Mission Continuity Planning protects UNC Charlotte’s core operations, research enterprise, and student support services during unexpected disruptions. Under University Policy 701, identified university departments must maintain a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) that defines critical functions, establishes leadership succession, and sets recovery priorities and timelines.
How We Build Resilience
Assess: The Mission Impact Analysis is a foundational step in continuity planning. Departments and units identify their critical functions and score the potential impacts of disruptions to each function across five categories: health and life safety, operational and critical research impact, legal and compliance, financial impact, and reputational impact. The results help determine which functions are most essential to the university’s mission and how quickly they must be restored, establishing Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Maximum Tolerable Downtimes (MTDs)
Plan: Departments document recovery strategies and dependencies in the NinerReady Planner.
Validate: Teams conduct annual exercises and renew plans every 12 months.
NinerReady Planner
Log in to the NinerReady Planner to view, edit, or submit your unit’s plan. All full-time staff have view access to their department’s plan as listed in Banner.
For planning support or questions, contact the Continuity & Resiliency Coordinator in the Office of Emergency Management at missioncontinuity@charlotte.edu.