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The University Budget Advisory Committee (UBAC) is an advisory group consisting of representation from faculty, classified staff, unclassified exempt staff, students and administrators. This body is advisory to the President and all members shall be appointed by the President based on recommendations from appropriate constituencies. The UBAC hosts campus budget conversations and serves as an educational platform for learning about the university’s finances. The UBAC will make recommendations to the President on budget prioritization to both sustain and grow the university. UBAC members serve four year terms.
SUSTAINABILITY SURVEY CONTEXT
In the Fall, UBAC made an open call to solicit ideas from across campus for ideas that may inform our legislative advocacy efforts in connection to funding for the TRUs, while navigating a new and ongoing process that is still being defined. Ideas were solicited and submitted to help move the conversation along, but with no funding promises. We began first with a general poll to prompt respondents thinking:
Sustainability Survey Summary for Dissemination
Poll for General Ideas:
Full list of options for selection:
Of the general ideas listed below, please mark all that resonate with you:
- Streamline admissions across all of the TRUs and PSU with a direct enrollment process
- Engage an enrollment analyst to maximize course enrollment and resource utilization
- Examine how to reduce utility costs, move towards carbon neutrality and improve overall reliability of our utility system.
- Offer condensed and less expensive bachelor’s degrees by creating a Summer Term that is equal to the others
- Identify and develop every shared service possible
- Leverage OERs to reduce student costs and promote faculty research
- Increase community partnerships with real life learning experiences
- Move campus to a four day work week to save money on electricity, etc.
- Allow students to take courses at multiple campuses with ease of transfer—collaborative degrees
Sustainability Survey Open Submission Ideas:
UBAC also solicited open ideas from WOU campus. We received a variety of ideas that fit in a few broad categories. UBAC would like to keep this record available to the campus, while still emphasizing that there is no funding promise attached to these ideas–that this list might serve more as a record and clearinghouse of our campus’s participation in this conversation, so as not to lose the good ideas that were shared. In the attached Google sheet, please find the categories listed at the top, with numbers of ideas below in each column. For ease in reading, please click on the links in each category heading to read the open detailed submissions.
