What changes in Responsibility-Centered Management
would help your area?

"Our department has suffered a severe decline in enrollments in the elective courses we have offered. Studies of those declines show that, since the inception of RCM, departments are requiring more courses within their own units in order to retain credit-hour income. I feel that RCM will undermine the traditional university concept of a broad education and result in degrees with a narrowed focus."

Adelheid Gealt
director of the IU Art Museum
and associate professor of fine arts, IUB

"We represent a unit that does not generate income in the traditional sense, so RCM does not quite fit our model. It is important, however, that the campus understand our services because they cannot be measured in an economic sense. Since we do not charge for our services, we do not face the decline in usage that units which must charge sometimes do. RCM does have some impact on us, some of it good, some of it not."

Christopher Peebles
director, Black Laboratory ,
acting dean of academic computing
and acting association vice president of IT, IUB

"As director of the Glenn Black Laboratory, I point out that IU contributes a crucial 10 percent of the budget. The rest comes from grants, contracts and endowments. RCM gives me a framework with which to account for the endowment, public and general funds which we expend. At the Office of Information Technologies and UCS, we are taking RCM a step further and moving into strategic cost management.

M. Jeanne Peterson
executive associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
and professor of history, IUB

"RCM could be improved if measures of quality and quality improvement were built in to the system. Market demand should not, in my view, be the only principle on which a top-ranking research and teaching university makes funding decisions."

Albert Ruesink
professor of plant sciences
and co-chair of the RCM review committee, IUB

"One change that would be beneficial, and I think will be implemented, would be for campus chancellors to have more discretionary funding. Another suggestion is to provide budget directors with more information about how to use data effectively."

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