Next Steps

Innovation Teams are working on implementation plans for selected ideas. Each team is led by a Champion and includes GW faculty, staff and students with expertise, information and insight on the innovation idea. The responsibilities of the Champions include choosing a team, working out the project schedule, meeting with other Champions, ITF co-chairs and Executive Sponsors to share ideas and report on their progress, making a final presentation to the ITF stakeholders, and facilitating the hand-off of the plan to those responsible for its implementation.

The Steering Committee will provide overall direction to this phase of the Innovation Task Force process, including tracking progress, providing updates to the GW community, tracking best practices at other institutions and soliciting new ideas.

The Exploration Committee will complete a preliminary analysis of the next set of ideas to pursue, focusing first on those remaining from last year. The Committee will also identify and analyze other ideas submitted by the GW community, eventually proposing a minimum of ten ideas for review by the Steering Committee for the next round of the process.

Innovation Task Force Team Members

Steering Committee

  • Chairs: Dave Lawlor
  • Tracking: Don Boselovic
  • Initiative Updates: Dave Green
  • Communication: Sarah Baldassaro
  • New Idea Generation: Sara Melita
  • Scanning best practices from other organizations: Roger Whitaker
  • Student representative: Will Rone
  • Staff coordinator: Renee Fitzmorris

Engage in the Innovation

The Innovation Task Force is seeking creative ideas to improve and strengthen our academic and business operations to be even better.


Our Opportunity

GW is fortunate that, thanks to prudent planning and investment, we have not faced the financial hardships currently affecting other universities. This situation gives us a unique opportunity to continue enhancing the excellence in everything we do. In fact, precisely because we are a strong university in good financial condition, it is an opportune time to analyze our operations in a fresh manner to seek new means for pursuit of our mission.
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