Geneseo is going to outsource its Banner hosting and database administration to SUNY ITEC and SICAS for improved staff continuity and security as well as the ability to shift IT staff to other high priority campus initiatives

Operational Excellence, Information Security

Informacast is our "giant voice" notification system. A cloud migration brings cleaner integration to our digital displays and allows for integration of mobile devices.

Operational Excellence

CIT is providing support for the new non-credit bearing courses program that is currently being developed at Geneseo.  Support is needed for account creation, learning management system enrollment, and other automation

Operational Excellence, Student-centered Institution, Revenue

Implemented solution to record when a student has completed a microcredential  for credit bearing courses

Student-centered Institution

Provide support to DAPA for the new registration process for incoming students.  Support includes new automation and consulting

Student-centered Institution

Ellucian and SICAS are replacing COBOL based programs with Java alternatives

Operational Excellence

Ellucian is replacing it's application xtender Report Manager auto-indexing process with a new product named OTS (open text service)

Operational Excellence

Implement Gender Identity and Personal Pronouns using Ellucian solutions and implement the new ASC based import of both fields from the ASC application

Student-centered Institution

Partnering with Facility Services and third party card access vendor to provide integration for students and on-campus housing access

Student-centered Institution,

Operational Excellence

Accessibility Services is implementing a new accessibility accommodation solution from Symplicity.  This includes data feeds from Banner to Accommodate and a feed back to Banner for student disabilities. Stage 1 (banner-to-accommodate) is complete.  We are waiting on Symplicity for stage 2.

Student-centered Institution,

Operational Excellence

CIT is partnering with Accounting to implement the Banner Finance processing.  

Ellucian will be installing Banner Finance.  Geneseo is going to implement the SICAS URAS (Universal Revenue Accounting System used by most SUNY campuses for Revenue reporting. This installation is step1.

Convert from old NYAlert based data integration processes to new Everbridge data integration and fully implement Geneseo Everbridge administration capability. Implement my.geneseo.edu notifications to promote completion of Everbridge setup by students and employees.

Redesign the go.geneseo.edu into a Laravel/PHP application.  Includes new features for self-tuning and purging obsolete go urls.  Needed for security and technical currency.

Communications and Marketing requested that Admissions import all the parent emails provided on the ASC and Common App applications as parent emails with Banner so they can utilize them for communications.

• Operational Excellence

Improve ability of staff to manage housing assignments

Providing Ethos Integration/Extension support for implementation of third party Curriculog implementation

Operational Excellence, Technological Evolution

Make it easier for students to see how their degree would be completed (including potential timelines) if they attend Geneseo

Applying a variety of upgrades including Oracle database 19c, AppWorx 9.4.4, updated Java VM on server, and updated Java client distribution

Modify the slate document import to pull files directly to the appxtender server in preparation for ITEC Hosting project

Converted from "preferred" to "chosen" name in nomenclature.  The "preferred name" request form has been renamed to the "nameChangeForm" with new updated instructions and copy.  The approval process has been removed.

Applicants can specify a preferred name in the Slate portal and this name is imported into Banner as a preferred name to be used on campus for admitted students

Automate DegreeWorks access and security role assignment based on Banner data

Implement SUNY Brightspace / Banner data integration processes 

Provide automated tools for Instructional Technologies to be able to quickly and efficiently create courses, users, and enrollments for ad-hoc courses.

Develop automated solutions using Brightspace and SUNY APIs to enrollment incoming students and new employees in various Brightspace workshop courses and provide automation to capture and identify completion of such courses for the people in charge of the workshops (e.g. library).

Upgrade the OPSCAN Optical Test scanning (bubble scanning) environment.  The PC was replaced, Upgrade reporting software to Remark Classic OMR 7, Replaced old automation solution with  Remark's Automation Center, and replaced old Perl scripts with Powershell.  These changes provided significant improvements in security, performance, and cost of maintenance.

Implemented the new java version of GORYSHR the SUNYHR file import process and substantially redesigned the workflow for improved maintanance.

Implement new algorithmic budgeting process to improve efficiency for Financial Aid office

Implementation of all the various process including packaging, generation of a brand new custom award letter, and other related processes for the 2023-2024 aid year

Implemented processes to load ISIR files into Banner for 23-24 aid year

Implemented processes to load COD files into Banner for 23-24 aid year

Provide support to DAPA graduation office for updating students to graduated status with Banner

The campus is switching to the Adobe Sign electronic signature platform during summer 2022. We provided access and conducted basic Q&A session and training demos for everyone currently using Docusign.  

Geneseo is changing to Adobe Sign to leverage the SUNY contract for cost savings and also to benefit from collaboration and support with SUNY peers.

Several functional areas of CIT are involved in this large project. We are working closely with Facilities Planning on:

Network infrastructure
Classroom technology
Classroom furnishings

This new service will provide network-based centralized fax service for the campus. Toshiba MFDs will no longer need an analog telephone line to send and receive fax transmissions, users can send fax transmissions from their desk, and there will be a web portal available to the campus to use for sending fax transmissions. This service allows CIT to retire nearly all of the failing analog telephone infrastructure on campus. Project completion is linked to the print initiative project.

Converted the GIFF application and management process to Laravel

Operational Excellence

Provided close support to Institutional Reporting for analytical and operational reporting needs as new staff in IR developed knowledge and skills in SQL Reporting and Banner schemas.

Data-enabled Decisions

Applied Grails upgrades and security fixes to resolve critical security issues that were identified by outside agencies

Programmed Kognito Training upload form, Automated Officer Training (canvas course), and upgraded to Laravel 8

Operational Excellence

The CIT Security team conducts a vulnerability review for services provided by CIT and the library.  Scanning tools, services, and external security notifications are used to identity potential security holes or weaknesses to be resolved.  The cross-functional team works together to prioritize and assign tasks to individuals to resolve the problems.  Meetings are conducted monthly and as needed for more timely issues.

Convert custom web applications such as my.geneseo, GOLD, and others to use Microsoft Azure OAUTH Single Sign-On.  They have previously been using CAS.  In total migrated GOLD, Student Organizations, my.geneseo.edu, and Accessibility Manager to OAUTH SSO.

We are migrating the 8.x pages to new technology (PageBuilder and Laravel). Programmed Emergency Contact form, Cell Phone Collection form, and moved APIs from a standalone Laravel app into this app.

Business School DegreeWorks GOLD Integration

Programmed the ability to print a user’s transcript of completed workshops.  Upgraded to Laravel 8

Completely refactor the SOFI Surveys to the new Student Course Evaluation (SCE) surveys.  This included new surveys, new administrative and reporting processes, and new knightweb pages for displaying the reports.  We converted to knightweb 9x technology during this project.

Student-centered Institution, Technological Evolution

Student-centered Institution

This project was co-led with Communications and Marketing.  It involved a major redesign of the underlying CSS and Javascript framework used to implement the website.

Technological Evolution

Technological Evolution

Information Security

Technological Evolution

Technological Evolution