Steering Committee

The President's Cabinet has named a post production steering committee (PPSC) to address PeopleSoft issues and coordinate communications and training over the next twelve months. This ten member group represents a broad cross-section of PeopleSoft functional users, including representatives from all three modules: Student Administration, Finance, and Human Resources. The steering committee will provide recommendations to the President, Cabinet and Connect ND Oversight Committee regarding PeopleSoft.

Viet Doan, Coordinator of Technical Support for Enrollment Management, will chair the steering committee. Other committee members include: Bruce Bollinger (Ag-Finance), Jeanne Enebo (Student Financial Services), Karin Hegstad (Business Office), Karen Hendrickson (Grants and Contracts), Cynthia Rott (Finance), Amy Scott (Grants and Contracts), Merideth Sherlin (Admission), Brittnee Steckler (Human Resources), Jim Swank (Ag-Finance), Carol Tschakert (Information Technology Services), and Kristi Wold-McCormick (Registration and Records).

The Committee will have the following reponsibilities:

Move NDSU forward with PeopleSoft and other new administrative software (Ad Astra) over the next 12 months.

Facilitate communications between faculty/staff and functional users (Committee) to resolve NDSU issues. Monitor issues and communicate resolutions to all staff. Work with Connect ND staff to resolve issues that cannot be addressed by NDSU functional users.

Work as a group to identify training needs for NDSU. Schedule and conduct PeopleSoft training sessions.

Forward concerns to Dr. Kate Haugen for the Connect ND Oversight Committee. Provide recommendations to the President and Cabinet about Connect ND.

Create a departmental user group to identify issues.

Conduct Open Forums to update the campus community, share best business practices, address concerns, and answer questions