Welcome to NGSS: Next Generation Student Systems

The NGSS project team completed the work that began in 2011 on June 30, 2023. The team collaborated with partners on and off campus to deliver superior tools and processes so students—and those who teach, advise, and support them—can perform academic and financial tasks easily and effectively.

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Access Path@Penn, Advising@Penn, Courses@Penn, Pennant@Penn. Resources and support are available on the Pennant pages of the SRFS website.

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Overview: Building Pennant

The NGSS program deployed modern, flexible technology to advance Penn's missions of teaching, research, and service. The University's decentralized structure, along with the interdisciplinary strength that distinguishes Penn among its peers, demands core student information systems and work processes that facilitate collaboration across units, streamline administrative processes, and provide robust and friendly self-service capabilities.
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NGSS News

NGSS Project Transition to Operational Support: June 14, 2023: Read more

Partial Pennant System Outage on May 19-21, 2023: May 2, 2023: Read more


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Penn Engagement

The new Pennant suite of systems and the associated changes to academic advising, financial aid, registration, and teaching affects almost everyone at Penn. The NGSS program actively engaged the University community to ensure that students, faculty, staff, and postdoctoral trainees were prepared for the coming changes.
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