NextGen
NextGen and Workday at Minnesota State
Minnesota State went live with Workday for Human Capital Management (HCM) and Finance on July 1, 2024! The HCM and Finance implementation of Workday is the first major step in Minnesota State’s journey to a modern technology landscape that will support students, faculty, and staff at our 33 colleges and universities across the state. This has been a system-wide effort, involving many employees across all institutions.
As part of the NextGen project, Workday will better help meet the needs of today’s students and campuses. This cloud-based technology solution will link all 54 campuses and provide a unified administrative technology system that improves the student experience and streamlines enterprise-wide business processes in student services, finance, and human resources.
Times and Technologies Have Changed
Minnesota State selected Workday in 2020 to be its modern technology solution because of Workday’s ability to provide a more consolidated and efficient system. Workday will replace the Integrated Statewide Records System (ISRS), the cornerstone data system for the colleges and universities of Minnesota State for nearly 30 years. ISRS was originally developed by in-house information technology professionals to meet the needs of Minnesota’s state colleges and universities after merging as a single system. As campus needs have grown and ISRS evolved to support necessary changes, the architecture supporting ISRS is rapidly becoming obsolete.
Benefits of Workday for Institutions
Workday will bring a multitude of benefits to Minnesota State, most notably enhanced service delivery. With Workday, Minnesota State will be able to:
- Standardize business processes across the entire system.
- Enable enhanced self-service capabilities for faculty and staff.
- Transform many manual and paper processes.
- Improve reporting, transparency, visibility, and audit history capabilities.
What’s next for Workday at Minnesota State
NextGen and Workday are integral to the ability of Minnesota State faculty and staff to increase the success of our students at every step of their higher education journey – from application to graduation and beyond. To that end, pre-planning for Workday Student is currently ongoing. Work will begin in Fall 2024 on the estimated 3-1/2 year-long implementation. The Workday Student implementation will:
- Deliver a seamless experience for students across the system, regardless of the Minnesota State institution attended.
- Apply the use of analytics to guide students through their education and track status towards completion – ensuring students are enrolled in the right courses based on their major and are successfully meeting their academic goals.
- Provide streamlined, simplified processes that are reliable, responsive and developed with the student in mind.
- Apply an equity lens to identify and potentially eliminate barriers that create disparate educational outcomes and experiences for underserved and underrepresented student populations.
Learn More About NextGen and Workday
Minnesota State students, faculty, and staff can access additional information about NextGen by going to MinnState.edu/FriendsOfNextGen
(Student login: YourStarID@Go.MinnState.edu; Faculty/Staff login: YourStarID@MinnState.edu)
Contact the NextGen Project Team
If you have questions for the NextGen Project Team, email NextGenERP@MinnState.edu.