Foundation and frameworks

UAF’s Strategic Plan and accreditation core themes complement and align with UA’s Strategic Direction Initiative. 

UAF Strategic Plan

  1. Educate students 
  2. Promote UAF as Alaska’s premier research enterprise 
  3. Serve Alaska’s diverse communities 
  4. Improve assistance to students 
  5. Expand graduate programs 
  6. Enhance UAF’s competitive advantage 
  7. Develop innovative approaches to resource management 

UAF accreditation core themes

  • Educate
  • Research
  • Prepare
  • Connect
  • Engage

FY14 UAF academic and program requests (UA strategic direction initiative themes)

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Student achievement and attainment

  • $302.4K - Mandatory comprehensive student advising (CRCD) 
  • $250K - Enhancing e-learning instructional design & equipment 
  • $ 200K - STEM capacity in general chemistry 
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Productive partnerships with Alaska's public and private industries

HEALTH / BIOMEDICAL

  • $55K - Nursing program at Bristol Bay
  • $200K - Alaska 2+2 veterinary medicine program w/Colorado State
  • UAF $300K / UAA $185K - Joint PhD program, clinical-community psychology 

FISHERIES - $100K

  • $44K - Alaska Young Fishermen’s Summit
  • $56K - Alaska Seafood Processing Leadership Institute 

MINING (Mining Research & Development Initiative) - $100K

  • $140K - Construction trades & tribal management
  • $195K - Response to statewide business pressure for more accountants 

Research and development to sustain Alaska's economic growth

  • $100K - Sustaining Alaska's only high-performance computing center
  • $200K - Office of Intellectual Property & commercialization
  • $500K - Ship time for Alaska-specific research (R/V Sikuliaq

Fostering knowledge of Alaska issues, culture and history

  • $200K - Sustain the UA Press

FY14 UAF UAF capital research, fixed costs and facilities requests

Applied and commercialized capital research

  • $5.5M - Partnerships to develop statewide energy solutions: Energy technology testing & development, energy analysis, and comprehensive fossil fuel research
  • $1.5M - Improve arctic oil spill response through dedicated science & technology center
  • $3.1M - Research Alaska’s chinook salmon production & decline
  • $1.9M - Enhance base maps for Alaska resources

Facilities and fixed costs (GF)

Annual maintenance: $23.1M 

Deferred maintenance (DM) backlog: $75M (UA system) 

  • Combined heat & power plant replacement design: $22M 
  • UAF DM backlog exceeds request* 

UAF/UAA engineering: $108.9M (UA system) 

  • UAF building completion: $48.3M 

UAF compensation adjustments 

  • Fairbanks & community campuses: $3.693M 
  • TA/RA health insurance increases: $165K 

Fixed costs 

  • Rasmuson Library e-subscriptions: $200K 
  • Custodial services: $380K 
  • Facilities M&R (UA system): $1M 

Security & compliance (WCHA fees): $130K 

*UAF total estimated DM backlog: $816.6M 

Utilities (UA system): $785K NGF

Facility operations, leases & debt service (DS):

  • Life Sciences Facility: $2.463M 
  • Life Sciences Facility (DS): $1.52M NGF 
  • BBC applied science center: $76.3K 
  • Aviation program: $130K 
  • Process technology program: $275K 
  • CTC parking garage: $75K 
  • Student dining revitalization (P3 partnership): $1.5M NGF

GF = general fund 
NGF = nongeneral fund 

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UAF FY12 metric performance and FY13 - FY14 goals

Notes: 

  1. Performance metric targets are ranges 
  2. Some performance actual outcomes exceed the estimated ranges 
  3. FY13 – FY14 goals represent an average target within or exceeding the range and can be adjusted based on outcomes
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