Resources for Our Vision

Committee Mandate Chancellor Gilliland has established a campus-wide committee to make recommendations to her to: Generate resources necessary to fuel our vision Ensure the success of our goals Focus our resources on priorities The committee will be chaired by Frank Horton, Special Assistant to the Provost and will be comprised of eight faculty, three deans, and one department chair. The specific mandate of the committee will be to: Evaluate and categorize all academic programs by unit (for example, the Committee develop three categories: essential; improving and non-essential). The groups must be based on the six "Deans Criteria" and the relationship of each program to our 5 goals. All programs should be categorized no later than February 28, 2004; Complete viability audits consistent with System Directives (December 16, 2002) for the following programs: ULAPSE (School of Education), Physics, Political Science and Sociology. Audits are to be completed, including recommendations from the Committee no later than June 1, 2004. Complete a degree program inventory of all degree programs, by academic unit by June 1, 2004. The goal is to identify those degree programs with insufficient students, insufficient demand, or insufficient quality, and recommend which degrees should be eliminated. Products The Committee on RESOURCES FOR OUR VISION should submit a report to the Provost and Chancellor by June 1, 2004 addressing the three mandates above. While the report format is open to recommendations from the Committee, it must include: A rank ordering of academic departments and/or divisions by academic unit, with recommendations on the programs that are least central to our vision, values, and goals (mandate #1); Recommendations for each department or division under Viability Audit. Recommendations must include either: (A) a clear plan so that the unit will become clearly viable and the expected date by which that will happen; or (B) a plan for program merger, discontinuance, or elimination. A list of degree programs to be eliminated; and Recommendations for incentives that will improve the productivity and efficiency of our academic programs, emphasizing inter-disciplinary programs, alliances with other institutions, and departmental mergers and consolidations. Committee Membership Frank Horton, Chair Dean Bill Osborne, SCE Dean Randy Pembrook, Conservatory Dean Betty Drees, Medicine Jim Durig, Faculty Senate Jim Mobberly, Conservatory Richard Dermann, Medicine Bruce Jones, Education David Eick, Dentistry Max Skidmore, Arts and Sciences Ralph Kauffman, Medicine/CMH Keith Haddock, Arts and Sciences Misti Shaw, SGA Representative Steve LaNasa, ex-officio, Provost's Office Debbie Jarvis-Ferguson, Staff Final Report In May of 2004, the Resourse Committee submitted its Final Report to the Provost. Meeting Schedule and Past Minutes Meeting minutes may be obtained by selecting the meeting date below. September 9th September 17th October 7th October 23rd November 6th November 14th December 3rd December 16th February 5th February 24th March 16th March 30th April 13th April 27th May 4th May 6th May 25th June 8th Dean's Criteria At their December retreat, the Deans of the College and Schools unanimously agreed that the following criteria would be utilized to evaluate resource cuts and investments across and within academic units. In addition, Dr. Ballard received the endorsement of Academic Affairs leadership, to use these criteria as a resource allocation model to help with the prioritization of the balance of campus operations. Criteria for Unit Level Prioritization: Centrality to UMKC's mission, vision, and goals Quality of program (as measured by the 5 goal measures) Importance to the community Efficient (recovers a significant percentage of its costs) Centrality to student success Builds campus partnerships Program Viability Audit Outline At the October 7th meeting, the Committee approved the Program Viability Audit Outline. Dr. Horton then presented this document to Provost Ballard, who in turn has shared these guidelines with the Deans and Chairs of affected units.

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Last updated: July 21st, 2004