Innovate for Effectiveness and Sustainability

Goals

1. Explore opportunities for automation in operations

   1. Complete a high-quality process mapping and process engineering exercise for legal compliance function across the university by spring of 2025. 
   2. Improve university legal compliance processes through automation by fall of 2025.

2. Improve financial efficiencies throughout the institution

   1. Improved purchasing processes and systems will demonstrate annual savings of $50,000 by spring of 2026.

3. Implement best practice cybersecurity measures to safeguard the mission

   1. Execute the planned components of the NIST framework by fall of 2025.

4. Develop adjacent business models in service of the mission

   1. Complete a feasibility study for at least one education-adjacent business opportunity by the fall of 2024.