Pennsylvania BANNER
Users Group
2007
Admissions
Checklist – Online!
General Announcements:
Please turn off all cell phones/pagers/candy
wrappers/small animals and children
If you must leave the session early, please
do so as discreetly as possible
Please avoid side conversations during the
session
Thank you for your cooperation
Lehigh Background Info
4700 Undergraduates, 2000 grads
About 12,500 undergrad applications last
year
Exclusively Common App (grad schools still
use Banner self-service application)
3 admissions deadlines
– Early Decision (Nov 15)
– Early Decision II (Feb 1)
– Regular Decision (Jan 1)
What IT needed to do to make this
happen…
Create a way for all applicants to get PINs
Create a view for admissions to extract PINs
for letters
Some customization of self-service form
Grant access to GOATPAC to select staff
What admissions needed to do…
Re-write acknowledgement letter
Create webpage with instructions
Lots of staff training
– For the person creating the letters
– For the support staff answering phone calls
Rethink when we needed to send out missing item
letters
Create process to handle missing LIN/PINs or
students locked themselves out
Keep security considerations in mind
DEMO
Letter
Open Page
Open to the Floor
Questions
Comments
Dana Stow, des9@lehigh.edu (functional)
Pauline Chu pyc1@lehigh.edu (technical)
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