Judgment

x Compliance o Non-Compliance o Partial Compliance

Narrative

The mission of UL Lafayette is expressed primarily in two documents:

The Louisiana Board of Regents (BOR) Role, Scope, and Mission. The “role, scope, and mission” of UL Lafayette is established and regularly reviewed by the BOR through its Master Plan for Public Postsecondary Education in Louisiana (Website), in which the Louisiana Constitution mandates it to “…formulate and make timely revision of a master plan for postsecondary education,” including statements of Role, Scope, and Mission for each institution. As part of the process of formulating the new Master Plan for postsecondary education in Louisiana published in 2012, the BOR commissioned the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems to develop a proposal for the specific role, scope, and mission of each of Louisiana’s institutions of higher education. The BOR then, in collaboration with the State’s higher education management boards, reviewed and revised each institution’s current role, scope, and mission. The following documents illustrate the process of review of role, scope, and mission for UL Lafayette:

· Commission on Higher Education call for RSM draft review

· BOR request to review role, scope, and mission – correspondence

· BOR Minutes with legislative call for Review

· 2012 Request from BOR for five special areas in RSM

· Email discussing five special program focus areas proposal

· BOR minutes: New Role, Scope, and Mission designations adopted

The BOR also reviewed and updated the mission of “statewide” institutions in its Response to Act 619 of the 2016 Regular session of the Louisiana Legislature. As the following documents illustrate, this was an iterative process that involved input and review of UL Lafayette’s mission at the level of the institution, the UL System, and the BOR.

· 2016 call for revisions to RSM

· Proposal for Role, Scope, and Mission 2016

· Role, Scope, and Mission edits

· Letter to Commissioner Rallo from VPRs

· Act 619 Response Email

· Act 619 Final BOR Staff Draft

· BOR Response to Act 619

University’s own Mission Statement. The University’s own Mission Statement has been reviewed every five years with the adoption of a new strategic plan. Its current Mission, Values, and Vision Statement was adopted, reviewed and approved by the BOS as part of the Strategic Plan 2015-2020, and was reviewed and