Project Archives

For More Information David Gobby coordinator Office Of Quality Programs dbgobby@alcor.concordia.ca 848-4803

Registrar's Completing an Application File (Undergraduate)
Alumni Affairs, Human Resources Rationalization
Alumni Affairs, Reduced Cost of Magazine
Alumni Affairs, Programme Evaluation

Chemistry/Biochemistry, Financial and Enviroment Impact of Purchasing Practices

Enviroment Health and Safety CQI Projects

Enrolment Management Project

---

Name of Project:	Registrar's, Completing an Application File (Undergraduate)
Team Leader:	Nicole Freeman
Team Members:	Christine Chan * Joanne Oberg-Muller * William Raso * George Spanos * Tony Cuco * Kim Archer
Sponsor:	Lynne Prendergast
Facilitator (s):	Mark Norman * Anne-Marie Blinkhorn
Project Objectives:	Simplifying the process in order to reduce turnaround time between receipt of the application and the taking of a decision, without sacrificing academic standards and final document requirements related to the decision.
Stakeholders:	Students, Records Assistants, Counsellors, Service Assistants, Receptionist, Telephone Information Lines, RegistrarÕs Office, Faculties, University as a whole (increasing enrollment by decreasing decision time), CEGEP Advisors, Secondary School Counsellors, Personnel of Other University/College RegistrarÕs/Records/Admissions Offices.
Project Beginning and Ending date:	January 24, 1996 Ð July 1996
Solutions	Manpower breakdown: 13 part-timers current system Our system: 10 (6 A&Sc, 1 Comm/Admin, 1Engr/Comp Sci, 1 Fine Arts, 1 International) 3 people saved = 105 hrs/week X $7/hr = $735/week $735 X 1.37 (std. Multiplier of benefits/costs to hiring) = $1006.95 savings
Who to Contact for More Information:

Name of Project:	Alumni Affairs, Human Resource Rationalization
Team Leader:	Maria Ponte
Team Members:	Gabrielle Korn * Gabrielle Murphy
Sponsor:	Ann Vroom
Facilitator (s):	David Gobby * Mark Norman
Project Objectives:	To find a way for the Office of Alumni Affairs to continue to serve their "customers" (namely alumni and certain internal constituents) in light of continued budget cut-backs, increased demands for activities and decreased attendance.
Stakeholders:	Alumni Board Members, Executive Committee Members, Alumni Staff
Project Beginning and Ending date:	August 1995 Ð February 1996
Solutions	Reduction of number of Board meetings per year and changing time of meetings. Reduction of number of Committee meetings and changing time of meetings. Provide meeting skills training for volunteers and time management skills for staff. Keep staff attendence restricted to those that are essential at Alumni events. Alter advertising/promotion to save individual mailing costs.
Who to Contact for More Information:

Name of Project:	Alumni Affairs, Reduce Cost of Alumni Magazine
Team Leader:	Kathleen Huggeson
Team Members:	Gabrielle Korn * Leisha Lecouvie * Ann Vroom
Sponsor:	Ann Vroom
Facilitator (s):	Mark Norman
Project Objectives:	To determine ways in which the magazineÕs quality can be maintained or imporved despite an apparent decrease in available funds.
Stakeholders:	Alumni, Magazine Readership, Office of Alumni Affairs
Project Beginning and Ending date:	August 1995 Ð February 1996
Solutions	New sorting procedure to reduce postage charges by as much as $2 000 per issue. Possible readership survey. Fundraising ideas
Who to Contact for More Information:

Name of Project:	Alumni Affairs, Programme Evaluation
Team Leader:	Leisha Lecouvie
Team Members:	Gabrielle Korn * Janine Lavallee * Maria Ponte
Sponsor:	Ann Vroom
Facilitator (s):	David Gobby * Mark Norman
Project Objectives:	Developing and instituting criteria checklists and evaluations for programmes, services, benefits and events to measure their benefit to our consitutiencies while rationalizing human and financial resources.
Stakeholders:	Office of Alumni Affairs, Alumni Association
Project Beginning and Ending date:	August 1995 Ð November 1995
Solutions	Programme criteria checklists created Event criteria checklists created Staff and volunteer hours on a project logged Identification car review form created Evaluation form procedure put into place
Who to Contact for More Information:

 

Name of Project:	Environmental Health and Safety CQI Project
Team Leader:	Susan Magor
Team Members:	Normand Lanthier, Nabil Bissada, Lise Villemure, Donna Fasciano, Christine Sidhom, Sandra Ciampani (no longer with team) Anna Giannakouros
Sponsor:	Charles Emond
Facilitator (s):	Cameron Tilson, Patricia Painter
Project Objectives:	To train EH&S staff in quality methods; To train the team to work more effectively together; To improve our services to the community; Review processes to identify redundancies and improve efficiency in anticipation of the loss of one position.
Stakeholders:	Environmental Health and Safety Staff and Concordia University Community at large
Project Beginning and Ending date:	October 1997 - ongoing
Solutions	Ongoing project
Who to Contact for More Information:	Susan Magor, Director Environmental Health & Safety 848-4876

 

Name of Project:	Enrolment Management Project
Core Team	Mohsen Anvari, Claude Bedard, Charles Emond, David Gobby, Christopher Jackson, Garry Milton, Lynne Prendergast, Rick Bisaillon, June Riley, Frances Shaver
Preparatory Team:	Joanne Beaudoin, Jim Jans, Mark Norman, Peter Paquet, Lynne Prendergast, Peter Regimbald, Terry Too
Indentification Team:	Joanne Beaudoin, Leslie Becskei Liliana Berezowsky, Donald Chambers Jean-Pierre Duchesne, Deborah MacFadden, Bruce MacKenzie, Uzma Mustafa, Aaron Rothschild, Maureen Stacey, David Tabakow, Shane Voisard
Visioning Team:	Alexis Arthur, Joanne Beaudoin Leslie Becskei, Liliana Berezowsky Donald Chambers, Jean-Pierre Duchesne Assunta Fargnoli David Gobby, Shoshana Kalfon, Deborah MacFadden Maureen Stacey (no longer at University) David Tabakow, Lorraine Toscano
Sponsor:	Charles Emond, Jack Lightstone
Facilitator (s):	David Gobby, Rick Bisaillon, Cameron Tilson, Mark Norman Joan Soares
Project Objectives:	Original Mandate: Analyze, develop, implement, and evaluate plans and processes which make it easy for qualified candidates to get in, stay in, and graduate, by maximizing effectiveness and efficiency of liaison,recruitment, admissions, retention, and graduation of undergraduate, graduate, continuing education, and other special interest groups of students, in an environment of fiscal restraint.
Stakeholders:	Concordia University Community at large
Project Beginning and Ending date:	September 1996 - ongoing
Solutions	Ongoing project
Who to Contact for More Information:	David Gobby Coordinator Office of Quality Programs 848-4803