If we weed out all the bad ideas, using the most rigorous criteria possible, we still end up with more creative, high-quality ideas than we can manage. These ideas span every curriculum and college, reach every academic discipline and touch every university constituency. The University of Florida is a fully employed university. Like most quality places, we have no resources standing idle waiting for a project. So, to succeed in growing our quality, supporting faculty, staff and student initiatives and enhancing our utility and value to our many constituencies we must generate new resources.
New resources come from many sources.
Each of these sources of additional revenue requires us to develop a performance-based plan that meets some objective of the supporting agency. With persistence and commitment we work in each of these areas to increase the university's revenue. In almost every case, our success in finding new money for projects is more than balanced by the extra cost of the projects. These funds come to us not to maintain and enhance existing quality but most often to initiate new programs, create additional opportunities and expand existing academic projects. Each new resource offers both an opportunity for the future and a challenge for the present.