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Welcome to TIER@Iowa!

TIER@Iowa is a commitment to providing the very highest value to our students, faculty, and staff by ensuring that University operations are effective and efficient.

The goal of TIER@Iowa is to make our university strong and sustainable for the long term. The primary focus is reinvesting in our core academic missions of education, research, and service to drive learning, discovery, and engagement. TIER@Iowa originated from a review of the academic and administrative functions across Iowa’s three public universities. TIER (Transparent Inclusive Efficiency Review) is broad in scope and includes Academics, Sourcing and Procurement, Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology and Student Services.

Why Now?

Higher education faces unprecedented demands: increased competition, diminished federal and state funding, tuition pressure, rapid technology shifts, and student and stakeholder expectations for affordable, quality education. Many of our peer institutions have implemented initiatives similar to TIER@Iowa to address these demands. The UI has benchmarked with several peers, including University of California-Berkeley, Cornell University, the University of Michigan, Kansas University and the University System of Maryland.

Get Involved

Your involvement is critical to both the success of TIER@Iowa and the future of our university. As University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students, you possess unique and valuable insights into how our organization operates and how we can maximize our effectiveness and efficiency. We need you to help us look at our operations in new ways, identify the best approaches to achieve goals, and — most importantly — to make sure we are investing in and advancing our core mission.

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Success Stories

Dan Mentzer, Senior Systems Administrator, College of Engineering

OneIT door-access automation project saves significant staff time

Managing door access at the College of Engineering used to be a complex and time-consuming endeavor involving both technical and administrative staff. Even without its new annex, the college had 177 doors with electronic access control. The Iowa One Cards of nearly 3,000 students, faculty, and staff had to be manually provisioned to swipe into the appropriate classrooms, labs, conference rooms, and offices.

The start and end of each semester were especially hectic. A large number of students needed basic building access, and access rights had to be removed for those who graduated....

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