****WARNING – This is much longer than my usual posts. But I promise you that it is very informational ***

I can’t believe that we have been using Workday Student for the past three years. I thought this is a good time to reflect on how far we have come. Why now? Because we have recently rolled out some exciting functions in Workday Student that took a lot of effort on the part of the Registrar’s office and LTS. And we are happy to see that it has been received well by our students and faculty. 

I often get asked the question “I keep hearing that Workday Student doesn’t have all the functionalities of a Student Information System, how are you all doing”. My answer is “We have matriculated three classes, we have graduated two classes, our students have registered successfully at least 14 times, we have been producing transcripts for the past two years from Workday, students have been viewing their financial statements and students or parents have been paying the bills, we use it for functions we never had before, such as waitlisting, prerequisite checking etc. so it is working just fine for us. By the way, which SIS provides you EVERYTHING you want anyways?”

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