Below is a list of projects currently being managed by the Enterprise Project Management Office.
Value
To increase access to MSU for students transferring from 2- and 4-year institutions by creating clear and well-supported pathways for transfer students and deepening MSU’s relationships with Michigan community colleges.
Business Function
Improve the transfer credit evaluation process, expand credit for prior learning opportunities, create a physical space for a Transfer Student Success Center, establish academic mapping for top transfer programs, expand Envision Green program to other community colleges, and establish 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 community colleges that helps students navigate between the institutions.
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
Implement a series of enhancements to improve how Spartans receive support through the One-Stop. 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
Improving equitable access to required courses, reducing delays in degree completion, and enhancing the student experience. By optimizing scheduling practices and space utilization, the initiative strengthens institutional efficiency. It aligns with MSU’s strategic goals while applying SUES principles—equity, student-centeredness, data-informed decision-making, institutional thinking, transparency, and progressive improvement.
Business function
A university-wide coordination effort to standardize course scheduling policies, improve room utilization and seat occupancy rates, establish shared metrics for student success, and improve operational efficiency. It brings together academic units, central administration, and student representatives to create a unified, data-driven scheduling process.
Purpose
Identify structural inefficiencies and inequities in course availability and classroom scheduling. Current decentralized processes lack clear policies, shared metrics, and oversight, creating barriers to timely degree completion. This initiative will implement a coordinated, student-centered approach that optimizes scheduling, maximizes resource utilization, and promotes transparency and progressive improvement.
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
Create a unified, student-centered digital experience that reduces confusion and improves success from enrollment through graduation. By engaging students to map needs and pain points, the project will deliver clear, actionable recommendations for implementation consideration, aligning with institutional priorities while maximizing impact and transparency.
Business function
Discovery and analysis across the undergraduate journey: inventory current content, data, and systems; conduct surveys, interviews, focus groups, and journey mapping; synthesize personas, gaps, and prioritized requirements; develop roadmap, timeline, and cost estimates for implementation.
Purpose
Identify and prioritize improvements to the undergraduate digital ecosystem, for MSU to streamline access to resources, reduce friction, and focus investment on what matters most to students.
Value
The Centralized Accounts Receivable Solution modernizes MSU’s financial operations by unifying billing processes, increasing accuracy, reducing workload, and accelerating collections. It improves customer experience through secure online access and strengthens financial stewardship with better transparency and scalable, efficient tools.
Business function
The system provides an enterprise platform for creating, managing, and collecting invoices across units. It streamlines billing, automates payment and collection workflows, integrates with the general ledger, and offers customers a secure portal for viewing account information and making payments.
Purpose
MSU needs a centralized, modern AR system to replace manual processes and limited payment methods. A unified platform ensures transparency, oversight, and improved stewardship while meeting customer expectations and supporting the MSU 2030 Strategic Plan
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.
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
The MSU IT Strategic Plan initiative aligns institutional goals with technology services, fostering trust, engagement, and strategic execution. Through stakeholder input and industry benchmarking, it ensures IT investments advance MSU’s 2030 Strategic Plan pillars—student success, faculty excellence, innovation, and sustainability.
This project builds a comprehensive planning and governance framework for MSU IT, enabling the Office of the ACIO to assess, prioritize, and execute technology initiatives aligned with university objectives. It strengthens collaboration, informs funding models, and supports transparent, data-driven decision-making.
Purpose
To develop a stakeholder-informed IT strategy and roadmap aligned with MSU’s 2030 Strategic Plan—guiding investments and priorities for lasting institutional impact.
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