SOUTHERN POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY

Outline For the FY06 Budget Development Process

Draft: 1 January 2005

1/4/05 Rev. 4.0 of budget priorities (based on Expanded Cabinet discussion on 12/17/04) distributed to campus for review -also posted on the SPSU web site (see below)

1/10/05 Comments from the University community are due to Ms. Mary Phillips (mphilli0@spsu.edu) by noon today in order to be considered in developing the FY06 budget plan

01/11/05 Expanded Cabinet reviews campus input and revises guidelines and/or top priorities.

January - President and Senor Staff hold open meeting to share preview of budget presentation and fee requests submitted to System Office staff.

January - University Budget Plan submitted to the System Office staff.

January or February - University personnel meet with System Office staff to discuss SPSU Budget Plan.

April (or after USG has sent allocation letter to campus) - President holds open meeting to share status of FY05 state allocation.

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Rev 4.0

Budget Priorities for Southern Polytechnic State University for FY06

1 January 2005

This list was developed and revised by the Expanded Cabinet in December 2004. The primary use of this priority list will be in developing the budget narrative that SPSU will submit to the Board of Regents sometime in January. The original priority list had more than 50 separate priorities; the list below represents significant consolidation and condensation from the original.

All comments and suggestions for should be sent to Ms. Mary Phillips (mphilli0@spsu.edu), Executive Assistant to the President, by noon on Monday, 10 January 2005.

Protect the quality of instruction

• Provide an instructional environment that is conducive to learning.
• Provide an effective corps of instruction that is adequate in number, quality, and diversity, and which represents the appropriate balance of full/time-part/time faculty necessary to achieve SPSU's educational mission.

Support student access to education

• Maintain adequate course offerings and schedules to support student needs.
• Provide effective academic advisement and adequate support to maintain it.
• Provide effective and efficient services to students throughout the University.

Strengthen the sense of place and the people

• Evaluate staff workload and add staff where necessary to prevent burnout and turnover.
• Pursue equity adjustments of staff and faculty salaries.

Create and invest resources

• Raise more private funds to support the University's mission.