Over the past year, we have learned, evolved, and executed identified goals together. We begin by extending our heartfelt thanks to the 102 faculty and staff who contributed their time and expertise to the 12 standing and temporary operational groups during the 2024–25 academic year.
This year marked the inaugural launch of our new operational governance structure designed to strengthen the processes, policies, and systems that support effective day-to-day management and decision-making at CC. At its core, operational governance ensures clear roles, responsibilities, and procedures that help us meet strategic goals, manage risk, and stay in compliance with institutional and regulatory standards.
Through this new structure, we focused on enhancing efficiency, accountability, and collaboration across campus operations. One of the key vehicles for this work was the College Operational Leadership Team (COLT), which met weekly on Monday mornings. These meetings allowed cross-functional leaders to share key updates, raise concerns, and anticipate operational impacts for the week ahead. To support collaboration and build shared understanding, each represented area also provided a brief overview of their team’s work.
COLT participants noted that the meetings helped them better support their own teams by surfacing opportunities for coordination, clarifying institutional messages and processes, and fostering regular communication across departments. Based on member feedback, we will retain the Monday 8 a.m. meeting time next year but will adjust the format to improve focus and impact.
In addition to COLT, the operational groups made significant contributions to cross-divisional work this year. You can read about the progress and accomplishments of the four standing operational groups here, which will begin setting their goals for the 2025–26 academic year later in July.
This year, we also launched eight temporary operational groups. Six have completed their work and two will continue into the next academic year. You can review summaries of their work here.
As always, you can follow the progress of all operational groups on the Work of the College website. Charges, meeting summaries, recommendations, and other related materials are available to all faculty and staff via Microsoft Teams using your single sign-on credentials. If you have an idea for a cross-institutional effort that would benefit from a temporary operational group, you are invited to propose one using this form.
Thank you again for your continued engagement and partnership in this important work.
