Planning Agenda for Standard III B- Physical Resources (5-20-08)

	Standard Text	Action Items	Recommendations
1. 1a. 2. 2a. 2b.	The institution provides safe and sufficient physical resources that support and assure the integrity and quality of its programs and services, regardless of location or means of delivery. The institution plans, builds, maintains, and upgrades or replaces its physical resources in a manner that assures effective utilization and the continuing quality necessary to support its programs and services. To assure the feasibility and effectiveness of the physical resources in supporting institutional programs and services, the institution plans and evaluates its facilities and equipment on a regular basis, taking utilization and other relevant data into account. Long-range capital plans support institutional improvement goals and reflect projections of the total cost of ownership of new facilities and equipment. Physical resource planning is integrated with institutional planning. The institution systematically assesses the effective use of physical resources and uses the results of the evaluation as the basis for improvement	Establish a transparent process for the institution to use to evaluate ongoing needs for safe and sufficient physical resources. Determine a process that the institution could use to effectively plan and evaluate its facilities and equipment on a regular basis, taking utilization and other relevant data into account. Determine a means for closing the planning/budgeting/allocation loop.	Facilities committee determine a format for providing this input as part of the unit plan process-determine how the information would disseminated to the programs/divisions Have Facilities committee formalize a process for Priority objective for IPBC and college