Project Leadership & Management In An AI World

In your MainStage session you’ll learn from PMPs who have found innovative ways to use AI in running projects. You’ll also collaborate with others from across the country on tools and tips to learn what’s working in-market.

Project Leadership & Management In An AI World Sessions - Related Sessions

Monday, March 10

4653 Unleash Your Inner Project Manager: Discover the Skills You Didn't Know You Had!
4793 The Change Management Engine: A look under the hood of transformation: tools, metrics & insider secrets
4761 Strike up the Band and Let's Boogie! Wait...Where is Everyone?!
4915 Smooth Transfers: Enhancing the Cornell Transfer Experience through Project Management & Design Thinking
4326 Let's Learn how Michigan State Revamped its Work Intake Process
5066 Navigating Complexity: How Boston University tackled a massive 13-project program to modernize SIS ecosystem.
5072 AI for Change Management: What Worked & What Didn't at UMB

Tuesday, March 11

4983 Navigating the Path to Effective Training: Mastering the Journey from Planning to Implementation
4518 Let's Learn, Gather and Grow: Leveraging Transition Teams for Sustainable Change
4650 Mind the Gap! Bridging the Divide Between Tech Dreams and Practical Solutions
4649 You're live on Workday, now what?
4723 Innovative training and learning strategies: How to cope with training demands with dwindling resources
4876 Lemonade From Lemons: How We Are Navigating the Unexpected in our SIS Implementation

Wednesday, March 12

4614 Quantifying Culture: How Institutional Culture Shapes Strategic Planning in Digital Transformation in Student Advising: Don’t Let Culture Eat Your Strategy for Lunch
5142 Birds of a Feather: Project and Change Management
4592 Program Granite at BYU - Laying an ERP Cloud foundation by implementing HR and Finance at the same time
4228 Old Dog and New Tricks - Creating a Fluid WorkCenter

SIS Optimization and Modernization in a Cloud & AI World

Whether you’re running on PeopleSoft, Ellucian or Workday, your peers and industry experts have found world-class bolt-on’s, workarounds, and optimizations to the SIS. In your MainStage session you’ll hear some of the best ideas and solutions, while having time to discuss and network with peers from other institutions.

SIS Optimization and Modernization in a Cloud & AI World Sessions - Related Sessions

Monday, March 10

4222 Turning Tuition Setup into the Big Easy for Your Krewe
4458 Streamlining Student Leave and Return Processes: Enhancing Record Management with GT E-Form and Kibana Dashboard
4640 From Undergraduate to Graduate: ASU’s Personalized and Automated Graduate Admissions Solution
4815 Part 1 of 2: Leveraging Workday Extend to Transform Student Services: Strategic Wins with Extensions to Workday Student at Wellesley College
5164 Eliminate the Pain of Manual Data Entry With Transcript Automation
5190 Integrated Registration, Student Planning, and Degree Audit for Student Success
4212 Improve FA batch performance by building less FA Term data
4213 Enterprise Data Archiving: Why, When, What!
4478 Click, Click, Click, Oh Too Many Clicks!
4661 You use Enrollment Requirement Groups to do what?
4813 Part 2 of 2: Leveraging Workday Extend to Transform Student Services: Strategic Wins with Extensions to Workday Student at Wellesley College
4923 Integrated Payment Gateways for Canadian Higher Ed with McMaster, UAlberta & PayMyTuition
4964 Leverage Your Banner Data to Forecast Class and Faculty Demand Using AI
4978 2024-2025 FAFSA Processing - Retrospective
5166 Harnessing Analytics to Drive Student-Centric Operations
4224 Create Better/New Reports by Using the AAR Printer Friendly Data
4388 Enhancing Time-to-Aid-Eligibility and Student Retention via Automation
4626 Birds of a Feather: Student Financials
4655 How GT eForms Augmented Routing Accommodates Twists and Turns of an Approval Path: Wait...You Can Do That?
4928 Configurable Search and Preferred Name Searching in PeopleSoft
4953 Campus Solutions and Workday working together long-term
5200 Reimagining Degree Audit and Degree Planner in PeopleSoft
5243 AI Beginner to Expert in 45 Minutes
5251 FAFSA Simplification and Beyond
4289 Fortress of Focus: Financial Aid WorkCenters for Productivity & Security
4643 Reconciliation between Student Finance and General Ledger
4651 Advising Platform Made Simple in PeopleSoft through Advisee Relationship Management (ARM)
4679 Banner Migration from On-Prem to AWS
4683 Create Flexible Student Informational Acknowledgment Popups Using Event Mapping
4772 Go Global or Stay Local: Global Limits, Course Equivalences & Sequential Restrictions in PeopleSoft Academic Advisement
4776 Fraud, She Wrote: Using Service Indicators and Rules Engine to Prevent Fraud
4796 Managing the Process to Assign Students to Clinical Rotations (practical work)
5060 Beyond Plans: Tracking Specialty Programs using Delivered Functionality
5194 Building Educational Pathways and Breaking Down Barriers

Tuesday, March 11

4219 Part 1 of 2: Fluid Application for Graduation in Student Self-Service
4389 Streamlining Transfer Credit Evaluation
4494 Tuition and Fee Self-Service Maintenance for Departments
4559 Show ME the Money
4850 Our First Year with GT eForms and Kibana
4855 Slate for Student Success Implementation at UMass Dartmouth
4880 Extend Student Success Beyond the Business Office
5183 The Cloud Doctrine: Overcoming Customization Challenges in Oracle Student Financial Planning (SFP)
5186 A Unified Solution: How Transferology Connects Students and Staff to Simplify Credit Transfer
5195 Grab the Wheel: Test Drive Workday Student
4334 Unlocking Nelnet Solutions: Exploring Innovative Payment Options
4393 What’s in a Name? UC Berkeley’s Lived Name gets star billing in move toward a more inclusive campus
4568 Birds of a Feather : Academic Advising & Student Records
4601 Implementing Oracle Student: Reflections From An Oracle Early Adopter On The Journey So Far and Why SAU Selected Oracle Student
4618 Automating Parent PLUS Loans
4753 From Concept to Campus: Workday Student in the Real World
4789 Automating the Slate to Peoplesoft “Quick Admit” process for the High School/ Dual Enrollment Program
4965 Extreme Security Makeover: Our Journey Redesigning Admissions Security to a Position-Based Model
5133 Part 2 of 2: Fluid Application for Graduation in Student Self-Service
4217 Veterans Benefit Reporting – How to better serve those who serve
4695 Flexible admission process without third party applications
4707 Birds of a Feather: Financial Aid
4841 Mastering communications in PeopleSoft; a crash course from basic setup to advanced automation
4852 Part 1 of 2: Let the Power of Equations Bayou Time
4871 Transforming Student Financial Wellness through Payment Plans
4966 Duplicates ID’s prevention and handling – The case of Nevada System of Higher Education
5162 Boomi and Integration in Higher Ed with focus on AI
5191 Freedom in Action: Eliminating Manual Transcript Workflows to Drive Admissions & Registrar Success
5196 Grab the Wheel: Test Drive Workday Student, Journeys for Student, and Help (Knowledge Base)
4526 What can I study? Matching undergrad applicants with academic programs
4631 Birds of a Feather: Admissions & Campus Community
4646 Empowering Student Success: How Our University Supports a Seamless Student Information System
4714 Technical Tools for newer Financial Aid Admins
4853 Part 2 of 2: Let the Power of Equations Bayou Time
4881 Cloud Transformation: Preparing the University of Tennessee System for Oracle Student
4967 AI-Driven Helpdesk for Students, Faculty, and Staff: Let Your Teams Focus on Expert Resolutions While Our Agent Takes Care of Routine Helpdesk Tickets, Seamlessly Integrating with SIS and LMS Systems!
5185 Dynamic & Intuitive Degree Progress for Student Success: Meet the uAchieve Audit-Planning-Scheduling Krewe!

Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CDT

4218 How Three Institutions Collaborated to Move Mountains with Oracle Delivered Functionality - PEAM
4223 Part 1 of 2: Activity Guide Composer and Questionnaire Framework
4597 Easy Breezy Degree Conferral
4615 Beignets & Bytes: Financial Aid Files
4681 Requiem for a Mod: Simplifying Operations with Delivered Tools
4748 WorkCenter - Not Harder!
4587 31 Flavors of Financial Aid – Offering Multiple Aid Packages at Rutgers
4639 Vanilla Customization: a Graduation Application Case Study
4726 Student Financial Account Clean-Up: Fixing the Tables When PeopleSoft Won't
4752 Student Expenses the ‘Big Easy’ way - from paper forms to effortless electronic submissions & approvals within Campus Solutions
4935 FAFSA Simplification: The Fallout and Recovery
5136 Part 2 of 2: Activity Guide Composer and Questionnaire Framework
4311 Revolutionising Postgraduate Student Lifecycle: The University of the Free State and the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate Research Management Implementation Journey
4479 Let the Good Times Roll! Replacing a Custom Curriculum Management System with Coursedog
4869 Prompt and Circumstance: Rethinking Prompts, Run Controls, and PS Query Techniques to Streamline 3C Processes
4331 Transcript 'Mask'uerade: Releasing Records, Hiding Terms, and Debt Collection
4508 Unmasking Success: Mastering the 3C's- Comments, Checklists and Communications- with a Student Finance Flair
4744 Big Easy Breakthroughs: Getting to the Details for the Functional Pros
5114 Refining Financial Aid Processes in Workday Student: Lessons from 2024-25 and Strategies for 2025-2026