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Operational Governance

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What is Operational Governance?

Operational governance supports the coordination, decision-making, and operational processes that help Colorado College function effectively across divisions and departments. Through operational groups, cross-functional collaboration, and shared processes, operational governance helps address institutional challenges, improve operational effectiveness, and support the college’s strategic priorities. 

What is the Operational Governance Structure at Colorado College? 

Cabinet: Provides institutional leadership direction and strategic priorities.  

College Operational Leadership Team (COLT): Coordinates operational alignment across divisions and helps identify emerging operational needs and institutional challenges. 

Standing Operational Groups (SOGs): Ongoing groups that support recurring operational areas requiring long-term coordination, planning, and institutional stewardship. 

Temporary Operational Groups (TOGs): Time-bound groups created to address a specific operational challenge, project, recommendation, or institutional need.

College Operational Leadership Team

College Operational Leadership Team 

The College Operational Leadership Team (COLT) serves as a communication and coordination body supporting operational alignment across divisions. 

COLT helps: 

  • identify operational challenges and opportunities,  
  • coordinate institutional activities,  
  • support cross-divisional communication,  
  • and improve operational awareness across campus. 

The COLT consists of representatives from each division and meets Mondays at 8am during the academic year.  
 
CC faculty and staff can access meeting summaries and membership information here.

Standing Operational Groups

Standing Operational Groups (SOGs) are groups that are permanent or semi-permanent and regularly convene to address organizational issues, problem-solve, communicate, and collaborate across institutional functions. These groups are central and core adhesives to ongoing work within the college.  

SOGs may consist of subgroups to focus on a particular aspect of the organization focus and are comprised of cross-divisional representatives with diverse perspectives and contributions gathered to produce outcomes that have an institutional impact on areas such as Policy, Events, and Student Success.

Active Standing Operational Groups

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Temporary Operational Groups

Temporary Operational Groups (TOGs) work on immediate opportunities with a forecasted timeline and completion date. These groups are instrumental in accomplishing ideation and implementation of cross-organizational issues and innovations to achieve impact across the college.

TOGs are made up of cross-divisional representatives with diverse perspectives, contributions, and institutional impact to plan development, improve and review resources, and mobilize large-scale initiatives.

Active Temporary Operational Groups
Past Temporary Operational Groups

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How to Engage with Operational Governance 

Operational Governance supports cross-divisional coordination, operational problem-solving, and institutional process improvement at Colorado College. 

If you are unsure where an operational issue belongs, we can help connect you with the appropriate process, operational group, or institutional resource. 

 
Submit a Request, Recommendation, or Question 

Operational Governance helps coordinate cross-divisional operational issues, process improvements, and institutional challenges that require collaboration across departments or functional areas.

Common Reasons to Reach Out 

Recommend a topic for an Operational Group or Temporary Operational Group (TOG)  

  • Raise a recurring operational challenge or process concern  
  • Submit a space-related request  
  • Ask questions about operational governance processes or groups  


Submit a Space Modernization Request 

Requests related to space modernization or reconfiguration can be submitted here.

What Happens Next: Requests are reviewed by the Space Governance Operational Group twice a year. 

 
Recommend an Operational Topic or TOG 

Have an operational issue, process challenge, or cross-functional concern that may benefit from coordinated review? Submit a recommendation for consideration by Operational Governance leadership. 

What Happens Next: Not every issue requires a Temporary Operational Group (TOG). Topics are reviewed to determine the appropriate pathway, which may include routing to an existing operational group, operational leadership, or a focused cross-functional team. 

 

Submit a New or Updated Policy for Review 

Information on the process for developing a new policy or revising an existing policy can be found here.

Recently Completed Work  

During the 2025–2026 academic year, CC brought together cross-campus teams to address both long-term strategic goals and immediate operational needs. Explore the summaries of our Standing and Temporary Operational Groups to see how faculty, staff, and administrators worked together to enhance student success, institutional processes, and campus life.  

Operational Group Annual Update

During the 2024–2025 academic year, CC brought together cross-campus teams to address both long-term strategic goals and immediate operational needs. Explore the summaries of our Standing and Temporary Operational Groups to see how faculty, staff, and administrators worked together to enhance student success, institutional processes, and campus life. 

CC Faculty and Staff find general resources like directions to set up notifications here. 

Questions or Feedback 

Questions, feedback, or general inquiries can be directed to: operationalgovernance@coloradocollege.edu

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