Milestone 4

HEA 620 Milestone Four Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: In this milestone, you will write memos communicating your re-forecasted budget decisions to your staff, being sure to focus on your functional area’s role in the operations of the institution. You will compose three different memos that explain your budget cuts to the following audiences: your staff, a vendor, and your supervisor. Keep in mind your specific audience’s needs and ways to gain their support. Each memo should explain the economic, compliance, and/or regulatory requirements that drove your decisions. Be sure to use facts, information, and approaches that will be the most useful to them. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

a. Communication: write a memo to your staff that explains the economic, compliance, and regulatory requirements that drove your decisions. Be sure to use facts, information, and approaches that will be the most useful to your staff.

b. Communication: Write a memo to a vendor that explains the economic, compliance, and regulatory requirements that drove your decisions. Be sure to use facts, information, and approaches that will be the most useful to the vendor.

c. Communication: Write a memo to your direct superior that explains the economic, compliance, and regulatory requirements that drove your decisions. Be sure to use facts, information, and approaches that will be the most useful to your supervisor.

Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a four- to six-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value Communication: Staff Writes a memo to functional area’s staff

that explains the requirements that drove the budget decisions using information and approaches directed at this audience’s needs

Writes a memo to functional area’s staff that explains the requirements that drove the budget decisions, but memo is cursory, inaccurate, or does not use information and approaches directed at this audience’s needs

Does not write a memo to functional area’s staff

30

Communication: Vendor

Writes a memo to a vendor that explains the requirements that drove the budget decisions using information and approaches directed at this audience’s needs

Writes a memo to a vendor that explains the requirements that drove the budget decisions, but memo is cursory, inaccurate, or does not use information and approaches directed at this audience’s needs

Does not write a memo to a vendor 30

Communication: Direct Superior

Writes a memo to a direct superior that explains the requirements that drove the budget decisions using information and approaches directed at this audience’s needs

Writes a memo to a direct superior that explains the requirements that drove the budget decisions, but memo is cursory, inaccurate, or does not use information and approaches directed at this audience’s needs

Does not write a memo to a direct superior

30

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value Articulation of

Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

10

Earned Total 100%