March 19, 2007 (Vol. 5, No. 4)

What's in a Name? Maybe a New Laptop

CUNY is implementing a multi-year program called Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to improve administrative systems. The goal is to make the University's financial systems, human resources management systems, and student administration systems more rational, dependable, and simple.

Since the least-exciting aspect of the project is the sound of the word "ERP," a CUNY-wide contest is underway for a more suitable name. The author of that new name will win the grand prize of an Apple or Dell laptop computer. To submit your suggestion, visit http://brightideas.cuny.edu. The deadline for entries is April 15, 2007.

Here are some examples of how ERP will impact Lehman students, faculty, and staff:

• An accounting assistant clicks onto an icon to order items. Electronic authorization for the order is completed in seconds, and the system immediately produces a receipt of delivered goods and traceable inventory.


• A staff member applies for, and is selected, for a position at the CUNY Graduate Center. When she arrives at her new job, her employment profile arrives, already updated, and she receives her correct salary—on time and with all changes noted.


• A Hunter College student is thinking about taking a class at Lehman. Will he need to create a separate identity and email sign-in to do that? Absolutely not. With this new system, every student will have one identity across the entire CUNY system.

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