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The Brown and White Vol. 135 No. 19 Tuesday, November 13, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Students adjust to new course registration tools Courtesy of Kiran Aida Student class registration takes place online via the Lehigh Student Portal under the Banner section. Coursicle is one of many online planning tools that allows students to create multiple schedule combinations for the following semester. By JULIA MORAN B&W Staff Registration for winter and spring courses started Nov. 12. Some registration changes made it difficult for students to plan their schedules. Allen Taylor, the director of Technology and Campus Services, said Lehigh’s new registration sys-tem, through Banner, was created by a company named Ellucian. “(Ellucian) regularly issues updates related to the different modules that we have,” Taylor said. “Earlier this year, they released an update for the registration module. We made that available to students in the spring of 2018 for fall regis-tration.” Before this update, students used other planning tools not direct-ly affiliated with the university, such as the scheduling website EZ Semester. However, the switch to Banner led to issues with this site. Last month, Tori Campbell, ’20, was upset to find that EZ Semester might be shut down due to the developer’s inability to access data needed to update the site. She brought her concerns to the Lehigh Class of 2020 Facebook group page on Oct. 26. See TOOLS Page 3 Courtesy of Gabriela Hrubcova Kevin Cassidy, left, the director of the ILO Office for the United States, poses with a group during the Lehigh Global Village program in New York, during the summer of 2015. Cassidy was part of the decision to choose Lehigh as a site for the ILO’s centary celebration. By MUSA JAMSHED Managing Editor When the International Labor Organization turns 100 years old on April 11, 2019, it will celebrate by holding conferences worldwide. The U.N. agency strategically scoped the globe for locations and institutions best suited to participate in the festivities. Ultimately, the ILO selected Bethlehem as the single participating host to represent the United States, with the conference to be held at Lehigh on April 11. This conference will be one of many held around the world to honor the ILO centenary. Bill Hunter, the director of fellow-ship advising and U.N. Programs, said the conference, called ‘The Future of Work,’ will explore issues of change in the workforce, including globalization and the introduction of artificial intelligence. In its event concept note that pro-posed the plan to the ILO, the univer-sity outlined a semester-long series of thematic events to lead up to the April 11 conference. All events will be open to Lehigh faculty, staff and students. The keynote speakers, who Hunter said will be announced in early 2019, will likely consist of U.N. and NGO officials, and possibly heads of the ILO from Geneva. Lehigh prevailed in securing its role in the ILO’s historical mile-stone largely because of its close work with the U.N. as a recognized Nongovernmental organization, and its relationship with Kevin Cassidy, the director of the ILO Office for the United States. Cassidy has visited Lehigh sever-al times and has given briefings to Lehigh students on issues such as global labor. Cassidy said his fre-quent and positive interactions with Lehigh students made the university an attractive option for this confer-ence. “I found that the questions they were positing were very interesting and brought in a global perspective,” Cassidy said. “We need to work in a diverse, multicultural environment, and I felt that Lehigh brought that to the table.” Last year, a group of Lehigh stu-dents held a conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York City for the first time. Similarly, another group of students will hold a confer-ence one week after the April 11 con-ference to share findings and open an international discussion about future work. This initiative’s semester-long See UN Page 2 “Does anyone else use EZ Semester and find the Lehigh reg-istration process on Banner con-fusing?,” Campbell wrote in the group. “Maybe if we all email the registration office they will provide the necessary data to this student so that he can continue running a process that makes sense and is easy to use.” Campbell had used EZ Semester since the first semester of her first year and said it was simple and easy for students to use. “You would just type in the sub-ject and all of the classes would pop up, and you could plan your sched-ule online,” Campbell said. “Pretty much everybody used it.” Jonathan Wu, ’17, the developer of EZ Semester, said the issues Lehigh students had with his site were tied to the switch to Banner, but it was not intentional on Lehigh’s end. Prior to Lehigh’s contract with Ellucian, one of the university’s departments hosted the system internally. The way Ellucian hosted its data made it difficult for Wu to retrieve the information he needed to update the site. With the help of Cody Benkoski, From industrial to international Lehigh selected to host labor conference in the Steel City
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 135 no. 19 |
Date | 2018-11-13 |
Month | 11 |
Day | 13 |
Year | 2018 |
Volume | 135 |
Issue | 19 |
Type | Newspaper |
Source Repository | Lehigh University |
Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Lehigh, South Bethlehem |
LCCN | 7019854 |
Source Repository Code | LYU |
Digital Responsible Institution | Lehigh University |
Digital Responsible Institution Code | LYU |
Issue/Edition Pattern | Semiweekly |
Title Essay | Published twice a week during the college year by the students of Lehigh University |
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Date | 2018-11-13 |
FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 135 No. 19 Tuesday, November 13, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Students adjust to new course registration tools Courtesy of Kiran Aida Student class registration takes place online via the Lehigh Student Portal under the Banner section. Coursicle is one of many online planning tools that allows students to create multiple schedule combinations for the following semester. By JULIA MORAN B&W Staff Registration for winter and spring courses started Nov. 12. Some registration changes made it difficult for students to plan their schedules. Allen Taylor, the director of Technology and Campus Services, said Lehigh’s new registration sys-tem, through Banner, was created by a company named Ellucian. “(Ellucian) regularly issues updates related to the different modules that we have,” Taylor said. “Earlier this year, they released an update for the registration module. We made that available to students in the spring of 2018 for fall regis-tration.” Before this update, students used other planning tools not direct-ly affiliated with the university, such as the scheduling website EZ Semester. However, the switch to Banner led to issues with this site. Last month, Tori Campbell, ’20, was upset to find that EZ Semester might be shut down due to the developer’s inability to access data needed to update the site. She brought her concerns to the Lehigh Class of 2020 Facebook group page on Oct. 26. See TOOLS Page 3 Courtesy of Gabriela Hrubcova Kevin Cassidy, left, the director of the ILO Office for the United States, poses with a group during the Lehigh Global Village program in New York, during the summer of 2015. Cassidy was part of the decision to choose Lehigh as a site for the ILO’s centary celebration. By MUSA JAMSHED Managing Editor When the International Labor Organization turns 100 years old on April 11, 2019, it will celebrate by holding conferences worldwide. The U.N. agency strategically scoped the globe for locations and institutions best suited to participate in the festivities. Ultimately, the ILO selected Bethlehem as the single participating host to represent the United States, with the conference to be held at Lehigh on April 11. This conference will be one of many held around the world to honor the ILO centenary. Bill Hunter, the director of fellow-ship advising and U.N. Programs, said the conference, called ‘The Future of Work,’ will explore issues of change in the workforce, including globalization and the introduction of artificial intelligence. In its event concept note that pro-posed the plan to the ILO, the univer-sity outlined a semester-long series of thematic events to lead up to the April 11 conference. All events will be open to Lehigh faculty, staff and students. The keynote speakers, who Hunter said will be announced in early 2019, will likely consist of U.N. and NGO officials, and possibly heads of the ILO from Geneva. Lehigh prevailed in securing its role in the ILO’s historical mile-stone largely because of its close work with the U.N. as a recognized Nongovernmental organization, and its relationship with Kevin Cassidy, the director of the ILO Office for the United States. Cassidy has visited Lehigh sever-al times and has given briefings to Lehigh students on issues such as global labor. Cassidy said his fre-quent and positive interactions with Lehigh students made the university an attractive option for this confer-ence. “I found that the questions they were positing were very interesting and brought in a global perspective,” Cassidy said. “We need to work in a diverse, multicultural environment, and I felt that Lehigh brought that to the table.” Last year, a group of Lehigh stu-dents held a conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York City for the first time. Similarly, another group of students will hold a confer-ence one week after the April 11 con-ference to share findings and open an international discussion about future work. This initiative’s semester-long See UN Page 2 “Does anyone else use EZ Semester and find the Lehigh reg-istration process on Banner con-fusing?,” Campbell wrote in the group. “Maybe if we all email the registration office they will provide the necessary data to this student so that he can continue running a process that makes sense and is easy to use.” Campbell had used EZ Semester since the first semester of her first year and said it was simple and easy for students to use. “You would just type in the sub-ject and all of the classes would pop up, and you could plan your sched-ule online,” Campbell said. “Pretty much everybody used it.” Jonathan Wu, ’17, the developer of EZ Semester, said the issues Lehigh students had with his site were tied to the switch to Banner, but it was not intentional on Lehigh’s end. Prior to Lehigh’s contract with Ellucian, one of the university’s departments hosted the system internally. The way Ellucian hosted its data made it difficult for Wu to retrieve the information he needed to update the site. With the help of Cody Benkoski, From industrial to international Lehigh selected to host labor conference in the Steel City |
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