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- Workday Student Program UpdateSpring Elevate Town Hall – April 2, 2026 | 11:00 a.m.
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Join Elevate for an online Spring Town Hall on April 2, 2026 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. to receive the latest updates on the Workday Student implementation. During this Zoom webinar, Elevate Program leadership—including Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice and Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning Jack Blanchard—will share important…
- A Fresh Look for elevate.umd.edu and erp.umd.edu
You may notice a refreshed look and feel on both elevate.umd.edu and erp.umd.edu. We’ve updated these sites to a more advanced web platform that supports a cleaner, more modern experience and positions us well for future enhancements.
This upgrade also brings both websites more in line with UMD’s latest branding and current web trends intended to make browsing easier and more user-friendly. One of the most notable…
- Workday Student Program Update – January 2026
Happy New Year, colleagues! As we begin 2026, the Workday Student program is launching our Spring 2026 design activities where decisions continue to take shape and campus readiness ramps up.
We are excited to continue to work with our Subject Matter Experts across Central Units, Schools, Colleges, and Programs to help ensure that Workday Student will address the broad and varying needs of our campus constituents.…
- Thank you! Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
On behalf of the Elevate program, I want to extend my sincere gratitude to the UMD campus community for your time and effort thus far in our Workday Student implementation. Together, we’ve taken significant steps toward implementing Workday Student—a journey that began in earnest this past March and that will continue through 2028 when Workday becomes our official Student system of…
- Town Hall Recap
Elevate held an online town hall on October 29, 2025 and provided updates on Workday Student! We had over 300 attendees at this town hall. The full recording is now available for anyone who was unable to attend at the scheduled time.
Get Future Ready: See What’s Changing with Workday StudentExciting updates are on the way with Workday Student and we’re here to help you prepare. Visit our new Future Ready: Key Changes page to learn…
- Register for the Town Hall
Elevate is holding an online town hall at 11:00am on October 29 to provide updates on Workday Student!
Join Elevate Program leadership for a Town Hall with important updates on the implementation of Workday Student. During this Zoom Webinar session, Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice will provide an introduction to the Workday Student program. Jack Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning, will provide details on the…
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- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
As of today, we are 80 days out from Workday Go Live!
Important cutover dates are fast approaching, with key Last Day Activities beginning on September 13th. Throughout August, key business owners across the University and our institutional partners sent notifications to users of impacted systems to ensure that we are prepared for this critical period in our Workday implementation. As a reminder, all…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
The relative quiet of summer is a good time to make progress on your Workday training, especially if you have several recommended courses. You can receive your recommended and optional Workday courses via email anytime by visiting our website.
The Elevate Program has additional resources that can help supplement on-demand training courses, including:
Business Process WorkflowsBusiness process…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
Earlier this month Elevate announced our specific Go Live date: November 15, 2024. To reach this date, the Elevate Program team spent months diligently mapping out the detailed timing of when our legacy systems (e.g., Kuali Finance, PHR) will need to be shut down so that finance and HR data can be converted and transferred from these old systems into the new Workday system. As described below this will require…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
Earlier this month, the Elevate program team republished our updated, enhanced training courses and they are now available for you to take at your convenience. Some of the enhancements you will find in the new training courses and materials include:
More natural-sounding audio-narration for all 24 on-demand coursesImprovements to specific Workday simulations and course content based on course survey… - Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
If you’ve completed an on-demand Workday training course, you should have received an email from our Executive Sponsors earlier this month about course completions. The Elevate Program’s new timeline, with the Go Live of HCM and Finance occurring in November 2024, has created challenges in retaining the information learned for our staff who may have taken training nearly a year before Workday will Go Live.…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
The news is out: Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Finance will go live in November 2024, as announced this month by our executive sponsors. This announcement was preceded by months of work by the Elevate Program team to conduct payroll integration testing, as well as making many enhancements to Workday training and resources, to ensure that our community is ready for Go Live.
We know… - Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
With the start of 2024, we wanted to provide an update on the Elevate Program since we announced the implementation delay in September 2023. We understand that everyone is eager to learn about the revised timeline and, given progress made, we expect to be able to announce a new Go-Live date in the coming weeks. Below is a summary of our activities and accomplishments that build toward our Workday Go-Live in…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
Since the postponement of Workday Go Live, the Elevate Program’s leadership has been assessing how this will impact our other Workday initiatives, including Adaptive Planning and Student. On November 9, 2023, Eduardo Lorente, AVP for Budget & Planning, notified users that Workday’s budgeting tool, Adaptive Planning, will also be delayed to coordinate with the rescheduled Workday Go Live. As a…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
As was announced last month, the Go Live of Workday has been postponed. While the new Go Live date has not been determined, the Elevate Team is busy with a number of ongoing activities that will continue to drive us toward a successful Workday implementation in 2024:
Payroll integration testing, including completing the Central Payroll Bureau integrations. Making enhancements… - Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
Last week, Elevate’s Executive Sponsors notified employees at the University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and the University System of Maryland Office that the November Go Live for Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Finance has been postponed.
The Elevate Program team consistently…