President M. Christopher Brown II has committed to an agenda of transparency and excellence based upon his comments from his self-assessment. He is committed to utilizing measurable outcomes and quantifiable metrics as his yardstick of accomplishment thus providing the Board of Regents and the public with an effective way of evaluating his success and productivity. He identifies five categories of outcomes that can be evidence-based and that overlap with the institutional priorities and outcomes, and he equally weights each of them. They are:
ACADEMIC OUTCOMES (20%)
FISCAL OUTCOMES (20%)
GRADUATION OUTCOMES (20%)
STRATEGIC OUTCOMES (20%)
STUDENT OUTCOMES (20%)
President Brown and the KSU Board of Regents are aware of those Outcome areas that can fluctuate because the university has varied influence over what occurs in that area, for example, campus-based state appropriations.