The UT System Office of Strategic Management provides leadership, staffing, and resources to foster alignment, manage development, coordinate initiatives, and track progress and impact of the UT System strategic plan and related administration and campus activities. The Office of Institutional Studies and Policy Analysis connects data analysis with policy and decision making.
The office chairs and staffs strategic initiative advisory groups and leads inprovements in the accountability and assessment framework, including development of peer comparisons and benchmarking studies. OSM also leads improvements in the compact process and alignment with individual campus strategic or long-range plans. It helps to identify opportunities for management inprovements across UT System functional areas and aligns institutional studies and policy analysis with management information and policy needs of the Board, Chancellor, legislative requests, and with strategic and functional activities of UT System offices and campuses.
The goal of these activities is to support evidence-based decision-making by fostering cross-System focus, alignment, and effective communication about the key goals, priorities, and outcomes of UT System activities.
The UT System establishes goals and implements priorities to achieve excellence aligned with clear and specific plans that engage people throughout the organization, including institutions, System offices, and the Board of Regents. Through an integrated approach to planning and accountability, the System takes actions and communicates effectively its areas of emphasis, specific priorities, initiatives, and accomplishments to demonstrate the value that it provides in serving Texans.
To fulfill its mission, OSM:
- Leads implementation and management of the 10-year UT System strategic plan to foster alignment among institution, System, and Board planning and analysis of progress. Campus strategic plans align with System-wide goals and priorities, but exhibit considerable flexibility in format and content to reflect the distinctive missions of each institution. These plans, more over, align with the System's accountability framework and review of executive work plans, so that progress on key priorities is tracked, analyzed, and communicated widely to inform future improvement efforts.
- Coordinates annual schedule of special topic strategic and accountability reports.
- Leads implementation in collaboration with Academic and Health Affairs, of the Campus Compact process, and works closely with System offices and campuses to align the Compacts with campus strategic planning efforts.
- Coordinates and facilitates development of System Administration strategic plans, in collaboration with System offices.
- Leads implementation of the UT System strategic global and leadership institute initiatives.
- Directs research and publishes the UT System's annual accountability and performance report and related studies.
- Works with policy leaders to align the UT System framework with state and national trends in accountability, and enhance the System's national leadership contributions on these issues.
- Institutional Studies and Policy Analysis - Provides management information and analyses in support of the strategic objectives and institutional improvement efforts of the University of Texas System. Responsibilities of the office include providing an integrated approach to institutional research, conducting policy analyses, maintaining a repository of management information, and disseminating information for use by decision-makers.
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Regents on May 15 accepted the System’s fifth annual Accountability and Performance Report, which provides data and analysis on a variety of academic, health-care and service missions across the System’s nine academic and six health institutions.
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