NEW STAFF
STAFF LEAVING
Birthdays
Byron Lewis - April 1
Meredith Dawson - April 2
Anniversaries
Rod Del Rio - 11 years
Stephanie Nonnemacher - 10
years
Stephen Forrest - 9 years
Cheryl Swift - 6 years
Shereeta Robertson - 4 years
Abbi Pfister - 4 years
Melissa Guerra - 2 years
Student Center in version
9.0
Enrollment Services is gearing
up for the June 2011 release of PeopleSoft 9.0, and a new and improved Access.
SMU Student Center! The V9.0 Student Center offers exciting new features as
well as an improved look and feel of existing features found in 8.9. As in 8.9,
the 9.0 Student Center is divided into four main categories:
My Planner - New to 9.0, the
My Planner feature available to students under the Academic section allows
students to add courses to their Planner via Browse Course Catalog
or Plan By My Requirements and stage them until they are ready to enroll.
Planned courses remain in My Planner until a student deletes them.
A student’s advisor will have the ability to view an advisee’s My Planner
courses.
Degree Progress Report – New to 9.0 the Interactive DPR affords
students the opportunity to view results online as well as generate a .pdf
report in real time. The interactive version provides links to course details;
enables students to search for and enroll in classes
based on academic requirements, and courses within a requirement can be sorted.
In 9.0, the DPR will no longer be sent to the student’s campus email address,
but can be accessed in a .pdf printable format. Students across careers will
use the view his/her DPR in the same format. Currently in 8.9, only active
students can run a DPR, but in 9.0, all students will have the ability to view
their DPRs regardless of academic status.
Yet
another great feature is the Undergraduate Summary Report, which will
provide a one-page, at-a-glance, status of a student’s progress toward
satisfying degree requirements. This report is a new SMU customization to
replace the first page of the 8.9 DPR and will be available in a .pdf printable
format. Finances – Financial Aid and
University Bursar The Financial Aid page will
continue to support View Financial Aid, Accept/Decline Awards, and
the custom FA Pony Tracks which tracks the student’s financial aid
process from start to finish including missing items on the student To Do
List providing a seamless transition for our students from the 8.9 version
to the 9.0 version.
The Bursars page will continue
to support five links, SMUPAY, Account Summary, My SF eSpace,
Purchase Campus Essentials, and Transactions Details providing a
seamless transition for our students from the 8.9 version to the 9.0 version.
Personal Information –
Biographical, demographic and address/phone data as well as Student
Organizations, Directory Restrictions, and Medical Health History. V9.0 provides a simple step
through to each of the major components comprising the annual Personal
Information review making it easier for students to jump from Demographic Data,
to updating their home phone and back again without missing a step in between.
Quick Links - Search for
Classes, Holds, To Do List, Advisor contact detail
The Quick links section is where
students go to Search for Classes, view and act on Holds, and To Do List items.
Review Advisor contact detail, purchase Health Insurance, take the Honesty
Tutorial, and complete Orientation Registration.
VIPs -
Very Important Ponies
Some
of our VIPs this month are:
Bursar's Technology Team
testing for
the conversion of PeopleSoft 9.0 began. The Student Account area was asked
to assist with testing to make sure everything works properly. I want to
thank the entire Tech Team for their assistance and professionalism in making
this process easy. Special thanks go to Patricia May for her patience and
willingness to help in explaining and training staff during testing.
I would like to thank
the Bursar's Tech Team and all those on the Bursar's Student Account and Student
Financial Operations staff who helped in the first two weeks of the first round
of Oracle 9.0 testing. Although we have not completed testing all 472
items, the great effort of these three teams completed 75% of the items. I
also thank those who did not do testing by filling in for those who did.
Jeremy Parrish
I wanted to take the time to write you a note about Jeremy and his efforts.
Jeremy has been patient, helpful, and extremely persistent in trying to get us
to connect in order to bring this matter to a close. I was particularly
impressed when I received a message via Facebook from Jeremy asking me to get
back to him. Unfortunately, I have been away on travel so it has been
tougher than I anticipated to get to him. The matter is closed on my end
as I have brought my account current, but I just wanted to let you know and
acknowledge Jeremy's efforts over the past few weeks. A Former SMU
Student Jeremy collected $26,000 in past due balances on 3 student
accounts last Friday. Awesome job!!
Meredith Dawson, you
are my hero! I so appreciate the time you've taken to sort this out then
explain it clearly. I mailed a check yesterday for the full amount
invoiced which pays through the February 11th work period. We're thankful
to have the opportunity to use the SMU work study students and have some
excellent young employees - again!
Paola Sotomayor
Words are not enough to express my sincere gratitude towards you. I am
very happy and grateful to you for all your help.
Kelly Milazzo
It is 5:08pm and we are all heading home. Because you took the time to
check the voice messages from home last night, it really helped the three of us
stay on top of the phones and messages today. Thanks for emailing the
messages to me this morning, hope yours and your daughter's doctor's visits went
well.
New Associate Vice President
for Enrollment Management
At the April Enrollment Services
meeting Drs. Paul Ludden and Harold Stanley announced the appointment of
Stephanie Dupaul as the Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management.
Dr. Dupaul will be the first to hold this position and report to the
Provost with responsibility for Undergraduate Admission, the Bursar's Office,
Financial Aid, and the Registrar's Office. The Division of Enrollment
Services has been under the Associate Provost. Dr. Ludden commented that
this provides a focus on Enrollment Management comparable to other institutions. Stephanie
came to SMU twelve years ago to head undergraduate recruiting for the Cox School
of Business. This August she stepped in as the Interim Dean of
Admission. One of her first duties will be to begin the search for
a new Dean.
Centennial Diplomas
Diplomas are awarded in May 2011,
August 2011 and December 2011 will contain an additional statement that the
degree is being awarded “in the centennial year of the University’s founding”.
The statement will be modified for diplomas awarded from 2012 through 2015 and
state “during the celebration years of the University’s centennial”. The
Centennial Committee came up with this idea. Thank you!!
National Student Employee
Appreciation Week
Important Dates
SMU
– Spring
SMU
– Good Friday Holiday – Apr 22
SMU
– Last day to withdraw – Apr 25
RO – last day of instruction – May 3 Bursar -May Term UG/GR/Taos Payment Due Date - May 3
SMU –
Residence Halls officially close - May 11
RO –
Baccalaureate – May 13
RO –
Commencement – May 14
Bursar - May Term 2011 IEP Payment Due
Study Abroad Payment
Due Date - May 20
Quotation of the Month
SMU Trivia
Question
Answer Update
from Undergraduate Admission
Destination
SMU is over, after three super
programs.The third program was the largest admitted student event we’ve ever
held! Kudos to Abbi and Lori for organizing these events, and thanks to EVERYONE
for their support and participation.
· Deposits
are due May 2nd, and are currently tracking for a class of 1400. The
next three weeks are KEY – this is when we normally receive 60% of deposits.
We’ll have loads of visiting admitted students on campus, so keep that DES warm
welcome at the ready. It takes an entire campus to bring in a class!
· Travel
season has begun, and so has recruiting for the entering class of 2012.
Staff Attend Conference on
changes in Veterans Benefits
Angie Flores, Mitzie Goff,
and Veronica Decena attended the Texas Association of Collegiate Veteran’s
Program Officials Conference in Lewisville, TX, on March 2-4, 2011. This
conference serves to educate Texas schools about VA programs and how we can
better serve the VA students. The information provided in TACVPO this year was
rather important since changes to VA funding will have a huge impact on not only
SMU students, but SMU as a whole. The new yearly cap for Post 911 Chapter 33 VA
students will be $17,500. All departments in DES are working together to make a
recommendation enabling SMU to continue assisting the Post 911 VA students.
Celebrate the 96th
Commencement
May 14, 2011
9:30am
Moody Coliseum
United States Senator
John Cornyn
Speaker
Sylvia Wiseman
- 13 years
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Finances
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Personal Information
·
Quick Links
Academics -
Student Records and Academic Advisement
Mark your calendar
May 14, 2011
Bursar
- May Term 2011 EHD (SEHD - DR & Counseling only) Payment Due Date - Apr 7
Bursar - Monthly Statement due Date - Apr 20
Bursar - Summer 2011 UG/GR/Hart/All MBA/All
USA
– Memorial Day Holiday – May 30
Bursar - Summer 2011 Law/Theology Payment
Due Date - May 31
Bursar - Summer 2011 EHD (SEHD - DR & Counseling
only ) Payment Due Date - June 16
Bursar - Summer 2011 IEP Payment
Due Date - July 5
Put your ear down next
to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
Joan Gosnell,
University Archivist,
SMU Magazine 2010.