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Budget Initiative Recommendations

FY03



View the FY03 Initiative Planning Ideas

IDEA #
TITLE
PROPOSED AMOUNT
TOTAL
NOTES
Data
NA Expand Capabilities in Remote Sensing, Modeling and Data Compilation Analysis 400,000   Combine Ideas #66, 38, 39, 56, 72 and 13
    Total 400,000
Economic Development
82 MBA in Health Services Adminstration 300,000   Include UAA
121 Information Systems Emphasis at UAA and UAF 440,000   Include UAA
80 International Experience in the MBA Program, Phase I 36,000    
168 Rural Development BA and MA Distance Programs 284,000    
    Total 1,060,000  
Engineering
         
9 Sustainable Energy Systems 150,000    
136 Enhanced Design Experience for First-Year Engineering Students 95,000    
70 Wireless Communication 185,000    
5 Improvement of Rural Alaska's Technological Infrastructure 250,000    
    Total 680,000
Health
18 Biomedical Health Initiative 500,000   Reduce equipment to $100K and include in continuation budget
132 Statewide Distance Delivered Baccalaureate in Social Work 200,000   Original budget was for 3 yrs; ca $200K/hr is needed to replace Mental Health Trust Funds which expire at the end of FY02
    Total 700,000  
Humanities/Arts
133 Institute for Northern Indigenous Peoples and Languages 225,000   Reduce scope
34 Strengthening Native Lanuage Teacher Education 95,000    
33 Master of Arts in Administration of Justice 150,000   Reduce scope
31 Ph.D. Program in Psychology 160,000   Year 1 Funding
    Total 630,000
Natural Resources
19 Ecotoxicology of Subsistence Foods 290,000   Designate toxicologist position as BRIN magnet PI
NA Marine Biology Program 200,000   Phase in program; combine ideas #44 and 140
NA Petroleum Geology and Engineering 250,000   Combine ideas #85, 118, and 127
NA Horticulture and Nurseries 135,000   Combine ideas #17, and 169
59 Sustainability 400,000    
47 Assistant Professor of Geography 75,000   Joint appointment with IARC ?
    Total 1,350,000  
Student Success
172 Rural Student Services Peer Advisors 50,000   Extend to Advising Center, Admissions and TVC
173 Rural Student Services Student Coordinator 50,000    
174 UAF Scholarship Services 48,000   Fund position only
176 UAF Leadership Development Program 112,000   Phase in
179 Assistant Recreation Manager 30,000    
187 Wellness Program 50,000    
188 Education, Development, Growth and Experience (EDGE) Program 85,000    
20 UAF Internship Program with CES and MAP 75,000   Include some student stipends
NA Strengthen Rural Science 200,000   Combine ideas #84, 33 and 109
182 Add Women's Sport 224,000    
NA Student Learning Assitant 150,000   Combine ideas #83, 113 and 114; phase in
    Total 1,074,000  
Teacher Education
1 Distance Education: Modernizing and Coordinating Statewide Rural Delivery of Teacher Education Programs 720,000    
141 Teacher Induction 45,000    
    Total 765,000  
Vo-Tech
107 Integrating Professional Certification into the Microcomputer Specialist Program 90,000    
NA Rural Services in Health and Social Work 90,000   Combine ideas #108 and 130
160 Applied Mining Technology 300,000    
161 Radiology Technician AAS 116,000    
159 Early Childhood Learning Center Expansion 165,000   remove renovation cost (alternate funding)
    Total 761,000  
Extreme Environments
60 Cryospheric Dynamics 130,000    
125 Center for the Inderdisciplinary Study of Low-Temperature Environmental Processes (ISLEP) 250,000    
    Total 380,000  
Infrastructure
157 Statewide Expansion of the Alaska Space Grant Program 175,000    
NA UA Major Instrumental Center 350,000   Use idea #128 to initiate a major instrumentation center for the UA System; include proposers of idea #156 in development of this initiative; joint with UAA and UAS.
    Total 525,000  
IT
29 Implement Ubiquitous Computing 450,000    
30 Moving Beyond the Walls: 24x7 Delivery of Information to the Student/Faculty Desktop 497,000   Systemwide
    Total 947,000  
         
Grand Total
9,272,000

View the FY03 Initiative Planning Ideas

Please contact Hild Peters in the Provost's Office, 302 Signers' Hall with your questions at fnhmp@uaf.edu or extension 5178.
   

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