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 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 the size of financial aid awards for students through effective spending and administration of scholarship funds. Purpose Implement an endowment accounting solution with a modernized reporting structure that centralizes and automates endowed fund agreements. |
 | Value The Strategic Enrollment Plan (SEP) operationalizes MSU's 2030 Strategic Plan, specifically Enroll for the Future and Student Success, by aligning overall enrollment strategy, student support, and institutional resource investments with the university's mission, academic priorities, and long‑term sustainability. Business function Current and emerging conditions require an enterprise, forward‑looking approach that enables disciplined, data‑informed decision‑making. The SEP will align enrollment size and composition with academic and research priorities, support, access and student success at scale, and coordinate pricing and financial aid strategies that support both affordability and long-term financial sustainability. Purpose Develop a comprehensive, institution‑wide Strategic Enrollment Plan focused on the undergraduate segment under a unified framework that integrates recruitment, retention, financial aid, pricing, academic capacity planning, and student success initiatives. |
 | Value Expands equitable, enterprise-wide access to digital tools that enhance experiential learning and strengthen career readiness by building workforce-aligned skills. Improves efficiency by reducing duplication, enabling coordinated evaluation of tools, and aligning institutional resources. Business Function Improve career readiness, teaching and learning innovation, and workforce development through enterprise coordination of academic and technology resources across colleges. Purpose Scale a coordinated, university-wide model that advances Career Connected Spartans by providing consistent access to experiential learning tools, supporting innovation, and aligning education-to-career pathways with institutional strategy. |
 | 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 focusing on data-informed decision making, institutional thinking, transparency, and progressive improvement. Business Function A university-wide coordinated 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 input 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, 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. |
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 | 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. |
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 | Value This project will recommend ways to strengthen the university’s accountability and efficiency in addressing workplace misconduct. Business function The group will recommend ways to streamline reporting, training, and tracking systems, reduce redundancy, and minimize costs, fostering a safer, fairer, and more effective institutional environment. Purpose The group will provide recommendations to improve the university’s effectiveness and efficiency in reporting, addressing, and tracking workplace misconduct |
.png) | Value 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. Business function 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. |
 | Value 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. Business Function 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. |
| Value Drive university-wide policy improvements related to discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, including RVSM, that clarifies roles, responsibilities, and processes to enhance clarity, visibility, and efficiency. Business Function Consolidate the MSU RVSMTIX and Anti-Discrimination Policy (ADP) into a single Civil Rights Conduct and Responsibility (CRCR) policy to create a unified civil rights framework while also updating the MSU Mandatory Reporting for RVSM and Stalking policy. Purpose The purpose of this project is to create a single policy that clarifies responsibilities by consolidating existing policies into a unified, cohesive civil rights framework, and update related policy trainings resulting in strengthened clarity and understanding and improved process efficiency and organizational alignment. | |
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