Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Princess Nora Bint Abdul Rahman University (PNU) has implemented Banner by Ellucian, creating a digital environment that is helping connect the campus community and enable collaboration among students, faculty, and staff. Additional solutions from Ellucian are helping the university use data more effectively to achieve its vision and goals.
Her Excellency Dr. Huda Mohammad Al Ameel, Rector of Princess Nora Bint Abdul Rahman University, said, "Having created the world's largest women-only university at PNU, our ambition is to become a globally recognised first rate institution, and we are engaging leading technology solution providers such as Ellucian to help us achieve our goals."
Banner is providing PNU with a self-service online environment that facilitates interaction among PNU's constituents and helps provide higher levels of efficiency, service delivery, and education experiences. In September, PNU successfully completed online registration for over 40,000 students using Banner. Also, students can search and register for classes by term or date, as well as retrieve relevant data online. Faculty members can easily manage course information, rosters, and grading, as well as advise students from remote locations. Saudi Business Machines (SBM), a leading provider of cutting-edge integrated information technology solutions and software services, acted as the system integrator for the project.
In addition to Banner Student, PNU implemented Banner Financial Aid, Banner Operational Data Store, and Banner Enterprise Data Warehouse to help manage scholarship processes more efficiently, quickly, and equitably, and use data more effectively to help achieve its mission of preparing students with the intellectual and professional skills needed to respond with distinction to the needs of the region, nation, and the world. With enhanced analytical capabilities, PNU is meeting reporting requirements in Arabic and English.
PNU joins a growing community of institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that deploy technology solutions from Ellucian to help improve services to students, meet data requirements for accountability standards, and make administrative processes more efficient-an indication of the Kingdom's focus on education. More than half of all post-secondary students in the Kingdom rely on Banner by Ellucian for personalized and timely services that can help them be successful from the very beginning of their university experience.
"Princess Nora University has an essential mission in educating and empowering Saudi women to engage in the socio-economic advancement of the country, and Ellucian is delighted to be part of this important initiative. We are now supporting four women-only universities in the region and have localised our solutions to meet the needs of the higher and vocational education sector in Saudi Arabia; It is part of our commitment to helping the region transform education in order to achieve a knowledge-rich future," said Mathew Boice, Vice President, EMEA & India, Ellucian.
About Princess Nora Bint Abdul Rahman University
Princess Nora Bint Abdul Rahman University seeks to achieve excellence and leadership locally, regionally and globally in the field of university learning, scientific research, community service, environment development and building a society of knowledge within a framework of Islamic, cultural and social values for the community and in contribution to the achievement of sustainable development.
About Ellucian
Ellucian, the new company formed by the combination of Datatel and SunGard Higher Education, helps education institutions thrive in a dynamic world. It delivers a broad portfolio of technology solutions, developed in collaboration with a global education community, and provides strategic guidance to help education institutions of all kinds navigate change, achieve greater transparency, and drive efficiencies. More than 2,300 institutions in 40 countries around the world look to Ellucian for the ideas and insights that will move education forward, helping people everywhere discover their futures through learning. Visit ellucian.ae.
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