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Analytical Writing Placement Examination
Re-establish the writing placement exam as a financially self-sustaining enterprise through cost containment and revenue-enhancing strategies, including the use of technology to create a more efficient scoring process and by creatively restructuring the exam processing where possible.
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Benefits Redesign
In the face of rapidly rising health and welfare benefits costs, projects under Benefits Redesign focus on reducing costs while preserving or improving benefits for over 300,000 enrolled UC employees, retirees and covered dependents.
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Fiat Lux
Captive insurance technologies provide the University the flexibility to meet it’s risk management objectives; the Fiat Lux captive will reduce UC’s cost of traditional insurance, while giving it greater control over the various risks for which it is responsible.
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Liquidity Management
Optimize the allocation of campus working capital between UC’s Short Term Investment Pool and its Total Return Investment Pool, and explore the possibility of a systemwide, coordinated approach to liquidity management.
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Statewide Energy Partnership
Identify, qualify, and implement energy efficiency projects systemwide to meet the policy goal of reducing energy use to 2000 levels by 2014, adjusted for growth, in a financially viable manner that results in long-term economic and environmental benefits.
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UC Student Health Insurance Plan
Implement a centralized, systemwide health insurance plan for all UC students, following an assessment of the cost analyses, market analysis, campus consolidation requirements, evaluation/selection of vendors, and claims experience of campus undergraduate student health plans.
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University Controlled Insurance Program
Implement a systemwide University Controlled Insurance Program (UCIP) for all projects with construction budgets over $25 million, with higher limits dedicated to the UC project, broader coverage, and uniform/consistent coverage for the project duration.
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ApplyUC
Modernize, streamline and reduce the cost of an integrated centralized undergraduate admissions process. The updated admissions system is expected to be fully operational in Fall 2012.
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Campus Administrative Relief Initiatives
Seek administrative and/or fiscal relief for the University through legislative, regulatory, or UC policy changes to achieve real savings, financial and/or temporal, for the campuses and the system.
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Climate Solutions
Achieve carbon neutrality, or zero net emissions of greenhouse gases, as soon as possible. The University of California is committed to achieving carbon neutrality through accelerated energy efficiency and conservation efforts, procurement of carbon-neutral energy, and finding ways to negate emissions from its natural gas-fueled central plants.
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Indirect Cost Recovery
Increase the University’s rate of recovery for the indirect costs of research by: (1) negotiating indirect cost rates that properly reflect the University’s full costs, (2) reforming UC policies and practices to decrease cost waivers, and (3) finding ways to recover shared costs directly from external organizations.
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Mainframe Consolidation
Analyze UC's mainframe computing systems and look for opportunties to consolidate and capture economies of scale. Analysis will determine how best to optimize the overall cost structure while maintaining or improving services.
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P200: Strategic Procurement
Collaborating system-wide to build an integrated, sustainable procurement framework. By developing and utilizing competitive contracts, innovative supply chain strategies and robust reporting and analytics, we will recapture $200 million annually currently lost through sub-optimal purchasing contracts and practices, redirecting these critically needed funds to support UC’s core missions of teaching, research and public service. Learn more...
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Purchase Card Program
Identify opportunities to use the electronic payment method to reduce administrative costs and to increase incentive income. Work with US Bank to implement proprietary technology that can increase use of the Purchase Card Program and convert existing vendor payments from paper to electronic.
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UC Equipment Maintenance Insurance Program
Provide a systemwide management tool that allows all departments, regardless of size, to manage and plan for scheduled preventative equipment maintenance and resumption of critical functions as quickly as possible after a machinery breakdown.
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UC Tracker
Streamline and automate the financial reporting process, and incorporate methodologies for improved compliance, efficiencies, and transparency. The ultimate goal of UC Tracker is to provide a tool that allows the University to monitor financial controls and reduce the time required to complete the SAS 112/115 process.
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Utilities Database
Implement a modern online system to enable UC staff to better track and manage each location's spend on utilities such as natural gas, electricity and water.
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Banking Services
Reduce the cost for UC banking services while maintaining world class control and functionality. We will eliminate services that are no longer needed, negotiate with bank partners to reduce cost, and substitute less costly options based on meaningful cost-benefit analysis.
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CampusConnexions
Develop a web portal that enables University faculty, staff, students, and supporting third parties (e.g., foundations, alumni associations, etc.) to procure insurance coverage that protects them against lawsuits and claims arising from events.
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Connexxus Travel Program
Identify, procure, and manage an efficient, cost-effective, and comprehensive travel program across all UC locations, offering industry-leading terms and conditions though a single travel portal and online booking tools.
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Legal Services
Reduce legal costs by relying more on in-house counsel and preferred provider panels. Costs for outside counsel cannot be eliminated entirely – for reasons of both workload and specialized expertise – but OGC will continue building on its successes in reducing them.
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Mandatory Education
Inventory all “mandatory” training at the campus and system level, then create an efficient, uniform approach to training management, including the development, approval, and evaluation of mandatory training.
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Parent Giving
Expand the base of UC philanthropic supporters to include parents. Develop the infrastructure necessary to support effective parental giving programs. Increase communication among campuses about the most effective programs and approaches in alumni and parent giving.
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Regional Data Centers
Explore utilization of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) data center as a regional colocation facility, with the objective of meeting the needs of campuses and medical centers throughout the system.
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UC Ready
Prepare for resumption of critical functions as quickly as possible after any disruptive event, ranging from earthquake and pandemic illness to building fires or the failure of a hard drive. UC Ready aims to achieve event-readiness by engaging all department-level units in mission-continuity planning.
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UC Travel Insurance Program
Develop a web portal to capture travel information that enables the University to procure better coverage to protect the health, safety, and security of faculty, students, and staff while traveling on University business. The portal will be accessible to all travelers as a resource for information on the Travel Insurance Program, UC TRIPS.
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Be Smart About Safety
Invest in loss-prevention and loss-mitigation programs specific to campus and departmental needs. Track results and share them with actuaries and insurance underwriters, thereby reducing cost of risk through decreased insurance premiums and claim payments.
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Capital Projects Database
Create an integrated data management system to maximize effectiveness and efficiencies in capital program planning, management, and reporting. Develop a robust reporting tool to identify valuable metric relationships and discover additional beneficial data associations. Present the data in executive dashboards, monthly reports, and ad hoc queries for best informed business decisions.
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Enterprise Risk Management
Migrate UC’s traditional risk program to an Enterprise Risk Management program, which aims to protect people, prevent loss, and reduce the cost of risk. Provide users with a single portal through which they can access and analyze data related to their area.
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Library Efficiencies
Enhance resource-sharing and consolidated or coordinated service development by identifying innovative, systemwide strategies for mitigating budget cuts and reframing library services in support institutional missions and goals.
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Policy Project
Produce plain language policies that may be easily understood and navigated. All administrative policies and supporting procedures, guidelines, forms, and requirements will be accessible from a single administrative policy website, and will be organized in a logical, task-based hierarchy.
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Research Administration
The objective of the Kuali-Coeus Research Administration project is to deliver comprehensive, integrated, web-enabled tools that reduce wasted/duplicated effort and simplify business processes for faculty and staff engaged in the submission of research proposals, conduct of research projects, and compliance with research regulations.
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UC Recruit
UC Recruit automates and streamlines much of the academic recruiting process across all campuses, saving time, money and paper, also aiding campus equal opportunity employment efforts and annual Affirmative Action reporting requirements.
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UCPath
Deploy a single payroll system and a single human resources system across all ten campuses and five medical centers that meets the core needs of each location while capturing the efficiencies, improved data and cost-savings associated with unified systems.