Preliminary
Appendix D
FY11 UAF Performance Evaluation Template
A: End Result – High Demand Job Area Awards
Target: The FY 13 target is 775 awards.
Status: UAF awarded 727 HDJA occupational endorsements, certificates, and degrees in FY11. This is
slightly below the nominal FY11 target of 760 awards, but well above the low end of the target range,
685 awards. FY11 awards were below FY10 awards, which numbered 775.
High Demand Job Area Awards (HDJAA)
1000
800
600
400
200
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Analysis of results and challenges: FY09 UAF HDJA awards, 646, were well below expectations,
apparently due to the economic turmoil that year. Awards rebounded to 775 in FY10, and that number
included some that would have been awarded in FY09 under normal circumstances. Also in FY10 large
CRCD grants ended, particularly a HUD grant that produced many Construction Trades graduates.
Hence, the FY11 number of HDJAA was expected to be lower, although the decrease was a little more
than projected. As seen under submetric A3, the enrollment in HDJA programs has been increasing
steadily since FY07, at an average rate of nearly 5% per year. Given that performance on retention is in
line with targets for improvement, the positive enrollment trend should translate into further increases in
HDJAA. However, there is a time lag between enrollment and graduation; for example, baccalaureateseeking freshmen enrolling in FY07 (a low point in recent HDJA enrollments) began graduating in
FY11.
Campus Performance Highlights
 The College of Rural and Community Development (CRCD) was awarded $9,572,993 in Title
III program funding for facilities renovations. The funding has a two-year timeline for design
and construction. CRCD also received $18.4M over the next five years for program development
and outreach.
Funding Impact
UAF has made close to $700,000 in internal reallocations in the past two years to support HDJA
programs.
Support has been provided for engineering, teacher education, business, and health
programs. TVEP has been a mainstay of funding UAF’s workforce development programs, with $1.6 M
provided in the past two years to fund a wide range of programs at both rural and urban campuses.
UAF has three major requests in this area. First, a 2+2 program in veterinary medicine is proposed. A
provisional agreement with Colorado State University would allow 10 students per year to enroll there,
after completing the first two years of their education at UAF. This program would help the state reap
additional benefits from the funds invested in biomedical faculty hires over the past decade, by
providing an avenue to educate Alaskans as veterinarians and help to fill the growing number of
positions in this area. The second request is for support for the rapidly growing Engineering program.
The legislature invested $850,000 in FY09 and as a result enrollment is now nearly double that in FY06.
However, the large increases in enrollment are now exceeding the capacity of certain fundamental
courses. Additional teaching assistants and faculty are needed to enable the many new students to
complete their degrees on time.
Internal Reallocations
Alaska Summer Research
Academy Engineering
modules
Amount
Metric
FY11 One-time
HDJAA
College of Engineering and
Mines, in order to cover costs
$100,000
associated with absorbing the
Computer Science program
FY11 PBB
HDJAA
School of Management, in
order to continue the
Northern Leadership Center
$150,000
FY11 PBB
HDJAA
$60,000
$42,700
FY11 PBB
FY11 reallocation, Other
HDJAA
HDJAA
$48,800
FY11 reallocation, Other
HDJAA
$59,600
FY11 reallocation, Other
HDJAA
$56,300
FY11 reallocation, Other
HDJAA
$81,000
FY12 PBB
HDJAA
$72,436
FY11 TVEP
HDJAA
$69,913
FY11 TVEP
HDJAA
Special Education faculty
Paramedicine faculty (1/2)
Occupational Health and
Safety faculty (1/2)
Biology/Allied Health
faculty
Early Childhood Education
faculty
Special Education Faculty
TOTAL
TVEP Funding
Vocational/career and
technical program
coordinator for BBC
CRCD Tech Prep
coordinator
$75,000
Funding Type
$673,400
IAC Rural Renewable
Energy program
$63,291
FY11 TVEP
HDJAA
$94,481
FY11 TVEP
HDJAA
$54,037
FY11 TVEP
HDJAA
$56,553
FY11 TVEP
HDJAA
UAF CTC Pipeline Training
Academy
$170,000
FY11 TVEP
HDJAA
KuC Applied Business
Program
$88,572
FY11 TVEP One-time
HDJAA
Bachelor of Emergency
Management (e-learning)
$91,140
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
$170,000
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
$113,100
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
$71,300
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
$75,200
$96,900
FY12 TVEP
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
HDJAA
Rural Community and Native
Student Outreach by School
$50,000
of Management
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
$54,000
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
$70,000
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
$90,550
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
FY12 TVEP
HDJAA
FY13 Operating Request
HDJAA
FY13 Operating Request
HDJAA
IAC Rural Facilities
Maintenance/Management
Program
NWC Bering Strait
Workforce Development
Coordinator
UAF CTC Human Services
Program
Fairbanks Pipeline Training
Center Lease (CTC)
Wildland Fire Science (IAC)
Construction Management
Graduate Certificate
Nursing Faculty (BBC)
Computer Applications
Bering Strait Workforce
Development (NWC)
Tech Prep Coordinator
Survey Equipment
Modernization
Alaska Seafood Processors
$44,000
Leadership Institute 2011
Seafood Harvester
Technology Training
$8,750
Program
Rural Practicum Placement
$10,000
for Social Work Students
TOTAL
$1,614,223
Proposed Legislative Request FY13
Veterinary Medicine 2+2
$400,000
Program
Engineering Enrollment and
$400,000
Graduation
Rural Jobs: Human Services,
Early Childhood Education,
Rural Facility Maintenance,
Workforce Development
Coordinator
$355,000
FY13 Operating Request
HDJAA
A1: Strategy – Health Awards
Target A1: The FY 13 target is 192 awards.
Status: In FY11 there were 163 HDJA in health-related areas, less than the target of 192 awards. The
number of FY11 awards was less than that in FY10, 221.
Health HDJAA
250
200
150
100
50
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Analysis of results and challenges: As noted in the analysis of HDJA awards overall, FY10 awards
were unusually numerous, including some awards that were delayed from FY09. So, a decrease in
FY11 was expected. In addition, health awards vary from year to year more than those in other areas
because of cohorting. Some two-year programs (e.g., dental hygiene) enroll and graduate students in
alternate years, i.e., there are no graduates every other year. Other, one-year programs such as Rural
Human Services and Community Health Practitioner enroll sponsored cohorts that vary dramatically in
size depending on the amounts of external funding, and it developed that FY11 was an unusually low
year for both programs. The dearth of FY11 RHS and CHP graduates accounted for nearly all of the
shortfall relative to the target. Another reason for high variability in health-related HDJA is that there
are many OEs and Certificates in this area that can be completed within one year, making productivity
difficult to predict. The number of majors in health areas remains high and is increasing. Therefore the
number of awards should continue to grow on average, but large year-to-year variations will occur. One
factor tempering optimism is that a large part of the recent enrollment increase is in “Allied Health Nonmajors”. These are individuals with an interest in health-related careers, but who either have not chosen
a major or were not admitted to their preferred major. These individuals may continue their education
elsewhere if UAF programs lack sufficient capacity.
Headcount of students enrolled in health-related programs.
FY06
FY07
FY08
FY09
597
603
586
FY10
734
835
A2: Strategy – Baccalaureate Engineering Awards
Target A2: The FY13 target is 108 baccalaureate degrees.
Status: The number of degrees awarded in FY 11 was 84, slightly less than the FY11 target of 90. The
number of degrees increased relative to FY10, when 77 were awarded.
Baccalaureate Engineering Degrees
100
80
60
40
20
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Analysis of results and challenges: The number of baccalaureate engineering degrees awarded in
FY11 was up 180% over the number awarded in 2007 and 2008. This reflects large increases in
engineering undergraduate enrollment that began in fall 2007. These have continued into fall 2011,
when we anticipate about 700 baccalaureate engineering majors, nearly twice the number that enrolled
in fall 2006. Since engineering degrees are demanding (requiring 130 credits or more), many students
require five years to complete, and the impacts of increased enrollments are just beginning to be
realized. The increases in enrollment have been the result of intensive recruiting efforts by a dedicated
staff recruiter, plus improvements in advising, curriculum, and co-curricular activities. Although UAF
CEM is progressing well in achieving the goal of doubling engineering graduates, it is reaching
enrollment capacity in most of its programs. Faculty workloads are full, especially considering the
demands of increasing engineering research. An acute problem is that enrollment is exceeding
classroom capacity. UAF has very few large classrooms that can accommodate more than 50 students,
and many engineering courses, particularly in the basic “Engineering Science” series taken by all
students, are over that size.
Campus Performance Highlights
 The UAF steel bridge team took first place at the Student Steel Bridge Competition at the
American Society of Civil Engineers Pacific Northwest Regional Conference March 31– April 2
in Anchorage. The team took first place overall and in five of six individual categories:
efficiency, stiffness, economy, lightness and construction speed.
 UAF won awards for best design and most improved snowmobile in the 12th annual Clean
Snowmobile Challenge held March 7–12 at Michigan Technological University. Nine UAF
engineering students (two graduate, seven undergraduate) competed in the Society of
Automotive Engineers (SAE) event.
 The UAF MicroMouse team recently returned from Boise with their fifth consecutive first place
finish. MicroMouse is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)-sponsored
student competition, where students build small autonomous robots to navigate a previously
unseen maze and find their way to the center.
A3: Strategy – HDJA Enrollment
Target A3: The FY13 target is a headcount of 5183.
Status: The headcount of HDJA Majors in FY11 was 5048, slight above the target of 4981. This was an
increase of nearly 6% over the number in FY10, 4770.
HDJAA Majors
6000
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Analysis of results and challenges: HDJA majors have steadily increased since 2007, and we
anticipate additional increases due to the soft job market and the new financial aid opportunities for
students through the Alaska Performance Scholarship and AlaskAdvantage programs. The main
challenge is capacity in some programs, particularly those that lead to the best-paying jobs, such as
process technology, nursing, dental hygiene, or engineering. UAF is seeing major enrollment increases
in the School of Management, both in its traditional business management and accounting programs, and
in the new Bachelor of Emergency Management Program, which is offered via e-learning.
B: End Result – Baccalaureate FTFT Six-Year Graduation Rates
Target: The FY13 target is 34.5%.
Status: The FY11 FTFT baccalaureate six-year graduation rate was 31.3%. No target was set for this
metric for FY11. The FY11 graduation rate was slightly less than that in FY10, 33.0%.
% of Entering FTFT Freshmen Graduated
after Six Years
Baccalaureate Graduation Rate
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Analysis of results and challenges: UAF began a concerted effort to increase baccalaureate student
graduation rates in FY08, by increasing the baccalaureate admission standard and instituting mandatory
course placement for many 100-level courses. The latter process was not completed until FY09. UAF
has also instituted supplemental instruction (FY08), DegreeWorks as an advising aid (FY10), and
elective first-year seminars (FY11). Measures taken in FY08 will only affect graduation rates in FY14
and after. The APS and AlaskaAdvantage Scholarships begun in FY12 should have a positive effect on
graduation rates, but will mainly impact FY16 and beyond. A major challenge in improving
performance on this metric is the long lag between actions and effects.
Campus Performance Highlights
 The University of Alaska Fairbanks conferred 1,144 degrees and certificates during its 89th
Fairbanks commencement ceremony and community campus commencements. This includes
awards earned during the summer 2010 and fall 2010 as well as spring 2011 semester.
 FY11 awards included 21 occupational endorsements, 137 certificates, 230 associate degrees,
506 bachelor’s degrees, 31 post-baccalaureate certificates, and 194 master’s degrees. Forty six
students received doctoral degrees, the highest number in UAF’s history.
Funding Impact
Student retention and graduation are very high priorities at UAF and nearly $900,000 has been
reallocated in support of these goals over the past two years. These funds have been invested at both the
Fairbanks campus and community campuses.
UAF is requesting funding to extend comprehensive, intensive advising and support to 400 additional
students in FY13. This advising program will be modeled on the highly successful SSSP program, that
has increased six-year graduation rates of at-risk students to over 40%. UAF is also requesting to
continue the one-time funding for the Honors program appropriated by the legislature in for FY12. The
Honors program attracts and retains very capable students who graduate at much higher rates than
average UAF students. UAF has reallocated internally in support of both of these programs, as well as
rural and CTC student advising. Additional UAF investments have been made in Freshman Seminars,
which offer students an exciting topic along with work intended to develop student success skills, and in
undergraduate research. Like Honors, undergraduate research should help UAF to attract and retain
highly capable students. However, all diligent students will be welcome to participate.
International student enrollment is increasing and many of these students would be more successful in
their degree programs if they had additional instruction in English. UAF has reallocated internally for
initial support of this program, and after sufficient students enroll, it will largely self-support on nonresident tuition revenue.
In FY11-12, the legislature provided an increment to enhance lower-division math instruction in order to
improve success in the math courses that are gateways to success in the sciences and engineering. The
new instructional approaches have been successfully implemented.
Internal Reallocation
Rural Campus Student
Service Support
UAF CTC Financial Aid
Advisor
Freshman Seminar
English as a Second
Language Program
Comprehensive Advising
Undergraduate Research and
Scholarly Activity
TOTAL
Legislative Appropriation
Technology Based Math and
Summer Bridge Program
Amount
Funding Type
Metric
$244,000 FY11 PBB
Retention, Graduation
$80,000 FY11 PBB
Retention, Graduation
$50,000 FY11 PBB
Retention, Graduation
$70,000 FY12 One-time
Retention, Graduation
$180,000 FY 12 One-time
Retention, Graduation
$250,000 Indirect Cost Recovery
(approx.) Reallocation
Retention, Graduation
$874,000
$150,000 FY11 One-time
Technology Based Math and
$150,000
Summer Bridge Program
Honors Program
$100,000
Proposed Legislative Request FY13
Comprehensive Advising
$600,000
Honors Program
$150,000
English as a Second
NGF only
Language Program
FY12 Operating
Increment
FY12, One-time
Retention, Graduation
Retention, Graduation
Retention and Graduation
FY13 Operating Request
FY13 Operating Request
Retention and Graduation
Retention and Graduation
FY13 Operating Request
Retention and Graduation
B1: Strategy – Undergraduate Retention
Target A1: The FY 13 target is 70.7%.
Status: Undergraduate retention was 69.3% for FY11. This was slightly above the FY11 target of
69.0%, and well above the FY10 retention of 66.7%.
First-Time Freshmen Retention
100
90
% Retained Fall to Fall
80
70
All FTFT
60
Bacc. FTFT
50
CTC FTFT
40
Rural FTFT
30
ALL FTPT
20
10
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
UAF Performance Report 2011: Undergraduate Retention
FY
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
All FTFT
65.7
63.9
66.5
66.7
69.3
Bacc. FTFT
77.4
75.4
76.5
81.5
82.8
CTC FTFT
46.5
39.9
45.1
47.1
52.6
Rural FTFT
50.0
27.3
35.7
63.6
33.3
ALL FTPT
39.2
42.8
41.8
47.4
43.1
FTFT = First-time, full-time; Bacc. = Baccalaureate-admitted; CTC = UAF Community and Technical
College; Rural = Students registered at any rural campus; FTPT = First-time, part-time.
Note that all columns except Bacc. FTFT include Certificate and Associate degree-seeking students as
well as Baccalaureate students.
Analysis of results and challenges:
Baccalaureate student retention is good and increasing, to 82% in 2011. UAF has made a number of
changes in programming and advising in order to achieve these improvements, as discussed above
relative to baccalaureate graduation rates. However, the retention metric includes associate degree and
certificate seeking students and part-time students, who are not retained nearly as well as FTFT
baccalaureate-seeking students. Most of the associate and certificate programs are open admission, and
so they enroll some students who are unprepared for college-level work as well as a large number of
non-traditional students who may need to refresh their academic skills. Also, the community campus
student population includes many students who have limited financial means and who depend on
financial aid. Since FY09 UAF has taken some steps via internal reallocations of funds to assist these
groups of students, including a dedicated financial aid advisor at CTC, and a combined financial aid and
academic advisor for each rural campus. CTC is seeing some improvements in retention, but none are
evident yet for rural students or part-time students.
Campus Performance Highlights
 The Federally funded Student Support Services Program for low-income, first-generation, and disabled

students was awarded a five-year grant renewal. This program has consistently achieved higher six-year
baccalaureate graduation rates, 40 to 48%, for its at-risk students than is found for UAF students as a
whole, 31 to 35%.
Undergraduate advisor Janet Schichnes was chosen as a recipient of a 2011 Certificate of Merit awarded
by Region 8 of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). Region 8 consists of five U.S.
states and three Canadian provinces. Assistant Provost Dana Thomas received the award for 2011
NACADA Region 8 Institutional Administrator.
Funding Impact
Funds requested for improving graduation rates will also improve retention as a necessary step to that
goal.
C: End Result – Student Credit Hours
Target: The FY13 target is 196,000 SCH.
Status: In FY11 190,000 SCH were generated. This was very near the FY11 target of 191,000 SCH,
and well above the FY10 performance of 184,000 SCH.
Student Credit Hours (thousands)
250
200
150
100
50
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Analysis of results and challenges:
UAF enrollment has increased 9% since FY09, and is trending toward another large increase in fall
2011. There are a number of factors underlying this increase and it is difficult to distinguish which are
paramount. The economy is clearly a factor. College enrollment typically correlates positively with
unemployment, and although Alaska has not suffered from the recession as much as other areas of the
U.S., there has been some impact. Although the population of high-school age people in Alaska has
been declining for several years, high school graduation rates increased several percent in 2009 and
2010, leading to an increase of nearly 900 high school graduates annually. The new state financial aid
programs may be encouraging more students to attend Alaska’s universities. Last but not least, UAF has
been engaged in concerted recruiting efforts that are yielding additional students; preliminary results for
fall 2011 show large increases in out-of-state transfer students and in students recruited from outside the
immediate Fairbanks area.
Campus Performance Highlights
 UAF was ranked 6th in U.S. News and World Report's 20 Most Popular Universities listing. The
rankings were compiled based upon school yield rates, which is the percentage of applicants
accepted by a college who end up enrolling at that institution in the fall. The rankings were taken
from the fall 2009 entering class, which listed UAF with a yield rate of 66.9 percent, just slightly
ahead of 7th ranked Yale University.
 In 2011 UAF continues as one of the “Best Regional Colleges” in the West, as ranked by The
Princeton Review.
 UAF Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI), with donor help from Shell Exploration, plans to
launch a geoscience program next summer to increase the number of minority students in the
STEM fields. The GeoFORCE program will be offered to Alaska Native students in Barrow and
other North Slope villages.
 Chancellor Rogers returned from Mongolia with a signed Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) between UAF and the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST). Under
the agreement students study two years in Mongolia followed by three at UAF.
 UAF physics undergraduates Marc Kirschner, Levi Overbeck and Andrew Winkelman received
bronze medals in the 2010 University Physics Competition. The students worked for 48 hours
straight to solve the problem of atmospheric braking of a satellite entering the atmosphere of
Neptune.
 A paper written by School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences’ (SFOS) Jennifer Stahl, while she
was a graduate student working with Gordon Kruse, was awarded the W.F. Thompson Best
Student Paper by the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists.
Funding Impact
Funding to increase enrollment in HDJAA Programs and to improve retention also favorably impact
student credit hour production. So, those sections offer additional information.
UAF has made several internal reallocations that will help to increase SCH. UAF is increasingly
recruiting international students and has provided supplemental funding for International Programs staff.
A transfer and international student recruiter has been funded, and after students are recruited this
position should become self-supporting on non-resident tuition revenue, so NGF is included in this
year’s budget request.
ASRA (Alaska Summer Research Academy) has received several funding increments in the past few
years, most recently in FY11. This program offers summer research experiences to middle and high
school students that are intended to foster their interest in higher education in general and in attending
UAF in particular.
Internal Reallocations
International Programs
Planning and Institutional
Research
Amount Funding Type
$25,000 FY11 PBB
Metric
Student Credit Hours
$120,000 FY11 PBB
Student Credit Hours
Transfer and International
Recruiter
$70,000 FY12 One-time
Student Credit Hours
ASRA Engineering
$25,000 FY12 PBB
Student Credit Hours
Proposed Legislative Request FY13
Transfer and International
Recruiter
NGF only FY 13 Operating Request
Student Credit Hours
C1: Strategy – First-time Freshmen Enrollment
Target A1: The FY13 target is 1154 first-time freshmen.
Status: In FY11 there were 1077 first-time freshmen enrolled. That was exactly the FY11 target. More
first-time freshmen enrolled in FY11 than in FY10, when 1008 enrolled.
Analysis of results and challenges:
This submetric is impacted by the same factors described under SCH. The increases in high school
graduates in Alaska have a particularly direct impact. UAF recruiting efforts are targeted on FTF as
well as traditional transfer students.
D: End Result – Research Expenditures
Target: The FY13 target is $121.8 M.
Status: In FY11 there were $124 M in research expenditures. This was much more than the FY11
target of $113 M, and a 5% increase over the $118 M expended in FY10.
Research Expenditures (millions of $)
$160
$120
$80
$40
$0
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
Note: The figures shown include state research RSAs.
Analysis of results and challenges: In fall 2010, when the last performance report was written, it
appeared likely that research expenditures would decrease in FY11. Most Department of Defense
funding for ARSC (Arctic Region Supercomputer) was ending, ARRA funding was ramping down, and
a major infrastructure-building program, EPSCoR, was not successful in its initial bid for renewed
funding. However, the prediction of a decline in research expenditures was too conservative, in part
because ARSC DoD funding did not end until May 2011. Also, many ARRA grants are still active in
FY11. Although FY11 expenditures remained high, mostly due to energy research and ship construction
management expenditures that will continue, the impact of losing the DOD ARSC funding and
nonrenewal of EPSCoR will be seen in FY12 and beyond. In general the federal deficit reduction efforts
are very likely to impact the availability of both competitive and non-competitive research funding, and
it’s likely that research expenditures will decline over the next year or two. Once the major new
research facilities (the R/V Sikuliaq and the Life Sciences Facility) that are currently under construction
can be occupied, and provided there is a continuing federal emphasis on Arctic research, research
expenditures should increase. Maintaining and increasing research expenditures depends on a
reasonably stable overall federal research budget; if there are major cuts in the process of deficit
reduction, all research universities will suffer.
Limited research facilities have been a major challenge for UAF research, as further discussed
under IAB Research Expenditures. The Alaska Center for Energy and Power needs research and office
space, as it is currently operating in rooms reassigned from other units and widely scattered across
campus. ACEP recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Energy Technology Facility Lab
Modules in May. When complete, the facility will include four bays to conduct energy-related research.
While only addressing part of the need, these facilities will be an improvement on the current situation.
Campus Performance Highlights
(Others are listed under the ASIA sub-metric)
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UAF Professor and IARC Director Emeritus Syun-Ichi Akasofu received the Hannes Alfvén
Medal by the European Geosciences Union. The medal is awarded for outstanding scientific
contributions toward the understanding of plasma processes in the solar system and other plasma
environments.
The Office of Sponsored Programs submitted a record 50 proposals for the National Science
Foundation’s (NSF) Arctic Research Opportunities solicitation. Researchers will receive funding
notification for these awards in summer 2011.
Academic supercomputing capabilities at UA expanded under a $1.4M Major Research
Instrumentation grant to ARSC. The NSF cyberinfrastructure grant will allow ARSC to provide
18 million additional computing hours on a supercomputing cluster manufactured by Penguin
Computing and used in support of the Pacific Area Climate Modeling and Analysis Network.
A keel-laying ceremony for the R/V Sikuliaq took place in April in Marinette, Wis. The 261-foot
oceanographic research ship will be owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by
UAF. UAF is managing the construction of the vessel.
Jeremy Mathis, assistant professor of chemical oceanography, won the Alaska Ocean Leadership
Award for research.
Strange and Sacred Noise, a film by Alaska Center for Documentary Film curator Len
Kamerling, premiered in New York City last month. Inspired by the John Luther Adams
composition of the same name, Kamerling, a percussion troupe and the film crew traveled to the
Alaska Range in 2008 to make the film.
UAF archaeologists Ben Potter and Joel Irish, along with three other colleagues announced in
late February that they have found the cremated remains of one of the earliest inhabitants of
North America. They published their discovery in the February 25 edition of the journal Science.
Hundreds of print, broadcast and internet media outlets covered the story, both domestically and
overseas.
School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (SNRAS) Associate Professor Susan
Todd has been granted a Fulbright Scholarship to teach and conduct research on the role of tribal
women in wildlife conservation in Namibia.
Funding Impact
UAF places a very high priority on research and that is reflected in the more than $2M reallocated
internally over the past two years to support the highest research priorities. These have included
biomedical research, arctic research, and high performance computing, as well as funds to pay the
interest on the UAF portion of the construction cost for the Life Sciences Research and Teaching
Building.
Legislative support totaling $750,000 was received for the Alaska Center of Energy and Power. As a
result ACEP is rapidly expanding its external funding, ACEP working on both conventional and
alternative energy sources, such as wind-diesel and geothermal energy, with community and industrial
partners. The legislature has also provided major funding for research outreach and engagement to the
Cooperative Extension Service ($450,000) and the Marine Advisory Program ($300,000, which was
matched by an additional $200,000 of internal reallocation). CES and MAP provide research based
knowledge to the public and also engage with communities to learn their research needs.
UAF is requesting FY13 funding to support high performance computing, which is an essential part of
the infrastructure for climate research, biomedical research, and other high priority research areas.
Funding is also sought to support commercialization of intellectual property, which will help research
contribute even more directly to the development of Alaska’s economy. Funding is sought to support
two outstanding and innovative graduate programs. The Indigenous Studies Program, approved only
two years ago, is projected to have over 30 students in fall 2011 and has already had three graduates. It
is rapidly increasing the number of Alaska Native people who have earned Ph.D.s, as well as
contributing substantially to the documentation, understanding, and dissemination of indigenous
knowledge through research. The Resilience and Adaptation Program is an interdisciplinary research
and graduate education program that has been competitively funded by NSF for 10 years and has
graduated nearly 40 students with more completing soon. However, NSF limits funding to 10 years, and
so other support must be obtained to continue the program. The UA Museum of the North has a large
art collection that has not been properly curated, and UAF needs to preserve this important cultural
resource and make more publically accessible. The Center for Alaska Native Health Research has been
very successful in securing competitive research funding, in part due to the assistance of visiting expert
researchers supported through the President’s Professors program. Since funding of that program is
ending, funds are needed to support this program, which has an excellent return on investment.
The R/V Sikuliaq is slated for delivery in 2014. NSF grants to support the operation of the vessel will
begin increasing, and therefore there is a request for NGF (grant ICR) that will support shore-side staff.
Internal Reallocations
Amount
Working capital repayment for
Life Sciences Building
Earth Science Curator
$400,000 Other FY11 reallocation
Research Expenditures
$18,500 Other FY11 reallocation
Research Expenditures
$80,000 FY11 PBB
Research Expenditures
IAB/CNSM Joint Public Health
Virology position
Raven Project
Advanced Instrumentation Lab
ARRA Grant Technician
Radar on Venus
ARRA Grant Coordinator
INBRE Biomedical Research
International Arctic Research
Center
High Performance Computing
Peace Corps Fellows
Veterinary Technician
$185,000
$100,000
$100,000
$61,000
$100,000
$200,000
Funding Type
FY11 PBB
FY11 PBB
FY11 PBB
FY12 One-time
FY12 One-time
FY12 One-time
Metric
Research Expenditures
Research Expenditures
Research Expenditures
Research Expenditures
Research Expenditures
Research Expenditures
$100,000 FY12 PBB
Research Expenditures
$500,000 FY12 PBB
$40,000 FY12 PBB
$90,000 FY12 PBB
Research Expenditures
Research Expenditures
Research Expenditures
INBRE Immunology Position
TOTAL
$100,000 FY12 PBB
Research Expenditures
$2,074,500
FY11 Legislative Appropriation
Alaska Center for Energy and
Power
$500,000
Operating Increment
FY11
Research Expenditures
$250,000
FY 12 Operating
Increment
Research Expenditures
FY13 Operating Request
Research Expenditures
FY13 Operating Request
Research Expenditures
FY13 Operating Request
Research Expenditures
FY13 Operating Request
Research Expenditures
FY13 Operating Request
Research Expenditures
FY13 Operating Request
175,000
NGF only FY13 Operating Request
Research Expenditures
FY12 Legislative Appropriation
Alternative Energy
Proposed FY13 Legislative Request
Cyberinfrastructure for
Research Computing
500,000
Commercialization of
University Intellectual Property
for Business Development
UAF Resiliance and Adaptation
Program (RAP) in Graduate
Studies
UAF Indigenous Studies PhD
and Alaska Native Knowledge
Network
210,000
300,000
250,000
Preservation of Alaska's Art and
Culture at UAF
285,000
President's Professors of
Biomedical Research
Sikuliaq On-shore Staff Support
Research Expenditures
D1: Strategy – IAB Research Expenditures
Target A1: The FY13 target is $18.1 M.
Status: In FY11 IAB research expenditures were $18.3M, 14% more than the FY11 target of $16.0 M.
FY11 performance was nearly the same as that in FY10, $18.4 M.
IAB Research Expenditures (millions of $)
$24
$20
$16
$12
$8
$4
$0
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
Analysis of results and challenges: IAB research, after a period of rapid growth in the 2000-2008
period, has become constrained by space limitations, both in terms of quantity and quality, since much
of the space IAB occupies is more than 40 years old and has been minimally renovated. The completion
of the Life Sciences Research and Teaching facility, projected for fall 2013, will help to alleviate this.
However, the new building will accommodate less than half of IAB faculty. Sufficient R&R funding to
rehabilitate older West Ridge Buildings remains an important need. A C06 grant from the National
Institutes of Health was secured to build space for the Center for Alaska Native Health Research in an
unused courtyard within the Arctic Health Research Building, as well as in Bethel.
Another significant challenge for IAB research funding is that two infrastructure building grants,
the Special Neuroscience Research Program and some of CANHR’s core funding, are ending and
associated researchers must secure more competitive grants in the future. Some have been successful in
obtaining NIH and NSF competitive awards, an encouraging sign.
Campus Performance Highlights
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The groundbreaking ceremony for the new 101,000-square -foot Life Sciences Facility (LSF)
was held March 30. The project is currently on schedule for Fall 2013 occupancy, an aggressive
schedule that reflects good project management from UAF DD&C as well as the project
CM@Risk, Davis Constructors.
Funding Impact
The $88 M provided for the construction of the Life Sciences Research and Teaching Facility through a
GO bond will have enormous, positive impacts on future IAB research.
D2: Strategy – ASIA Expenditures
Target A2: The FY13 target is $97.9.
Status: In FY11 ASIA expenditures were $89.0 M, greater than the target of $84.7 M. FY11
expenditures were greater than those in FY10, $83.2 M.
ASIA Research Expenditures (millions of $)
$100
$80
$60
$40
$20
$0
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
Analysis of results and challenges: ASIA constitutes a large proportion of UAF’s total research
expenditures, and the same factors affecting total research expenditures impact ASIA.
Campus Performance Highlights
 UAF and the U.S. Department of the Interior officially opened the Alaska Climate Science
Center — the first of eight projected centers in the nation — in the UAA Diplomacy Building.
The centers will work with government agencies and universities to build new capabilities and
will function as regional providers of climate science.
 Institute of Arctic Biology research scientist Øivind Tøien, IAB Director Brian Barnes and UAF
attending veterinarian John Blake, along with colleagues from Stanford are authors of a paper
published in the Feb. 18 issue of the journal Science that describes a novel experiment in which
hibernating bears' decrease their metabolism by 75 percent, yet their core body temperature
barely drops at all. The story also appeared in National Geographic, the Washington Post, the
Christian Science Monitor and Scientific American.
 The Alaska Library Association awarded Yupiit Yuraryait: Yup'ik Ways of Dancing with its 2011
Alaska Award . Theresa Arevgaq John, Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural
Development faculty, is one of the authors of this book.
 UAF researchers are collaborating on a new project aimed at childhood obesity-prevention
strategies in the Pacific region. The $2.9M is part of a $25M U.S.D.A. grant to the University of
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Hawaii. The project involves the Cooperative Extension Service, the Center for Alaska Native
Health Research and the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences.
In September 2010 the Alaska Center for Energy and Power at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks has received a $3 million grant from the Department of Energy to study options to
optimize wind-diesel hybrid energy systems in rural Alaska.
In October 2010 the School of Management awarded $19,000 in prizes in the second annual
Arctic Innovation Competition. The competition attracted 171 participants from around the
world (but mainly Alaskans), who proposed new, feasible and potentially profitable ideas for
solving real-world challenges.
Sandy Kerr, a Maori from New Zealand, will serve as Fulbright Scholar–in-Residence at the
Interior-Aleutians Campus. She will work with I-AC faculty to identify opportunities to
strengthen the teaching of planning and evaluation components of all key I-AC programs and
will teach undergraduate classes on indigenous evaluation in the Tribal Management Program.
Funding Impact
Funding impacts have were described in the first part of this section. Nearly all of the reallocated,
appropriated, and requested funds will contribute to increases in ASIA as well as total research
expenditures.
D3: Strategy – Ph.D. Student Enrollment
Target A2: The FY13 target is 459 students.
Status: The FY11 Ph.D. student headcount was 416 students (or 432 counting those not registered at
UAF). This was slightly below the nominal target of 430 students, if those registering at UAA or UAS
are not counted, but a 10% increase over the number of Ph.D. students enrolled in FY10, 389.
Headcount of Ph.D. Students
500
400
300
200
100
0
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
Analysis of results and challenges: The number of Ph.D. students is strongly influenced by research
revenue, because many Ph.D. students are funded as graduate research assistants on grants and contracts.
Thus growth in Ph.D. students depends on continued growth in research revenue. Another factor
leading to growth in doctoral enrollment is UAF’s new Ph.D. programs approved since 2005, in Clinical
Community Psychology (25 students in fall 2010, jointly with UAA. UAA students are not included in
this count if they did not register for UAF credits.); Indigenous Studies (19 students in fall 2010), and
Natural Resources Management and Sustainability (the newest program, with 8 students in fall 2010).
Campus Performance Highlights
 UAF set its second consecutive record for number of Ph.D.s awarded in a year, with 46 awarded
in FY11.
 Ray Barnhardt and the late Oscar Kawagley of the UAF Cross-Cultural Studies Program were
selected by the UAA College of Education as the first recipients of the Dr. William Demmert
Leadership Award. This award recognizes Alaskans who have made significant contributions to
the education of Alaska Natives through advocacy, teaching, practice and/or outreach programs.
Dr. Barnhardt and Dr. Kawagley played leading roles in the development of the Indigenous
Studies Ph.D. program.
 A UAF doctoral student, Catherine Chambers, received a Fulbright scholarship to study northern
fishing communities and adaptation. She'll study Kodiak and Iceland and how people there
experience environmental, social, economic and political change.
Funding Impact
All increases in research funding benefit graduate programs and doctoral degree production at UAF.
Graduate students are an integral part of UAF’s research.
E: End Result – University Generated Revenue
Target: The FY13 target is $249.1 M.
Status: In FY11 UAF generated revenue was $238.5 M, 6% above the FY11 target. FY11 UGR was
also 6% above that in FY10, $224.9 M.
University Generated Revenue (millions of $)
$280
$240
$200
$160
$120
$80
$40
$0
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
Analysis of results and challenges: University generated revenue was higher than expected due to
several factors: increased research revenue (rather than the anticipated decrease), the one-time risk
refund, and increased enrollment, tuition and fees were major factors. UGR and its trends are largely
dependent research and tuition and fees revenue streams, so the factors affecting UGR can be found in
discussions of those metrics.
Campus Performance Highlights
Also, see Research and Student Tuition and Fees Performance Highlights.
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The one-time risk refund allowed UAF to address the outstanding working capital agreements
from prior obligations, including the Bookstore and Tech Center deficit, and allowed UAF to
make significant progress on smart classroom renewal and bringing the campus IT infrastructure
up to the VOIP standard.
At the beginning of FY11, to address on-going structural deficits, UAF imposed an average 5%
internal reallocation into operating units. The higher than expected research and tuition revenue,
allowed many units to maintain service levels.
Funding Impact
The operating budget increments that support retention, student credit hour growth, HDJAA programs,
and research all contribute to increasing university-generated revenue. In addition, capital expenditures
on infrastructure and on new and renovated facilities for teaching and research are crucial for increasing
UGR.
E1: Strategy – Student Tuition and Fees
Target E1: The FY13 target is $47.9 M.
Status: The FY11 tuition and fee revenue of $42.4 M was very close to the target of $$43.1 M. The
FY11 tuition and fee revenue was up at least 6% over that in FY10, $39.9 M.
Tuition and Fee Revenue (millions of $)
$50
$40
$30
$20
$10
$0
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
Analysis of results and challenges: Increases in tuition and fee revenues depend on enrollment
increases and tuition rate increases. Sufficient tuition rate increases to offset increased costs of
instruction and institutional operations that are not covered by state appropriation are crucial to
maintaining the quality and capacity of degree programs. Approximately, if fixed costs increase by
$13M (as has been typical recently) and if the state appropriation covers $4M of those fixed costs, that
leaves $9M to be covered from university generated revenue. About 45% of UAF unrestricted
expenditures are instruction and student-related, so $4.5M needs to be covered by tuition and fee
revenue. If tuition and fee revenue is $43M, then the needed annual increase is about 10%. Although
UAF continues to strive for greater efficiency, continued revenue shortfalls will lead to program
eliminations and enrollment caps on popular programs.
Student tuition and fees (STF) are becoming an increasingly large proportion of UAF’s total
revenue and are increasing relative to state appropriation revenue.
STF/Total Revenue
STF/State
Appropriation
FY07
0.07
FY08
0.08
FY09
0.08
FY10
0.09
FY11
0.10
0.20
0.21
0.21
0.22
0.24
Campus Performance Highlights
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In FY 11 student tution and fee revenue reached 10% of total UAF revenue for the first time in
recent years. This occurred despite substantial increases in research revenue.
Funding Impact
See discussion under student credit hours.
E2: Strategy – Revenue from Philanthropy
Target A1: The FY13 target is $6.1M.
Status: UAF received $4.8 M in private gifts in FY11. This was below the FY11 target of $6.0 M and
also below the $7.0 M in gifts received in FY10. However, in addition, $16.8M in charitable grants was
received in FY11.
Charitable Gifts and Grants* (millions of $)
$25.0
$20.0
$15.0
Grants
Private Gifts
$10.0
$5.0
$0.0
FY06
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
*Development did not consistently track charitable grants before FY11.
Analysis of results and challenges: The economy continues to negatively affect philanthropy.
However, increasing investment income for individuals and higher corporate profits, as well as the
larger state tax incentive for corporate donations (Alaska Higher Education Tax Credit), are improving
the climate. Loss of UA support for development after the economic downturn has been an ongoing
challenge, but UAF has reallocated internally to support a small but effective development staff.
Campus Performance Highlights for FY11
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The second UAF Annual Giving Program Giving Initiative, Employees Make It Happen, yielded
more than $225,000, donated by nearly 600 employees, in support of students and programs.
In FY11, overall donor participation was increased by 6% (197 donors) and alumni giving
increased by 16% percent over FY10, supporting UAF’s goal of increasing individual
participation in philanthropy. This was due in part to the success of the first ever Annual Giving
phonathon, in which student callers raised more than $30,000 from 170 donors.
ConocoPhillips Alaska has established a new $500,000 engineering endowment to support
student academic programs and research in the UAF College of Engineering and Mines.
BP completed its gift, totaling $1M, to fund the cataloging and processing of U.S. Senator Ted
Stevens’ papers. The Ted Stevens Gallery, located in the Rasmuson Library, opened in July
2011.
BP made a gift of $100,000 to the College of Engineering and Mines to upgrade existing
equipment in the mechanical engineering program, one of the fastest-growing programs on the
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campus. The design lab will receive new computer-aided design and computer-aided
manufacturing equipment which is crucial for preparing graduates to work in industry.
The Usibelli Coal Mine, a long-term UAF supporter, donated $165,000 to the Usibelli Mining
Scholarship and to anew Usibelli Coal Mine Diesel/Heavy Equipment scholarship.
Flint Hills Resources Alaska donated $135,000 to help support the School of Management
Visiting Faculty Program & Students in Free Enterprise Program (SIFE), the Alaska Summer
Research Academy, UAF Athletics, UAF’s Community and Technical College, the College of
Engineering and Mines’ Engineering Week/Open House, and the UA Museum of the North.
Grainger made an in-kind gift of equipment and supplies totaling $218,853 to the Community
and Technical College Process Technology Program.
ConocoPhillips Alaska made an in-kind gift totaling $56,000 of self-contained breathing
apparatus bottles to the Community and Technical College Fire Science Program.
The CRCD rural campuses generated approximately $500K in sponsorship of students, tuition
and in-kind support in FY11. The Bristol Bay Campus completed the first ever rural capital
campaign for the purchase of a science lab and classroom.
Funding Impact
Philanthropic donations are not officially part of UGR, but are an increasingly important part of UAF’s
revenue strategies. Consequently, UAF has made significant investments in maintaining development
staffing after UA support was withdrawn, as listed in the table below. However, these are not sufficient
to increase philanthropy to the levels needed, and so a request for additional funding is made.
Internal Reallocations
Amount
Funding Type
Development
$226,000 PBB FY11
Development
$125,000
UA Strategic Initiative
FY11
Development
$74,000 Other FY11 reallocation
Development
$50,000
FY12 Foundation
Funding Reallocation
Metric
University Generated
Revenue
University Generated
Revenue
University Generated
Revenue
University Generated
Revenue
Proposed Legislative Request FY13
Development: Increase
giving in support of student
success.
$300,000
FY13 Operating Request
University Generated
Revenue for Retention and
Graduation
F: End Result – Non-credit Instructional Units
Target: The FY13 target is 5665 NCIU.
Status: In FY11 5039 NCIU were generated, almost exactly the target amount of 5,000. The FY11
performance was greater than that in FY10, 4246.
Non-credit Instructional Units
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
Analysis of results and challenges: Rapid increases over the past five years largely reflect more
consistency in entering non-credit instruction into Banner.
Campus Performance Highlights
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is responsible for generating many of UAF’s
NCIU. OLLI offers non-credit classes at nominal cost to seniors. A $1M gift from the Bernard
Osher Foundation in FY10 has enabled expansion of their class offerings.
Funding Impact: Except in extension units, non-credit instruction is usually self-support. UAF has not
sought nor received additional GF funding for this effort.