Open Forum (first of three)
08-29-06 (90 minutes, approximately 70 people attended)
Issues brought forward during this open forum are grouped by
whether they relate to the concept of the alternative budget model,
how an alternative budget model would be implemented or if they are
outside of the scope of a budget model.
Concept:
- Weighting for colleges -- Human Sciences is .91 -- how does
that reflect cost of education?
- Revenue stream seems to stop at college level. Faith in
college administration now, but that could change. Are colleges
developing their own models? Seems transparency breaks down in how
money follows student.
- Off-campus, distance ed courses treated the same as on
campus? If could do distance education course in Ankeny, could get
100%?
- Transparency?
- Centers or Institutes in previous model now College and
Research Administration -- deliberate change?
- Change?
- Role of Faculty Senate in decision to be made?
- Graduate college isn't with the other colleges. Why?
- Charge back?
Implementation Issues/Technical to Budget Model:
- See any details before approve budget model?
- Cost of instruction? If have for instruction, maybe for
other costs, like cost of buildings -- Insectary versus newer
buildings.
- Trust -- will do what they say and make decisions publicly
available.
- Motivation has to be made public
- Transparency is relative term -- know result, maybe not how
made. Make whole year 1 -- what happens in year 2?
- Timing fiscal year, academic year? Rolling?
- What happens if don't get nonreversion authority?
- Graduate college $2 million versus graduate student
tuition? Wants to hear explicit explanation.
- Hard to see if in ag or other program, look what happened
at USC -- if not collaborative then could start competing.
- Make whole? Grants base, count as cost share on grant but
what if goes away? Grant is 2-to-1 match.
Tangential -- Outside budget model but bought to light by it:
- Impact on graduate education -- not ignored, but not pay
for selves in tuition or research -- value of grants by faculty,
justify on prestige, ability to attract quality faculty. Concern
pressure of model is to underfund graduate education.
- Quantity of graduate students in interdepartmental programs
with emphasis on money to college, where's infrastructure? Now grad
college and others.
- Interdisciplinary programs: Had model up to early 90s, no
budget until midyear because didn't get to it. Can't recruit unless
understand financial future. Graduate recruitment in February for the
following year.
- Concern on interdisciplinary research -- will my dean allow
people to do it, while NIH says need interdisciplinary to fund? Is my
dean supporting me in interdisciplinary research?
- Extension locations around university, don't know cost
