NEW TOOL: DIP RECORD KEEPING

An announcement was made in June regarding the end of Fiscal Year 2016. To reiterate, all DIP reporters have until June 20th, 2018 to submit initiatives for Fiscal Year 2017, with the ability to go back and make additional changes until the end of this fiscal year.

In an effort to make the process of submitting and tracking campus community initiatives much easier for our reporters, a new tool has been created and added to the DIP Homepage: DIP Record Keeping!

All initiatives entered into the DIP database fall one fiscal year behind, and many campus community members expressed concerns around tracking and recording current initiatives taking place within their departments. To aid the process, DIP administrators have created an Excel spreadsheet for reporters to enter in essential elements and data pieces for their current initiatives. The spreadsheet captures all of the required pieces asked of reporters when inputting their initiatives into the database. This is done in hopes that reporters may simply copy and paste their saved initiatives into the database when it is time to report initiatives for the upcoming fiscal year.

We are excited to see the all of the initiatives that will be entered into the DIP database for Fiscal Year 2017! We encourage all campus community members to begin submitting their initiatives. As an added incentive, raffle giveaway prizes will be given to those that input initiatives! Remember to input initiatives early and often!

You can find statistics on submitted initiatives for Fiscal Year 2017 at the bottom of the Database Homepage. Take a look at all of the wonderful activities and efforts taking place across campus! As development continues, a new rollout of DIP will allow campus community reporters to input current initiatives. Until then, please anticipate this future update. We cannot do it without you! Please continue to report information into DIP, as this effort is essential to creating the best database possible!