Shirley L Baugher

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Academic AffairsMarch 5, 2008
Divisional Meeting
Sometimes things are not lost and found.but
hiding in plain sight.
Shirley L Baugher Provost and Vice President for
Academic Affairs
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Welcome

• Valita Barnes
• Certified Public Accountant with more than ten
  years experience in accounting and finance. She
  holds a Masters degree from the University of
  Wisconsin Whitewater
• Barbara Waddell, Chief of Staff

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Planning to Plan

• A Year of planning to plan
• Collegiate Compact Planning Process
• Development of Unit Business Plans
• University Work Group and Metrics for Academic
  Affairs
• Change Team for the University

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Compact Planning

• Five year academic priorities
• Financial planning for the future
• Resource planning including capital planning
• Basis for foundational excellence which
  supports Signature Programs and Centers of
  Excellence

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Business Plans

• Management plans for service units that
  support the academic mission of the University
• Process to check alignment of office/unit
  goals to academic goals
• Budget planning
• Accountability

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Educational and General Revenue
Student fees 51.7 in 2002 compared to 60.9 in
2006 State appropriations 33.4 in 2002 as
compared to 24.4 in 2005
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Financial Planning

• Common question where does the money go?
• (One source that is significant, given our
  institutional size)
• Tuition discounts
• Graduate and undergraduate fee waivers (not
  employee benefit fee waivers)
• Graduate Student stipends

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Process of alignment occurring in each of
these areas
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Financial Planning

• Unfunded mandates
• External drivers
• State economic situation

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Planning to Plan

• Change Team for the University
• Short and long term organizational transformation

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Work Force Planning

• Alignment of role (work, tasks, etc) with unit
  and office goals with talents and skills of
  individual in the role (position)
• Kim Martin Ph.D. Student, Higher Education at
  BGSU
• Note Process in Provosts Office at this time
  with a manual for future use in development.

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Thank you
Planning to Plandiscovering what is in plain
sight.