Boosting Student Registration Rates at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
Using the Lean 6 Sigma continuous improvement approach to boost new UQAC student registration rates. Defining the issue: Due to delays in issuing official admission decisions (acceptance/rejection letters) and in taking follow-up action aimed at converting acceptances into registrations, UQAC was losing students to other universities. Not all accepted applicants go on to register. This … Continue reading "Boosting Student Registration Rates at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)"
February 1, 2017
SFU vault: A Cloud Storage and File Sharing Solution for Faculty, Staff, and Students
Simon Fraser University required a FIPPA compliant, enterprise file synchronization and sharing solution hosted in our SFU data centre, on our servers, using our storage. SFU vault was the solution. Initially launched in December 2015, SFU vault provides easy file sharing between teams or individual users to assist in the various projects undertaken by University … Continue reading "SFU vault: A Cloud Storage and File Sharing Solution for Faculty, Staff, and Students"
January 26, 2017
Moving Finance into the Cloud
On October 27th, 2015, Brock University broke new ground in the Canadian University landscape by signing a contract with Workday to implement their financial package. This project involved the replacement of a 30 year old homegrown system that was both unsupported and missing key functionality required in a modern University environment. The move to Workday … Continue reading "Moving Finance into the Cloud"
January 25, 2017
YU START: York’s Online Transition Program
Responding to the identified need for a more comprehensive, efficient and effective way to enrol, transition and orient incoming students, York University created YU START. Piloted in 2012 and launched in its current form in 2015, YU START is an online transition tool that offers new undergraduate students an Online Enrolment Tutorial, an interactive University … Continue reading "YU START: York’s Online Transition Program"
January 25, 2017
Cloud Enabled Collaboration & Productivity
All eleven Nova Scotia institutions of higher education now use a common communication and collaboration platform. Offered to higher education at no- to very low cost, Office365 is the new technology standard and portends future sharing opportunities in information technology (IT). Through the Higher-Ed IT Shared Services program, there was a single procurement and contract … Continue reading "Cloud Enabled Collaboration & Productivity"
January 25, 2017
Managing campus expansion in an era of climate change
Through ten years of comprehensive climate action, the University of Winnipeg has made quantitative reductions in its greenhouse gas emissions while showing strong leadership and innovation in GHG emission tracking, policy development, management, and reporting. Between 1990 and 2015, absolute campus wide emissions decreased by approximately 32% despite the fact that 38% of currently owned … Continue reading "Managing campus expansion in an era of climate change"
January 25, 2017
Optimizing Value for Money: Making Connections & Stretching Public Dollars
A strategic review of sales and University-wide savings optimization looked at the University Campus Store and Media Production Services (MOS) to determine whether each unit was capturing all of the sales it could based on department annual spending compared to their product offerings. After an extensive review of spend activity across the University it became … Continue reading "Optimizing Value for Money: Making Connections & Stretching Public Dollars"
January 25, 2017
Queen’s New (Activity-Based) Budget Model
Queen’s New Budget Model has had a profoundly positive effect on the university. Planning for the new model began in March 2012. Over the following four months, the development of the actual model benefited from a very considerable amount of consultation, and a great deal of hard work by many people. The first fiscal year for which … Continue reading "Queen’s New (Activity-Based) Budget Model"
January 24, 2017
Strategic Planning for Sustainability
The University of Alberta’s released their second institutional sustainability plan in August 2016. The 18-month strategic planning and consultation process invited the whole campus community to contribute through a collection of online and in-person conversations, group and individual interviews, open houses, and review of draft documents. Using a proven model for effective strategic planning, the … Continue reading "Strategic Planning for Sustainability"
January 24, 2017
Improving Understandability and Impact: Applying a Well-being Lens to Policies and Procedures
Overview As part of the internationally recognized Healthy Campus Community Initiative at Simon Fraser University, Policy and Processes is one of six identified action areas. Through a partnership between SFU’s Health Promotion team and Associate Registrar, the Well-being through SFU Policy project has engaged diverse campus stakeholders in recognizing and adapting policies, procedures and process … Continue reading "Improving Understandability and Impact: Applying a Well-being Lens to Policies and Procedures"
January 23, 2017
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