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UB preparing for tight budget year
It’s ‘business not as usual’ for advisory group
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“In the spirit of UB 2020’s principles of collaboration, inclusion and transparency, I have charged the advisory group to provide advice regarding how best to achieve financial targets while preserving the university’s mission, vision and strategic objectives.”
With UB facing an additional 7 percent cut in state funding—on top of 3 percent enacted earlier this year—an advisory group charged with advising the president, provost and senior leadership on where belt tightening might take place has begun work guided by the principle that at least for the near future, it is “business not as usual” at the university.
Addressing the work of the University-Wide Strategic Financial Management Advisory Group formed by him and President John B. Simpson, Provost Satish K. Tripathi said in an Aug. 20 email to the university community that “it is incumbent upon our university to explore, consider, prepare for and adopt measures that will achieve projected reductions.
“In the spirit of UB 2020’s principles of collaboration, inclusion and transparency,
I have charged the advisory group to provide advice regarding how best to achieve financial targets while preserving the university’s mission, vision and strategic objectives,” added Tripathi, also executive vice president for academic affairs.
The additional 7 percent reduction in state funding, which will affect SUNY and CUNY, results from a plan enacted by Gov. David Paterson and the State Legislature to cut New York state’s budget by $1 billion. The reductions agreed to also include a 6 percent reduction on any remaining funding due this year for the Center for Advanced Technology and UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
The advisory group held its first meeting on Aug. 19, also the day that members of the Legislature returned to Albany at Paterson’s call to begin grappling with New York’s historic fiscal crisis.
Committee members are H. Austin Booth, University Libraries; Carol Brewer, Nursing; John Canty, Medicine; Peter Grollitsch, undergraduate Student Association; Robert Hoeing, Faculty Senate; Daniel Kehoe, Graduate Student Association; Janiece Kiedrowski, Professional Staff Senate; Cristanne Miller, English; Sharon Mitchell, Student Health and Wellness; Joe Raab, Environmental, Health and Safety; Debbie Schifferle, University Communications; John Thomas, Management; and A. Scott Weber, Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.
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