FY16 BUDGET REVIEW
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UAS Mission
Student Learning enhanced by
faculty scholarship, undergraduate
research and creative activities,
community engagement and the
cultures and environment of
Southeast Alaska.
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UAS Core Themes
Student Success
Teaching and Learning
Community Engagement
Research and Creative Expression
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FY14 Performance
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FY 14 Performance
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FY 14 Performance
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FY 14 Performance
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FY 14 Performance
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FY 14 Performance
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FY 14 Performance
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FY15 Budget Planning
Process and Goals
• Strategic Planning and Budgeting
Advisory Committee (SPBAC):
– Institutional engagement and transparency
– Focus resources on student completion
agenda
• Academic Program Review:
– CIOS
– Pre-Engineering
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FY15 Budget
Goals for Efficiency
• Efficient energy use in buildings
• Space consolidation for efficiency and a
more navigable campus
• Reduce personnel costs through attrition
and consolidation
• Streamline IT costs and strategies
• Pursue internal and external partnerships
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Efficiency through
Energy Reduction
B BTU
60.0
Juneau Campus Energy Use
50.0
Electrical Power
Int Elect Heat
Fuel Oil
40.0
30.0
20.0
10.0
0.0
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
FY12
FY13
FY14
UAS has reduced annual energy consumption by 11.2B BTU since FY07,
avoiding over $290k in additional energy costs in FY14 alone.
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FY 15 Strategies for Cost savings
Space Consolidation
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Bill Ray Center sale
– Reduced operating external costs
– $3M allocated to new residence hall
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Bookstore/Health Sciences reallocation
– Bookstore closed to eliminate annual subsidy
– UAS and UAA Health Sciences consolidated
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Hendrickson/Whitehead renovation
– Consolidate campus administration
– Consolidate all IT operations
– Unify Arts & Sciences
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FY 15 Strategies for Cost savings
Position Savings
• Position reductions
– Vice Provost
– Associate Vice Chancellor
– Bookstore Manager
– Facilities Services (2)
• Reduction through turnover
– 11 long-term employees retired
– Replacements hired at lower rate
– Sustaining long-established vacancy policy
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FY 15 Strategies for Cost savings
Administrative Program Review
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Juneau Campus Bookstore
Recreation Center restructure
Ketchikan Learning Center
Implementation in FY15 with
savings projected in FY16
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Efficiency through
Streamlined IT
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FY14 changes to reduce costs in FY15 and beyond:
– Closed low-utilization computer labs
– Consolidated IT support with Library
– Eliminated most student-use computer purchases through
virtualization strategy
– Audited and streamlined data network leased circuit costs
– Reduced ongoing licensing and maintenance costs through
negotiated multi-year agreements
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Efficiency through
Partnerships
• Emergency Management partnership
with the City & Borough of Juneau
• Substation agreement with Juneau
Police Department
• Ketchikan Library Consortium
• Collaborating with UAA for Library
Cataloging
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FY16 Operating Budget
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FY16 Operating Budget Priorities
• FY16 Focus:
– Student retention and completion
– Strengthening partnerships within UA
– Seeking ongoing funding of one-time
funded initiatives
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FY16 Budget Priorities:
Disability Support Coordinator
• Students seeking accommodations for
disabilities - fastest growing sub-population
• Provides a vulnerable population with an
invaluable connection to the University
• Directly impacts success in the classroom
positively every day.
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FY16 Budget Priorities:
Coordinator: First Year Experience
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Creates a Supportive Environment for First
Year Students On- and Off-Campus
– On-campus students by coordinating the student
experience in the new first-year residence hall
– Off-campus students by connecting them to the
campus community and peers in student housing
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Gets Students Involved
Leads to Student Retention
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FY16 Budget Priorities:
Assistant Professor of Biology-Fisheries
• Advance preliminary discussions about
proposed joint offering UAS-UAF BS & BA
in Fisheries
• Strong student interest in fisheries in SE
Alaska
• Increases undergraduate degrees in
fisheries & graduate programs at UAF
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FY16 Capital Budget Request
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UAS FY16 Capital
Priority
PROJECT
Project
Type
2016 Request
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Whitehead / Hendrickson
Remodel
R&R
4,485,000
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TEC Renewal
R&R
1,800,000
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Auke Lake Student Commons
NC
14,880,000
4
UAS Center for Mine Training
Portal
NC
1,000,000
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Capital Priority #1:
Whitehead/Hendrickson Renewal
• Replace all ventilation
equipment
• New air to water heat
pump system
• Consolidate
administrative
functions
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Capital Priority #2:
Technical Education Center
• Renewal Phase 3
– Improves spaces
with acoustical walls,
new lighting and
building automation
– Provides new home
for the mine training
program
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Capital Priority #3:
Student Commons
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Identified in the UAS Master
Plan
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Strategically located between
library, classrooms and
freshman housing
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Expanded dining options for
both new freshman housing
and commuter students
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Addresses critical campus
need for large and small
assembly spaces
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Capital Priority #4:
UAS Mine Training Portal
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Resolves safety and access issues with current
mine
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Supports:
Underground miner program
Pathway to Mining Career
Mine Mechanic Program
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Long Term Capital Priority:
Facilities Services Replacement
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Current facility has code and
ADA deficiencies
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New facility site is identified in
UAS Masterplan
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FY17 Capital is for planning &
design
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Current Capital Progress
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New Freshman Residence Hall
• 120 beds
• Opening Fall 2014
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New Freshman Residence Hall
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Auke Lake Way Reconstruction
Auke Lake Way
reconstruction
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Auke Lake Way Reconstruction
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Auke Lake Way Reconstruction
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Community Campus:
Deferred Maintenance
Ketchikan
deck reconstruction
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Looking Ahead to FY16
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Looking ahead to FY16
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UAS is planning:
– Strategic planning by UAS SBPAC
aligned with Mission, Core Themes, and
goals of Shaping Alaska’s Future
– Continued Program Reviews
– Reexamination of UAS fee revenue
generation to avoid under-collecting
– Continued focus on achieving efficient
use of campus space
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Looking ahead to FY16
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UAS is projecting:
– Cost savings through restructuring:
• UAS Bookstore
• UAS Recreation Center
– Streamlined staffing, including possible
consolidation of administrative services and IT
executive positions
– Increased recruitment and retention resulting
from on-campus housing, Stay on Track, Come
Home to Alaska, and completion agenda.
– Increases to tuition rate and UA network fee
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Looking ahead to FY16
• Partnerships:
– Alaska Maritime Workforce
– Mining
– Health Sciences
– DEED and K-12
• UAS Superintendent Academy
• Alaska Learning Network
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