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Operational Excellence
To achieve our vision of becoming a leader as a next-generation land-grant university, a much stronger, less-siloed, more unified operational framework is needed. Learn more about the new organizational structures being put in place to drive operational excellence across the university.
Read Operational Excellence Communications
- IT Transformation Initiative update (November 20, 2024)
- IT hiring initiative is underway (August 19, 2024)
- Mohr-Schroeder appointed inaugural vice provost for academic affairs and innovation (August 14, 2024)
- Next-Gen K-State IT transformation update: Integrating our organizational structure (July 31, 2024)
- Flax appointed interim assistant vice president for academic and research IT (July 12, 2024)
- Tillman named assistant vice president, deputy chief information officer for enterprise systems (July 8, 2024)
- Next-Gen K-State IT Transformation Initiative (June 28, 2024)
- From Provost Mendez: New academic innovation structural framework update (June 17, 2024)
- Operational excellence update: Enhancing the culture of entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development at Kansas State University (April 25, 2024)
- New operational excellence framework for academic innovation and Office of the Provost (Dec. 14, 2023)
- Operational excellence in tech transfer, commercialization, corporate engagement and economic development (Oct. 18, 2023)
- Operational excellence update: Integrating engagement across all we do (Oct. 6, 2023)
- Next-Gen K-State strategic plan draft and operational excellence structural framework (July 19, 2023)
- Accelerating our focus on creating a data-informed university culture (May 23, 2023)
- Operational Excellence restructure update and launch of national searches (May 15, 2023)
- Building Operational Excellence for a Next-Generation Land-Grant University (Apr. 19, 2023)
View all communications related to the Nex-Gen K-State initiative.
Learn how we will be transforming how we manage, monitor and staff our IT services to serve as a strategic partner of all academic and administrative units with cybersecurity as a cornerstone to success.
Learn about the new academic innovation structural framework for the Provost Office to better support growing enrollment and accelerating academic innovation across the university.
View the latest communication about our process for elevating our tech transfer/commercialization function and corporate engagement/economic development functions.
Learn about the new strategic enrollment management structural framework being put in place to drive excellence and bring a more holistic focus on students and their academic career success and wellbeing.
Read about the new structural framework implemented in June 2023 focused on excellence in human resources, information technology, data, assessment, and institutional research, and risk management.
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Have a question, concern, idea, or suggestion you'd like to share? Please submit you questions and ideas to nextgen@k-state.edu.