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Activity
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Responsibility
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Timeframe
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Status
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| Goal 6: Streamline administrative functions. |
President |
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| Objective 6.1: Reorganize administrative
structure. |
President/Cabinet |
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| Action
Item 6.1a: Examine the administrative structure of the University
and make appropriate changes ...
The President and Trustees should establish a working group to develop
alternative administrative structures with associated costs and benefits.
Membership should include the President, members of the Board of Trustees,Provost,
Vice Presidents, Deans, Senate Executive Committee and students. The President
will formulate a proposal for Trustees action.
Review should address two levels of administrative structure. First,
at the senior level, the review should immediately investigate the effectiveness
of various "provostial" models for university administration and recommend
to the President and Trustees an appropriate model. The provostial model should
be structured to fit the vision of Beyond 2000: Change and
should serve the purposes outlined in Item 6.1a Second, review should refine
the other management structures with attention to major units, divisions,
and departments, paying particular attention to fostering interdisciplinary
activity, creativity, continuous improvement and preservation of academic
freedom. Changes should also seek to (1) continue and improve existing accountability
and teamwork systems (2) move decision making to lowest appropriate organizational
unit, and (3) support the educational, research, and outreach missions of
the University.
|
President/Board of Trustees |
. |
New organizational structure in place. |
| Action Item 6.1b: Regroup and streamline administrative
oversight and responsibilities for academic programs ...
Inventory the administrative personnel of the Provost's office and reporting
offices and restructure the Provost's Office to focus on undergraduate education,
graduate education, research, multicultural affairs, and outreach. The budget
process should include incentives for streamlining school, college and departmental
administrative structures.
|
Chancellor (Provost) |
9/1/96 |
Reconfiguration of Vice Provost positions to reflect
renewed focus on 1) undergraduate education 2) research and graduate education
3) multiculturalism; note also consolidated enrollment management and human
resources administration. |
| Action Item 6.1c: Implement a bottom-up budget
process beginning at the department or equivalent level.
Include this objective in the charge to the task force of Item 5.1d.
|
Chancellor (Provost)/Finance & Admin., Vice Provost
for Academic Affairs |
Ongoing |
Resource allocation model and budget process being
implemented. |
| Objective 6.2: Organize service functions
to focus on the needs of the user. |
President |
. |
. |
| Action Item 6.2a: Consider a consolidated service
unit to coordinate and perform facilities construction and major renovation
services. ...
Establish a CQI-based task force to address this item.
|
Chancellor (Provost) |
. |
Under consideration. |
| Action Item 6.2b: Establish a student service
center.
Include the service center concept and CQI principles as a joint charge
to the task forces of Items 1.1a and 3.4a.
|
Chancellor (Provost), VP for UE & I, VP for Student
Affairs, Task Force on CUE |
2/97 |
-coordination of student services part of CUE,
plus concentration in Wilbur Cross and/or other potential sites under review |
| Action Item 6.2c: Establish an Office of Enrollment
Management.
Charge the newly organized Office, as specified in Item 2.2a, to develop
its policies and procedures in accordance with CQI principles, focussing on
the needs of potential and current students.
|
Chancellor (Provost) |
11/15/95 |
Completed. See also Items 2.1 and 2.2. |
| Action Item 6.2d: Coordinate the various aspects
of research, including research funding, grants and contracts accounting, and
administration to facilitate information sharing and improve efficiency.
Establish a CQI-based task force to inventory and assess current services
and recommend a structure with policy and procedures to meet the needs of
clients. Membership should include providers and clients.
|
Chancellor (Provost), Vice Provost for Research and Graduate
Education |
Ongoing |
Ongoing |
| Action Item 6.2e: With union representatives,
explore the possibility of developing a uniform calendar linked to the academic
calendar.
Convene a working group of union and University representatives to explore
reopening collective bargaining agreements to align holidays with the academic
calendar.
|
Chancellor (Provost)/Labor Relations
[Working Group|
|
. |
Calendar has been adjusted to bring academic and
non-academic activities in line; will consider further changes as opportunities
arise. |
| Action Item 6.2f: Assign the Continuous Quality
Improvement Council the task of overseeing development of service performance
measures. ...
Charge the CQI Council to work with service providers to define performance
measures for tracking progress toward CQI-oriented goals.
|
Chancellor (Provost)
[CQI Council|
|
7/97 |
Service Assessment Task Force report complete.
CQI involvement ongoing. |
| Action
Item 6.2g : Define a process for measuring all service providers
...
Incorporate the assessment of service providers in the program review
process in conjunction with the work of the Continuous Quality Improvement
committee and the task force from item 5.2a.
|
Chancellor (Provost)
[CQI Council|
|
2/97 Process
7/97 Implement
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Process Approval Pending
Implementation responsibility to be assigned
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