Dr. Beasley noted that offices involved in pre-award, protocol reviews, and contracts and grants should be monitored. If needs were not being met, their budgets should be increased and be paid for by a tax based on number of grants or dollar amounts of grants. He said a small group could decided on which of these costs should be paid through central reserves and which should be allocated back to the schools. Dr. Low noted that this debt needed to be viewed as a credit card balance and paid off. State Strategic Plan and LAR Judith Booker reminded the group that the State Strategic Plan and Legislative Appropriations Request for FY2000-2001 are being prepared and that memos have gone to the deans requesting their input by April 15.
Deans evaluate school's critical needs for additional resources and make requests.
She noted that the DB dental simulator would be an example of such a need. These requests will be worked into the existing strategies in the plan. She also noted that our plan is required to have a strategy on the use of the tobacco money. A group will be convened to analyze institutional and school-level research related obligations and streamlining the research process. This group, composed of the deans, the dean's invitees, Dr. Low, Dr. Burks, and Mr. Porretto, will make recommendations to today's group.