NGSS Project Web Site and Naming Opportunity: March 7 |
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February 25, 2014, Volume 60, No. 24 |
As you’ve probably heard, Penn is modernizing the basic computer systems that store and process information about students. This effort, referred to as the Next Generation Student Systems (NGSS) project, will replace three categories of systems—Student Accounts and Billing, Academic Records and Registration and Financial Aid—in phases, during upcoming years. Learn more about the project at www.sfs.upenn.edu/ngss/
Hundreds of students, faculty and staff across campus have been involved with NGSS so far. Now, as we move toward design and implementation, we’re asking for your ideas about what to call the new systems. To make a suggestion, visit www.sfs.upenn.edu/ngss/ and click on the orange box to reach the online form.
Every Penn affiliate who completes the form by March 7 will be entered in a drawing for a $100 gift card for the Penn Bookstore or Computer Connection.
Tap into your creative side. Help us give Penn’s Next Generation of Student Systems a new name that will be used by the entire Penn community for years to come!
Some criteria to keep in mind:
• Conveys relationship with Penn, directly or indirectly
• Ability to clearly refer to each function (student accounts and billing, academic records and financial aid)
• Modular (so Penn relationship and function can be combined; e.g., Quaker Aid)
• Easy to say, catchy, conveys reliability, innovation, etc.
Send us your creative inspirations!
—Michael Kearney, NGSS Technical Project Manager
—Regina Koch, NGSS Functional Project Manager
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