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UA Missions and Measures

With SB169, the 21st Legislature of the State of Alaska enacted a series of institutional missions in 1999 designed to define the mission of state agencies as well as the University of Alaska. The following year, with SB281, the legislature enacted an individual set of measures, one for each defined mission, designed to track the success of each state agency including the university. The university is required, by the legislature, to report on its assigned measures. Each year the legislature must pass an act outlining the missions and measures for each state agency and the university. You may review each missions and measures bill as signed into law by the governor below.

The following is the missions and measures language for the University of Alaska's 2001-02 academic year:

Article 15. University of Alaska.
Section 152. University of Alaska.

Mission: The mission of the University of Alaska is to respond to the educational needs of all Alaskans and to enhance Alaska's economy by fostering and promoting

(1) a high quality postsecondary educational system;

(2) appropriate vocational education development and training;

(3) advancement and extension of knowledge, learning, and culture; and

(4) the application of new knowledge and emerging technologies to meet the needs of the state.

Measures: The legislature intends to measure the success of the University of Alaska in achieving its mission by considering:

(1) the number and percentage of total Alaska high school graduates who (A) attend the University of Alaska; (B) attend the University of Alaska as Alaska Scholars; and (C) stay in Alaska one year, five years, and 10 years after graduation from the University;

(2) the percentage of students graduating with degrees in teacher education, health careers, process technology, transportation and logistics, information technology, and other high demand job areas;

(3) the number of University of Alaska graduates, by community of origin and by community of current employment, who are (A) new teachers; (B) new principals; (C) new superintendents;

(4) the number and percentage of total credit hours and courses offered by distance delivery;

(5) the cost per credit hour delivered by distance delivery;

(6) the pre-training wage as compared to the post-training wage for vocational education graduates;

(7) the amount of research grants in arctic biology, climate change, resource development, fisheries and ocean science, logistics, geosciences, and atmospheric sciences;

(8) the number of graduate students whose education is funded by research grants;

(9) the occurrences of applied research benefiting the state's economy;

(10) the quality of research as measured by annual citation and significant publications in referred journals;

(11) the graduation and retention rate of full-time-equivalent students in degree programs;

(12) the comparative scores of students who take professional examinations.

Source: BASIS Alaska State 22nd Legislature, SCS CSHB 250(FIN).

Read or download (230kB) the full text of HB250 (passed into law May, 2001).

Read or download (105kB) the full text of SB281 (passed into law May, 2000).

Read or download (71kB) the full text of SB169 (passed into law May, 1999).

During the second session of the 22nd Legislature, HB515 was passed stating the missions and measures for UA's 2002-03 academic year. Read or download (246kB) the full text of HB515 (passed into law May, 2002).


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