Identify Activity That Will Require
Augmentation in FY 2001-02
AFFILIATION AND TEACHING
AGREEMENTS
This request is for
a permanent position to administer and negotiate Affiliation
Agreements and other Off Campus Experience-Based Learning
Agreements, including Teaching Agreements and Special Contracts
with school districts.
In the past, Affiliation
Agreements required only simple, often just verbal agreements,
which were administered on an ad hoc basis by one part-time
staff, and one part-time student assistant. As academic
programs such as Nursing, Social Work, Physical Therapy,
Family and Consumer Sciences, and Recreation and Leisure,
have increased their demands for these services and agreements,
the process has become more complicated:
a. Volume increases:
b. A high level of expertise is
needed to manage these programs:
For the above mentioned reasons the University can no longer
afford to provide service to the Campus Community on a "part
time, as other work permits" basis. Risk Management
has listed Affiliation Agreements as an area of high-risk
liability. Without this additional staff position, the University
will be at high risk of losses and faced with legal obligations.
The Purchasing department is faced with large backlogs
in processing contracts. Failure to have contracts in place
will adversely impact the academic/graduation needs for
students in Nursing, Physical Therapy, Social Work, and
Teaching degree programs.
