Budget 2004

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Campus-wide Budget Impacts

Reduction of Supplies and Services Budgets

Primary Impact: Students

  • Elimination of student recruitment publications and media.
  • Library’s ability to acquire current books in various disciplines, especially in scientific and technical subjects, greatly impacted.
  • Site licenses to electronic journals and periodicals would be impacted.
  • The risk of developing an “aged” collection of Library books and materials.
  • High-school and community college outreach visits reduced by 40% to feeder schools of the University.
  • Financial aid information visits completely eliminated to feeder schools of the University.
  • Students admitted to Summer Bridge will be reduced by 10%.
  • Programs coordinated by student life areas will be scaled back and in many cases, cancelled.
  • Postage nearly eliminated for enrollment related information.  All communication will need to be electronic.
  • ‘Showcase of Excellence’ program for high-performing prospective students scaled back.
  • Elimination of the dial-up modem pool.
  • Deployment of additional wireless networking initiatives deferred.

Primary Impact: Faculty/Staff

  • Significant reduction in state-support for instructional supplies.
  • Professional development of faculty and staff will be significantly impacted.
  • Elimination of vehicles for instructional equipment deliveries.
  • Elimination of the campus printed telephone directory; only available through Web.
  • Response to maintenance requests will be significantly delayed.
  • Repair of classroom technology equipment delayed or deferred.
  • Elimination of the equipment refresh program for faculty computers, student labs, and technology training labs.
  • Elimination of the campus Lease Vehicle program for state business travel.
  • Conversion of campus building plans to electronic CAD format will be deferred.
  • Attendance at CSU system-wide meetings eliminated or reduced.
  • Ability to serve professional organizations in leadership roles greatly compromised.
  • Software upgrades will be deferred, leading to staff inefficiencies, project delays, and reduced productivity.
  • Elimination of some service agreements to repair fundamental office machines; such as copy machines, fax machines, and printers.
  • With the elimination of equipment and software upgrades, transactions that are required to be electronic may be compromised.
  • Registrar’s Office forms will only be available through the web and NCR forms for faculty and students eliminated.
  • Elimination of some software maintenance contracts.

Primary Impact: External Development

  • Reduced visits to potential donors of the University, impacting amount of gifts to the campus.
  • Ability to regularly update address and phone numbers of alumni and potential donors greatly impacted.
  • Media guides for athletic programs eliminated.

Impacts Entire Community

  • Development of the campus master plan, as well as on-going minor and major capital projects, may experience delays or deferral.
  • General aesthetic value of the campus will be negatively impacted.
  • Service and maintenance of major building equipment will be deferred.