UAA Gains Over One Million in Performance Based Budgeting Allocation from UA Statewide
by Kathleen McCoy |
Of the over two million available in the University of Alaskans performance based
budgeting poll, President Hamilton has awarded UAA with over 1 million this year.
In a memo announcing the award, Hamilton commended UAA for "generally strong" performance
during the assessment period between FY04 and FY06. He cited UAAs Performance 2006
Report as a "crucial effort" that illustrated UAAs participation and progress in the
PBB process.
Hamilton had high praise for UAAs approach to PBB saying its targets and goals would
set the framework for future strategies and eventual PBB distributaries. PBB is fully
integrated into the UA system budget process and is a driving factor in system wide
operating and capital requests and distributions.
Hamilton stated, "The strategies and focus areas detailed in [UAAs] report are clear
and concise. UAAs attention to open admissions and access to low income and first
generation students is appropriate as this is important to addressing the workforce
needs and in light of the growing population in Anchorage and throughout Alaska.
He highlighted the following achievements as significant to UAAs success in the PBB
allocation this year:
UAA ... met difficult targets on the critical high demand job area graduates measure
as well as the grant funded research expenditures and university generated revenue
measures....
Performance on [the undergraduate retention measure] has rebounded in FY07 to an all
time high of almost 68% undergraduate retention.
UAA showed significant progress on the two process oriented measures; strategic enrollment
management planning and academic program outcomes
assessment.