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Attachment A
Annual Academic
and Research Unit Review Process
Revised January
8, 2008
Limited fiscal resources to meet our needs for increases in
health, salary, maintenance, and energy costs require a process to assure
efficiency of expenditures and quality of investments. Thus, we are testing a
new approach to the annual review of our academic and research units to provide
a consistent set of metrics to be used for constructive feedback and contextual
information for evaluation of budget requests. By having representatives from
around campus participate in the process, we hope that the process will be open
and understood by the entire campus community.
The Academic Affairs Budget Advisory Team, which has
faculty representation from each college, will examine reports on each unit,
and, as necessary, seek additional information for clarification. Reports will
consist of the following two sections.
Section 1: Produced by Institutional Studies and
Verified with the Unit
- Degree and credit production trends, total, per tenure
stream FTE, and per total instructional FTE. (Trend analysis should cover
the most recent five years.)
- Course sections (undergraduate and graduate) per
tenure stream FTE and per total instructional FTE
- Retention and graduation rates, including year to year
retention, 4, 5, and 6 year graduation rates, within department and within
campus.
- Interdisciplinary credit and degree production
reported in a way that shows the contribution of the unit as well as the
full enterprise.
- List of tenure stream faculty with budget support for
each broken out according to E&G, MEIF, and MAFES and the total percent of
each funding source listed.
- External research dollar production, total, average
per tenure stream FTE, and total per MEIF dollar amount.
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Return on investment:
- For Research Units – determine and list external research dollar production; publications; presentations; development of IP; number of spin-out companies. List total E&G and MEIF investment in the unit.
- For Academic Units – determine and list similar research and creative activity metrics.
Section 2: Produced by Unit
- Explanation of any issues suggested by Section 1
(e.g., declining enrollments)
- For each degree program, (a) the assessment plan for
student learning outcomes, (b) the results of assessments, (c) evidence of
review of assessment results by the unit, and (d) evidence of the use of
assessment results for program improvement
- Creative and scholarly productivity
- National and international recognition
- Service to the state and beyond
- Current initiatives that contribute to moving the
university into the top 50 publics and into the top 100 research
universities. Areas of focus are
- Research and creative activity that will increase
national and international recognition
- Academic and student services that will increase
program quality and student retention and graduation rates
- New academic programs that you are planning or
considering- Discuss how your unit contributes to cross
disciplinary and cross unit efforts. For example, for academic units, please
describe involvement in research centers and interdisciplinary programs. For
research units, please discuss connections with other research or service
units as well as connections with the academic units.
- Other unit accomplishments not adequately covered in
earlier sections.
- Please discuss potential initiatives you are
considering that are within your current fiscal means.
Please discuss your first priority initiative that you
would pursue if you had some very modest additional funds.
This annual review supplements the regular program reviews,
which, even at 7-year intervals, are too infrequent to evaluate institutional
effectiveness and stimulate improved focus and strategic growth
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