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Academic Task Force - College Design: Small Colleges

Mission

To create a new model for sharing administrative functions across smaller colleges and across departments within larger colleges that increases cost-effectiveness (better service for the same cost), cost-efficiency (the same service for less cost), or both.

Deliverables

• Recommendations regarding a statement of principles to guide sharing of administrative services across colleges and units.
• Recommendations for a checklist of services that might be examined for increased effectiveness and/or efficiency at the college and department level.

• Recommendations regarding opportunities for the Humphrey Institute, the Law School, and the Carlson School of Management to share administrative functions.
• Recommendations for other similarly situated units, such as the School of Nursing and the College of Pharmacy, and nearby schools, as well as some of the coordinate campuses that also should be encouraged to explore whether sharing or centralizing selected administrative functions can enhance effectiveness, create efficiencies, or both.

Report due: March 15, 2006

Task force charge letter from E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Task Force Cochairs John Bryson, Assoc Dean for Research and Centers and Professor, HHH Suzanne Bardouche, Director of Finance, Pharm Task Force Members Name Position, Department, College John Anderson Professor, Operations & Management Science, CSOM Ed Clark Director, IT, CLA Jaki Cottingham-Zierdt Associate to Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, SVPSA John Koepke Associate Professor and Chair, Landscape Architecture, CALA Robert McMaster Chair, Geography, CLA Jill Merriam Director, Budget & Finance, SVPP Nena Street Graduate student, Law Ann Jones Director Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor, Nursing

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