News & Updates sent September 23, 2021

Dear College Community,

The countdown to go-live is official now: 18 days and counting!
The Skagit Valley College ctcLink Project Team has voted to “GO-Live” on ctcLink for Skagit Valley College on Sept. 21.

Going live with ctcLink is exciting for our college community, especially our students. The work we have accomplished to get here is remarkable.

Oct. 11 doesn’t mark the end of our ctcLink project, but it does signal a critically important milestone of beginning to use ctcLink PeopleSoft for college business.

Our project will continue as we activate employees and students on the system, help them learn how to navigate the system’s functionality, and assess how our internal business processes need to be refined to efficiently work in the new ctcLink environment. Employees will be able to activate their ctcLink accounts and work in the new system on Oct. 13 and students will start activating their accounts on Oct. 25.

Many of our college services will be closed and not processing transactions in the first few weeks following the Oct. 11 go-live date. Colleagues in these departments need to focus on preparing the systems, training, and, ensuring ctcLink is stable to process our services. Please visit the ctcLink website for the closure dates.

Using the ctcLink system will be a big change for our college and work processes. The project has been — and will continue to be — a challenge as we work through this change, knowing that not all will be perfect with the system. We still have a lot to learn, but I’m confident in our continued ability to work together and deal with any glitches.

Please be patient and extraordinarily kind with those who are working on the ctcLink project, especially those in the business office, human resources, student services, continuing education, instruction, and information technology services. They are working countless hours to make ctcLink happen.

This is an exciting time! I really appreciate Benjamin St. Germain’s leadership, Vanessa Allen’s organization and creativity, as well as all the members of the SVC ctcLink project team. Thank you to so many who have worked tirelessly to advocate for students and employees to have access to better technology solutions. Thank you for your work and support.