SIS in the News

April 2013

• “New ID numbers, cards for students in August” by Audrey Michael, The Tufts Daily, April 26, 2013.

March 2013

• “Exciting New Features on Tap for iSIS” by Rebecca Dewey, Tufts Technology Services News and Publications, March 13, 2013.
• “iSIS launches tomorrow, meant to streamline course registration” by Naomi Ali, The Tufts Daily, March 13, 2013.
• “Editorial | iSIS better extremely late than never”, The Tufts Daily, March 13, 2013.
• “SIS, the Next Generation” by Gail Bambrick, Tufts Now, March 12, 2013.

November 2012

• “Course catalog goes entirely digital” by Patrick McGrath, The Tufts Daily, November 8, 2012.

October 2012

• October 25 Memo from Patricia L. Campbell, Executive Vice President, “Introducing iSIS, Tufts’ New Integrated Student Information System”
• “SIS Project continues through second phase” by Audrey Michael, The Tufts Daily, October 16, 2012.
• Share Your SIS Experience: Information about the 2012 SIS User Experience Surveys and Letter about the SIS User Experience Surveys from Martha L. Pokras and Dawn Geronimo Terkla

September 2012

• UIT Tech Fair Table, September 26, 2012
• Poster Presentation
• Card Sorting Test

May 2012

• “Project to create a new Student Information System underway” by Jenna Buckle,The Tufts Daily,Commencement 2012

March/April 2012

• April 19 Memo from Patricia L. Campbell, Executive Vice President regarding the “SIS Project: Implementing a New SIS for Tufts”
• “Bringing SIS into the 21st Century: It takes a community”,March/April 2012 Periscope, published by Tufts Human Resources

EXCERPT: “The small, gray building sits on the Medford campus behind Pearson Hall at an address that whispers humility: 62 Rear Talbot Avenue. Yet it houses what is likely to be the largest, most complex and most expensive project of its kind in Tufts history.

The building is dubbed “SISville,” a name that implies its purpose: the conversion of the university’s 25-year-old Student Information System (SIS) into a new, state-of-the-art People- Soft-based system. The university has allocated $30 million for the multi-year project, which formally started last July. CedarCrestone Inc., a technology consultant firm and partner of PeopleSoft maker Oracle, is assisting in the project, which is being led by Executive Director of Planning and Administration Martha Pokras.”