November 1, 2011

(Honolulu) – The University of Hawaii (UH) is pleased to announce the implementation of the Proposal Development and Award modules of Kuali Coeus (KC) 3.1, on November 1, 2011.  UH is one of the founding members of the Kuali Foundation and has been a partner of the Kuali Financial System (KFS) since 2004. 

When Kuali Coeus (KC) 1.0 was released in July 2008, the research administration at UH took notice.  After a careful assessment, UH decided to implement KC as its system-to-system (S2S) electronic research administration system in order to fully benefit from the Kuali source environment and the integration with KFS that the Kuali solutions jointly offer.  A land grant, sea grant and space grant institution with annual total extramural awards of $490 million, UH shares similar experiences and concerns with research institutions across the nation with regard to electronic research administration.  As part of the Kuali community, UH will be able to address issues collectively and more efficiently.

MRC Greenwood, President of the University of Hawaii, says, "I am delighted that we have achieved our goal of implementing the Kuali Coeus (KC) system at UH.  As a research university, we are proud to be part of Kuali family and to have a state-of-the-art electronic research administration system in our arsenal.  Congratulation to Office of Research Services (ORS) and its KC implementation team for such an auspicious achievement."

 

“Putting Kuali Coeus (KC) into production at UH represents a huge step forward in modernizing our research administration practices and reducing paper-intensive processes that have challenged researchers and administrators throughout our islands,” noted David Lassner, Vice President for IT and CIO.  “It is also an important step for Kuali at UH.  We previously implemented Kuali Rice to empower workflow for our electronic Leave Administration system and we now have an active Kuali Financial System (KFS) implementation project underway, which will provide valuable synergies with KC for our burgeoning research enterprise."

Yaa-Yin Fong, Director Office of Research Services, exclaimed, "BRAVO to the KC implementation team for their tireless efforts to bring the system into reality, and mahalo to everyone who assisted us in implementing KC at UH.  This was a great team effort among the ORS' KC team, UH Information Technology Service, the KC community, and the Kuali Foundation!  The KC functional and technical teams were invaluable in providing guidance and assistance to address critical needs and make timely implementation possible."

Branded as “myGRANT” at UH, KC will serve the electronic research administration needs of all ten accredited campuses of the UH system.

Jennifer Foutty, Executive Director of the Kuali Foundation, says “We are so pleased that the University of Hawaii has successfully implemented Kuali Coeus 3.1.  Being a founding partner of Kuali, they are a very important member of our community and we congratulate them on their success!”

 

About the University of Hawaii

With a total enrollment of over 60,000 students, the University of Hawaii (UH) System includes 10 campuses and dozens of educational, training and research centers across the Hawaiian Islands.  As the sole public system of higher education in Hawai’i, UH offers opportunities as unique and diverse as their Island home.  UH is the State’s leading engine for economic growth and diversification, stimulating the local economy with jobs, research and skilled workers.

 

About Kuali

The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization that coordinates the efforts of colleges and universities to sustain and evolve administrative software that meets the needs of all sizes of higher education institutions, from small colleges to large research universities.  The Kuali Foundation began in 2004 as a cooperative effort among partners with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop an open-source, community-owned financial system.  Success with joint development of the Kuali Financial System has led to additional pooled investment projects, including Kuali Coeus for Research Administration, Kuali Student, Kuali Rice, Kuali Open Library Environment, Kuali People Management for the Enterprise, Kuali Mobility, and Kuali Ready, with coordination by the independent, not-for-profit Kuali Foundation Inc.  The software developed by Kuali projects is available, without fee, for anyone to use or modify under the Educational Community License.

 

Kuali Contact:  Jennifer Foutty, jfoutty@kuali.org, 812-345-3948