Tech, USG Close to Finalizing CAR Plan

Leadership plans to hold a town hall on June 20 that will provide further updates.
May 28, 2019
— Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech is working with the University System of Georgia (USG) to finalize its work plan for the Comprehensive Administrative Review (CAR). Leadership plans to hold a town hall — Thursday, June 20, at noon in Clough Commons room 144 — that will provide further updates.

Sonia Alvarez-Robinson, executive director of Strategic Consulting, said that the overall goal remains the same: to improve administrative service delivery, redirecting the resulting cost savings toward student instruction and support.

“To that end, our administrative functions must operate efficiently and effectively with greater Institute-wide consistency and coordination. We are striving for an effective balance of central-unit leadership and local implementation and service delivery,” Alvarez-Robinson said.

The work plan is an outline of the Institute’s intended approach to address the four administrative functions — information technology, human resources, finance, and communications — identified as priorities during the internal assessment in late 2017.

The four phases that have been proposed to the USG are as follows:

  • Phase 1 – Create conditions for success (now through the end of 2019)
  • Phase 2 – Engage campus representatives to develop transition plans for the key functional areas (winter 2019 to summer 2020)
  • Phase 3 – Implement changes (through 2020)
  • Phase 4 – Monitor/Measure, Refine/Realign (late 2020 and ongoing)

The dates noted above were selected to align with current efforts already underway across the Institute, such as the implementation of Workday and OneUSG. The timing for each functional area will be staggered to allow learning and iteration to occur as the process unfolds. A more detailed work plan will be developed once the plan is finalized by the USG.

While the Institute is still in the approval stages of the CAR plan, many related improvement efforts are already underway. Greater Institute-wide coordination and consistency is being implemented in a number of areas. This CAR plan will augment the effort to achieve an even greater Institute benefit.

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