Strategic planning, collaboration required to respond to state budget challenges
Message from Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Janet Gong
Q. News about the UC budget reduction has likely made people anxious. What do you know at this point?
A. I'd like first to direct people to the budget information Web site, which contains the most recent campus update letter from Interim Provost Horwitz. This letter, posted as of March 2, 2008 and dated February 26, 2008, provides
detailed information on the targeted reductions to the campus and, more directly, to "academic support and other administrative units," which
includes the Division of Student Affairs. This letter has emerged from discussions of the campus' Budget Planning Task Force, on which Vice Chancellor Wood serves, and includes a series of principles to guide our efforts, as well as the campus perspective on enrollment, staff hiring authority, operating budget expenditure controls, self-supporting activities(particularly recharge rate structures) and the campus budgetary reduction review process and timeline.
As is the case for all "academic support and administrative units," the budgetary reduction for Student Affairs is targeted at 7% of our total General Fund and Registration Fee base budgets, effective July 1, 2008. In real dollars, this amounts to a permanent reduction of approximately $1.43 million. All other campus departments have the same percentage target except that ladder rank faculty salaries and teaching assistant funds are excluded from the calculation.
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