After a turbulent fall launch hamstrung by data errors and scheduling and financial bugs, community college leaders in Washington State are vowing to press on with the multimillion-dollar transition to a new administrative software system.
The rollout of the community college system’s new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, known as ctcLink, began in August with pilots at colleges in Spokane, Spokane Falls and Tacoma, and the issues encountered there could add millions of dollars and months to the project’s bottom line. And as The Spokesman-Review, a newspaper based in Spokane, hasreported, politicians in the state are now watching the project closely, with at least one high-ranking legislator suggesting it needs more oversight.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/12/washington-state-community-college-leaders-work-get-erp-software-rollout-back-track