Continuous Improvement

Coast Community College District (CCCD) went live with Finance in June 2006, Human Resources in December 2006, Banner Self-Service in January 2007, and its final Banner module, Student, in conjunction with our Luminis portal (MyCCC, MyGWC, MyOCC and MyCoast) in November of 2007. In the first term live with Banner, Spring 2008, 52,045 students successfully completed at least one course. In Summer 2008, 25,732 students successfully completed at least one course. Fall 2008 is on track for even greater success.

Coast formed the Continuous Improvement Team (CIT) to build upon our successes and to foster continuing collaboration and communications between our four sites (District Office, Coastline Community College, Golden West Community College, and Orange Coast Community College) and the functional groups utilizing Banner. The CIT is comprised of members throughout Coast Community College District with teams specifically dedicated to Financial Aid; Finance; Student Services; Instructional Load, Catalog and Schedule; Human Resources; Research and MIS; Luminis and Information Technology.

Voyager Launch

In early 2005, a constituent committee was formed to evaluate and recommend an enterprise system for the Coast Community College District. This committee welcomed presentations from software companies and viewed many demonstrations before issuing a Request for Proposals. In addition to viewing these demonstrations, the committee also took many individual steps such as contacting colleagues at other colleges and reviewing proprietary system documentation, user manuals and reports.

In July of 2005, the request for proposals garnered two responses—one from Datatel, Inc. and one from SCT Sungard Inc. The bid responses were reviewed by the ERP software committee functional team leads and Strata Information Group (SIG), who assisted the District with the preparation of the request and has extensive expertise in California Community Colleges. Together, they then developed 10 additional clarification questions for both bidders on July 29, 2005. Both bidders responded on August 3, 2005 and were reviewed by the committee and SIG.

The Board approved the selection of SCT Banner for the District’s software implementation services on August 17, 2005. The enormous scale of the project has made an aggressive plan necessary. This plan is now called Voyager and will help propel the Coast Community College District and its colleges into a new frontier of service for students, faculty and staff.