PS Campus Solutions Terminology
A new terminology will emerge from the Campus Solutions student system implementation. Here is a starting primer from the PeopleSoft website for future reference.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Campus Community
- Academic Structure
- Recruiting and Admissions
- Financial Aid
- Student Financials
- Student Records
Campus Community provides
a common source of campus data, coordinating all forms
of communication to help you manage your administrative
services. It captures all prospect, applicant, student,
alumni, and organizational data, then secures it, tracks
it, and delivers what you need upon request. With Campus
Community, you can |
| Establish rules or events to trigger automatic assignment of sets of communication-oriented records throughout Student Administration |
| Track all incoming and outgoing communication |
| Create checklists to automate activities |
| Create event templates, identify staffing needs, track attendance, and review results |
| Define committees, identify members, and maintain history |
| Define reciprocal relationships and manage joint communications |
| Maintain multiple names and addresses with effective dates, email addresses, and URLs |
| Manage other demographic data—residency, medical and emergency contacts, and extracurricular activities |
| Enable constituents to maintain their own data via the web |
| Academic Structure helps define how the University organizes its colleges, academic departments, majors, and concentrations. |
| It defines what degrees are offered, how academic terms are established, what calendar is used, etc. |
Recruiting and Admissions
helps you plan, manage, and track recruitment and admissions
activities. This recruiting software solution provides
comprehensive and flexible data collection, processing,
and control to enhance your institution's academic
service and meet your goals. With Recruiting and Admissions,
you can |
| Plan and coordinate independent recruitment programs targeted to specific student populations |
| Match recruiters to prospective students based on region or special interest and monitor your progress toward enrollment targets |
| Load transcripts, tests, and applications from external agencies and central application services |
| Capture and analyze student recruiting information from multiple sources, including test loads |
| Tailor your admissions system according to your institution's varied requirements and evaluation practices |
| Enable students to apply, track application status, accept or decline admission, and pay deposit fees—all online |
| Set and monitor enrollment targets, track progress toward recruiting efforts, and analyze admissions decisions and patterns |
Financial Aid automates federal and
institutional financial aid processing to ensure more
efficient operations. Department of Education regulations
are built into the software, so your institution remains
in compliance. With Financial Aid processing software,
you can |
| Tailor financial aid management to your business rules and practices |
| Track applications, control Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) loads, and maintain an ISIR audit trail |
| Design a cost-of-attendance assessment, create student budgets, and calculate needs analysis |
| Automatically generate aid awards and packages |
| Ensure that an award complies with eligibility, then disburse it to the student's account |
| Process and track federal, state, university, and alternative loans |
Student Financials is an essential
tool for managing student and external organization
accounts. You can manage and calculate all student
financial information, including tuition, fees, receivables,
billing, payment plans, and refunds. With Student Financials,
you can |
| Open new accounts easily |
| Monitor and update student and third-party accounts |
| Calculate tuition and fees on an individual or group level |
| Check account balances and post transactions |
| Generate unique bills for students and third-party sponsors—by department, cycle, and "account past-due" messages |
| Automate receivables management |
| Tailor payment plans |
| Monitor delinquent accounts |
Student Records helps you manage
all aspects of enrollment, including catalog and class
schedule maintenance, transfer credits, requisite restrictions,
class start and end dates, wait lists, academic programs,
transcripts, and analysis. With Student Records, you
can |
| Expedite enrollment by processing all permission, deadline, and other course requirements online |
| Administer enrollment by creating and assigning enrollment appointments to customized student populations |
| Build dynamic academic calendars for self-paced classes to calculate significant dates, such as drop and withdrawal deadlines |
| Evaluate course credit transfers and make adjustments to present the best-case scenario |
| Calculate academic statistics and report results |
| Customize transcript production and process multiple requests |
| Establish customized grading guidelines |
Improve record maintenance and organization |
| Maintain course catalog, enrollment, and grading information in a single database |