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University of North Carolina-Academic Affairs Unit GOALS & OBJECTIVES   FY 2012-2013 | Unnamed: 1 | Unnamed: 2 | Unnamed: 3 | Unnamed: 4
Goal # | Title: Brief Description | Principal Owner | Current Status | Outcomes from Goal Completion
1 | Place a new and heightened focus on academic success and academic accountability
1a | Performance Funding: Develop and implement a new performance funding model that rewards improved performance while also discouraging growth at institutions that have not met performance goals.  Ensure that goals are aggressive, yet achievable, and are fully embraced by the Board of Governors, the chancellors and other campus leaders, and the leadership team at GA. | Institutional Research (Kate & Dan) partnered with Budget & Finance and [NAME]
1b | Develop an integrated "dashboard" to track key academic and operational metrics and gauge progress toward established University goals. | Institutional Research ([NAME] and [NAME]) partnered with Budget & Finance and Research and Graduate Education  ([NAME])
1c | Develop and implement system-wide strategies for improving retention and time to graduation, including more rigorous and consistent academic progress standards and more consistent drop-add policies | Academic and Student Affairs ([NAME] and Karrie)
1d | Update county impact statements with data outlining UNC presence in every North Carolina county | Institutional Research ([NAME])
1e | Foster greater collaboration and curricular alignment with North Carolina high schools, particularly around issues related to the common core course standards. | [NAME] partnered with Academic and University Programs ([NAME])
Goal # | Title: Brief Description | Principal Owner | Current Status | Outcomes from Goal Completion
1f | Utilize outcome data from UNC's teacher quality research to improve program and student success and continue to focus efforts on teacher supply/demand for NC Public Schools | Academic and University Programs ([NAME])
1g | Launch effort to review and revise UNC's Comprehensive Articulation Agreement with the NC Community College System in order to create a clearer path and facilitate more seamless transfer for students moving from North Carolina Community Colleges to UNC campuses | [NAME] partnered with Academic and Student Affairs (Bruce) | In progress
1h | Begin process of working with NCCCS, business, and government agencies to develop specific state-wide higher education completion goals | Academic Affairs leadership team |  | Statewide 2025 post secondary degree and other credential goals adopted
2 | Find new ways to help finance our programs and operations
2a | Work with campuses to enhance private fundraising efforts | Advancement
2b | Ensure the establishment of tuition and fee rates that balance institutional needs for increased funding with our constitutional commitment to access and affordability | Budget & Finance
2c | Conduct elasticity studies on non-resident tuition at UNC-Chapel Hill and selected other campuses and on resident tuition at ECSU | Budget & Finance
Goal # | Title: Brief Description | Principal Owner | Current Status | Outcomes from Goal Completion
2d | Build upon successful campus implementations of e-procurement programs to leverage the cumulative UNC spend, combining with other state agencies when efficient and appropriate | Budget & Finance
2e | Review the methodology used by MCNC to charge users for network and other IT services.  The current approach is not financially sustainable | Budget & Finance
2f | Lead an honest and open dialogue with the Board of Governors to determine the appropriate role of need-based financial aid in meeting college expenses and the proper sources/mix of funding streams for UNC financial aid programs | Budget & Finance partnered with Academic and Student Affairs (Bruce)
2g | Determine potential savings from shared services in areas of financial aid, residency determination, development, internal auditing, equipment maintenance, and other areas as appropriate.  Implement shared services in the areas that have the greatest potential of substantial costs reduction and savings. | Budget & Finance partnered with Institutional Research ([NAME])
2h | Explore feasibility of a joint shared services arrangement with the Community Colleges in the areas of financial aid and residency determination | Budget & Finance partnered with Institutional Research ([NAME]) and Academic and Student Affairs (Bruce)
3 | Become more innovative and nimble
3a | Consistent with the [NAME] report, hire a new director of e-learning | Academic and University Programs ([NAME]) | Completed | E-Learning Director Hired
3b | Consistent with the [NAME] report,  develop and begin to implement a strategic plan for system-wide e-learning | Academic and University Programs ([NAME] and [NAME])
3c | Re-evaluate and re-structure the tuition and fee model for distance education | Academic and University Programs ([NAME]) partnered with Institutional Research ([NAME]) and Budget & Finance
Goal # | Title: Brief Description | Principal Owner | Current Status | Outcomes from Goal Completion
3d | Consistent with the [NAME] report, pilot a shared (across two or more campuses) academic program model in the foreign languages.  Plan for other shared campus programs for implementation in 2013-14 | Academic and University Programs ([NAME] and [NAME])
3e | Continue to enhance the University's international engagement through increased student and faculty exchange programs, particularly with China and Taiwan, and explore potential exchange opportunities in India. | International, Community, and Economic Development (Leslie)
3f | Develop a more normalized way of collecting data about international activities and explore new ways to promote international opportunities | International, Community, and Economic Development (Leslie)
4 | [NAME] our academic priorities
4a | Monitor ongoing academic restructuring and/or program reviews underway on campuses and assist Chancellors and their leadership teams in navigating the implementation of recommendations arising from these reviews.  Encourage other campuses to begin such processes and provide guidance and support as needed. | [NAME] partnered with Academic and University Programs ([NAME] and [NAME]) and Research and Graduate Education ([NAME] and [NAME])
4b | Begin a review of marine sciences activities within the University to determine if funding is being allocated and expended as effectively as possible | Research and Graduate Education ([NAME]) partnered with [NAME]
4c | Implement recommendations emerging from BOG advisory group on academic program planning | [NAME] partnered with Academic and University Programs ([NAME] and [NAME]) and Research and Graduate Education ([NAME] and [NAME]) | Completed
Goal # | Title: Brief Description | Principal Owner | Current Status | Outcomes from Goal Completion
4d | Implement BOG advisory group on faculty workload recommendations | [NAME] partnered with Institutional Research ([NAME])
4e | Review the joint pharmacy program at ECSU to determine if it is operating as intended.  This review is required by the originating memorandum of understanding and is to be conducted by an external review panel.  We are conducting the review a year ahead of schedule because enrollment at the ECSU site is not meeting agreed-upon targets and the feeder pipeline for the program is struggling | Suzanne
4e | Provide leadership and support for realignment of the CSLD organization to UNC's goal of preparing more and better teachers and school leaders for the public schools of North Carolina | Academic and University Programs ([NAME])
5 | Recognize our duty to serve ALL students, not just the traditional 18-year-old high school graduate
5a | Develop a plan to target individuals with some college credit and assist them in obtaining degree completion.  This is a strategy designed to increase the educational attainment of significant numbers of North Carolinians in the most efficient manner | Academic and Student Affairs ([NAME] and [NAME] partnered with Academic and University Programs ([NAME]) and [NAME]
5b | Develop new military portal that includes a degree completion tool. | Federal and Military Affairs partnered with Academic and Student Affairs (Bruce)
5c | Work to increase enrollment and degree completion by active military and veterans | Federal and Military Affairs partnered with Academic and Student Affairs (Bruce)
Goal # | Title: Brief Description | Principal Owner | Current Status | Outcomes from Goal Completion
5d | Continue to work with NCCCS and the NC Department of Public Instruction to develop the most seamless possible pathway to the University from community colleges and early college high schools.  This includes development of a new comprehensive articulation agreement with the community colleges mentioned above (see 5a) | [NAME] partnered with Academic and Student Affairs (Bruce)
6 | Unleash our faculty's brainpower in more strategic, targeted fashion
6a | Continue the implementation of REACH NC, working toward the incorporation of data for researchers at North Carolina universities beyond UNC in order to provide our citizens with fuller access to information on university-based expertise and assets | Research and Graduate Education (Courtney) partnered with International, Community, and Economic Development (Leslie)
6b | Finalize metrics to assess progress in community engagement and economic development work | International, Community, and Economic Development (Leslie)
6c | Work to establish UNC as a cleared facility to enable classified work with the Department of Defense (DOD) | Federal and Military Affairs partnered with Research and Graduate Education ([NAME])
6d | Continue our leadership role in driving the development of a statewide defense economy while also increasing the research funding our campuses secure from the DOD. | Federal and Military Affairs partnered with Research and Graduate Education ([NAME]) and International, Community, and Economic Development (Leslie)
6e | Launch Center for International Understanding "Heat Map" displaying international activity in every country in North Carolina. | International, Community, and Economic Development (Leslie) | Completed
Goal # | Title: Brief Description | Principal Owner | Current Status | Outcomes from Goal Completion
6f | Hire new Vice President for Research  and [NAME] who can work with campuses to increase research through partnerships with industry, as well as government | Suzanne | Completed | VPR hired
7 | Data System Improvements
7a | Improve quality and timeliness of campus data submissions, develop a relational database, and create a consistent transparent data request process | Institutional Research ([NAME])
8 | Reverse Transfer Grant
8a | Work with NCCCS to write a proposal for funding from the Kresge/Lumina Foundations for a reverse transfer grant.  This grant will allow us to fund the creation of an automated degree audit system | [NAME] with  Institution Research ([NAME]) | Completed | Grant submitted
8b | If funded, work with community college system to implement the automated degree audit system. | [NAME] with Institutional  Research ([NAME])
9 | Research and Graduate Education
9a | Fine-tune process for submitting new degree proposals by creating a web-based service for submitting and tracking proposals | Research and Graduate Education (Courtney) partnered with Academic and University Programs ([NAME])
9b | Develop a research and graduate education communications plan  as an integral part of the overall communications effort at UNCGA | Research and Graduate Education ([NAME]) partnered with International, Community, and Economic Development (Leslie) and Communications ([NAME])
9c | Assess opportunities to facilitate "big collaborative science" by engaging other major stakeholders in NC | Research and Graduate Education ([NAME])
Goal # | Title: Brief Description | Principal Owner | Current Status | Outcomes from Goal Completion
10 | Federal Grants: Gear-Up and CACG
10a | Implement joint quarterly meetings of grants' PI's and Directors | Academic and Student Affairs ([NAME] and [NAME]) partnered with [NAME]
10b | Review and revise, as needed, the CACG planning process for 2013-2014 RFP | Academic and Student Affairs ([NAME] and Nathan) partnered with [NAME]
11 | Long-range planning
11a | Pursuant to BOG Policy 400.2.1, develop an updated long-range planning process and associated regulations (see also 1h) | [NAME] partnered with other members of the UNCGA senior leadership team