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HE 550: Higher Education FinanceUnit 7 Seminar

Pre-Seminar• Welcome to HE 550: Educational Program

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Unit 7 Seminar

Matthew Calfin, [email protected]

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• Understand expectations for Final Course Project


Seminar Outline

• Final Course Project overview-Unit 9 Learning Objectives-Assignment Instructions-Assignment Resources-Assignment Grading Rubric-Assignment Content


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• Seminar Assessment• Conclusion


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Unit 9 Learning Objectives

• Propose strategies for containing unit costs and maximizing efficient use of resources.

• Use budgetary information to evaluate institutional priorities. (Course Outcome HE 550: 5).


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Assignment InstructionsBackground

For the purposes of this project, imagine that you work at a medium-sized state university as the program chair for Developmental Education, a department which offers the remedial reading, writing, and math classes taken by students who do not place into college-level English and math classes based on their placement test scores. At your institution, students do not pay tuition for these courses. Each year, you must offer course sections serving approximately 2,000 students. The sections generally break down as follows:

Enrollments Sections Reading 001 200 10 Writing 001 400 20 Math 001 600 30 Math 002 800 40 Total 2,000 100


Assignment InstructionsBackground You have four full-time faculty who each teach ten courses per year, with adjuncts teaching the rest. Your full-time faculty each make $40,000 per year including benefits. Adjunct pay for one course in reading or writing is $1,500, while for math it is $1,800, since it is harder to hire people who can teach math. Currently your courses use normal classrooms, not computer labs, so you do not have any additional costs for labs or equipment.

This morning, your dean let you know that, due to state budget cuts, you are going to have to cut 10% from your budget next year. She has asked you to come up with five possible strategies for dealing with this cut, and your analysis of how each strategy will affect your department, your faculty, your students, and the institution. Strategies could include ways to cut costs or to increase revenue. You can assume that this is a one-time cut, and that funding levels the following year may return to normal; however, at least two of your strategies should assume that the cuts will be permanent.

•Review bolded items above.


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Assignment Resources

Sections Enrollment Salary Cost

Instructor Name Status Course Title Fall Spring Fall Spring Fall Spring

Sarah SchreiberFull time Writing 001 5 5 100 100

$ 20,000

$ 20,000

Ned NumberlineFull time Math 001 3 2 60 40

20,000

20,000

Math 002 2 3 40 60

Cora CalculusFull time Math 001 2 3 40 60

20,000

20,000

Math 002 3 2 60 40

Gina GrammaticaFull time Reading 001 5 5 100 100

20,000

20,000

TBD Adjunct Writing 001 5 5 100 100 7,500

7,500

TBD Adjunct Math 001 10 10 200 200

18,000

18,000

TBD Adjunct Math 002 15 15 300 300

27,000

27,000

Total 50 50 1,000

1,000

132,500

132,500

Annual Total 100 2,000

$ 265,000


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Assignment Grading RubricCriteria Mastery 320

Points Description of budget cutting strategies

At least five highly relevant, creative budget cutting strategies identified, and their ability to meet the required budget cut clearly and coherently described. Arguments are well supported by appropriate references.

76-90

Analysis of budget cutting strategies

Each budget cutting strategy is analyzed clearly and coherently in terms of its benefits and limitations as well as its potential impact on all major stakeholder groups.

76-90

Introduction and Conclusion

Context of the introduction and purpose is clear, specific, and coherent. Conclusion summarizes major elements of the paper and clearly lays out specific recommendations.

76-90

Writing competence Comments were clearly expressed without typos, grammatical, and/or spelling errors and APA was followed accurately. Paper could be published in a journal with little editing.

41-50


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Assignment Content: Unit 9 Course Project Assignment Financial Management

Course Outcomes HE550-4: Assess the appropriateness of institutional expendituresHE550-5: Use budgetary information to evaluate institutional priorities.

Due Date Tuesday, October 23

Point Value 320

Assignment Type Paper (at least 7 double spaced pages)

Minimum Assignment Length

Determined by Assignment Instructions

Description Investigate how state funding cuts can alter decision-making at individual institutions.


Assignment Content: Outline• Introduction - State the problem, provide the reader with some context, and give an overview of

your direction.• Strategy 1

Describe the strategyDiscuss how it will achieve the required cost savingsDiscuss how it will likely impact key stakeholders, including your department, students, and the institutionSummarize the benefits and limitations of the strategy

• Strategy 2Cover the same points as for Strategy 1

• Strategy 3Cover the same points as for Strategy 1 and 2

• Strategy 4Cover the same points as for 1, 2, and 3

• Strategy 5Cover the same points as for 1, 2, 3, and 4

• Recommendation - Describe which strategy you believe presents the best solution and why• Conclusion - Summarize your key points and conclude your paper


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Contact Information:Matthew Calfin, [email protected]

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