Common Solutions is about academic departments, schools, and colleges findings ways of helping each other. Every member of the academic community has a role to play. Please consider contributing if you use a tool that you think others might find useful, or if you have a need for a tool that you think others would also benefit from. See the Common Solutions Suggestion Form.
At its core, the Common Solutions initiative is all about staff helping staff. It’s about:
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Moving to a more efficient and less costly way of getting things done
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Volunteering tools for others to use at no (or low) cost
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Leveraging staff expertise and creativity
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Building a bridge between enterprise solutions and local business needs
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Helping each other across unit boundaries
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Facilitating new conversations, new partnerships.
As more staff start using the same tools and developing similar sets of skills, we can imagine a much more robust community of subject matter experts willing to help each other across departmental boundaries.