Click on the following links to view the report , summary section of report, appendices to the report, or comments on the report.  Please send comments and/or suggestions on the report to ubppm@unm.edu.  Comments (without names) will be posted to the comments page on this site within approximately 72 hours after receipt. 

A draft of this report was reviewed Aug 27, 2008, by representatives of the Operations Committee, Governance Committee, and AF&T.  The administrative team incorporated as many of their comments and/or suggestions as time permitted. The few that could not be addressed in this report will be included in an updated report published at the end of the next fiscal year. Your comments will also be addressed in the updated report. 

General Faculty Resolution

In a spirit of transparency and in order to operationalize accountability and have a productive partnership between administration and faculty, the General Faculty of the University Of New Mexico hereby resolve that: 

The University make public no later than August 31, 2008 a comprehensive review of the change in upper administration positions at the University of New Mexico over the last five years and over the last twelve months including full details regarding organizational lines of authority, the number of administrative positions above the level of Deans, the total compensation cost of those positions and associated staff and facilities and the sources of funding for those positions. This review shall also provide a summary comparison of current administrative positions at peer institutions.

In response to this faculty resolution regarding upper administration growth, President David Schmidly convened the following working group to evaluate and review the issue and provide the requested data.   

Working Group Membership:

Administrative Team Responsible for Producing Report:

David Harris, Executive Vice President Administration
Helen Gonzales, Vice President Human Resources
Andrew Cullen, Associate Vice President Planning, Budget, and Analysis
Mark Chisholm Director, Institutional Research
Ava Lovell, Vice President Finance
Carol Stephens, UNM Policy Office

Faculty Advisors to Administrative Team

Ann Brooks, Faculty Senate Representative to Regents Finances & Facilities Committee
Doug Fields, President Elect UNM Faculty Senate, Assoc. Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Howard Snell, Professor, President UNM Faculty Senate, Professor of Biology

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