Budget Strategies and Priorities

Context

• Operating budget stabilized; healthy reserves
• Active initiatives to reverse declining enrollment
• Modest deferred maintenance backlog

Expense and Prioritization Controls

• Continue campus-level position control
• Target high-demand and emerging sectors to guide position decisions

Enrollment management

• Create new pathways for transfer students
• Enhance student success initiatives, including student employment, to improve retention
• Strengthen and develop new student and residence life programming

Potential opportunities to invest reserves

• Modernization of learning spaces
• Student housing improvements
• Deferred maintenance backlog