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UCF Rising

Modernizing Research Administration

Announcements

  • Completed: PeopleSoft Maintenance for November 1-7
  • UCF Financials is now available. During the recent downtime, Financials Support Services (FSS) and other partners in the UCF Rising program implemented a new module and upgraded the system tools.
  • The UCF Rising Project has been implemented within PeopleSoft Human Capital Management. You may resume submitting ePAFs. Clear your cache, https://hr.ucf.edu/clearing-browser-cache-pc/ , before logging into myUCF.

What Is UCF RIsing?

A program (collection)
of individual projects and initiatives aligned with the Collective Impact goal of increasing research awards to
$250 million
annually by 2020

Significant campus-wide changes 
to business processes and systems that support research, finance, and human resources are anticipated between now and April
2020

what changes are anticipated to affect Research Faculty, principal investigators, budget directors,
and HR liaisons?

  • New processes in the Human Resources system will enable encumbrance of salary and fringe benefit expense, thus improving "real-time" project expense reporting for principal investigators and research administrators.
  • Enabling system controls for project funding end dates which prevent charging payroll to a project beyond its grant/contact end date
  • Significant improvement in recording salary cost transfers
  • Improved transparency and accuracy on labor distribution costs and effort reporting, resulting in improved compliance with grantor requirements
  • Implementation of a comprehensive Electronic Research Administration (eRA) suite, with integrated applications for:
  • Institutional Research Board
  • Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
  • Grants and Agreements in the Huron Research Suite (eRA)
  • Implementation of and integration with PeopleSoft Financials Grants module
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Effort Certification

UCF Rising Timeline

UCF Rising News

Budget Controls to be Reinstated

January 28, 2020
Budget-checking controls that prevent overspending are scheduled to be reinstated on February 1, 2020. Please finalize adjustments to salary encumbrances and budgets to ensure that departments comply with spending limits. For more information please visit: https://financials.ucf.edu/announcements-and-initiatives/reinstatement-budget-controls-effective-february/
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Completed PeopleSoft Maintenance

November 7, 2019
Systems are online and available for use!  Thank you for your understanding while we performed this required maintenance.  If you have any questions please refer to the UCF Rising website: https://rising.it.ucf.edu/ 
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PeopleSoft Maintenance November 1-7

October 30, 2019
Some PeopleSoft production ERP systems will be unavailable due to major scheduled maintenance from Friday, November 1 at 12:00 p.m. to Thursday, November 7 at 8:00 a.m. This maintenance period will be used to apply updates to the ERP systems to meet security, regulatory, and compliance obligations. Outlined below are key myUCF functions and their status during the maintenance period and estimated down times. UNAVAILABLE DURING MAINTENANCE (Friday, November 1 at 12:00 p.m. to Thursday,
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HRS Grants and Agreements – Live

October 21, 2019
New Huron Grants and Agreements Software Live The Office of Research released its new HURON Grants and Agreements software system at UCF over the weekend. Researchers will need to use the new system to submit grant proposals moving forward. If you are having issues or need help with the new system today email wahoo@ucf.edu.   As a reminder, beginning tomorrow, a team of experts will have dedicated office hours to help faculty, staff and students
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Useful Links:

Program Wahoo:    https://wahoo.research.ucf.edu     

UCF Financials (Financial Support Services FSS):     https://financials.ucf.edu

UCF IT:    http://it.ucf.edu