Position Linkage Worksheet
Use your answers to the questions to map your departmental goals to the broader goals of the campus and UC. Try to describe how the services of your department link to these broader goals. Next, for the identified position in your department, describe the performance expectations that would produce results that support your department mission and goals.
Question One: What is the mission of the University of California?
Teaching, Research, and Public Service
Question Two: What are the Chancellor’s seven goals for the University of California, Riverside?
1. To enhance UCR's reputational rankings
UCR will have the profile of an AAU member university
2. To invest in areas of strength
UCR will be recognized for its distinction among all research universities in selected areas which exhibit quality and momentum
3. To expand opportunities for learning and personal growth for all students, undergraduate and graduate
UCR will become a campus of "first choice" for applicants, and students will have a successful experience at UCR
4. To reshape the curriculum
UCR will build on the diversity of its students and the distinction of its faculty, and connect the curriculum to the vision of UCR as an AAU institution
5. To diversify our faculty, staff and graduate population
UCR will be a preeminent research university that has diversity as one of its measures of distinctiveness
6. To build professional schools
UCR will offer expanded professional education in areas that respond to the needs of the state and region and that help to stimulate a knowledge-based economy
7. To forge closer ties with the community
UCR will organize and coordinate with others to achieve common goals for prosperity and sustainability of the Inland Empire through technology transfer, attraction and retention of highly skilled jobs and industries, and responsiveness to regional issues
Question Three: What is the mission and goals of your unit?
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Question Four: What is the mission and goals of your department?
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Question Five: What are the services/activities/products/results of your department?
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Question Six: How do these services/activities/product/results support
The department mission and goals ______
The unit mission and goals
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The UCR mission and goals
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The UC mission
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For the identified position in your department, describe the functions and performance expectations that would produce the services/activities/products/outcomes that support your department mission and goals.
Position ______
1. Function/Result
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Performance Expectation (how would you know the function is being done well or the result is satisfactory?)
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2. Function/Result
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Performance Expectation (how would you know the function is being done well or the result is satisfactory?)
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3. Function/Result
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Performance Expectation (how would you know the function is being done well or the result is satisfactory?)
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