Fall Start Up 2014 Review

Peter Baskette

Managing Director, Support Services

Fall Start Up is…

Crucial for many reasons:• Represents an opportunity to create a positive first impression for new

students and for parents

• Helps set tone for academic year

• Requires substantial coordinated efforts for many groups across FAS and Harvard

• Represents annual cycle of significant activity, starting in the Spring or earlier and culminating with the start of classes

• Puts many HUIT services through their paces

A complex choreography of activities, teams, systems, processes, events – and the students, faculty, staff, and parents! – that launches

each new academic year

From HUIT’s perspective, Fall Start Up requires broad collaboration and coordination

Some of our partners

• College• GSAS• Registrar’s Office• Provost’s Office• DCE• MTS• Campus Services• FDO• OSL• FAS Physical

Resources

… and most of the rest of the university

Some key events and activities

• Student registration• StarRez and Move-

in Day• Placement Exams• First Day of classes• Study Card Day• Cross-registration• Classroom and lab

preparation• Faculty outreach• Network device

registration

Our constituents include

• 6,700 undergrads• 4,000 graduate

students• 2500 instructors• 76 course catalog

coordinators• 17 resident deans• Over 100

undergraduate and graduate program administrators

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HUIT’s approach to Fall Start Up has historically been focused on functional areas

• Teams working within their areas on core activities on well-understood activities such as: - Registration and enrollment activities - Classroom and lab preparation - Outreach to faculty

Streams of Activity

• HUIT preparatory activities include: - Weekly meetings leading up to arrival of students - Daily conference calls through first week of classes - Identification of systems and services critical to Fall Start Up - Change freeze and major incident process preparation - Implement improvements based on previous lessons learned

Specific Actions

Additionally this year, effort to Connect the Dots

A more holistic view that:

• Added role explicitly accountable for coordination of HUIT activity

• Synthesized Fall Start Up information into a packet

• Increased communication including SLT update emails and postings to HUIT intranet

Led to better cross-activity awareness, support, and execution.

Building on strong individual streams of activity, this year we added unifying coordination.

How did it go?

• freshmen registered for housing over 2 days1650

• calls answered5,137

• study cards scanned10,264

• students registered10,554

• total tickets17,134

• devices registered on the network27,671

• Positive feedback from many stakeholders• Minimized impact of issues that arose• Passed the Crimson Test: Stories were about expanding the weekend

brunch schedule, not technology

By the numbers…

Tickets distribution was predictable with the majority focused on set up of computers, email, and accounts

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2012-2014 Retrospective

• HUIT has built a feedback/action item loop for improving Fall Start Up each year.

• HUIT/FAS coordination and communication has improved with a stronger partnership in all aspects of engagement.

Fall Start Up

Feedback and Analysis

Action Plan

Implementation

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Some areas where we can improve

Communicati

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• Expanded Fall Start Up online presence• Post relevant documentation• Post event-driven updates

Partner

coordination

• Physical Resources – better coordination with housing events• DCE – tighter coordination in support of their students• Registrar’s Office – continue to strengthen partnership

Learning

spaces

• Increased coordinated support for technology is classrooms, labs, and other learning spaces

• Supports HUIT’s goal re learning spaces• Opportunity to collaborate more tightly across HUIT and with partners like MTS,

Physical Resources, Registrar’s Office, et. al

Thanks to all the teams!

Questions?