Empowering Excellence: 2024 Kickoff
Jan. 29, 2024
Finance & Administration Staff,
The start of a new year always brings a sense of hope and optimism for the coming year. As we navigate through the spring semester, I continue to be incredibly grateful to work alongside each of you to support our university’s mission, and I am consistently struck by the genuine care and passion for student success and life-changing discovery that all of you possess.
This year, I look forward to seeing our wide range of responsibilities and services all work together to enable our strategic priorities. Let’s repeatedly exceed the expectations of our students, faculty and staff to ensure their impression of our division and our university once again is overwhelmingly positive. Let’s operate with excellence by embracing our customer service mindset, and by identifying creative and efficient ways to improve our service delivery experience to campus – retaining their trust in the process.
I encourage you to also take time to reflect on your successes from 2023. We accomplished a lot together. As we embark on 2024, we will have many opportunities to advance the impactful work we have done over the last several years:
- We can continue saving time and money to further invest into student success, research excellence and being an employer of choice by evaluating the return on our investments and if our spend is truly creating transformative service, or if we can provide the same quality of service while being more efficient with our tuition and state funding.
- We can continue being strategic partners with the campus community, staying ahead of the curve by implementing data-based decision-making into all of our solutions.
- We can strengthen the sense of belonging on our campus so that everyone feels welcomed and is empowered with the foundation of support they need to succeed – engaging the entire campus with a One University approach will help us further understand how we can best provide value to them.
- Finally, we can carefully manage risk to an extent that thoughtfully mitigates it to an acceptable level without creating additional problems from cumbersome processes that arise when we intend to eliminate all risk.
While we still have much to work on – bolstering our core financial and technological infrastructure, classification and compensation, enterprise data strategy processes, and Workday optimization just to name a few – I am confident in our ability to make an impact on our university and state because we have the right people in place to get it done.
Each of us plays a key role – by stewarding resources well, by building and maintaining the physical and digital space needed to support students, employees and researchers, and so much more. I hope to keep you informed about the meaningful outcomes we are facilitating through our division’s work as we engage in thoughtful conversations about how we can better serve our land-grant mission now and in the years to come. Thank you for all you do.
Ann Bordelon
Executive Vice Chancellor
Finance and Administration