She stated that Ms. Gilmer reported to the committee that student enrollment has increased over 9%. A discussion was held in regard to the composition of new students, including transfer students.

No action was taken in regard to the Student Affairs Committee Report.

Chief Information Officer Wendy Dixie and Oracle Project Manager N'Namdi Paskins gave the Information Technology report to the Board. Ms. Dixie stated that the Oracle implementation is progressing. She stated that the goal of the implementation team is to have the system ready to go live by January but she indicated that there was some risk in doing so. She stated that Addvantum's parallel team is still not performing as well as it should be. However, the KSU Executive team has a strategy to get the parallel team back on track and fully contributing.

The project is currently in the stage of System Integration Testing (“SIT”). Mr. Paskins explained the components of SIT. He stated that after the process, KSU users will begin User Acceptance Testing (“UAT”), where users will test the system with real data to make sure that the system is properly configured and usable.

A discussion ensued as to the security of the new system. Ms. Dixie stated that Oracle has very good security protocols in place and that it will be a very difficult system to hack.

Regent Farris stated that she has concerns about the training of KSU employees in regard to the Oracle system. President Thompson stated that KSU employees will receive training and will have to be certified before they can use the Oracle system. He also stated that training manuals are being developed to help new users adapt to the system.

No action was taken in regard to the Information Technology Report.

Christina Leath, Title III Director, gave a report on Title III. She presented to the Board a summary of expenditures and highlighted the major expenditures for the current period.

A discussion ensued as to software expenditures under Title III. Ms. Dixie stated that current funding only pays for updates of software licenses and maintenance. President Thompson stated that the administration is putting procedures in place to make sure that software purchases are not redundant.

Ms. Leath stated during the Spring 2017 Semester she will be writing a new Title III grant proposal and will be soliciting requests from various constituent groups. Regent Lysonge raised a question as to the high costs for travel reflected in the Title III spending report. Ms. Leath stated in order to better track results from such travel, in the future

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