College Governance

Faculty Finance Committee – 2012-13

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Chair
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Humanities
Natural & Mathematical Sciences
Dean’s Office Liaison
Student Representative

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2008 Final Report
2007 Final Report
Subcommittee 1 Report
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Charge to the Committee

General Charge

The committee is charged to advise the Dean on the management, control and distribution of the College’s financial resources.  The committee is charged specifically with assessing the distribution to units of operating expenses (OE), other personalservices (OPS), graduate students, adjuncts, temporary appointments and recurring salary funds (vacant staff, faculty, lecturer positions) and develop a transparent model for budget allocations that provides the required financial support to meet the mission of each unit.  The mission includes maintaining SCHs and graduation rates in our critical areas of core programs, and developing new educational, service or research programs. 

The committee is also charged to advise the Dean on developing a planning budget each year for the next fiscal year.  In this task they will interface with departments and centers for the annual program review exercises. 

The committee is also tasked to develop a set of best practices for the budgeting of departments and guidelines to departments for the responsible management of their resources.  The committee should also aid in the identification of instruments for logical budgeting.

The best practices and guidelines will include the management responsibilities of chairs and directors, proper consideration of faculty assignments and class sizes, class enrollments and the maintenance of educational standards with the need to have students taught by faculty at all levels.

Investments are to be planned strategically to advance the academic reputation of units, to grow PhD programs (in line with UF goals) and to replace/add faculty in key strategic areas for the College.  The Strategic planning should consider opportunities to reorganize and reform the College into a structure that recognizes educational and research models.

Short Term Task

The Committee is charged to review the planning of allocations and costs of meeting the academic mission of all units for the next two fiscal years with the goal of balancing the College budget by FY 2008/09.  The assumptions to be used are that there is only a 3% inflationary increase in E&G funding per year, that many of the vacant lines due to retirement may not be filled in the short term, and that the SCHs available in the mainstream areas will be maintained.

Long Term Task

Develop a plan beyond 2008/09 that extends over 5-years that includes restructuring where appropriate to build new programs and synergies that use some of the vacant lines to strengthen and advance strategic areas for the College.  In this task the committee will solicit information from chairs, the Dean’s Executive Committee (new Constitutional Committee to replace Dean’s Advisory Council), directions, clientele that we serve (premed, pre-engineering, etc.), UF strategic planning and communicate to CLAS chairs and directors.

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