Transformation Update Presented to Board of Trustees: Summary of Progress


At the Board of Trustees retreat September 20, the following summary of progress was presented to the Board.

Over 90% of senior leadership positions at VTSU have now been filled. These functional leaders are working to translate the designs that emerged from the transformation teams and sub-teams into organizational and staffing plans that will fit new processes and match investment and budget priorities.

The universal application for admission to VTSU in Fall 2023 was launched during the week of September 19, 2022.  It is available on the VTSU website.

Transformation core teams have been realigned to correlate to VTSU’s administrative structure and the Shared Services governance structure. Shared Service leaders in IT and HR are working with the new Shared Services Leadership Council to craft service level agreements and finalize organizational designs.

Key Academic Programs and Administrative Operations design and development decisions and timelines are being driven by the systems projects that will support them, such as Colleague ERP, Catalog, and Scheduling. More details on transformation systems projects can be found on this dashboard, which is regularly updated.

The Workforce Development team worked with sponsors to clarify its vision and goals for workforce within the VSC by 2028.  The team has also developed design principles to inform the design stage. These were presented to the Board at its September retreat. More information is provided below.

The graphic below shows where each of the four core teams are in relation to the project management process. The new Student Success team will be added in future updates.

a graphic with five arrows in a row, showing the different steps of transformation project management. The first arrow is Discovery, the second is design, the third is development, the fourth is launch, and the fifth is review. there a little dots above the arrows indicating where the transformation teams each are in the process. Workforce development is in between discovery and design. administrative operations is at the end of design. Academic programs is in the middle of development. and new student experience is at the end of development, getting close to launch.