Cabinet adopts policy on arrangements with external groups

November 11, 2015

University Relations

UAF has a new policy governing memorandums of agreement and understanding with external entities, the chancellor's cabinet has announced.

The two major changes are:

• While still needing approval from department chairs, deans and directors, agreements may only be signed by the chancellor, the provost or a vice chancellor.


• All fully executed agreements will now be stored online in OnBase.

A list of documents considered to be memorandums of agreement or memorandums of understanding is available online here. If an agreement binds UAF to provide resources (money, people, space, etc.), it's considered an MOA.  Non-binding documents are MOUs.

New agreements will be uploaded to OnBase as they are completed. If a unit is party to an existing, multiyear MOA or MOU, it should retain a copy of that agreement until the appropriate office confirms that it has been uploaded to OnBase.

More information is available online here, including a list of responsible officers for the different types of MOAs and MOUs and information on creating new memorandums.

ON THE WEB: http://www.uaf.edu/mou-moa/, http://www.uaf.edu/files/mou-moa/UAF-Types-of-Agreements-for-web.pdf