Read the second issue of GMHEC’s “The Connection” newsletter here.

The Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium (GMHEC)  is pleased to announce the hiring of Rebecca Schubert as the Coordinator of the GMHEC Employee Wellbeing Program.  In this newly created position, she will coordinate efforts to establish a culture of health and wellbeing under the GMHEC umbrella at each member school and across the Consortium.  This will include identifying promotional needs, recommending, implementing and evaluating wellbeing programs and initiatives, assessing the wellbeing program effectiveness and communicating.

During the last several years, the Human Resources and Benefit teams have made significant progress in cost containment efforts related to health insurance.   Due to our vendor relationship with CIGNA which focuses on health initiatives and the commitment each college has demonstrated to Wellbeing, this position has been fully funded by CIGNA.

We are fortunate to have hired Rebecca with deep experience in health management.  She is a Registered Dietitian and a Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach with a lifelong passion for wellbeing and a commitment to self-actualization.  She holds masters degrees in Nutrition Education and Executive Leadership and has over fifteen years experience working in the health and wellness arena.  She is passionate about supporting others to make their vision of health and wellbeing their reality and has spent the last eight years coaching clients in the primary care setting.  Prior to that she worked for the VT Department of Health where she gained valuable experience in managing population health programs. Her passion, personal commitment to wellbeing, education and work experience will support the work of the Consortium in its aim to support employee wellbeing and engagement and reduce medical spending.  When she’s not working, you will most likely find her spending time with her husband and dog, hiking, snowshoeing, lifting weights or training for an endurance event.

Feel free to reach out to Rebecca at rebecca.schubert@gmhec.org to welcome her or share any insights.

Redwood Shores, Calif. – December 20, 2017 – The Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium (GMHEC) has selected Oracle Cloud Applications to modernize critical finance and human resources business processes to increase customer service levels while reducing administrative costs. With Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud, Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud, GMHEC will be able to empower faculty, staff, and students to embrace modern best practices, drive institutional innovation and optimize the overall learning experience.

GMHEC is a collaborative endeavor of three Vermont colleges: Champlain College, Middlebury College and Saint Michael’s College. In order to continue to deliver the best possible student and staff experiences, GMHEC needed to replace its existing legacy on-premises business systems – which rely on manual processes and operate in a silo – with a unified business platform supporting modern best practices, real-time data insights, and transparent reporting across its campuses. After a careful evaluation of competing solutions, GMHEC selected Oracle ERP Cloud, Oracle EPM Cloud and Oracle HCM Cloud to modernize its finance, reporting, procurement, recruitment and on-boarding processes.

“GMHEC aims to create a collaborative environment where we are sharing best practices across all three colleges to directly address rising educational costs and continue to make higher education accessible and affordable to all students,” said Corinna Noelke, executive director, Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium. “Collectively, we selected Oracle as it has a proven history of success in the higher education market, as well as the resources to continue to drive innovation and to allow implementation of standardized best business practices within a single instance for all member colleges.”

With Oracle ERP Cloud, GMHEC will be able to leverage a complete, modern and secure solution to streamline and optimize financial processes. Oracle EPM Cloud will enable GMHEC to strategically analyze data for accurate forecasting. Oracle HCM Cloud will enable the HR teams of the GMHEC schools to spend less time on manual processes and more time on sourcing, developing and retaining top talent through self-service capabilities that empower employees to engage with each other.

“Higher-education institutions are constantly challenged to reduce their administrative costs and optimize business processes in order to meet rapidly changing student and faculty demands,” said Steve Miranda, executive vice president of applications development, Oracle. “With Oracle Cloud Applications, the GMHEC team will be able to improve operational efficiency and increase productivity in order to spend more time focused on the student and staff experience.”

Additional Information

To get the latest news and insights about Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle EPM Cloud, follow @OracleERPCloud on Twitter or Facebook, @OracleEPMCloud on Twitter or Facebook, or read the Modern Finance Leader blog.

More information about Oracle HCM Cloud can be found on the Modern HR in the Cloud blog, follow @OracleHCM on Twitter or Facebook.

About Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium

The Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium (GMHEC) is a collaborative endeavor of three Vermont colleges: Champlain College, Middlebury College and Saint Michael’s College. The colleges created the consortium in 2013 to create and foster economic efficiencies and improved business and administrative practices across their campuses.

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GMHEC, along with our consortium partners have been actively reviewing and interviewing implementation partners for our Oracle, ERP and HCM project. We have also been reviewing and interviewing external project manager teams to support our Oracle projects and our Blackbaud project our Advancement group.   We are grateful for the over forty leaders and functional area experts for their deep involvement in this important selection process.   The next several weeks will include reference checking and deep dive discussions with potential partners.

Blackbaud held its annual users conference, BBCCON 2017 in Baltimore last week.   We had 10 people from the GMHEC member schools attend.  Great opportunity for the team to engage together and  learn from others as we enter into deeper project planning for the January 2018 implementation start.

Member colleges of GMHEC including Champlain College, Middlebury College and St. Michael’s College have selected leading edge cloud technology solutions for the continued success in supporting our students.  Our chosen vendors, Blackbaud for advancement and Oracle for HCM, finance and potentially student demonstrated strength in technology solutions and understanding of our specific needs.  This selection process included a significant amount of time and input from stakeholders amongst all schools. The first Steering Committee meeting was held recently and the planning phase is well underway for these important implementations.

November 22, 2016

The Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium Administrative and Advancement Systems Steering Committee met November 22, 2016 to choose finalists for both systems. The decision was based on the  information received from demo participants via a survey, feedback from the functional leads of each college, updated roadmaps and pricing information from the vendors .  Thanks to the fact that the functional leads assessment from the three colleges and the survey results aligned nicely, it was easy to narrow down vendors to the following by unanimous vote:
Administrative Systems: Oracle and Workday
Advancement: Blackbaud and roundCorner / Salesforce

Our next steps include:
– Dec 2nd Consortium Board, Presidents  & Steering Committee Meeting – Key updates and next steps
–  Follow-up on key questions, clarifying items for vendors still in the running and best and final pricing
– Reference checking of vendors
– Functional leads meeting with steering committee to recommend one vendor
– Report out to each college’s January board meeting