Maine Community College System faculty and staff are expressing concerns about a new software system that they say has created problems with class registration, financial aid letters, and transcript access.

Katrina Ray-Saulis, field representative for MSEA-SEIU Local 1989, said one employee told her tasks that used to take minutes now take almost an hour.

"She goes through the old system to get half the information through the new system to get the rest of the information, compiles it all into a spreadsheet, basically something that would normally take her just a few minutes, ends up taking her 45 minutes, because she's got to pull it from so many different directions," Ray-Saulis said.

Ray-Saulis said the biggest concern is for students. She's heard some faculty now have empty classroo

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