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.

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