Campus Adapts to Planning Needs

Chancellor Henry T. Yang last month announced a number of shifts in the organization and staffing of offices with budget and planning responsibilities.

In a message to the campus community in which he cited many areas in which UCSB had made great strides in recent years, the chancellor noted that the current budget climate made it imperative that the campus be strategic in its plans and actions. "We all have worked very hard to help UCSB become a leading research university, and at this critical time I would not want us to lose sight of all that we have accomplished, and lose our focus on the future and what we hope to achieve," he wrote.

The campus, he said, faces some major planning challenges in the near future, including the completion of a long-range academic plan and planning for the revision or replacement of the campus's 1991 Long Range Development Plan.

Although a committee had been formed to help conduct a search for a vice chancellor for budget and planning—a new position—the chancellor announced that the campus would be going in a different direction.

"Instead of establishing a new vice chancellor position, my consultations led me to conclude that our campus would, at this time, be much better served by a reorganization of the Office of Budget and Planning and the realignment of some of its responsibilities," Yang said.

He announced that Budget Director Todd G. Lee had been appointed assistant chancellor for budget and planning, a post he has filled on an acting basis for the past two years, and that long-range planning was being moved from the Office of Budget and Planning to the Office of the Vice Chancellor, Administrative Services. Planning director Tye Simpson will report directly to Marc Fisher, associate vice chancellor for campus design and facilities, and work closely with Vice Chancellor George Pernsteiner on the LRDP update.

The full text of the chancellor's message is available at <http://www.chancellor.ucsb.edu/memos.shtml>.