The Division of Finance & Administration

Student Information & Campus Administrative Systems (SICAS) Center

Charles Young, Executive Director

Charlie Young has over 26 years in the IT field with 21 years in the higher education administrative systems environment. Since 1998 he has been the Executive Director of the SICAS Center. Previously he served as Project Director for the SUNY Colleges of Technology and prior to that was Manager of Systems and Programming at SUNY Cobleskill.  

Charlie is responsible for working with the Governance Board of this program in terms of funding, product selection, contract negotiation, and direction setting. He also helps develop solutions with the user community, technical support and advisement groups associated with the program.

He sits on the Executive Boards of the Information and Technology Exchange Center (ITEC), SUNY U-wide Technology Collaboration Group, and is also a member of SungardHE’s GES Quality Advisory Council.  He holds a BS in Political Science from Springfield College and an MS in Systems Science from the School of Advanced Technology at SUNY Binghamton.

The SICAS Program supports administrative computing needs for the forty-two (42) SUNY campuses that operate BANNER Student Administrative Software. The software services and support provided to member campuses through the SICAS Center (located on the Oneonta campus) include baseline BANNER software, enhancements to the BANNER baseline, training, helpdesk, and documentation. A Governance Board and Executive Committee of member campus administration and staff guide the philosophy, policy, direction, and accountability of the Center. The SICAS Program also has several open and associate members who purchase specific software interfaces developed by the SICAS Center.

The primary function of the SICAS Center is to develop and maintain applications and enhancements to BANNER and to serve as a liaison between the member campuses and SCT to supplement the maintenance support provided by SCT's Technical Currency Program. The SICAS Center is responsible for distributing this software and associated documentation to all of the members. When campuses have problems or questions, they direct them to the SICAS Center, where they are either resolved or referred to SCT. All members are kept informed of problems, questions and resolutions encountered by the other members.

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