UMA Strategic Plan - Key Goal 2
| Key Goal 2: Maintain and improve institutional effectiveness through embedded assessment and planning in all areas of the University. | ||||
| 1. Establish within all departments, divisions and units of the University well-defined, operational and ongoing systems of assessment. | ||||
| Objective | Actions Required by: | Timeframe | Who's Accountable | Progress Reports |
| 2.1.1. The President will direct the three vice presidents to work within their units to determine who needs to be doing outcomes assessment and how that evaluation will be performed and documented. Further, they will identify and implement an ongoing system of assessment whereby results are applied to the building of best practices and inform unit planning and budgeting. | Provost's Staff, Faculty, V.P. for Finance, and V.P. for Administrative Services | Initiated: Fall 2006 Completed: Ongoing | President | Recent History or Context for Key Goal 2 |
| Strategies and Benchmarks for 2.1.1 | ||||
| Annual Reports FY '07 FY '08 FY '09 FY '10 FY '11 | ||||
| 2.1.2 The Provost will be responsible for overseeing a system whereby each successive tier of learning/academic outcomes assessment, library services, and student development informs the practices of the others. | Academic Deans, Faculty Senate, Assessment Committee,and Departments | Initiated: Fall 2006 Completed: Ongoing | Provost | |
| Strategies and Benchmarks for 2.1.2 | ||||
| Annual Reports FY '07 FY '08 FY '09 FY '10 FY '11 | ||||
| 2.1.3 The Vice President for Administration will be responsible for developing and overseeing a system whereby assessment of administrative services informs the practices of the entire unit. | Initiated: Fall 2007 Completed: Ongoing | V.P. for Administration Services | Strategies and Benchmarks for 2.1.3 | |
| Annual Reports FY '07 FY '08 FY '09 FY '10 FY '11 | ||||
| 2.1.4 The Vice President for Finance will be responsible for overseeing a system whereby assessment of financial practices, information technology, enrollment services, and auxiliary services informs the practices of the entire unit. | Initiated: Fall 2008 Completed: Ongoing | Strategies and Benchmarks for 2.1.4 | ||
| Annual Reports FY '07 FY '08 FY '09 FY '10 FY '11 | ||||
| 2. Use the assessment process to create an inclusive system of planning and budgeting that assures constituent participation. | ||||
| 2.2.1 The President will direct the three vice presidents to work within their units to ensure that the results of ongoing assessment feed into the planning and decision making processes within their units. | Provost's Staff, Faculty, V.P. for Finance, and V.P. for Administrative Services | Initiated: Fall 2006 Completed: Ongoing | President | |
| Strategies and Benchmarks for 2.2.1 | ||||
| Annual Reports FY '07 FY '08 FY '09 FY '10 FY '11 | ||||
| 2.2.2 The President will direct the three vice presidents to work within their units to identify and implement an ongoing system that feeds their priorities into campus-wide institutional planning and budgeting processes. | Provost's Staff, Faculty, V.P. for Finance, and V.P. for Administrative Services | Initiated: Fall 2006 Completed: Ongoing | President | |
| Strategies and Benchmarks for 2.2.2 | ||||
| Annual Reports FY '07 FY '08 FY '09 FY '10 FY '11 | ||||
| 3. Strengthen the University’s institutional effectiveness through well-defined, functioning and integrated systems of assessment and planning. | ||||
| 2.3.1 The President will establish a University Planning Calendar, which all units within the University will adhere to, that will delineate the annual budgeting cycle, five-year strategic planning cycles, and ten-year accreditation cycle. | President's and Provost's Staffs, and the President's Advisory Council | Initiated: Fall 2006 Completed: March 2007 | President | |
| Strategies and Benchmarks for 2.3.1 | ||||
| Annual Reports FY '07 FY '08 FY '09 FY '10 FY '11 | ||||
| 2.3.2 A system of standing committees, which correspond with the critical areas represented in NEASC's Standards will be created. They will archive relative documents to their work. Annually, each committee will review archived documentation and generate reports summarizing key accomplishments and concerns in their domains, and forward these reports to the appropriate dean, director, or vice president according to the schedule in the University Planning Calendar. Standing committees of the Faculty Senate will submit their reports to the President of the Senate. | President's Staff, Dean of Students, Dean of Libraries & Distance Learning, and Faculty Senate | Initiated: Fall 2006 Completed: Spring 2010 | President | |
| Strategies and Benchmarks for 2.3.2 | ||||
| Annual Reports FY '07 FY '08 FY '09 FY '10 FY '11 | ||||
| 2.3.3 These annual reports will be posted on the University's Intranet. They will serve to inform the annual reports of the deans, directors, and Faculty Senate President, which will also be posted on the Intranet. All annual reports will be synthesized into three reports, one by each vice president. The three annual reports by the vice presidents will be forwarded to the President and the President's Advisory Council. | President's and Provost's Staff | Initiated: May 2007 Completed: Ongoing | President and Provost | |
| Strategies and Benchmarks for 2.3.3 | ||||
| Annual Reports FY '07 FY '08 FY '09 FY '10 FY '11 | ||||
| 2.3.4 The President's Advisory Council will construct the University's Annual Agenda using annual reports and other documents identifying progress in meeting benchmarks established for goals and objectives in UMA's Strategic Plan. | President's Advisory Council | Initiated: Spring 2007 Completed: Ongoing | President | Strategies and Benchmarks for 2.3.4 |
| Annual Reports FY '07 FY '08 FY '09 FY '10 FY '11 | ||||