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June 28, 2011: General News

General News | Faculty/Staff News | Student News | Athletics News

Summer Orientations Start Next Week

The Summer Orientation sessions are scheduled for July 5-6, 7-8, 11-12 and 14-15. To view the most up-to-date schedule, please go to my.scranton.edu, then click on the Employee tab, then the Student Affairs square at top right column. The document contains four schedules: CAS, KSOM, PCPS and guests.

Military Instructor Heads off to Washington

Military Science Instructor Sergeant First Class Joseph Wilkerson will spend nearly 70 days this summer at the U.S. Army Cadet Command’s Leadership Development and Assessment Course conducted at Fort Lewis, Wash. Capitalizing on SFC Wilkerson’s 22-plus years of military experience and numerous overseas deployments, Cadet Command has assigned him to serve as the Senior Training Non-commissioned Officer (NCO) for the LDAC commandant of cadets. To read the entire press release, click here.

Need a Place to Volunteer?

There are still plenty of places to volunteer in the Scranton community this summer. Check out the University's Community Outreach Office's list here.

CMS to Implement New Features

On Tuesday, June 28, the Cascade Server (CMS) will be unavailable from 1 to 4:30 p.m. for a software upgrade and maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. On Wednesday, June 29, new features will be available to all CMS users including the new Image Editor (for basic image manipulation), Google Analytics data (for monitoring your website's traffic), and other various user experience improvements.

Make sure to take advantage of these new enhancements! Download the documentation for instructions, screenshots, and tips at scranton.edu/webcms. We are also planning a fall information session about these new features. Watch My.Scranton and your CMS messages for details.

New University Calendar Goes Live July 5

On Tuesday, July 5, the University will replace the current master calendar, WebEvent, with a new, more versatile calendar. Our new master calendar, powered by Helios, will offer features our current calendar does not have, including a variety of tools that visitors can use to share and save events with an array of social media and personal calendar services. The Helios calendar also has easy to use features for publishing, RSVP option, event promotion and community building tools.
Students, faculty and staff will be able to submit events for publishing to the new master calendar. Each submission will be reviewed and an email message sent indicating the event has been posted or requesting additional information about the event.

The timeline for the new calendar is:

June 27

The WebEvent calendar will be disabled to allow our IT services to import all the events that are currently in WebEvent to the new Helios calendar. As of this date new entries will need to wait until the new calendar goes live (July 5).

June 28 – July 1

Events already in the system will be reviewed and CMS pages that had specific calendars linked to them will be replaced with RSS feeds to specific categories in the new Helios calendar.

July 5

Target date for Helios calendar to go live.Categories that make up the calendar are:Academic, Admissions, Alumni, Announcement, Athletics, CHEW, Conference, Cultural, Employee Wellness, Faculty/Staff, General, Holiday, Information Session, Lecture, Liturgy, Meeting, Non-University Event, Open to the Public, Reception/Social, Seminar/Workshop, Service/Community, Student Activities and University Ministries.

The instructions to add and edit an event on the new Helios calendar can be found here. The link to the new calendar will become available on July 5 is http://calendar.scranton.edu.

Dean Pellegrino Recognized at Luncheon

Congratulations to Dean Debra Pellegrino, Ed.D., for being recognized at Friday’s Top 25 Women in Business luncheon. To read the article, click here. To view photos of Dean Pellegrino at the luncheon, click here.

Live@edu Email Update

Change is inevitable in Information Technology and the conversion to Live@edu is no different. Planning and Information Resources has run into delays with the email conversion because of continued issues with the implementation of the Identity and Access Management (IDAM) system. The latest technical challenges put the email project time line in direct conflict with the Banner ERP migration to Linux. As you can guess, the Banner ERP migration takes priority. Conversions into the Live@EDU environment won't start until the August time frame. That means that email will not change over the summer. The hope is that the email team will take the leap into Live@EDU in late August with general users beginning following sometime in the fall. Work continues on a revised timeline. Additional notifications will be sent to the University community as the progress is made on the IDAM issues.

It is worthwhile to note that the problems that have arisen and the delays encountered don't have anything to do with the email/calendar system. The work and testing confirm that the Live@EDU system continues to provide a sound and robust email and calendar system. The problems surround the applications that are being built to provision accounts, manage access, centralize passwords, etc. This IDAM system is being written by an external vendor and ties to the corporate database for automatic management of accounts. Unfortunately the Live@EDU system is the first of many systems that will have the accounts setup and managed by the IDAM and we are forced to modify our implementation schedule because of the delays.

Given the current schedule, collision with the Banner ERP migration dates, and technical difficulties with the IDAM, the window of early faculty adopters in the summer months is no longer possible. Furthermore, new staff and faculty arrivals, as well as incoming students, will be provisioned accounts in the existing email system. Student conversion will also be delayed, possibly until the end of the Fall 2011 term. We are conscious of the academic calendar and the heavy workload that the beginning of the fall term brings for faculty, staff and students and we will continue to make every effort to make this transition as smooth as possible.

The delay of the Live@EDU implementation is a disappointment to many of us; however, the email & calendar conversion plans need to be realistic on how we can effectively accomplish the goals. We are putting a great deal of effort into developing information, documentation and training sessions to make the eventual transition an easy one for all of our users.

IT Services will continue to keep you updated and as more solid information becomes available we will provide the University Community an update on the project time line. If you have any question, please contact the Technology Support Center.

Admissions Office Opens Twitter Account

We would like to welcome the University’s Admissions Office to Twitter! Follow them here, http://bit.ly/jZL5l7.

Community Events: First Friday & Concert

The Office of Community Relations is pleased to provide information on downtown and nearby Scranton community events. If you have any questions, please contact community@scranton.edu or 941-4419. This weekend:

First Friday July 1: Happy Birthday USA!
The July 2011 First Friday Scranton art walk will be held this Friday, July 1, from 6 to 9 p.m. at various galleries and businesses around downtown Scranton including Scranton's talented local artists, the area’s best live music and much more. Come on out and enjoy a beautiful Friday evening in Scranton as we celebrate our independence. Click here to view a complete map of this First Friday's events and venues.

Weekend Summer Concert Series
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic will kick off a six-week free downtown summer concert series, hosted by Lackawanna County, on Courthouse Square with a performance July 3 starting at 7:30 p.m. with fireworks at dusk. For the full six-week schedule, click here.

Summer Liturgy Schedule Announced

The summer liturgy schedule, from May 31 to Aug. 27, is as follows:

Sunday Liturgy
11 a.m.
Madonna della Strada Chapel

Daily Liturgy
Chapel of the Sacred Heart
Monday - Saturday
12:05 p.m.
Thursdays
7 p.m.
(followed by Rosary and Benediction)

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