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(link is external).
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.