On September 30, we were notified that effective October 7
we will enter a “data freeze” until we Go Live with our new system in January.
The “freeze” primarily refers to information that makes up something in
PeopleSoft called the “course catalog.” This is not a reference to the LCC
catalog, but rather to a complex set of databases that will house information
about LCC courses, including course information and associated items like
student fees and pre-requisites.
We received unofficial word of the freeze earlier in the
week. In response, members of the LCC Executive Leadership Team signed a memorandum
to help the campus community better understand this phase of the project. A
copy of the memorandum is available here.
While campus groups will be able to continue to meet and
conduct business, the freeze will impact when certain types of changes
can be implemented. It may seem inconvenient, but we are at a critical stage of
this massive project—the first major system transition at LCC in over three
decades. Exceptions to the freeze have to be reviewed by our functional leads
and approved by the Executive Leadership Team before they can be made in the
pre-Go Live environment.
Other Wave 1 colleges—including Clark and
Peninsula—also implemented similar data change moratoriums this week.
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