The UC organizational restructuring effort launched by Regents’ Chairman Blum and President Dynes is approaching the end of its first phase, the Board of Regents was told at its July meeting.

UC has engaged Monitor Group, a global management consulting firm, to work with the university on the project. The effort aims to, first, assess administrative and finance functions across the university and search for opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness; second, clarify the respective operational roles of the Regents, the Office of the President, and the campuses; and third, pursue a number of initiatives that will yield cost and/or service quality improvements and reinvest any savings in the academic mission.

The first phase of the project has focused on assessing the current effectiveness of various administrative functions across the UC system. Since the project’s inception in April, Monitor Group has conducted in-person interviews, analyzed financial and human resources data, and conducted a Web-based survey of more than 650 members of the UC community. The preliminary findings will be shared with a steering committee of UC leaders, and a report on the findings and next steps will be presented to the Regents at an upcoming meeting.

Dick Attiyeh, former vice chancellor for research and dean of graduate studies at UC San Diego, has been named primary liaison between UC and the Monitor Group project team. He replaces Robert Grey, former provost of UC Davis, who relinquished the position upon being named acting chancellor of UC Riverside recently.

Members of the UC community wishing to provide comments or ideas related to the project are invited to do so anonymously via an electronic form at http://UCrestructuring.monitor.com.

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