Senate Reference No. 90-12

TO: University Resources Policy Committee

IPFW Faculty Senate (for information)

FROM: D. Oberstar, Chair

Budgetary Affairs Subcommittee

DATE: December 5, 1990

SUBJ: Budget Emphasis Areas, 1991-92

The Budgetary Affairs Subcommittee makes the following recommendations for the allocation of funds in the 1991-92 budget. The areas in Group A should receive "highest" priority and those in group B "high" priority.

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Enclosure

pc: B. Blauvelt

A. Friedel

J. Lantz

Budgetary Affairs Subcommittee

BUDGET EMPHASIS AREAS, 1991-92

The Budgetary Affairs Subcommittee recommends that the following areas be given careful consideration during the budget process for 1991-92. Recommendations in group A should receive "highest" priority and those in group B "high" priority.

We recommend:

Group A

·Replacement of Part-time Faculty with Full-time Faculty

that, given the continued increases in the percentage of sections/credit hours taught by associate faculty (36.4/37.2 for fall, 1990), new full-time faculty positions be created so that associate faculty teach no more than 20% of the introductory (100-level) sections/credit hours taught by a department.

·Departmental S&E and Travel

that, in order to promote interdepartmental equity for S&E and travel budgets, a committee composed of faculty members and appropriate administrative officers be appointed by the chancellor to:

a) conduct a department by department budget study of S&E/Travel allotments and spending,

b) establish budget standards (a formula based on principles versus the unclear pattern of custom and tradition which appears to govern the process at present),

c) implement these budget standards in determining the 1991-92 departmental S&E/travel budgets in order to achieve equity.

Group B

•Salary Equity Program

that the designated costs category of the operating budget be used to fund gender- and longevity-related salary adjustments.

•Faculty Microcomputer Support

that continued emphasis be placed on funding the recommendations of the computing across the curriculum task force.

•Capital Equipment

that academic units receive additional funds for replacement of existing equipment and purchase of new state-of-the-art equipment dedicated to teaching and student use.

• Library Funding

that additional funding for the library be provided with emphasis on recurring funds for maintenance of serials subscriptions and expansion and maintenance of automated systems.

• Introductory Courses

that summer session offerings such as MA 111, ENG W130, and EDUC X150 be expanded in coordination with the summer orientation activities in order to help ease the present situation and enable more students to begin their academic programs in phase.