Value
To improve campus electronic security systems, which will enhance safety on campus for students, staff, faculty, and visitors. This project aims to increase efficiency across operations, improve management of physical security and elevate police response and situational awareness.
Business function
Implement a unified security platform for all MSU campus buildings access control, intrusion monitoring, and video systems.
Purpose
Integrate into one security platform, surveillance, and access control systems, and amplify video surveillance with the addition of more 3,000 cameras across campus to provide a more secure environment.
Value
To ensure that MSU Human Resources (HR) customer needs are continued to be met, this project provides a seamless transition of MSU payroll functions to an updated SAP platform.
Business function
MSU needs to upgrade the HR SAP system due to current version becoming outdated and unsupported by SAP.
Purpose
SAP mainstream support ends in 2027 . This new system will be supported until 2040.
Value
Transfer student success aligns with Presidential 100-day plan, in addition to being specifically named in the strategic plan. With the goal to “Increase access to MSU for students transferring from 2- and 4-year institutions by creating clear and well-supported pathways for transfer students into MSU and by deepening MSU’s relationships with Michigan community colleges.
Business Function
This project aims to focus on barriers and gaps for transfer students by improving the transfer credit evaluation process, expanding credit for prior learning opportunities, creating a physical space for a Transfer Student Success Center, establishing academic mapping for top transfer programs, expanding Envision Green program to other community colleges, and establishing a Transfer Advocacy Council to reform policies and practices to create equitable pathways to bachelor’s degree completion for transfer students.
Purpose
MSU will enhance efforts already in place to support transfer students by improving credit evaluation, implementing innovative practices that empower student success and expanding Envision Green, a partnership with Lansing Community College that helps students navigate between the institutions and maximize their opportunities at both.
Value
Eliminate barriers to students accessing their information thereby leading to improved student satisfaction and a higher level of confidence that MSU is worth the value.
Business Function
The Spartan One-Stop aims to provide a seamless experience for students to meet their expectations for personalization and convenience.
Purpose
This project includes leveraging and implementing a case management system to create a personalized student experience and capture a single view of the student allowing staff to better support, assist, and respond faster.
Value
Enhancing and advancing the operational excellence of the Spartan One-Stop by optimizing the system while incorporating new innovative features to provide exceptional support to all Spartans.
Business Function
Improve the student journey by refining, enhancing, and optimizing the functionality of Spartan One-Stop.
Purpose
This project will implement a series of enhancements to improve how Spartans receive support. Key improvements include launching an AI chatbot and student portal for online assistance, introducing a kiosk and case creation system for walk-in support, upgrading the phone system and case routing, and enhancing integration with Campus Solutions.
Value
To better manage endowments, improve customer communication and service, and to enhance reporting on endowments and gift agreements.
Business function
Ensure spending on endowed funds can be fully maximized to allow more strategic use of the University’s budget. Increase size of financial aid awards for students through effective spending and administration of scholarship funds.
Purpose
Implement an endowment accounting solution with modernized reporting structure that centralize and automate endowed fund agreement.
Value
Firewalls protect campus data and systems from unauthorized access, The direct costs of a breach are potentially significant in dollars lost and reputational cost to MSU - as public institution - if a significant attack compromised personal data stored on MSU systems
Business function
MSU has an obligation to protect students, faculty and staff privileged information along with critical research information from exposure to unauthorized actors. MSU maintained Firewalls provide an essential service to screen and prevent cyber-attacks on MSU networks.
Purpose
This project is upgrading Security Firewalls across the MSU network. Migrating all 149 segments on the firewalls via coordinated migrations, coordinating timing with campus groups owning the specific segments to minimize business impacts.
Value
Respect the individual’s ability to self-identify within the MSU community.
Business function
Implement a system to collect student, faculty, and staff’s name and pronoun information and share it to MSU’s core technology systems to provide consistency.
Purpose
Implement a centralized collection of self-identity information (name and pronouns) that will work with core applications already in use. In addition, provides the ability for non-core applications to connect and retrieve this information to enable students, faculty, and staff the ability to interact with the MSU community appropriately.
Value
This project supports MSU’s goal of achieving $1 billion in annual research expenditures by maintaining compliance with federal requirements, ensuring MSU’s trajectory in securing federal research funding. It also supports MSU’s sustainability objectives by leveraging technology to reduce administrative redundancies, implement secure IT practices, and foster responsible global engagement, ensuring efficient use of institutional resources while minimizing risks.
Business Function
Maintain an organized record of international travel and enhance research security.
Purpose
This project will conduct a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a system that will be implemented to make sure MSU is compliant with the National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33) requirements that may be included in proposals and awards in 2025 regarding international travel and research security.
Value
To ensure payment card acceptance by all MSU departments is handled securely and in compliance with industry and contractual requirements. Customers who engage with MSU by using their payment (credit/debit) cards trust MSU to keep their data secure. Both the customers’ personal data and MSU’s brand must be securely protected for this trust to continue.
Business function
MSU must attest our compliance annually to continue the privilege of accepting payment cards. MSU receives over $250M annually in revenue via payment cards. Losing the convenience and efficiency of this payment channel would significantly and negatively impact business as usual at MSU, and hamper deployment of any new revenue-generating initiatives.
Purpose
To ensure MSU is compliant with all 252 requirements, document the process, and submit a compliant report to ensure MSU can continue accepting payment cards for goods and services.
Value
Michigan State University is committed to providing equitable access to University programs, services, and information while enhancing inclusion for the broadest possible audience.
Business function
Update our Accessibility Dashboard with better information on websites and training by purchasing a website accessibility scanner, improving our digital inventories, updating our database of known accessibility issues, and developing a basic accessibility training.
Purpose
This project helps MSU units better understand the state of their digital accessibility efforts, providing them with an important opportunity to contribute to MSU’s culture of equity and inclusion. It also helps the university ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations including the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Value
To ensure compliance with federal disability laws and regulations while safeguarding participant confidentiality, and to manage the growing volume of accommodation requests more efficiently, this project enables MSU to efficiently meet obligations.
Business function
Select and implement a vended software solution for submission, management, and reporting on persons with disabilities accommodation requests. This replaces a labor-intensive process and outdated request system that has reached its capacity.
Purpose
Implementation of a vended solution with centralized data system enables MSU to efficiently meet customer requests and regulatory obligations while maintaining confidentiality.
The annual license cost of the previously free software (Java JDK) is now measured by the student headcount and is estimated to expose MSU to upwards of $2.7mm / year in license fees for software. Controlling or eliminating this cost by replacing the JDK software with Open source alternatives will be a significant cost avoidance for the university.
The primary objective is to reduce or eliminate the exposure to MSU for commercial licenses for Java JDK through conversion to open-source alternatives
Advising all MAU's to migrate as quickly as practical and MSU IT can consult / support MAU migrations as needed.
Purpose
This project will reduce or eliminate the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) usage by MSU to control the Oracle License fees associated with JDK licenses.
Value
Digital marketing and communications are essential to connecting with our constituents. A centralized marketing platform, that is available to units, will streamline and better coordinate communications.
Business function
To unify and consolidate e-mail broadcasting and digital marketing platforms to one centralized platform for the University. This will enable us to coordinate and tailor communications for MSU constituents including prospects, students, parents, alumni, and donors.
Purpose
University Advancement and University Communications and Marketing share a desire to deepen alumni connection to and support for MSU. A marketing automation platform is a key digital engagement platform that can be used to improve and personalize engagement with audiences to deepen the connection alumni have with MSU and inspire and motivate them to support MSU. As MSU nears its next comprehensive campaign, the ability to connect more effectively with alumni and donors will be critical to its success.
The Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning strategic plan calls on academic units to grow programming related to online, lifelong, and continuing education. A key tool to implement this strategy is to implement an enterprise platform that is connected to MSU's D2L infrastructure, taking advantage of common processes and tools across MAU’s.
Provide a tool to host activities continuing educational content for professional development that can be utilized by all colleges at MSU.
Purpose
Implement a non-credit registration system and digital credentialing platform that can streamline operations for academic departments. A single unified instance to host this activity will reduce the overall cost to the University by reducing the maintenance costs in interfaces with existing SIS and accounting systems
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