DEAN'S COUNCIL MINUTES: September 24, 2013

I.                    Incentive-based Budgeting

 

Mara traveled with a group of UVM Administrations to the University of Delaware to learn more about how they implemented “incentive-based budgeting” five years ago. Meanwhile, another team from UVM visited the University of New Hampshire, which has a slightly different variation on the model.

 

On July 1, 2014, UVM will launch the new budgeting system in parallel with the current budgeting system. As of July 1, 2015, IBB at UVM will be in place.

Libraries’ directors will receive a copy of the book, “Responsibility Center Management, A Guide to Balancing Academic Entrepreneurship with Fiscal Responsibility,” which UVM administrators were required to read. A copy of the book will also be available in the Dean’s Office for anyone else who would like to read it.

 

In the coming months, committees and subcommittees will hone UVM’s IBB model. Central services will be defined and established. For more on IBB, see the Provost’s website.

 

II.                 Provost Meeting with Faculty Senate

 

At the inaugural meeting of the semester, UVM Libraries faculty met with the new Provost. Gary Atwood serves as the secretary.

 

III.                Executive Summary of Strategic Plan Executive Summary

 

The Council continued its work on making recommendations for edits on the 2009-2013 Strategic Plan Executive Summary. The summary will be shared as part of the Annual Meeting in November 2013.

 

IV.                Gen Ed

 

Associate Provost Brian Reed is working on multi-year, multi-million dollar grant from the Davis Foundation. The Provost has agreed to fund half of a library fellow for three years to do very specific WILD (Writing and Information Literacy in the Disciplines) work. A Library Fellow would assist in a variety of ways to free up liaisons to work on concentrated subject work.

 

V.                  Council Logistics

The Council agreed to create three categories of agenda items:

 

1.                   New Business agenda items come by request to address current and unanticipated issues.

2.                   Short-Medium Range Matters, which are predictable such as assessment, web redesign, CatQuest, budget planning.

                           3.                   Long-Term Initiatives, which require preparations and presentations. 

       A fall semester calendar was set forth:

·         October 8: LibQUAL results and news from the Development Office (Selene)

·         October 22: Strategic Planning Process and Next Steps (Mara)

·         November 5: CDI platform and IR, VTDNP matters

·         November 19: CatQuest Going Forward (Alison)

·         December 3: Communications discussion revisited (Selene and Nancy)