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FAQ’s: Spring Semester Questions Regarding Housing Returner Process, Housing Availability, and Off-Campus Housing

The Student Affairs Blog

Response: VCU takes the health and safety of our community seriously and encourages students, faculty and staff to report any concerns related to mold, broken items, or other safety concerns through the university’s non-emergency work order system, VCU Facilities Self Service (FSS).

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Peer Collaboration: Achieving Campus Innovation and Success

University Business

Every leader in higher ed, beyond facilities and finance, will be able to take the strategies discussed during this presentation and implement them into their own collaborative efforts. Collaboration within small groups of peer institutions can help individual campuses level up their day-to-day practices and achieve greater success.

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Facilities Maintenance and Operations in Higher Education: The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 5

The Change Leader, Inc.

Additionally, many institutions are (re)designing buildings to serve multiple purposes, i.e., renting out spaces for local businesses to use for presentations, etc. Facilities Management Some suggest using apprenticeship programs to fill gaps created by the retirement of older facilities staff members.

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AI and Assessment in Student Affairs

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

AI has been around since the 1950s and has been used in higher education often in the form of chatbots to tutor students, increase retention, answer questions about scheduling and institutional policies, support facilities management, and predictive analytics. Why the sudden fuss and what is the potential for student affairs?

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What Keeps Facilities Leaders Up at Night?

EAB

The survey explores topics such as talent retention, carbon neutrality efforts, deferred maintenance, space utilization, and computerized maintenance management systems. Maya and Michael offer insights and advice for facilities managers on ways to prioritize and make meaningful progress on all these challenges.

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7 missteps university leaders must avoid in their AI approach

EAB

With an impressive 16 billion users at present , their user base continues to expand rapidly, with a nearly 55% increase from February to March 2023 alone. It can enable personalization at scale, develop intelligent and accessible systems, and boost efficiency in administrative tasks for faculty, staff, and students.

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Are the Benefits of OPM Partnerships Worth the Risk?

EAB

CH: So the last couple of acronyms I'm gonna throw at you, I'm gonna get you to the present day. So I hope everyone out there took advantage of the opportunity to either present testimony or written comments, to make sure smaller campuses and the real value that some of these vendors are providing to you was heard by the regulatory bodies.