The Innovation + Research team within Information Technology is on mission to lead, coordinate, and facilitate the discovery and exploration of emerging technologies and innovative solutions that catalyze digital transformation (DX) at Grand Valley State University.

Collaborating with internal and external partners, the team will endeavor to actively explore, spark transformation, serve as a change agent, and create a robust portfolio of solutions, services, and resources that are purposefully designed to:

• Further academic and research initiatives
• Facilitate quality digital education
• Enhance the learner experience
• Encourage a culture of innovation
• Build the next generation of teaching and learning spaces
• Support the University’s mission and strategic priorities

Our goal is to develop and nurture strong working relationships across the GVSU community, including transformative partnerships with business leaders and technology experts across the University, state, and nation through a rich "Education Futures Collaboratory and Innovation Ecosystem" to serve as a hub for emerging technologies and innovation purposefully designed to help shape the future of education.

Our focus is to:

1. Generate enthusiasm for new, emerging, and innovative technologies.
2. Build confidence, incubate, and generate adoption of new ideas and models powered by technology by facilitating experimentation, increasing early adoption participation, promoting influencers, and celebrating successes.
3. Scale up deployment through awareness, collaboration, and generating communities of practice, laying the foundation for digital transformation.

Add your Voice to the Community of IT Innovation + Research

• Interested in sharing an innovative idea?
• Excited about lowering the barriers for exponential impact?
• Focused on accelerating change and creating a future-ready campus?
• Wanting to get plugged into the innovation pipeline?
• Desiring to explore an idea to add value and transform the university yet need a catalyst?
• Looking for opportunities to reduce friction, remove inefficiencies, solve challenges, and improve the education journey at GVSU?

Don't venture forward alone, join us! Reach out to our IT Innovation + Research team, and let's partner together in a journey to imagine, reach higher, and create the next-generation of education.