Town Hall Budget Forum
February 9 & 10, 2015
Town Hall Budget Forum
Please hold questions to the end!
Governor’s Budget Proposal
Major Dimensions
Proposed Public Authority - effective July 2016
Proposed Budget Cuts
– Tuition Freeze and GPR Reduction
Public Authority
 Governance
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Most Provisions in Chapter 36 moved to Board Policy (including shared governance and tenure)
Authority empowered to make own rules
 Tuition/Pricing
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Undergraduate resident tuition frozen 2015-17
 Capital Planning/Construction
 Procurement
 Human Resources/Personnel
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Board oversees pay plan; developing personnel structure and policies
No supplemental funding from compensation reserve
Health insurance and retirement benefits will remain unchanged
 Budget
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Starting in 2018-19, the Authority’s GPR adjusted by prior year’s Consumer Price Index
Authority pays for municipal services
Authority will oversee deposits and investments
The Budget Cut for 2015-2017 Biennium
 Proposed $300 million cut to GPR funding
to UW System.
 This cut is too big.
 This cut is applied too fast.
Inside the Numbers … Funding
UW System
UW Oshkosh
FY 2013-14
Base Reduction
$32,844,300
$1,608,635
2014-15 GPR
Budget
$1,178,197,283 $46,520,356
UW System
GPR reduction is being talked
about as a $300 million cut
over the two-year biennium.
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Biennial Math: When $150 million in
the first year is continued in the
second year, there is a combined
($933,087,183
less debt
service)
($33,469,952
less debt
service)
FY 2015-16
Base Reduction
$150,000,000
$7,346,600
Potential Base
Reduction as %
of GPR less
debt service
-16.1%
-21.9%
total of $300 million.
UW Oshkosh
Legislative Fiscal Bureau early
estimates show UW Oshkosh
could receive a 4.9 percent base
reduction if based on our
institution’s percentage of total
UW System GPR.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH
2014-15 OPERATING BUDGET
$265,464,029 total
[$207,464,029 without Direct Lending]
Federal Funds $86,205,188
53%
Gifts, Grants & Contracts $4,798,716
Auxiliaries $50,508,667
4%
Program Revenue $10,500,000
GPR $46,520,356
Base
43%
Tuition $66,931,102
GPR + Tuition/Fees Total: $113,451,458
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH
2014-15 OPERATING BUDGET
Available funds to manage the cuts
10%
Program Revenue $10,500,000
GPR $29,486,654
Base
90%
Tuition $66,931,102
GPR + Tuition/Fees Total: $96,417,756
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH
2014-15 OPERATING BUDGET
What do we spend?
 Payroll Expenses – Salaries plus benefits
 $95,974,762
 Non-Payroll Expenses – Everything else
 $10,942,994
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH
2014-15 OPERATING BUDGET
Available to manage the cuts
$100,000,000
$90,000,000
$95,974,762
$80,000,000
Budgeted Dollars
$70,000,000
$60,000,000
$50,000,000
$40,000,000
$30,000,000
$20,000,000
$10,942,994
$10,000,000
$0
Payroll Expenses
Non-payroll Expenses
The Way Forward …
 This will be a very challenging budget.
 We must consider serious changes in
programs, operations, services and staffing.
 We will need great transparency,
communication, and campus engagement to
manage this level of cuts.
The Way Forward …
 Reduce Staffing Levels
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Hiring Freeze
Attrition – Separations, Voluntary Departures
Retirements
Layoffs
 Program, Organization & Structure
 Academic and Non-Academic Program Changes
 Administrative & Organizational Changes
 Review Existing Services: Centralized v.
Decentralized
 Reassignments
The Way Forward …
 Revenue
 We must increase revenue from all sources possible.
 We must make investments in Admissions and Enrollment Management.
The Way Forward …
 Strategic Planning
 Provost Lane Earns will lead
 Will commence immediately
 Must be complete by end of Fall 2015
 New Budget Structure
 Chancellor’s Study Group – Budget Structure
 Lori Worm, Ryan Haley, Fred Yeo, John Koker
Leadership Council
Shared Governance Leadership
Division of Student Affairs
1. Faculty Senate President
15. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
2. Senate of Academic Staff President
16. Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student
3. Oshkosh Student Association President
Engagement & Success/Dean of Students
4. University Staff Council President
Division of University Advancement
Chancellor’s Office
17. Vice Chancellor for University
Advancement & President of the UWO
5. Chancellor
Foundation, Inc.
6. Special Assistant to the Chancellor
18. Assistant Vice Chancellor for Integrated
7. Director of Equity and Affirmative Action
Marketing Communications
Division of Academic Affairs
Division of Administrative Services
8. Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
19. Vice Chancellor for Administrative
9. Dean of the College of Letters & Science
Services
10. Dean of the College of Education & Human Services
20. Associate Vice Chancellor for
11. Dean of the College of Nursing
Administrative Services
12. Dean of the College of Business
13. Dean of Graduate Studies
14. Dean/Assistant Vice Chancellor of Lifelong Learning &
Community Engagement
Leadership Council
Shared Governance Leadership
1. Kay Neal
2. Lisa Szromba
3. Jordan Schettle
4. Jill Reichenberger
Chancellor’s Office
5. Andrew Leavitt
6. Tom Grogan
7. Ameerah McBride
Division of Academic Affairs
8. Lane Earns
9. John Koker
10. Fred Yeo
11. Suzanne Marnocha
12. Bill Tallon
13. Susan Cramer
14. Karen Heikel
Division of Student Affairs
15. Petra Roter
16. Sharon Kipetz
Division of University Advancement
17. Art Rathjen
18. Jamie Ceman
Division of Administrative Services
19. Tom Sonnleitner
20. Lori Worm
Stay Positive!
 We must continue to be a functioning university
 Continuation of essential travel policy
 Title changes, progressions, re-classifications, equity increases
will proceed in the normal way.
 LTE positions in the current year are permitted as this year's
budget allows.
 This will be a collaborative and transparent
process. A website will be created.
 Everything is on the table to help move us
forward. We have options.
What can you do?
 We need:
 Your ideas and input
 Your continued level-headedness
 Your constructive advocacy
 Help build a transformed university
Key Dates…
 State-Level
 Board of Regents Meeting: March 5, 2015
 Review by the Joint Finance Committee into March
 Completion by July 1, 2015
 Campus-Based
 Town Hall Sessions (February)
 Breakfast Forums (February-April)
 Leadership Council (February-on)
 Administrative & Organizational Leaders
 Shared Governance Leaders