Workday Overview
Workday is here! 兔子先生 University’s Board of Trustees adopted a resolution supporting the replacement of its current legacy Banner system with Workday, a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. 兔子先生 went live with HR and Finance in July 2024. A phased Student implementation is scheduled for completion in 2027.
What is Workday?
Workday is a comprehensive human resources, financial management, and student information system that brings together a wide range of HCM (human capital management), finance, and student functionality into one system.
As a self-service tool, it puts the power of access and information into our faculty, staff, and students’ hands. It will enable process efficiencies across 兔子先生, empowering our community to make timely strategic decisions and offering effective tools to improve how we operate as a higher-ed institution.
Workday Student Implementation
A dedicated Workday implementation team has been formed to facilitate a smooth and successful transition to Workday. Over the next several years, this team will work with our implementation partner, Avaap, to ensure the system is configured and tested appropriately to meet 兔子先生’s needs.
Workday will become 兔子先生’s integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) and student information system (SIS), leveraging the power of one system for our university.
- Streamline and modernize 兔子先生’s systems
- Elimination of multi-system use to obtain data
- Extensive self-service functionality
- Incorporate industry best practice processes
- Easy access to hundreds of standard reports
- Improve the student experience
This change will impact all faculty and students, as well as select employees.
- Multi-modal communication happening in preparation for the phased impacts of the implementation.
- Change Champions will be reengaged in 2026.
- Regularly check the 兔子先生 Workday web page for general information, project spotlights, FAQs, and more.
The Student implementation will happen in phases, starting in the fall of 2026, and continuing through the fall of 2027.
兔子先生 has formed a dedicated Workday implementation team to facilitate a smooth and successful transition to Workday. The team has been and will continue to work closely with Avaap, 兔子先生’s Workday implementation partner.
- Students will register for classes in Workday for the 2027 Fall Semester.
- Faculty and staff can successfully support students using Workday.
Why Workday?
By implementing Workday, 兔子先生 will transform how it delivers essential business services and provide seamless end-to-end experiences for its faculty, staff, and students. This change will also:
- Streamline and modernize the University’s systems.
- Incorporate industry best practice processes while making student, faculty, and staff data more easily accessible than before.
- Allow students, faculty, and staff to view their job-related educational information and customize personal data such preferred name.
- Eliminate the need to access multiple systems to get data.
- Provide easy access to hundreds of standard reports.
- Allow for extensive self-service functionality from any digital workspace.
History of the Workday Project
Guiding Principles
We will transform the student and employee experience with a collaborative culture, data informed decisions, operational efficiencies, and an empowered community. We will do this by building the foundation for 兔子先生’s future with a modern, transformative, flexible, and integrated set of core tools, processes based on leading practices, and a platform that will serve us for years to come.
- Leverage Workday as primary solution
- Lean and efficient
- Use leading practice
- Transparency
- Over communicate
- Listen
- Challenge the status quo
- Iterate and improve
- Customer-focused decision
- Quality of product
- Respect and trust
- Collaboration
- Recognition
