Minutes of the University Budget Committee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
5241 N. Maple, M/S TA 43
Fresno, California 93740-8027
Office of the Academic Senate
Ext. 8-2743

Members Present: J. Constable, P. Newell, J. Parks, A. Parham, D. Nef, R. Sanchez

Members Absent:

Visitors: Dean V. Samiian, R. Maldonado

The meeting was called to order by Chair Constable at 3:38 p.m. in Thomas 117.

  1. Minutes. MSC to approve the minutes of March 28, 2012.

    MSC to approve the minutes of April 11, 2012.

  2. Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda as distributed.

  3. Communications and Announcements

    Continuing and Global Education will present their budget framework on May 2.

    It was noted that the State University Grants for Graduate Students (SUGGS) were cancelled for the 2012-2013 academic year, but they were subsequently reinstated.

  4. New Business

    None received.

  5. Discussion of the Dennis Nef budget model

    The committee was presented a live version of the budget model that Dennis Nef developed and a series of simulated runs were performed. A variety of questions were discussed by members and visitors regarding the model, its operation, and the values assigned to different aspects of cost including Dean’s Office costs and administrative costs. The influence of a variety of factors were discussed and a variety of scenarios were simulated including changing the DMD factor, student costs, equipment costs and administrative costs. The different “cost” scenarios resulted in variations in funding to the different colleges, particularly between CAH and CSM. It was noted that the model was particularly sensitive to faculty costs, a not unexpected result as University costs are dominated by personnel costs. Dennis Nef sent out electronic versions of the model for members of the UBC to operate and run various scenarios.

  6. University Budget Committee statement low enrollment courses

    MSC to send out the UBC statement on low enrollment courses to the Senate Executive Committee.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:02 p.m.

Agenda for Wednesday 25 April 2012

  1. Approval of minutes of 18 April 2012.

  2. Approval of agenda for 25 April 2012.

  3. Communications and Announcements.

  4. New Business.

  5. Discussion of the library materials for the online degree in Deaf Studies.

  6. Discussion of non-reimbursed assigned time.

  7. Continued discussion of the Dennis Nef budget model.

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