Tenth Study Group Meeting Minutes
7 a.m., Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Northrim Bank Building, 3111 C St., 5th Floor Conference Room
Jon Kumin and Steve Rieger, co-chairs

Chancy Croft, chair board of regents
Mike Burns, immediate past chair

Chancy Croft & Mike Burns
Planning and development committee, devoted entire January retreat.
Would like to offer coordinating effort in their new missions & measures -- Brian Rogers could meet w/CWN late July their hope is to have process in place by the end of the year.

Mission & measures in past have been broad such as, "promote higher education in Alaska." The new one should be more specific.

Relative points to study group charge:
1. What is the economic role of the University?
2. How does the University fit into the economic framework of the state?

We are about 2/3 of where we should be in terms of programs and economic growth. The consumer needs to tell us what the missing 1/3 is.

Funding the missions is the process, some projects will end up with shortfalls, some with efficiencies. Greatest pit of expenditure is deferred maintenance.

Alignment of budget process with missions and measures is the link.

Global logistics: Poster child of linking to local businesses.

Q
Strategic plan done by end of year?
A.
Definitely it will be done, and an external review.

Q
Is this thing that Mark's doing going to help with the brain drain from the state? What about our high tech folks?
CC: University academy brought in people from outside the state, talking about the needs of the state, Neil Freid, process technology, health education, met w/board of education.

MB: Alaska's scholars program kept 870 of the top students in the state with no state money: that's 50%, so this is a priority.

Q
What if the critical mass is not there to support what the needs are of the state?
CC: the legislative missions and measures--I don't think it's our business to create jobs, but we should be looking at the needs.

MB - distance technology: 1/3 of students, 1/4 of credit hours and only 1/8 of the appropriations

Q
How much redundancy is there -- are there too many?

Q
My question wasn't about efficiency, it was about whether the industry exists to feed the demand.

Q
1. Do you have a list of state needs?
MB: Yes. primarily from external organization
2. Valdez -- $125k cash participants subscribe, local community provides housing -- now you have 70 families in Valdez that need to move

A
Humanities forum should have been there.
CC: it is a serious deficiency that we do not see the community support
JS - the stellar communities such as Valdez ought to be studied to see what's going on there

Q
How is it 1/3, 1/4, 1/8 the reason is the tiers?
A
Most of the productivity outside of the main areas is provided by part time faculty which is extremely more cost efficient than full time faculty.

Q
The state wants the university to solve the problem of economic development, brain drain, which seems impossible to function -- shouldn't the university focus on all the core functions?

MB - We are vital to the solution, yet we are not the solution.

Q
What are the studies that support our big theory about "brain drain"
A. The reality is that every state experiences students leaving the state - new studies being launched about what keeps students here

Q
What about the K12 connection?

Q
Pat Burden - Northern Economics has over dozen economists - we'd love to have a new program
A. We have to address the disconnect between bachelor's and master's/Ph.D. levels.

Q
Why don't we have more Ph.D. programs?
CC: Not a single request from the UAA campus that has been presented.

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