Senate Budget Subcommittee Budgeting Principles for Academic Affairs
DRAFT— (May 7, 2012)
Concepts 
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Mission
Focus on the core mission
of the university:
educating learned men and
women,
The university should
strive to retain the highquality faculty currently at
SSU, and to recruit
additional faculty members
to fulfill this mission
The university should
strive to increase the
number of international
students at SSU.
The university should
strive to build a student
body reflective of the
diversity of California.
Potential Brings the focus of the
benefit/ university back to its core
outcome mission: education.
Principles:
Communication
Transparency of
budgetary
reporting by all
divisions.
Predictability in
communicating
budget changes to
faculty, staff, and
students.
Clarity in
communicating
budgetary changes
to faculty, staff,
and students.
Input of faculty,
staff, and students
in budgetary
changes and
impacts.
Strategies/Tactics:
Fairness
Incentivize Innovation
Revenue Generation
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 The university should strive  Remove barriers to
 Increase the
to have equal levels of
collaborative, innovative
number of
employment across all
teaching.
international and/or
divisions
out of state students
 Encourage program
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 Flow control to ensure
 Consider on-line
innovation; crossmoney generated by FTE
and/or hybrid
disciplinary or intergrowth or Extended
courses
departmental
Education courses goes to
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Support members
collaboration and joint
Academic Affairs.
of the university
problem-solving
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 Allow Academic Affairs to
who wish to seek
 Reward departments who
do significant fundraising.
partnerships,
use their OE budgets wisely,
grants, and/or
 Allow departments to have
and encourage reduction in
donations from
more control over their own OE expenses.
outside sources.
budgets, scheduling, and
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meeting target.
 Increase the
number of
 The university must
certificate
continue to compensate for
programs and
faculty work performed
consider ‘summer
outside of teaching,
only’ programs,
advising & research.
including graduate
programs, taught
through Ex Ed.
Build faculty, staff, Build faculty, staff, and
Encourage a feeling of an
All of these ideas
and student support / student support / buy-in by
‘opportunity rich’
make money for the
buy-in for budget
ensuring that ‘the pain’ of the environment, rather than an
university.
cuts by showing that budget cuts is felt equally
‘opportunity poor’
administration is
across divisions. Ensure that
environment. Encourage
responsive to the
the ‘business’ of the university departments to use their OE
concerns of
(e.g., governance, department budgets frugally, rather than
university
and program administration)
rushing to spend any surplus
“stakeholders.”
continues.
before it is ‘scooped’.