Academic (Degree) Program Prioritization

The Program Prioritization website continues to be updated:
http://www.d.umn.edu/vcaa/program_prioritization.html

The Academic Program Prioritization Committee (PPC) has incorporated many of the excellent comments from their forum into their criteria and that will be posted this week.  The website will start to have more frequent updates, including a page that will hold links to data as we progress.  Please use the website and talk with your PPC representatives about the process.  We need to make changes quickly and this process is needed to get us to a place where we can support our academic programs properly.  The process is not intended to be divisive -- the point of it being campus wide for all programs (not just degree programs) is to open up opportunities to find a way that all units can contribute to stabilizing our academic programs while also looking into efficiency and quality.  The current model with a large portion of the academic budget in "course access" means that this money is not in the baseline budget -- that is not sustainable.

I was glad to see a lot of faculty at the forum I held on Academic (Degree) PP.  I know people are very concerned about the results of the prioritization and I'm trying to be as straight forward as possible in addressing your concerns.  Feel free to post questions to this blog.  In the meantime, I'll start by tackling a few of the FAQs that I've heard lately in my next posts.