There is much to be proud of in A&F. Our division serves the entire campus community of more than 30,000 people. The following examples represent just a sampling of the success stories of the past year. Congratulations for these accomplishments and keep them coming!

Offering Gender Inclusive Housing
The Georgia Tech Department of Housing has formalized the process for applying for Gender Inclusive Housing (GIH). As a part of the Path Forward – Together objectives, this new process recognizes the commitment to serving the holistic needs of our student population. Opting into GIH is available now, however, GIH will be a formal part of the housing application process for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Providing Campus Innovative Dining Options
On July 1, Aramark began as Georgia Tech’s new on-campus dining services provider. The partnership came after a collaborative RFP process including input from students, faculty and staff. The new contract includes hyper-local partnerships with area celebrity chef and restauranteurs; new technology to streamline service and wait times; creative menus and varied choices; renovations of current facilities; and sustainability initiatives. The transition process will be complete with full-time operations and new concepts at the start of the fall semester.

Breaking Ground on the Campus Center
Construction on the Campus Center Project kicked off on schedule this spring, and the team continues to keep the guiding principles of the project at the forefront of the decision making. Many decisions about the project were made by previous leadership, and throughout the year we thoughtfully and intentionally reviewed our guiding principles to ensure that our plan to move forward reflects these goals and will serve the greater campus community.

Transforming Tech's Financial System
On July 1, Georgia Tech launched Workday Financials to transform the Institute’s financial systems with leading cloud-based technology. This shift is intended to enable finance at Georgia Tech to streamline and standardize processes and scale with the growing needs of the Institute.

While there are still known issues to work through, as of the beginning of August, the system has had the following transactions:

• 126,457 sign-ons
• 6,886 mobile sign-ons
• 139 journals entered
• 4,880 spend authorizations completed
• 3,388 expense reports created
• 2,631 P-Card transactions verified
• More than 11,600 payments made, totaling more than $92 million

Financial users are encouraged to sign up for Open Lab Sessions to get one-on-one support when completing transactions.

Serving the Campus Community Safety Needs
Design and construction was completed for Georgia Tech Police Department’s new headquarters. The new, state-of-the-art 30,000 square-foot facility unifies the department from five separate buildings across campus, allowing divisions to better collaborate to keep the campus safe and engage with the surrounding neighborhoods.

Providing Leadership in Environmental Health & Safety
Georgia Tech's Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Department continues to provide regional and national leadership in areas such as makerspace safety, personal protection equipment and minors in labs.  Members of the department presented at the University System of Georgia EHS conference in Macon and at the National Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) conference, both in July.

Moving the Library Next Project Forward
Phase one of the Library Next project, the renovation of Crosland Tower, was completed, delivering an entire floor of graduate study space, new meeting rooms, and some of the best views of Midtown.

Award Winning Facilities and Services
The Society of College and University Planning (SCUP) gave Honorable Mentions to Harrison Square for Excellence in Landscape Architecture and West Village Dining Commons for Excellence in Architecture.

Facilities Management’s Building Services achieved certification with honors to the ISSA Cleaning Industry Management Standard Green Building Criteria.

Supporting Women in Technology
The Office for Information Technology hosted the USG’s 2019 Women in Technology Summit Friday, July 19, at the Historic Academy of Medicine. This was the largest event in the summit’s three-year history with approximately 210 attendees representing the University System of Georgia’s 26 institutions.

Supporting Faculty Research and Computing
The Office of Information Technology’s Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE) has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand a national computational grid for faculty research and computing at Georgia Tech. The grant enables expansion of the Open Science Grid at Georgia Tech, which provides shared resources for researchers to run massive numbers of small computations in a process commonly referred to as high throughput computing (HTC). The award is the culmination of a partnership between PACE and the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (CRA) and significantly impacts Georgia Tech’s continued contributions to the international, Nobel Prize-winning LIGO Scientific Collaboration.