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Institutional
Performance Indicators
"A
performance indicator is a policy relevant statistic, number or
qualitative description that provides an indication that the university,
some aspect of it, or the university system is performing as it
should."
(Research
File: A
Primer on Performance Indicators)
The development
of indicators to measure the performance and the effectiveness
of the institution has been one of the tendencies in higher education.
Some of the organizations that utilize them are the "National
Center for Education Statistics" (NCES) and the "National
Center for Higher Education Management System" (NCHEMS),
among others.
The University
of Puerto Rico (UPR) and the Río Piedras Campus have been
attentive to this tendency and for various years have carried out
efforts to be part of it. The trend analysis of each performance
indicator:
- offers
a vision of the situation of the Campus
- serves
as a reference framework to know how the Río Piedras
Campus distinguishes among others institutions of higher education
- helps
to redefine priorities
- directs
the strengthening of the quality, and
- promotes
productivity
(extracted
from a working document titled INDICADORES, Office of Academic
Planning, 1999.)
In a letter
dated June 21, 2004 to the Campus Deans, the Chancellor of the
Río Piedras Campus, Dr. Gladys Escalona de Motta indicates
"Is our interest, and the Plan of the President, Esq. Antonio
Garcia Padilla, that data collected for the institution is discussed
and compared with the specific data of each program or department".
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