The UW System Board of Regents outlined plans to implement its Growth Agenda through new accountability initiatives at its regular monthly meeting Friday.
Regents President Mark Bradley said funding provided by the 2007-'09 biennial budget allows the UW System a genuine opportunity to expand educational access in [Wisconsin] and also scientific discovery through the important research that is done on our campuses.""
Bradley said with action and accountability, the UW System will provide public reports on the successes of colleges and universities in the state.
He said the national Voluntary System of Accountability was the kind of report that higher education should have, which will be illustrated on a ""College Portrait"" website as announced Nov. 7.
""I think our students and parents deserve to know which institutions are delivering the best educational results and legislators, tax payers and our private donors alike deserve to know whether we're producing a return on the investment that they expect,"" Bradley said.
He said he recently met with the new state Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker, D-Weston, state Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem and other state senators and representatives to discuss the development of the UW System's strategic plan - o - oAdvantage Wisconsin.
With this initiative, the System aims to develop talent in Wisconsin, to create high-paying jobs for that talent and to partner with communities to sustain talent, according to the new Advantage Wisconsin website introduced by UW System Executive Senior Vice President Don Mash.
""What we're looking at in this activity is a continuation of the Growth Agenda,"" Mash said. ""[We're] attempting to create a framework at the UW System-level because all of our campuses have strategic plans.""
At the meeting, UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Linda Bunnell also gave a progress report of the committee formed by Bradley in August to review allocable segregated fees.
Bunnell said the committee has met three times, with the most recent meeting lasting six hours. She said at that meeting, the Regents drafted a policy, which is now being circulated through the campuses for comments. Following a Nov. 27 meeting, the committee will forward a final report to Bradley.
""This is a highly complex, highly charged, difficult and important issue to the students and to us,"" said UW System President Kevin Reilly.
