The Office of Human Resources will field the Great Ideas that are submitted and track the questions and answers that follow.
When you submit a Great Idea:

• You will receive an email informing you that your idea has been received.
• The idea will be reviewed and forwarded to the appropriate person(s), who will respond directly to you.
• Periodically, the Great Ideas Web site will be refreshed with an aggregate listing of recent submissions.
  

Posted: September 2009

1. Seek more faculty and student-body diversity in programs and, in the College of Musical Arts, in music and marching band styles.
2. Bring the Stanley Cup to BGSU
3. Make name and email address optional when submitting a Great Idea
4. Blow our own horn, including about the BGSU connection to the Stanley Cup

Posted: August 2009

1. Eliminate artificial boundaries between colleges so course offerings may be more interdisciplinary and more efficient.
2. BGSU should focus on recruiting and providing educational opportunities and support services to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
3. Consider composting the University’s food waste, using worms.

Posted: May 20, 2009

1. Require students to schedule a visit to the Math/Stats Tutoring Center.
2. Check journal subscriptions at University Libraries before ordering departmental subscriptions.
3. Turn off computers and monitors during times when students are not on campus.

Posted: April 22, 2009

1. Fund a broader transfer scholarship program
2. Disseminate videos on time management, decision making
3. Give students opportunity to “work off” bursar balances through campus service.
4. Clarify future of Career Center and its role in arranging student co-ops and internships.

Posted: April 8, 2009

1. Personalize messages to prospective students
2. Web clearinghouse for operational changes
3. BGSU involvement in local charitable causes
4. Develop a presence on iTunes U

 Posted: March 25, 2009

1. Offer online master’s of education core classes
2. Consider a buyout for staff

 Posted: March 11, 2009

1. Broaden recruitment efforts to private colleges
2. Reconceptualize Orientation and Registration

 Posted: February 25, 2009

1. Across-the-board raise for faculty
2. Brine solution for ice control
3. Open a surplus store
4. Install garbage-to-energy units
5. Travel meals as employee responsibility
6. Base temperature settings on occupancy
7. Volunteer power monitors
8. Cost analysis of campus shuttle
9. Prevent dripping faucets
10. Update online trustees minutes

 Posted: February 11, 2009

1. Offer compressed summer graduate courses
2. Eliminate the requirement that underclassmen live on campus
3. Reduce publication of the BG News to two-three times per week
4. Develop a retention-focused program
5. Allow faculty to enter homes games free or at reduced costs

Posted: January, 28, 2009

1. Employee-paid parking
2. Close Christmas - New Year's
3. Empty own trash
4. Utilize construction majors
5. Lower heat in U. Hall
6. Reduce excess lighting
7. Lower hot-water temperature
8. Volunteers to maintain gardens
9. Retirement counseling by retirees

Posted : January 12, 2009

1. Mandatory retirement
2. “Use or lose’ vacation policy
3. Installing duplex printers campus wide
4. Conserving mailing cost for University publications
5. Retaining Springboard first-year program