Development personnel must balance and coordinate institutional efforts without stifling incentive within the university community. We need to make clearer our respective roles in resource development and we need to decide how much of our resources we will devote to this activity. Our goals should be to quantify and to evaluate available resources, to specify our needs, to set priorities for those needs, and to be prepared to make use of new resources. Our budget reflects important choices about how human and material resources are deployed by the University. These choices will have an important impact on whether the aspirations expressed in our mission statement are realized.
Allocation takes place at many levels.
Broad participation may lead to wider acceptance of allocation decisions, but it is a time consuming activity and requires knowledge of alternatives and ways to select from competing alternatives. Our goals should be to identify resources available from the state and from other sources, to identify restrictions placed on resources, to specify the process for making allocation decisions, and to specify priorities for unrestricted resources.