Standard(s):

Standard 2: Planning, Resource Allocation, and Institutional Renewal
An institution conducts ongoing planning and resource allocation based on its mission and uses the results of its assessment activities for institutional renewal. Implementation and subsequent evaluation of the success of the strategic plan and resource allocation support the development and change necessary to improve and to maintain institutional quality.

Resource Allocation and Institutional Renewal

1. How do resource allocation categories relate to plans, goals, and objectives of the institution? Are all of the major goals and objectives of the institution supported by available resources? If some are not, what strategies will be established to ensure such support or to modify the goals and objectives to match available resources? Are there immediate priorities among the goals and objectives? Are allocation strategies specifically related to those priorities? Are resources available to support priority goals and objectives? Are resources available to plan and develop relative to longer-range goals and objectives?

2. By what means are planning and improvement processes communicated to the college community? How do the planning and improvement processes allow for the participation of all relevant constituencies? What assessment results are incorporated into the planning and improvement processes, and how is this accomplished?

3. How are unit and institutional objectives for improvement established? What has been done to ensure that these objectives are clearly understood, that they are reflective of assessment results and that they can be linked to current understandings about the success that the unit or the institution has had in achieving mission and goals?

4. What decision-making processes are in place and what groups or individuals are responsible for facilitating planning and resource allocation? Are these decision-making processes well understood by various constituencies?

5. What groups or individuals hold responsibility for achievement of unit or institutional mission and goals? How and when are these groups and individuals held accountable? Does this process work effectively?

6. How is the institution organized for the delivery of programs and services? How does each unit of the organization assess the attainment of its objectives? How does each unit utilize assessment results in supporting and improving its efforts? How does the institution incorporate these outcomes evaluations in its overall assessment? How does it support efforts to improve at the unit as well as institutional level?

7. How does UMUC assess whether planning, resource allocation, and institutional renewal processes are effective and efficient? When and how frequently are assessments conducted at UMUC? Do these assessment processes result in proactive or reactive efforts?