Criterion II The institution has effectively organized the human, financial, and physical resources necessary to accomplish its purposes.
Chapter 4: Organizational Structure
Introduction ICHE only makes recommendations with respect to the university's budget requests. While the government relations staff seeks the commission’s support for budget Ball State University maintains strong relationships with governing agencies in the state of requests, it works most closely with members of the state legislature to accomplish the Indiana and relies upon an effective internal organizational structure to accomplish its university’s budgetary goals. The legislative process as it relates to university budget mission and purposes. Important relationships include those between the university and preparation and management will be described in detail in Chapter 5 of this report. its Board of Trustees, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, and the Indiana legislature. The university’s organizational structure encompasses decision-making processes and the self- governance system. The institution has effectively responded to Ball State University Board of Trustees a concern raised by the 1993 reaccreditation team that stated, “The inconsistent and The Ball State University Board of Trustees is a nine-member public body created to GIR 5: It has a governing board that less-than-effective use of the governance system may hinder the realization of the manage, control, and operate Ball State possesses and exercises necessary university’s goals and objectives.” borrow money, issue bonds, and let contracts legal power to establish and review prescribe conditions for admission basic policies that govern the Indiana Commission for Higher Education grant degrees and issue diplomas or certificates institution. set fees, charges, fines, and penalties The Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE) was created in 1971 by an act of define the duties of and provide compensation for faculty and staff of the university the Indiana General Assembly and signed into law by then Governor Edgar Whitcomb. GIR 4: It has legal documents to receive and administer all donations, bequests, grants, funds, and property that are GIR 8: Its governing board authorizes confirm its status: not-for-profit, A copy of the Indiana statute establishing the commission is included in this report given or provided to the university the institution’s affiliation with the for-profit, or public. (Appendix 4.1). The commission is a 14-member public body created to possess all the powers in order to effectively operate the affairs of Ball State commission.