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State's budget will remain unchanged for FY '97, Provost John Fleischauer
announced at January's Academic Council meeting. However, budgetary changes
are expected when the Ohio Board of Regents' new master plan goes into
effect with the 1998-2000 biennium.
"Because the planning process will not be complete in time for the upcoming budget year, the Board of Trustees agreed to a one-year budget with minimal operational changes," said Fleischauer. "This will allow us to begin biennial budgeting in line with the [regents'] plan and the state's budget cycle in 19982000." The regents' master plan calls for new procedures for appropriations, accountability and operation of all Ohio public universities. Two major changes in state policy will affect Wright State. The regents have removed the automatic inflationary increases for universities. Beginning in 1998 (FY '99), increases will depend on our satisfactory achievement of several |
"performance funding criteria" related
to core principles of access, student success, basic and applied research,
and community development services.
(Editor's Note: These criteria were identified as key components to the university's ability to meet the needs of students, faculty and staff in the Vision 2020 document.) Fleischauer also said the regents will make a change in the enrollment-driven funding formula for ongoing subsidy distribution. "In the past our enrollment has been counted for the entire year on the basis of the count as of the 14th day of fall quarter," he said. "Starting in FY '99, subsidies will be based on an all-term counting procedure. "As a university that caters to a large population of commuters and working adults, Wright State experiences significant reductions in enrollment at the end of each term. The new counting procedure will put us at a significant disadvantage compared to peer universities like Cleveland State and Toledo, who have changed from quarters to semesters." The provost added that he will work with faculty leadership to pursue more vigorously the issue of changing from quarters to semesters. |