The two worked with the University of Florida, University of Maryland, and Loyola University. In February, they announced that five medical schools would be entering mission-based management programs. They are Creighton University, East Carolina University, the University of California, San Diego, the University of Texas, Galveston, and West Virginia University. We're talking about transforming the ways schools are managed. But we can't get away from the fact that our institutions are involved in several different businesses.
Research is a business.
Educating graduate students is a business. It's an attempt to make sure the funding streams stay aligned with the mission they intend to support. Florida's Watson explains that the idea is to use the measures or metrics to establish a budget for each mission. Then you link productivity back to the budget and back to the mission. Some thought it went hand in hand with the Hippocratic oath.