Goal 9. Accountability
Enhance planning, performance, assessment, and public accountability.
Critical Success Factors (measures of the degree of success over the next 5 years):
- Council for the oversight of strategic planning and assessment.
- Comprehensive university-wide assessment procedures.
- A comprehensive, fully-accessible benchmarking database.
- Priority- and performance-based resource allocations.
Objectives:
Objective 9.1: Develop a quality-based and performance-based ledger system.
Strategies:
- Identify key factors for a ledger measuring performance and quality.
- Integrate the key measurable factors into institutional, area and unit ledgers.
- Provide opportunities for faculty and staff input in the ledger system.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the ledger system for enhancing performance.
- Reward successful performance consistent with university priorities.
- Create a formal mechanism for ongoing review of strategic planning and assessment.
Assessment:
- Ledger system in place and used by management.
Objective 9.2: Ensure fiscal accountability.
Strategies:
- Develop systematic assessment of fiscal accountability.
- Maintain open and accessible records.
- Distribute an annual report to inform the public of performance.
- Empower area leaders to allocate available resources based on university and area priorities.
- Ensure that educational and research partnerships located throughout the state are financially self-sufficient.
Assessment:
- Annual report.