UAF's administrative services process improvement initiative began as part of the Administrative and Support Review process that evolved from the 2010 Chancellor's Executive Leadership Workshop.  One of the goals of the Administrative Support Review Committee was to identify common processes to streamline that would improve overall administrative effectiveness. 

UAF made efforts in FY12 to institutionalize campus-wide process improvement efforts by creating the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  To date, two high-priority projects have moved forward, each with its own campus-wide project team.  Six staff members have also gone through extensive training to become qualified process improvement facilitators and are guiding these two project teams, with more efforts on the horizon. 

Grant Award Set-Up and Employee Recruitment are the two primary high-priority projects in motion.  An executive level steering committee has also been created, to assist in the event that policy, regulation and information system issues need to be addressed. 

Recommendations from these groups are expected by the end of the calendar year.