University Planning and Quality Council
Minutes
February 27, 2006
Members
Present: Provost Paul Hosier, Dr.
Ronald Core, Ms. Pat Leonard, Dr. David Cordle, Mr. Lawrence Clark, Dr. Cathy
Barlow, Dr. Virginia Adams, Dr. Stephen Meinhold (for Dr. Robert Roer), Dr.
James Dragna, Dr. Mark Galizio, Dr. Tom Schmid, and Mr. William Fleming.
Others
Attending: Mr. Max Allen, Ms. Lisa Castellino, Ms. Mimi
Cunningham, Ms. Nikki Howard, Ms. Gay Howe, Mr. Mark Lanier, Dr. Mike Walker,
Dr. Matt Mayhew, Ms. Kay Ward, and Dr. Kenneth Spackman.
Provost Hosier called the
meeting to order at 3:30 pm.
The minutes of the January 30
meeting were approved as distributed on the Web.
Status of UNCW mission statement revision. UNCW's revised
mission statement had been scheduled for approval by the Board of
Governors in January 2006 as part of the University of North Carolina
Long-Range Plan 2006-2011. However, at the request of President Bowles, the
Board of Governors adopted a motion at their January 13 meeting that the
President work with the chancellors to develop a process and do "a review
of campus missions individually and in terms of how they relate to one
another." Mark Lanier volunteered to inquire about the timeline for
BOG approval of the mission statement revisions UNCW has already submitted.
Strategic
issues related to staff planning. Dr. Spackman explained that division
requests for staff plans were collected in the context of developing
descriptive "strategic resource plans" for UNCW's ten priority
progress measures, in order to explicitly link planning to budgeting. He
presented an illustrative excerpt from the strategic plan of the University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign, entitled "Resources Plan for Achieving
Strategic Goals." The excerpt listed five narrative categories under
the heading Human Capital, one of which addressed staffing needs in terms of
the total cost estimated per year for five years, the corresponding number of
positions planned for each of those years, the link to their strategic goals,
and a general description of areas targeted for new staff hires. A second
example presented to the Council summarized an existing, descriptive strategic resource
plan for UNCW's progress measure on student-faculty ratio that identifies
projected numbers of new faculty positions, funding sources, and total cost to
achieve the target.
Dr. Spackman distributed a summary
of the divisional 5-year staff plan requests in five tables displayed by
division: FTE positions by funding source, cost by funding source, FTE
positions by year, FTE positions by staff type, and FTE positions by strategic
goal. The summary (with additional positions still to be added) showed a need for 316.75 FTE positions over the next five
years at a cost of more than $14.4 million.
Questions from various members of
the Planning Council elicited these points:
·
The summaries are
backed up by detailed requests that go far beyond merely targeting a given
student-staff ratio target. They take
into account future enrollment growth, increased faculty size, future space needs
and plans, projected operating budgets, etc.
·
The requests
listed under Chancellor’s Office would be more appropriately labeled Chancellor’s
Division.
·
If all the
requests were funded, the student-staff ratio would exceed the targeted 10 to
1 and would be 9.6 to 1 already in fall 2006, and 8.9 to 1 in 2010.
·
The average
increase in UNCW staff personnel, funded from all sources (except contract
employees) over the past ten years has been 37.8 new staff per year.
·
UNCW has received
approximately $1.2 million in state-appropriated enrollment growth funds per year for
staff hiring in recent years.
·
The staff
request summary does not include approximately 18 physical plant staff
positions to be funded by building reserves, and additional fee-supported staff
in housing and residence life.
·
The apparent
need, as reflected in the staff request summary, is approximately twice as
great as expected new funding is likely to support.
Dr.
Core suggested that additional summary tables would be helpful for his
analysis: cost per year by division, and cost per strategic goal by division.
The Council’s consensus to move
forward was to draft, for communication to the Cabinet, a resource plan for
progress measure #2 (student-staff ratio) and possibly other progress measures.
The meeting was adjourned at
5:00 pm.
Future Meetings (All meetings in AL 215)
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Thursday |
Mar. 23, 2006 |
3:30-5:00 pm |
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Wednesday |
Apr. 19, 2006 |
3:30-5:00 pm |
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