Standard 3:
Developing and Applying Resources and
Organizational Structures to Ensure Sustainability
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3.8: The institution's organizational structures and decision-making
processes are clear, consistent with its purposes, and sufficient to support
effective decision making.
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UC Santa Cruz Summary of Evidence |
Although it is a huge institution with ten campuses, the
University
of California has a conceptually straightforward organization.
Ultimate responsibility for the University rests with the
Board of Regents.
The President
of the University and the Office of the
President are responsible to the Regents for
system-wide
policy and administration. Each UC
campus has
an administrative structure led by a chancellor. The administrative
organization and division of responsibility for
UC Santa Cruz are summarized in the
organizational charts to which there are links below.
Analogously the university faculty are organized into the
system-wide Academic
Senate and then into corresponding
Divisions
of the Academic Senate on each campus.
Other WASC criteria speak to the sufficiency of this
organization to support effective decision-making. At the campus level, UC
Santa Cruz campus periodically undertakes an evaluation of how effectively
its organizational structure, decision-making processes, and academic
program review processes are supporting the core campus mission. For
example, a recent
external review of the campus’ top-level academic organization
commissioned by the Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor suggested a
number of improvements to the campus’ organization that are currently under
consideration.
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Links to Evidence and Related Documents |
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