CSULB 2010-11 BUDGET OUTLOOK
How Do We Plan?
If this is the range of possible futures we face, how do we plan?
- All scenarios are extremely challenging.
- Any scenario will require several kinds of solutions:
- Focusing resources on core mission
- Postponing less critical actions and initiatives
- Analyzing organizational structures; where efficiencies can be created, reorganizing
- Analyzing processes; where processes can be made more efficient, changing
- Suspending activities that generate workload but can be delayed
- Limiting hiring
Planning Categories
In Academic Affairs, three categories for planning:
- Academic programs
- Academic infrastructure
- Other centers, programs, and units
Academic Programs
- Produce enrollment, serve students
- After downsizing, we must still:
- Serve students well
- Achieve FTES
Key questions - efficiently meeting student needs:
- “How can we efficiently provide class offerings to meet student needs?”
- “How can we achieve additional reductions while still meeting student needs?”
- “Will program consolidations improve efficiency?”
Infrastructure
- Services essential to instruction, academic operations
Key questions:
- “Which services are truly essential?”
- “How can we deliver those most efficiently?”
- “What services can we defer?”
Other Centers, Programs & Units
- Highly valued (or would not exist)
- Contemplating reductions is painful
- Do not produce enrollment or essential services
Key questions:
- “What non-state resources can be used?”
- “What activities can be deferred?”
- “How significant are these activities compared to our most mission-central activities?”