Functional Integration

Functional Integration Team (FIT) launched, members include Claudia Delgado, Siobhan Fleming and Anthony Francis.

Three working groups have been established to focus on key priorities:

• Strategic Research Initiatives: identify and align research programs across both campuses. This effort is designed to strengthen collaboration.
• Research Administration & Operations: assess, align, and integrate administrative and operational functions that support research activities across both campuses. This initiative aims to build cohesive and efficient service models, optimize the use of institutional resources, and ensure consistent delivery of high-quality support to faculty and research staff.
• Innovation & Strategic Partnerships: enhance and unify efforts that advance research commercialization, industry collaboration, and strategic alliances across both campuses. This initiative focuses on fostering a cohesive innovation ecosystem that accelerates technology translation, expands partnership opportunities, and amplifies the economic and societal impact of institutional research. Through this effort, we will align programs, leverage shared resources, and strengthen the infrastructure that supports a dynamic and collaborative innovation enterprise.

Functional Integration Team (FIT) has launched, members include Karl Miller-Lugo, Sonia Vasquez, Abigail Risley, Cheri Wiese, Rebecca Anderson, and Sabrina York.

Seven working groups completed discovery work that led to the formation of three new cross-functional groups focused on key priorities:

• Advancement Systems & Data Strategy: assess and recommend paths for aligning systems, data, and reporting to support seamless operations and inform long-term planning, while ensuring continued functionality across both institutions.
• Donor Experience: evaluate and propose interim approaches to provide consistent and high-quality donor experiences across both institutions, ensuring coordinated stewardship, reporting, and frontline engagement during the campaign wind-down and bridge to the future state.
• Stakeholder Communications Engagement: develop and coordinate a unified internal and external communications and engagement strategy to ensure consistency of message, brand, and constituent experience across both institutions.