UPDATED VERSION

October 13, 2017

To the campus community,

Thank you for submitting your APASP reports last week. The review phase of prioritization has begun, and we appreciate the time and effort each of you put into the reports we are currently reviewing.

What happens next in the prioritization process?

  1. The review phase will take place over the next 4 weeks. We modeled our process on those of federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health. We designed it to allow for objectivity and opportunity for discussion in the event of diverging perspectives. How? Three principal reviewers read and review each report, and then task force members read the reports. The task force convenes to deliberate and place each unit reviewed into one of the 4 prioritization categories:
    • Priority for Development and Growth,
    • Consider for Development and/or Modification,
    • Priority for Substantial Modification, and
    • Insufficient Evidence (for new programs/units only).
  2. Then, in early November, we will post these lists online and ask deans/sector heads to respond. We will collect their responses and review them prior to making our recommendations for the President and Cabinet. We will also schedule a campus forum at this time.
  3. The Task Force will develop its recommendations for the President and President’s Cabinet based on this review process. We will append dean/sector responses to our recommendations to the President and Cabinet and deliver this information to the President and  Cabinet by November 30.
  4. Units will have the opportunity to respond to their placement in the prioritization categories directly to the President and Cabinet at this time (instructions are forthcoming.)

On a separate, but related note, the Academic, Research and Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Regents will visit UM on for an update on APASP on October 26. This will be a public event and we encourage members of the campus community to attend. Details on this meeting are forthcoming.

Thank you for your continued engagement with prioritization at UM.

Sincerely,

The APASP Task Force