Colleague Merger and Consulting Work
Our engagement with Ferrilli, supporting our business process review (BPR) and foundational work in our Colleague system, is underway. We have teams working through their BPR sessions and we have a kick-off meeting this week with our 60+ colleagues that will be involved in this project this week. You can find more information, including membership on this project team here.
Academic Scheduling
An RFP has been issued for software to support Academic Scheduling for Vermont State University, with a deadline for proposals of April 8, 2022. See here. A course scheduling working group within the Academic Programs sub-team will serve as the core of the selection committee. In issuing the RFP we are looking for not only a tool that will facilitate the processes for submission of the course offerings to registrars for scheduling, but one that prioritizes demand-based course scheduling practices to ensure that students have access to the courses they need at their location, including online. Past scheduling practices have been largely based on rolling over past terms’ offerings and making minor adjustments. As we seek to assure student success and financial sustainability in the creation of the new institution, we must take a data driven approach to course scheduling and cannot rely on copying over past schedules at our institutions to project the course offering needs of the new university.