Administration & Finance Strategic Plan

Summary

Effective staff development and retention is one of many factors to capitalizing the talent and skills of our workforce. The goals outlined for the next fiscal year will focus on leveraging existing resources to enhance and promote training and improve the search process for new talent.

2022 Goals

Goal Description	Target Date
Leverage SafeColleges to Enhance Staff Training	Completed
Promote Training for Supervisory Skills (such as Time & Attendance, Evaluative Process, Coaching/Counseling, Civility, etc.	Partially Completed
Evaluation and Renewal of Search Process	Completed

Summary

Improving morale and team building remains a critical focus area of our strategic plan. Our goals are to recognize our employees exemplary service, engage our workforce, and promote the good work occurring across the division. 

2022 Goals

Goal Description	Target Date
Build on SERVICE Award Program	Completed

Summary

Sustainability is always a focus in every campus construction project. Our progress is made on a project by project basis. The goals related to increasing our waste diversion is an enhancement of our campus-wide conservation initiatives. For those reasons, our completion dates are not confined to the timeline of this plan.

2022 Goals

Goal Description	Target Date
Promote environmental stewardship when designing and maintaining campus building and grounds	Completed
Increase SUNY Plattsburgh's waste diversion rate	Completed

Summary

Implement the Jaggaer eProcurement System for the SUNY Plattsburgh and SUNY Potsdam campus communities to foster cost savings, greater efficiencies, and improved compliance in State and Research Foundation purchasing through the use of a modern shopping interface facilitating procurement from New York State Preferred Sources and OGS
centralized contracts; paperless purchase requisition, purchase order, receiving, and voucher workflows; and sourcing and contracting management tools. This goal supports the divisional vision of becoming a leader in innovative business services and our service values of being strategic, versatile, and striving for excellence.

2022 Goals

Goal Description	Target Date
Implement Jaggaer	Partially Completed

 

Summary

This strategic goal will provide a more comprehensive single point of contact for our students and their families and ultimately improve access to higher education. The IGA program will employ financial aid to leverage strategies that help the college achieve recruitment, retention, and net revenue goals.

2022 Goals

Goal Description	Target Date
Improve access to higher education and assist with college recruitment goals by starting to award institutional gift aid (IGA) to domestic first-year students based upon a combination of merit-based factors (SSW) and financial need, rather than just merit alone	Completed
Improve access to higher education and increase single point of contact service by completing the merger of Student Accounts (SA) and Financial Aid Office (FAO) if the one-year trial period is successful	Completed

Summary

This strategic goal is aimed at increasing the capacity of faculty to write grants and manage those grants once obtained. Skill development opportunities include seeking funding, writing grants, and understanding relevant federal and state compliance requirements.

2022 Goals

Goal Description	Target Date
Expand Grant Making on Campus Activities	Completed

• Retention and staff development, facilitated by Sarah Reyell
• Morale and team building, facilitated by Anika Fullum
• Support and enhance academic reputation through faculty research, facilitated by Mike Simpson
• Sustainability, facilitated by Bill Circelli & Dana Kellerman
• E-procurement, facilitated by Sean Dermody
• Support student financial services, facilitated by Todd Moravec

In addition to checking back here often, you can expect regular announcements to be emailed to the division or submitted to the Campus Digest.

Learning more can be done in a variety of ways.

1. Contact a team facilitator; their names are listed above.
2. Read the 2022 Strategic Plan document
3. Visit our Mission, Vision, Values page to see our SERVICE in action.