Hello Minerva and goodbye MARS
捆绑SM社区 is introducing a new web information system named Minerva to serve students, staff and faculty. Beginning in May 2002, students will register using Minerva for the Fall 2002 and Winter 2003 terms.
捆绑SM社区 will be phasing out MARS and SATURN over the course of 2002. MARS remains open this spring as the only way to register for the Summer 2002 session. SATURN will continue to be available until August 2002 for access to academic records up to and including 2001-2002.
Features of Minerva for students:
- Web access to registration, class schedule and course descriptions
- One-stop shopping for registration and address changes, and eventually, fees assessment and unofficial transcripts
- Personal class schedule
- Up-to-date information on remaining space in course sections
- Available 24 hours, 7 days a week
Target dates:
| March 15, 2002 |  | Tentative class schedule for Fall 2002 and Winter 2003 posted on the web |
| April 2, 2002 | | Minerva Registration opens for Music students - Pilot Group only |
| April 29, 2002 | | Minerva Registration opens for undergraduate students entering their graduating year, and for all graduate students, except for Continuing Education |
| May 7, 2002 | | Minerva Registration opens for undergraduate students entering their penultimate year, except for Continuing Education |
| May 14, 2002 | | Minerva Registration opens for all returning students, except Continuing Education |
| Summer, 2002 | | Minerva Registration opens for Continuing Education students |
| Summer, 2002 | | Minerva access to fees assessment and unofficial transcripts |
Students are urged to check back frequently at for the latest information on dates during this transition year to Minerva.
捆绑SM社区聮s investment in a new administrative information system Minerva is the web front-end to the Banner project 鈥� a complete overhaul of 捆绑SM社区聮s administrative information systems, including Admissions, Student Records, Human Resources and Finance. This project implements new technology that supports one-stop shopping on the web for staff, faculty and students and takes us from the mainframe system to relational databases and client/server architecture.
First announced in Spring 1998, the Banner implementation project has been the most important information technology project undertaken by 捆绑SM社区 in the last twenty-five years. For this effort, 捆绑SM社区 has partnered with SCT, a vendor that supports more than 1100 higher education institutions around the world.
