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Effectiveness and Efficiency Initiative

 

What is the Effectiveness and Efficiency (E&E) Program?

A University System of Maryland effort to achieve savings for redirection to the system's highest priorities:

In brief, E&E is supporting the system's overarching goals of Quality, Accessibility, Affordability, and Accountability. USM began implementing E&E in fall 2004.

Why did USM launch E&E?

USM developed and launched E&E to change the way the system does business so it can deal effectively with its fiscal, enrollment demand, and personnel challenges. USM is serving more students and absorbing higher costs with fewer people and less state funding. Since FY 2002, the system has:

What are we working to achieve with E&E?

Specifically, how will E&E achieve these goals?

To build enrollment capacity:

To reduce costs and fund quality:

Clarification of specific initiatives that have been misinterpreted. These initiatives seek to improve the overall quality of students' education experiences, give students the opportunity to accelerate their time to degree and thereby save money, and increase the system's capacity to accommodate additional students.

Initiative: Develop a policy that limits undergraduate degree requirements to 120 credits, except in cases where program accreditation requirements mandate otherwise:

Initiative: Develop a policy that encourages students to complete their studies without compiling an excessive number of credits beyond those required for degrees.

Initiative: Ensure average faculty course loads achieve the midpoint of the range set by the regents:

Note: Draft policies for the three initiatives outlined above are scheduled for board review in spring semester 2005.

Initiative: The USM Board of Regents will undertake an organization review of the System and develop recommendations regarding the most effective and efficient structure for USM and its institutions.

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