University System of Ohio Opportunities
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Efficiencies
In 2009, as a key strategy of the 10-year Strategic Plan for Higher Education, the Advisory Committee on Efficiency in the University System of Ohio was created to identify spending efficiencies and productivity improvement strategies, and then implement best practices statewide. The committee not only looks for ways to lower costs, but also seeks ways to increase the value of educational quality and service. The committee continues to assist institutions in finding ways to increase collaborative efforts that are focused on saving dollars, while enhancing the education and services provided to students and the general public.
The five areas of efficiency the committee focuses on are as follows:
Academic |
Administrative |
Energy |
IT |
Procurement |
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| Academic Efficiencies improve cost of degree, time to degree, quality, program structure, delivery and associated benefits and compensation. | Administrative Efficiencies enhance university operations, including anything from landscaping to payroll to travel, and other non-student related institutional functions that influence cost and time to degree. | Energy Efficiencies seek and refine sustainable methods utilized by institutions to procure and use energy. | IT Efficiencies recognize campuses as IT intensive environments and refi ne their purchasing and implementation processes for IT services, equipment and software, including evaluation of opportunities to virtualize and outsource IT administrative, desktop and infrastructure elements. | Procurement Efficiencies streamline purchasing practices that are implemented systematically and strategically for an institution, multiple institutions or even the entire system, including identifi cation of new procurement systems and organizational opportunities to reduce costs associated with purchasing anything from pens and pencils, to dorm mattresses to copier paper are being indentified. |
