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One year ago this month, we officially kicked off Project Ensemble, a collaborative effort amongst our founding member colleges of Champlain, Middlebury and St. Michael's to support each institution's longer-term finance and technology strategies. In less than 40 days, we will go-live with the first of four implementations which will be done in the 30 days following that. There has been significant involvement from across all three colleges. Our Advancement teams will have state of the art technology in Blackbaud for their prospecting and development efforts, allowing them to focus on relationship building to drive institutional and student success. Our Finance teams will implement Oracle in the first phase of a larger enterprise-wide technology solution. Both Blackbaud and Oracle leverage cloud technology allowing for significant process improvement, enhanced reporting and analytics, and integrated solutions.
In February and ongoing, many of you will be invited to participate in training sessions at your respective colleges. We encourage you to participate as much as you can, so that you can fully appreciate and experience this new technology. Along with training workshops, additional resources will also be provided to you, including reference guides, videos, Fact/Q&A Sheets and additional resources.
Our Human Resources teams are also actively involved in design sessions for the Oracle HR/HCM solution which will go-live in September. Much more to come for this area in the spring.
A big thank you to everyone who has been involved in any way during the last year. Together, we have and will continue to make a difference in the success of our organizations.
Fondly,
Corinna Noelke
GMHEC Executive Director
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Project Ensemble - Go-Live Dates in 2019!
We are laser focused on getting ready for our go-live dates:
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 The month of January brings User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to our Oracle Finance Team. UAT is a part of the technology solution implementation where actual users have their hands and eyes on the pre-live system. This provides an opportunity for users to learn, see how the system will work after go-live and to ensure that it performs as we have designed it.
Nicole Corriveau, Middlebury has been involved during the last two weeks of Oracle Finance User Acceptance Testing. She shared that she has "really enjoyed the collaborative effort with all three colleges in making something better. Testing has allowed her to see how the pieces of the puzzle are coming together and how it will work in the day to day environment." |
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(Above) Oracle Finance Teams deep in User Acceptance Testing.
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Excitement is building for our Advancement Teams as they plan for go-live!
Colleen Fitzpatrick, Middlebury and Carol Grant, Middlebury share a moment together. Blackbaud will provide strategic opportunities for our member colleges to advance their institutions. Jami Black, Project Lead for Blackbaud, recently shared that User Acceptance Testing has gone well, training plans are in place and we are counting down to go-live. |
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Knock It Out with PunchOut!
 Rocky Balboa knocked out Clubber Lane in the biggest fight of 1982. Thirty-seven years later, GMHEC will be knocking out the streamlined process of purchasing with the PUNCHOUT! What’s PunchOut purchasing you ask? PunchOut is when you go through the Oracle system to place an order, and it channels you out to the supplier page to place your order. When you add items to the cart and go to checkout, you will not see a traditional checkout, but instead “PunchOut Your Order”. Why would you do this instead of going directly to the website you ask? Well here are some benefits:
No more p-card reconciliation
Automated approval process
Contract pricing at your fingertips
With the PunchOut we are… Rising up to the challenge of our mindful spend!
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Mind Body Challenge 2019
Join us for our upcoming Consortium-wide challenge!
 From Monday, February 4th through Thursday, February 28th we invite you and your family members to join us in a four week “Mind Body Challenge”. We will be partnering with Wellable to support our challenge participants to practice daily activities that reduce stress and anxiety, improve performance and productivity, and increase overall well-being. Participants will be provided with practical tools and strategies to help them gain more focus and presence in their everyday life. Each week participants will be entered into a raffle to win fabulous prizes. Registration details will be available soon on the GMHEC Well-Being Events webpage. We hope you’ll join us.
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New Year's Resolutions
 New Year’s resolutions….we’ve all set them, but how many of those resolutions have actually taken hold? We decide that this is going to be the year we get active, lose those last ten pounds, clean out the garage, start saving for retirement, etc. We get fired up thinking about what we will achieve but by Valentine’s Day, we’ve long forgotten about those resolutions. Why is it that something that sounds so good and may actually be in our best interest is so quick to fall by the wayside?
Well...it all has to do with habits.
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The Edge Fitness Membership
 If you’ve decided that 2019 is the year for you to get active, stay active or set a new fitness-related goal, then we have a resource for you!
GMHEC is pleased to offer eligible faculty and staff of all GMHEC member schools an annual membership to The Edge Fitness Center at an incredible discount. Membership is good at all five Edge locations including Essex, South Burlington, and Williston.
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Interested in learning more about GMHEC?
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The Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium is a part of our member institutions' long term strategies. Join us for a GMHEC Overview webinar as we share our story of how we began, successes, current projects and plans for the future.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. (EST)
Registration required.
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Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium
Mission
To create and foster collaborative opportunities by serving as an agent for economic and educational initiatives that bring value to all members. The power of each school working collaboratively on non-competitive matters will increase the quality of services and lower administrative costs.
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