Forsee works for accountability

Posted to Live Blog: UM system Board of Curators meeting by Josh Barone at 3:50 p.m., Oct. 23, 2008

UM system President Gary Forsee presented the Accountability Measures and Strategic Planning report, which included goals and methods of checking accountability.

The measures mentioned were teaching and learning, research and discovery, economic development and community service and engagement.

“This moves us, if not towards best practice, then close to that,” Forsee said.

Forsee said the first priority is to establish baseline information.

“We want to be sure that we correlate and establish a good baseline,” he said. “In some cases, we’re going to have to do a little bit of work developing that.”

The Board will then be able to compare benchmarks with the baseline, Forsee said.