Budget Discussion Responses
“Generating Money” Topic
November 2012
Generating Money:
Ideas/Suggestions
Development: Beef up for Academics
(••••••••••)
Issues/Problems
Questions
Capital campaigns (•••••••) (w/ endowed
chairs? General OE support, equipment
funds?)
Sustainability [of certificate
programs]? (••)
E.g. certificate programs go
away
Coordinator – burden of
program
Certificate program – lack of
appropriate oversight
Don’t create as
moneymakers at expense of
curricular control; education.
Implications [of getting more
out-of-state students] for
needed services – spend $ to
make $ (•)
[Also] competing with
privates – back to identity
and public face question
How to do more with less,
without compromising
quality (••) [Also “How to do
more with less w/o
sacrificing quality AND
To what extent do ExEd
profits benefit university?
Academic Affairs? Individual
programs? (••••)
IDC rebates regularly, so departments
can benefit. (•••••••)
Better ORSP support  more grants. (••••••)
[Expand? Explore? ]Options
for web delivery? (••)
We need more Money: How
do we get it? (•)
Other
Identify new priorities (•)
Sustainability? (••)
Diversity? (•••)
Community engagement?
Yes? $ Support, use as
overarching axes, for
strategic planning.
Ideas/Suggestions
Get ride of the dis-incentives for
either saving or raising $. (••••••)
Find external funds to hire university
(students, faculty) to provide programs
to businesses/non-profits. (••••••) (Provide
opportunities (through ExEd) for faculty
to earn extra $ by taking programs off
campus (see above)).
Find ways to facilitate inter-departmental
collaboration. (••••••)
Accept the reality that making $ at SSU
is not a bad thing. (•••••)
“Student success fee” - supplemental
fee to support academics  4 year
graduation. (••••)
Strengthen faculty curriculum oversight
of certificate programs to increase value. (••••)
Office: Help connect faculty and businesses/
non-profits/etc. to make contracts/help each
other. Connect community needs with
university expertise. (•••)
Provide more open forums on budget
education/discussion. (•••)
Get more out-of-state and international
students (•••)
Spend $ to make $: Time, Resources (•••)
Create professional education media
projects. (••)
[Create] Certificate Programs: Both
Stateside & Self Support (••)
Issues/Problems
without increasing work
load…”
Questions
“What’s OUR Widget?”
Other
Ideas/Suggestions
Creating an environment that incentivizes
raising $ - e.g. IDC back to Department. (••)
Share practices – and $. (••)
Supporting Effective large-lecture
pedagogy (••)
Support faculty collaboration (•)
Technology transfers programs
(patents). (•) [listed twice]
Hire grant writer (•)
Incentivize/streamline certificate
program creation. (•)
Open opportunities to do community
outreach
Increased philanthropy
Sports marketing  donors
Policies to allow making money
Rent out campus more (evenings, weekends,
summers)  certificates?
Sell our resources online?
Rent out sports facilities: field? Theatre?
Preserves?
Like EMBA
Rich alumni
Culture of making money
Grant writing for academics
Foundations
Sell Services to the community: library,
healthcare, recreation, Career Services,
Study Skills, work skills.
Issues/Problems
Questions
Other