UAAcademia: From the Provost's Desk

The Dean’s Council, along with Faculty Senate E-Board, has engaged in discussion of a potential model for allocation of future General Fund Appropriation dollars. This has been undertaken recognizing the fact that 7 years of substantial budget cuts and accumulated incremental decrements likely have resulted in allocations that no longer reflect our values of equity and transparency of budgeting, nor our academic priorities as a university.

SW committees need Dean to replace Denise ● Statewide E-learning committee that includes faculty, staff, admin needs a replacement Dean (Denise previously represented UAA “deans” on these). They discuss ways to collaborate over e-learning platforms to share at academic council. University Relations statewide committee as well. Please let Denise know if you are willing to serve.

Topic: A Plan to Allocate General Fund Dollars Among the Colleges and Academic Units Why talk about this? Current allocation among the colleges is based on historic allocations plus accumulated increments/decrements over time. It is unclear whether the resulting allocation is appropriate to the current mission, size, and scope of each college. Therefore our task is to create a process that will be used in future allocations, in order to ensure mission fulfillment and to incentivize needed improvements.