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A 6 page paper discussing implementation of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system specific to higher education, and faculty members’ reactions to the system. The paper discusses Western Iowa Technical Community College’s experiences in winning over users of the integrated system replacing legacy and manual processes. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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education ranging from the public school system to both public and private higher education institutions recently have come under pressures previously unknown. It appears that many of these pressures
ultimately will decree true paradigm change, rather than only a change of approach. The matter has been discussed at great length from various perspectives, but relatively little attention has
been given to teachers attitudes toward requirements for increasing migration from paper-based record keeping to electronic media. Of particular interest here is the perception of community college instructors to
the required use of Datatels integrated database systems. Not Just Another Database... Datatel describes its Colleague software as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
package that integrates all of the student-related data-storing needs of any college campus. Stoik (2001) reports that Western Iowa Tech Community College (WITCC; Sioux City) worked closely with Datatel
to reengineer its student advising process, with narrowly targeted goals relating to improvements the school wanted to gain. A team of WITCC faculty members worked for 18 months to
develop a "shopping list" of the capabilities that the new Datatel database would need in order to gain the end results the team identified as being either desirable or essential.
The results, according to Stoik (2001), were that the "ability to systematically track student progress and intervene appropriately and in a timely manner
has resulted in improved student success and greater overall institutional effectiveness" (p. 37). This is an overriding goal of any community college, which typically serves students who, for a
variety of reasons, opt for a more "hands on" approach to their college education, and the notion that having greater information is preferable over having less persists. Faculty Member Attitudes
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