we see today.
If there are a lot of AI presentations here, there are almost as many cloud presentations as many schools are dipping their toes or jumping in the deep end and have a lot of things to share. There is much to learn and we'll need to begin preparation for whatever is to come - there are things we can be doing in the near term to get ready for what is next.
I have also spent time familiarizing myself with the HEUG organization itself to comprehend the value we're able to get from that investment. If you're not aware, HEUG produces an annual report posted on the HEUG site that is a good resource for what is happening. Also - FYI - the 2025 Alliance conference will be held in New Orleans, LA.
Finally, I have spent time with our Oracle reps including Nicole Engelbert, Oracle vice president of higher education development, who invited me to join the Oracle Product Advisory Group. I'm excited to engage in new ways to influence the future of Oracle higher ed products and connect with other thought leaders in the process. [cid:image003.png@01DA715A.A9D53AD0] Selfie with Whoo - the HEUG Alliance Mascot [cid:image004.png@01DA715A.A9D53AD0]
I'm excited to announce the February 2024 NeSIS Employee Shining Impactful Superstar award! The team leads and I selected Meghna Jain for all her hard work with the recent amount of effort on the TAST team. There is a heavy lift right now with the Stellic project and Meghna has been a fantastic asset on the project as well as covering new items to support the development operations that are always going on. Meghna has been a great asset on the team and fantastic teammate helping out in all the ways. She is a NeSIS Superstar vibe! [cid:image005.png@01DA715A.A9D53AD0] Andrea Childress AVP IT & CIO [cid:image006.png@01DA715A.A9D53AD0] HEUC 2024 - We Want Your Contributions!!
The NeSIS team coordinates the Higher Education Users Conference (HEUC) every other year and this year's conference is scheduled for Wednesday, September 25 & Thursday, September 26 at the UNK Student Union on the UNK campus. It is two full days of learning, sharing and collaboration and is a great time to meet face to face with your cohorts on other campuses and the NeSIS team. This year's theme is Together Toward Tomorrow which really demonstrates what we have learned over the years that we are truly better when we work together towards a common goal of serving our campuses.
The conference is always more valuable with participation from our campus partners, so we are looking for contributions from you!! If you or someone you know has a topic you would like to discuss, a project or initiative that your campus completed, or tips and tricks you have learned, we would love to hear about it. We are open to any time length - 30, 60 or 90 minutes - and any format. We would also like to know if there is a business process you would like to analyze and discuss in more detail, or a problem or question you have that could be addressed. We want to make this conference valuable and useful and need your help knowing what you want to hear about.
If you have any ideas, please take a minute and complete this form https://forms.office.com/r/RtGjB9uuwv to submit it. If you would like to see resources from previous conferences, they can be found in SharePoint. More information will be coming about this year's conference in the next months.
Quick links
[cid:9b8d6714-7d1c-4eb9-97e0-da2dbdeabf77]https://forms.office.com/r/RtGjB9uuwv HEUC 2024 Session Submission Formhttps://forms.office.com/r/RtGjB9uuwv [cid:fd451643-762c-4282-bcdf-62f4fdec29df]https://uofnebraska.sharepoint.com/sites/EnterpriseServices/nesis/nesishome/Training_and_support/SitePages/Higher-Education-User-Conference-(HEUC).aspx Previous HEUC Conference Resourceshttps://uofnebraska.sharepoint.com/sites/EnterpriseServices/nesis/nesishome/Training_and_support/SitePages/Higher-Education-User-Conference-(HEUC).aspx [cid:9b8d6714-7d1c-4eb9-97e0-da2dbdeabf77]https://heuc.nebraska.edu/ HEUC Websitehttps://heuc.nebraska.edu NeSIS Issues Form moving to TeamDynamix on 3/18
On 3/18, NeSIS will move the issue management process to a new ITSM (Information Technology Service Management) tool called TeamDynamix, which will replace Footprints, the previous tool. TeamDynamix is currently being implemented by NU ITS and offers a more modern interface with additional capabilities and more robust features.
Anyone that currently has an "agent" license in Footprints to update and manage tickets will have a "technician" license in the new NU Support TeamDynamix portal. Lori Brown will be giving a demo and short training session in the functional team meetings this month and after the weekly Change Control meetings on 3/7 & 3/14. More information can be found in SharePointhttps://uofnebraska.sharepoint.com/:f:/r/sites/EnterpriseServices/nesis/nesishome/Training_and_support/Shared%20Documents/NU%20Support-TeamDynamix?csf=1&web=1&e=QjywWb.
Query Migration Automation Enhancement
The Query Migration Automation enhancement is now available in all NeSIS environments. This new functionality allows you to migrate public queries, composite queries, and connected queries between PeopleSoft environments.
Notes:
* This process will migrate "Public" queries only. To migrate private queries, continue to email nesis.query@nebraska.edumailto:nesis.query@nebraska.edu * Query names must conform to NeSIS Query Name standards. * NU institution queries (prefix of NBK, NBL, NBM, NBO, or NBT) can only be copied to NU environments. * SC institution queries (prefix NBC, NBP, or NBW) can only be copied to SC environments. * NeSIS Queries (prefix NBA) can be copied to NU and SC environments.
The functionality will be demonstrated at upcoming functional team meetings. More information can be found in the Query Migration Automation Business Process Guidehttps://uofnebraska.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/EnterpriseServices/nesis/nesishome/Technical%20Library/Mods/UT0062%20Query%20Migration%20Automation/BPG-Query%20Migration%20Automation.docx?d=w237e714f1b4f4d03a368c634734d6bea&csf=1&web=1&e=SS8NIz.
Upcoming Dates [cid:image007.png@01DA715A.A9D53AD0]
Tuesday 3/12
9am - SC Financial Aid Team Meeting
10:30am - Student Records Team Meeting
10:30am - SC Student Financials Team Meeting
1:00pm - Integration Team Meeting
Wednesday 3/13
10:30am - NU Student Financials Team Meeting
Thursday 3/14
9am - Dashboard Team Meeting
Monday 3/18
NeSIS Issue form moves to TeamDynamix
Tuesday 3/19
9am - Financial Aid Team Meeting
Wednesday 3/20
9am - Admissions Team Meeting
Friday 3/22
9am - Enterprise Tools Team Meeting
Monday 4/1
8am - QANU/SC Refresh
3pm - Campus Community Team Meeting
Tuesday 4/2
9am - Financial Aid Team Meeting
Wednesday 4/3
10:30am - Student Financials Team Meeting
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