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About the Division

BAS Mission Statement

The BAS division is consistently engaged in the practice of aligning services with campus academic priorities, reducing risk, and sustaining the extraordinary natural and built environment on campus.

BAS Strategic Planning Principles

• Working collaboratively with others and providing services and support to enable the campus to achieve its long-range objectives;
• Supporting the recruitment, development, and retention of a competent, capable, and diverse workforce by striving to be the employer of choice in the Santa Cruz area;
• Providing a safe physical environment for students, faculty, staff, and the public;
• Ensuring compliance with all university, local, state, and federal laws and regulations;
• Maintaining a strong financial control and accountability environment in support of the campus' stewardship responsibilities to the public;
• Continually developing accountability measures and seeking ways of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of processes and procedures;
• Strategically using technology to improve the quality, efficiency, and timeliness of services provided to the campus in support of its academic, research, and public service mission.

BAS Philosophy

We follow a model that links our mission, objectives, strategy, and structure. Our resources are derived directly from state funds, recharges to campus departments, and direct services to departments and individuals. We operate in a climate that emphasizes decision making that is transparent and underscores that we must maintain the public trust.

Our division supports the academic enterprise of UC Santa Cruz. This enterprise adheres to the university mission of teaching, research, and public service. Our role is to support this by providing an environment that is characterized by maintaining public safety, providing adequate controls on financial and business practices, operating and maintaining campus buildings and grounds, providing stewardship of campus lands, planning, designing, and constructing facilities, and providing direct business services.

The objectives of our division align with our role on campus and within the University structure.

Our strategy to achieve these objectives is framed in our annual planning for resource allocations. We identify opportunities and restraints, review the external forces impacting our institution, understand the needs of our campus users, and adjust our plans accordingly.

The structure we have in place to employ this strategy consists of our overall organizational alignment, our internal communications structure, and various decision support groups. Our structure also includes performance evaluations, the balanced scorecard, and structured feedback from those who use our services. Internal Audit provides us the opportunity to review our roles and identify areas to improve.