Academic

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• Academic Fiscal
• Effectiveness Efficiency
• Initiatives

Presentation to the Faculty Senate President
Nancy L. Zimpher January 11, 2007
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Step I Reviewing Decision-Making at UC

• Faculty Senate Ad hoc Governance Committee
• Ad hoc Working Group on Improving
  Decision-Making
• Outcomes
• Definition/Representativeness
• Streamlining
• New pathways
• Corroboration

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Step II Principles of Academic Fiscal
Effectiveness Efficiency

• Fiscal and academic planning must be integrated.
• Planning must be responsible and realistic.
• Personal and institutional accountability
  determines success.
• Planning must be university wide.
• Planning must flow into Decision-Making Framework

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Putting Us to the Test

• INITIATIVES TO INCREASE REVENUE
• INITIATIVES TO IMPROVE ACADEMIC QUALITY
• INITIATIVES TO USE OUR LIMITED HUMAN AND FISCAL
  RESOURCES MORE EFFECTIVELY

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Initiatives to Increase Revenue

• Establish a tuition remission policy more
  consistent with our peers.

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Initiatives to Increase Revenue

• Adopt a creative, aggressive and flexible
  tuition pricing policy designed to enroll
  students consistent with strategic enrollment
  policies and that reflects the universitys
  economic reality.

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Initiatives to Increase Revenue

• Adopt a policy for awarding scholarships
  consistent with the tuition pricing and
  enrollment policies and that reflects the
  universitys economic reality.

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Initiatives to Increase Revenue

• Adopt performance-based budgeting across the
  university.

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Initiatives to Increase Revenue

• Increase research awards.

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Initiatives to Improve Academic Quality

• Using UC21 academic priorities as a guide,
  review array of degree programs offered and
  outline a new (and possibly reduced) array to
  build an academically stronger university more
  in keeping with peer and aspirant institutions
  and consistent with our capacity.

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Initiatives to Improve Academic Quality

• Adopt a process and timetable to convert to
  semesters as the unit by which we divide the
  academic year to align it with more prevalent
  models in Ohio and U.S.

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Initiatives to Improve Academic Quality

• Propose a comprehensive post- tenure periodic
  review process for consideration during AAUP
  bargaining. Review and strengthen existing
  protocols for faculty annual performance review.

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Initiatives to Improve Academic Quality

• Review existing board-approved workload
  policies. Update existing policies and propose
  steps to enforce or adopt a more equitable,
  efficient and uniformly enforced workload policy
  on a college-by-college basis.

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Initiatives to Use Limited Human and Fiscal
Resources More Effectively

• Study the efficacy of spreading all class
  offerings more evenly over the course of an 8
  a.m. to
• 9 p.m. day, six days per week, to make more
  efficient use of classrooms and to accommodate
  needs of nontraditional students.

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Initiatives to Use Limited Human and Fiscal
Resources More Effectively

• Establish position control at the appropriate
  senior vice presidential or vice presidential
  level.

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Initiatives to Use Limited Human and Fiscal
Resources More Effectively

• Reduce the number of administrative personnel.

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Initiatives to Use Limited Human and Fiscal
Resources More Effectively

• Consolidate Information Technology Services
  across campus.

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Initiatives to Use Limited Human and Fiscal
Resources More Effectively

• Reduce the cost of employee benefits.

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Initiatives to Use Limited Human and Fiscal
Resources More Effectively

• Reduce overhead support/subsidies for
  Department of Athletics.

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Initiatives to Use Limited Human and Fiscal
Resources More Effectively

• Reduce overhead support/subsidies for
  auxiliaries.

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Initiatives to Use Limited Human and Fiscal
Resources More Effectively

• Reduce cost of utilities.

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Initiatives to Use Limited Human and Fiscal
Resources More Effectively

• Examine academic and governance relationship
  between branch campuses and Uptown campuses.

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Initiatives to Use Limited Human and Fiscal
Resources More Effectively

• Consider and adopt other cost- saving measures,
  e.g. outsourcing, Six Sigma, administrative
  actions, etc.

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