Campus Cuts: A New and Timely Blog from The Chronicle of Higher Education
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SCUP Link A new blog to pay attention to at The Chronicle of Higher Education, especially for SCUPers in resource and budget planning areas: Campus Cuts is its name. Recent posts include items on how the University of Houston plans cuts in "office supplies, travel, and cellphone allowances, as well as a one-day systemwide furlough, a hiring freeze, and deferred maintenance"; the University of California Santa Cruz cuts its community-studies major, possibly closing it; Tennessee Tech University eliminating "two teams -- rifle and women's tennis -- as part of a university plan to reduce financial support to athletics by up to $365,000"; University of Texas System laying off "23 employees of UT TeleCampus, its central distance-education arm, which is being shut down"; and Stony Brook University "[w]ill close close residence halls, eliminate some programs, and suspend new freshman admissions at its recently acquired Southampton campus, which is focused on sustainability curricula."
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are: - May 22–23, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
- July 10, Minneapolis, MN - Step I (in conjunction with SCUP–45)
- October 2, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
- January 21–22, Tuscon, AZ - Step II and Step III
Labels: budget cuts, campus cuts, financial crisis, resource and budget planning
Outsourcing, Insourcing–and Everything in Between
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SCUP Link Can we keep up with the demands of Millennials? Is a broader variety of outsourcing part of the answer? From University Business: Today, nine out of 10 colleges are outsourcing a broad variety of non-academic functions including recruitment, admissions, financial aid, and, impressively, creating virtual communities of distance learners connected through laptops, PDAs, and, increasingly, mobile communication devices. These same students have increasingly accessed distributed student services for three simple reasons–convenience, timeliness, and interactive communication–read as engagement.
Though it may seem counter-intuitive for our generation, these millennial students find satisfaction in instantaneous recognition, feedback, and advisement. Unlike their older brothers and sisters, these students are seemingly intolerant of commuting, parking, and waiting in line for class registration. Instead, they want a virtual, convenient one-stop admissions, enrollment, and student support experience, delivered through the wonders of digital connections with the campus of their choice.
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are: - May 22–23, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
- July 10, Minneapolis, MN - Step I (in conjunction with SCUP–45)
- October 2, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
- January 21–22, Tuscon, AZ - Step II and Step III
Labels: academic planning, cooperative purchasingt, Millennials, outsourcing, procurement, resource and budget planning
State Universities Tap Student Fees for Unintended Projects
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SCUP Link While California universities have faced round after round of crippling budget cuts and protests against increased fees have flared on campuses, administrators have tapped funds meant for classrooms and students to cover some extraordinary costs: losses on ill-timed real estate deals, loans to high-ranking officials and an ambitious construction project.
Experts say the moves, made without wide student knowledge or public oversight, show that administrators have put aggressive business plans ahead of the teaching mission. When things go wrong, they're dipping into student fees, scholarship funds and money meant for classes to pick up the tab.
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are: - May 22–23, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
- July 10, Minneapolis, MN - Step I (in conjunction with SCUP–45)
- October 2, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
- January 21–22, Tuscon, AZ - Step II and Step III
Labels: capital planning, resource and budget planning, student fees
Department Planning: Fiscal Crises and the Question of Community
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SCUP Link One department at UNC, when planning for budget cuts, asked itself some discerning questions about "community": "Who are we as a department? To whom are we responsible? Where does that responsibility begin and end from professional, personal, and fiscal standpoints?" Here's what they did:Are those solutions universally applicable? No. Will they completely satisfy everyone in our department? No again. Indeed, given the continuing context in which we live and work, such measures may only provide a short-term solution.
However, one overall lesson surprised us in our move against the increased dependence on adjuncts in academe: The practice, we found, could be unpragmatic, creating misleading expectations and difficult ambiguities over responsibility within our community, and at a cost.
Fiscal crises introduce situations and feelings that create discomfort for people seeking the life of the mind—uncertainty, worry, disappointment, and vulnerability. Matters of the heart tend to interrupt intellectual pursuits that we typically follow in isolation from one another on a day-to-day basis.
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are: - May 22–23, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
- July 10, Minneapolis, MN - Step I (in conjunction with SCUP–45)
- October 2, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
- January 21–22, Tuscon, AZ - Step II and Step III
Labels: departmental planning, financial crisis, resource and budget planning, SOregion, UNC
New Book (free): Accelerating Campus Climate Initiatives: Breaking Through Barriers
 - If you have an interest in this book, you may also have an interest in the SCUP regional one-day event happening April 7, in Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge."
This book, Accelerating Campus Climate Initiatives: Breaking Through Barriers, is the product of more than a year's research on a dozen campuses by the Rocky Mountain Institute. Download it here.
It is organized into five chapters: - Climate Action Planning,
- Buildings & Utilities,
- Renewable Energy,
- Transportation, and
- Carbon Offsets & Associated Opportunities.
Subchapters each represent a "barrier" within the context of that chapter. So, for example, within Buildings & Utilities, there are subsections like "lack of capital," "Insufficient in-house expertise," and "Whole-system approach seems impossible." The book "explores a wide range of challenges committed campus planners are facing, including the real and perceived barriers. Real-world examples from campuses around the country help readers determine and drive projects based on a different way of thinking about buildings, utilities, perceptions, institutional structures, and all the other components comprising energy systems and campuses."
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: - March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
- April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
- April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"
Labels: climate, climate action planning, energy, facilities planning, resource and budget planning, RMI, Rocky Mountain Institute, sustainability, transportation
Teach Online or Wither: Leveraging Technology to Increase Enrollment, Capacity, and Revenues
Arthur F. Kirk, president of St. Leo University, writing in University Business magazine: "But you need online courses and online programs. Traditional and non-traditional students increasingly demand—and often require—them. The time may have passed for the "big growth" strategy, but if you want to protect what you have and hopefully grow it, you need to be online, now! Since 2002, online education grew by a compounded annual rate of 19.7 percent. It grew 12.9 percent in 2007, according to Sloan data. During that same period, overall collegiate enrollments grew at a 1.6 percent annual rate . . . What is required? The first component of success is institutional commitment. Far too many schools falter because of vocal pockets of faculty resistance and lack of strong leadership. Smaller private not-for-profit colleges remain the least likely to offer online classes or programs. Yet a majority of them embrace a mission to educate working adults and/or depend upon those students to balance budgets. While chief academic officers generally believe that faculty accept the value and legitimacy of online courses, fewer than half of private college CAOs believe their faculty do so . . . Those opinions ignore mountains of data that demonstrate no differences in learning outcomes between online and classroom courses. They also ignore the National Survey of Student Engagement, in which "distance education" students reported being more engaged than traditional students. Negative faculty opinions run counter to those of business leaders. According to Excelsior College/Zogby International's online survey of business executives, among those familiar with online programs, '83 percent strongly believe that degrees earned via online programs are viewed favorably compared with those earned in a more traditional way.'
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: academic planning, for-profits, information technology, online learning, resource and budget planning
Recession, Recission, and Recovery: Resource Planning and Problem Solving - Timely Workshop
Enhance your SCUP–45 experience with this timely pre-conference workshop.
Sunday, July 11, 2010, 8:00 AM–1:00 PMRecession, Recission, and Recovery: Resource Planning and Problem Solving
Presenter(s): Thomas Anderes, Senior Vice President, Administration & Fiscal Affairs, University of Wisconsin System
Audience: Planners who wish to increase their ability to use financial analysis tools to better align resources on campus. Every indication is that a continued reduction in fiscal resources will be experienced throughout higher education for the foreseeable future. How do you rebalance and learn new approaches to using fiscal strategy to meet your mission? This session provides hands-on, collaborative experience in applying a multidimensional framework that integrates the analysis of key issues and stakeholder expectations, in determining the realignment of resources within alternative scenarios. Working in small groups, participants will assess complex problems in balancing program and budgetary objectives with tools that can be used immediately on their campuses. Learning Outcomes: - Utilize data to determine the program and resource implications of the economic downturn on your campus and how they affect the delivery of programs and services.
- Identify sources of information (evidence) that drive resource decison making.
- Describe organizational and committee processes/interactions and outcomes that contribute to resource planning and allocations.
- Connect evolving financial conditions with program expectations.
- Develop plans to realign resource allocations and adapt to a changing economic environment.
TAGS: Performance Measures, Finance, Budget, integrated planning, Resource allocation COST: $250 USD
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: precon, resource and budget planning, SCUP-45, workshops
A Historically Black College Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Tom Robinson, at Today's Campus, prepared this brief status sheet about HBCUs. What’s wrong with this picture? Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and colleges who are members of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) cost less, offer a culturally rich environment, enjoy bigger gains in academic attainment and graduate more African American students proportionately than historically white schools. Yet most HBCU schools are struggling even more than their Predominantly White College (PWC) counterparts. And black students are less likely to enroll in them than previously.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: HBCUs, recruitment, resource and budget planning, retention
U Iowa Integrated Academic & Budgeting Planning Task Forces Reports
In early 2009 Iowa provost, Wallace D. Loh, formed six task forces to examine ways to shape the future of the academic programs at the university, in relation so the various external forces affecting university campuses. The final reports of each task force are now available as PDF. This web page lists the task forces and has links to their charge, membership, and reports plus appendices. Many SCUPers will enjoy learning from this work. The task forces were: - Task Force in Strategic Budgeting
- Task Force on Undergraduate Education and Success
- Task Force on Graduate Education: Selective Excellence
- Task Force on Research and Creative excellence
- Task force on Internationalization and Diversity
- Task Force on Public Outreach and Civic Engagement
Audrey Williams June has this brief article about the graduate education task force's report in T he Chronicle of Higher Education.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: academic planning, institutional direction planning, integrated planning, N-C, resource and budget planning, University of Iowa
Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services
 Robert C. Dickeson has revised and updated his well-respected book, Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services: Reallocating Resources to Achieve Strategic Balance. If you click here or on the image at left and purchase the book from Amazon, SCUP will receive a small percentage of the purchase price. Given the adjustments and realignments happening on campuses all around the world in the current economic recession, this is a timely update! A bonus in this updated edition is the inclusion of what Dickeson calls a "step-by-step guide to getting started with academic priority-setting" that was created by John Ball for SCUP to use in prioritization workshops.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: academic planning, academic programs, Dickeson, prioritizing, resource and budget planning
From SHEEO: Stimulus Helped But State Schools In Trouble
SHEEO, the State Higher Education Executive Officers organization, has released its State Higher Education Finance FY2009 report. We have four pertinent links for you: From Stripling: "As enrollments soared and state dollars dried up, the temporary fix of federal stimulus money staved off significant financial losses for higher education that are still yet to be fully realized." From Kelderman: "[S]tates will have a harder time restoring spending on higher education after this downturn than they have in past recessions. Per-student state appropriations have generally recovered after past recessions, but the current economic situation presents greater hurdles"
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: financial crisis, funding, recession, resource and budget planning, SHEEO, states, stimulus
Faculty 'Productivity': Charging for Quality
In the "Confessions of a Community College Dean" blog at Inside Higher Ed, Dean Dad notes, with links, an ongoing online discussion in a number of blogs about full-time faculty workload. Dean Dad's focus is on whether or not non-elite institutions can really charge for quality, or not: "A thrilled student doesn't pay any more than does a barely-contented student." He ends up asking: "Is there a sustainable way for colleges to charge by quality rather than quantity?"
A couple of his related thoughts that we thought were interesting: - What looks like a static workload over time has actually become more due to faculty "mission creep" and
- There's really a minimum limit to class size, below which quality can actually drop.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: academic planning, faculty, productivity, quality, resource and budget planning, workload
What Does It Mean to Say That a Group of Institutions Are 'Comparable'
Writing in the TLT Group's blog, Steve Ehrmann muses about a thread he has been following in the ASSESS email list in which some are questioning the value of collecting certain kinds of comparable data from comparable institutions. To Ehrmann, the biggest reason for caution is research by Howard Bowen: Howard Bowen tested the hypothesis that higher education instruction has a production function, i.e., that there is some normal relationship between spending and outcomes. When someone remarks that "I can't run a program with that budget; it's too little money," or enviously comments about another program, "With that endowment and budget, they must be wasting a lot of money," or simply spends time collecting comparable data in order to compare their program with the norm (can we boast our results are 5% better than those achieved by other programs that have about our same budget? can we use below average budgets to justify a request for an increase?) --- all of those imply a faith in a production function . . . [He]found no such evidence to support the belief in a production function.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: Bowen's Law, data, data integration, Howard Bowen, institutional research, production function, resource and budget planning, Steve Ehrmann
Time to Regroup: Staffing Decisions in a Recession
Writing in Business Officer, Karla Hignite reviews the logic and reasoning behind a number of institutions' decisions about how to handle cuts in employment due to the current financial crisis. She describes actions and planning at Florida State University, Skidmore College, St. Catherine University, Valparaiso University, Cornell University, and includes a sidebar with suggestions from the College and University Personell Association (CUPA-HR). In response to market realities and the uncertainties that remain, colleges and universities across the country have engaged in major cost-cutting initiatives to meet budget. They've done so with extreme care, however, knowing that faculty and staff are critical to institution mission. Even in situations that have required elimination of whole programs and associated personnel, decisions have been largely collaborative and transparent, as leaders aimed for the right combination of actions with the least impact on students—and that avoid outright layoffs wherever possible. In the process, tough conversations and strategic review of priorities have given many leaders renewed energy for repositioning their institutions and rethinking how people are organized and how work gets done. This article highlights the recession-related staffing decisions implemented at several institutions, where leaders are focusing their sights for the out years.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: human relations, human resources, resource and budget planning, strategic staffing
Driving Your Budget Message
Writing in University Business, president John J. "Ski" Sygieski of Mt Hood Community College (and chair-elect of the American Association of Community Colleges) shares a few useful items about how to best communicate about budget issues:We’ve all heard the phrase “communication is a two-way street,” and in the best of times, that street is wide open, allowing communication to pass freely between individuals. However, when budget crises arise or times otherwise get tough, the street seems to narrow. People get nervous, and there is much more anxiety involved in the communication process. If the street is suddenly closed because administration is fearful of communicating bad news, there is a massive traffic jam and accidents and fatalities begin to occur. Whether good or bad, institutions must embrace the “communication is a two-way street” philosophy and stay connected with their constituents.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: academic leadership, community colleges, financial crisis, recession, resource and budget planning
Recession, Recission, and Recovery: Resource Planning and Problem Solving
The following information was copied from the SCUP–45 Preconference Workshops Page on February 1, 2010. Always go to that page for the very latest information. Also, the first iteration of a complete PDF of the entire SCUP–45 Preliminary Program is now available here (PDF). Sunday, July 11, 2010, 8:00 AM–1:00 PM Presenter(s): Thomas Anderes, Senior Vice President, Administration & Fiscal Affairs, University of Wisconsin System Audience: Planners who wish to increase their ability to use financial analysis tools to better align resources on campus. Every indication is that a continued reduction in fiscal resources will be experienced throughout higher education for the foreseeable future. How do you rebalance and learn new approaches to using fiscal strategy to meet your mission? This session provides hands-on, collaborative experience in applying a multidimensional framework that integrates the analysis of key issues and stakeholder expectations, in determining the realignment of resources within alternative scenarios. Working in small groups, participants will assess complex problems in balancing program and budgetary objectives with tools that can be used immediately on their campuses. Learning Outcomes: - Utilize data to determine the program and resource implications of the economic downturn on your campus and how they affect the delivery of programs and services.
- Identify sources of information (evidence) that drive resource decison making.
- Describe organizational and committee processes/interactions and outcomes that contribute to resource planning and allocations.
- Connect evolving financial conditions with program expectations.
- Develop plans to realign resource allocations and adapt to a changing economic environment.
TAGS: Performance Measures, Finance, Budget, integrated planning, Resource allocation COST: $250 USD
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: financial crisis, recession, resource and budget planning, stimulus
Initial List of SCUP-45 Concurrent Sessions!
Preliminary titles, presenters, abstracts, and learning outcomes are available now on SCUP's website for SCUP–45 concurrent sessions. Higher education's premier planning conference has a set of concurrent sessions of value to every planner on campus. The current list includes: - "Free" Property - Look That Gift Horse in the Mouth
- "Rapid Conceptualization" Path to Scientific Funding...
- A New Vision for the Core Campus at Clemson University
- A Sustainable Campus? - Yeah, Right! More Hype and No Substance ?
- Academic Resource Management System: Introducing Centralized Strategic Resource Planning to Independent-Minded Faculties
- Access Mis-Management: "We've Met the Enemy and He is Us"
- Achieving Strategic Alignment
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- An Incremental Approach to Creating Technology-Enhanced Learning Spaces
- Assessing the Internal and External Variables that Contribute to Institutional Risk in Support of a "Risk Scorecard."
- Benchmarking Benefits for Energy/Water Use - 54 College Campuses in Minnesota
- BIM's Value in Pre-Design: Use of Information from Programming Through Occupation
- Bodies in Motion - Brains in Motion
- Campus Heritage Builders
- Carbon, Energy, and Water: Sustainable Planning Strategies for Indiana University
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- Connecting Alumni to Campus through Innovative Planning and Design
- Creating a 180-degree Turnaround In User Satisfaction With Home-grown Software
- Creating a Community College for the District of Columbia
- Creating New Collaborative Learning Environments
- Creative Project Funding When Your State is Strapped for Cash
- Cultural Competency for Educational Leaders
- Culture Shock: Managing Change in the Land of Academia
- Delivering on a Big Vision: Implementing a 75-acre Campus Expansion
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- Does Net Zero Design LEED to Zero Cost?
- Embracing Continuity and Change: Penn State Brandywine's Planning Approach
- Following Through on Strategic Plans: From Words to Deeds
- Friending Gr8 Ldrz: Leveraging Social Media on Campus
- Funding Higher Education Facility Preservation: A Streamlined Comparative Condition Framework for All State Facilities
- Funding the Future: Taking Advantage of Federal Grants
- Future Ready: How to Integrate Strategic Direction and Campus Planning
- Hardwiring Flexibility into a Strategic Plan’s Implementation: Strategies, Risks, and Rewards
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- HEASC Fellows Project Report
- Help! My Building Doesn't Have a Cavity: Re-cladding Solutions for Energy Inefficient Existing Buildings
- Hey! Where do you learn best? (Student Video Contest Winners Share their Stories!)
- Home, Classroom, Community: Creating a Comprehensive College House Residential Program
- How Do Smart Meters Make a University More Intelligent
- Implementing Academic Analytics: Promise and Performance
- Integrated Planning in Community Colleges: Current Realities and Future Possibilities
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- Integrated Project Delivery—A Catalyst for Collaboration/Planning
- Integrating Academic, Facilities and Community Needs at BCTC's New Campus
- Integration of Healthcare Education Across Disciplines and Departments
- Interaction Between A Community's Healthcare Needs and Coppin University's Academic Program as a Catalyst for Campus Transformation
- Inventing the Next Century of Living-Learning Environments
- Legacy System to Integrated Information System in Record Time!
- Lifecycle Cost Analysis of Campus Solar and LEED/Sustainable Projects
- Location Location Location: An Unlikely Approach to Sustainable Growth
- Making Your Strategic Plan a Bestseller on Campus
- Managing Space as a Campus Resource
- Master Planning for a Sustainable Marine Science Campus at UCSC
- Maximizing Land Utilization Through Creative Campus Planning and Development
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- Measuring the Impact of Enterprise Asset Management Programs
- Multi-faith Religious Space: The Solution to Diverse Campus Religious Pressures
- Multidisciplinary Learning, Sustainable Environments and Architectural Design = Positive Educational Experience
- New School Fogelman Library - Urban Case Study of the New Library Experience
- Notre Dame's Investment in the Future of Engineering
- Places for Collaboration: Art Buildings as Models for Collaborative Spaces
- Planning a Balanced Scorecard Approach at a NJ State College
- Planning for an Uncertain Future
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- Planning for Athletics and Recreation - Making Every Yard Count
- Planning for the Experienced Planner I (Session offered twice)
- Planning the Next Generation Library: User-driven, Technology-rich, and Resource-savvy
- Poly Canyon Village: Integrated Project Delivery Brings Sustainability Home
- Positioning for the Future During Uncertain Times'
- Presentation by the 2010 Excellence in Institutional Innovation and Integration Award Recipient
- Presentation by the 2010 SCUP Founders (Casey) Award Recipient
- Putting the Strategic Plan into Action: The Operational Plan
- Realizing The Impossible Dream: Developer-Led; Client Satisfaction; Architectural Excellence
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- Redefining Campus Boundaries: Strategies for Successful Student Growth
- Repurposing a Building - Morrill Hall, Sustainable in 1890
- Res Life Must Go On
- Revolutionizing Learning in the STEM Disciplines
- SCUP Excellence in Planning, SCUP Excellence in Landscape Architecture, and SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture Awards
- Simulation Centers - A New Model for Integrated Learning
- Smart Change: Tools for Strategic Planning and Adaptive Change
- Stalled, Squeezed, Shelved: Finding Project Momentum in a Wobbly World
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- Successful Public/Private Partnerships - A Case Study for Capital Funding & Development
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- Sustainable Campus as Pedagogy: Opportunities For Enhancing the Curriculum
- Sustainable Residence Life "Flexible Living Unit" Design
- The Power of Community and Place - Medical Education in West Michigan
- The Young and the Agile
- Tools to Assess the Marketability of Your Academic Programs
- Utilizing Technology and Data in Strategic Planning
- Vision, Beauty and Fun: The Success of Embracing Collaborative Planning
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Labels: academic planning, campus planning, facilities planning, resource and budget planning, SCUP-45, strategic planning
Endowments 2010: Risk Management, Liquidity, Stewardship
The title says it all: Endowments 2010: Risk Management, Liquidity, Stewardship. Opening year-end statements this year isn't quite as scary as it was last year, but endowment managers still face the need to recover from this recession. And they're going to do it without a return to the former "normal." Commonfund and NACUBO are now also tracking endowment performance. Preliminary data for the fiscal year ending June 2009, with 504 institutions out of a base of 800 having responded to a survey, shows that the results in aggregate are not as dire as they were for some marquee institutions. The average endowment was down 19 percent for the year ending in June; Harvard reported losses of 27.3 percent that year, while Yale lost 24.6 percent. Most institutions surveyed lost 22.5 percent from July 1, 2008 to November 30, 2008, which means that most participated in the market’s nascent recovery. Spending rates remained constant at an average of 4.3 percent of assets. The full study will be released on January 27.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: endowments, financial crisis, recession, resource and budget planning
Grapevine 2010: A Critical Juncture for Higher Education in the US
If you're trying to look deep into the crystal ball at the future of support for higher education from the state, the latest Grapevine* report will help clarify the situation, but it isn't pretty. And it seems like nearly everyone is expecting further cuts, not only in the current fiscal year but in the next one.
* Grapevine has compiled data on state tax support for higher education sinde 1960. This year, the Illinois State University's Center for the Study of Higher Education Policy (CSHEP), which manages Grapevine, has joined forces with SHEEO and folded in that organization's State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) project. The collected data is served up in a number of useful ways on the Welcome to Grapevine, Fiscal Year 2009-10 website.
Links Quoted from Lingenfelter: In summary, the dimensions of the current financial and enrollment crisis are: - More than 5% of FY 2010 appropriations are underwritten with federal stabilization funds that in many states are exhausted, or nearly so;
- State revenues have fallen at an unprecedented rate and a recovery will, at best, take many years according to the National Association of State Budget Officers; and
- Even with recent dramatic enrollment growth, current enrollments almost surely understate student demand, with many students who would otherwise enroll deterred by tuition increases and budget‐ driven enrollment caps and course cancellations.
But money and enrollment demand are not the only issues.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: financial crisis, policy, publics, recession, resource and budget planning, state support
Financial Aid Strategies in Tough Economic Times
SCUP–45 offers CPEs for CPAs. Subtitled "10 critical do's and don'ts," this University Business magazine article by Kathy Kurz, Jim Scannell, and Mary Piccioli, provide an annotated check list that begins with (1) track key metrics against a same or similar period in the prior two years, goes through (5) keep admissions and financial aid staff on the same page by using net tuition revenue goals as the common denominator, and finishes up with (10) be transfer friendly.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: financial aid, resource and budget planning
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