UAAcademia: From the Provost's Desk

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.

Universities, especially those like UAA, are catalysts for social mobility and help redeem the promise of equal opportunity for all. To be good stewards of that promise, we need to carefully reflect on our work and strive to improve the equity of educational opportunity and achievement for our students.

Dean’s Council 9/2/20 Undergraduate Research Task force for Undergraduate Research met this summer to evaluate and make recommendations: 1) Evaluate different models of UR 2) Explore how to bring this high impact practice to a broader range of students at UAA 3) Consider how resources could be allocated to best support UR 4) Discuss ways to incentivize faculty participation 5) Recommend a model and home for OURS