SANDRA (SANDY) K. WOODLEY currently serves as the UT System’s vice chancellor for strategic initiatives overseeing the offices of Strategic Management and Institutional Studies and Policy Analysis. She provides leadership to coordinate key System initiatives, streamline reporting requirements and track the progress and impact of the UT System strategic plan and related administrative and institutional activities. She oversees the development and production of the annual UT System Accountability and Performance Report, which includes information on the nine academic and six health institutions’ academic, health care and service missions and emphasizes measures such as student outcomes, research, faculty productivity, clinical care and efficiency.
Before joining the UT System, Dr. Woodley served as the chief financial officer and the chief planning officer for the Arizona University System. There she handled policies and analyses related to university finance including: funding models, capital needs assessment, efficiency and productivity initiatives, budgeting, monitoring financial strength, and developing and maintaining accountability systems and reporting. Sandy was the lead staff to the board on all strategic planning efforts, including long range planning, performance, and financial projections to achieve goals for the system to 2020. She was also lead staff regarding tuition policy including monitoring and analyzing affordability, financial aid policies, and developing new models and proposals for tuition setting.
Before joining the Arizona system, she served in similar positions both in Kentucky and Alabama. Her work in Kentucky involved managing more than 350 million dollars in strategic incentive funding for the Kentucky system related to Kentucky’s statewide strategic plan. She also led a comprehensive funding review process aimed at streamlining funding policies to be more directly related to the strategies and goals of the system.
Prior to her work on the three higher education boards, Sandy was a financial analyst for the Alabama Legislature specializing in higher education and economic development. She also served Auburn University, Center for Government, in revenue forecasting and economic cost benefit analysis for the State of Alabama.
Sandy earned a Bachelor of Science from Auburn University in Business administration, double majoring in Finance and Economics. She also earned two additional advanced degrees: a Master of Business Administration and a Doctor of Business Administration, with specialization in both finance and management.
Sandy is married with three children.
Contact Dr. Sandy Woodley:
Email: swoodley@utsystem.edu
Office of Strategic Management
702 Colorado Street, Colorado Building, Suite 6.2
Austin, Texas 78701
Phone: (512) 499-4798
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