Transcript Chancellor Congress Overview

SIUE Congress
November 6, 2015
Setting the Context
•
•
•
•
•
•
Decline in State support for higher education
Concern over tuition increases
Decline in traditional college-age students
Increase in competition for students
Demands of Illinois politics
Realignment of SIUE’s budget
Decline in State Support
• Adjusted for inflation, there has been a 34.3% decline in
Illinois state funding for higher education since FY00
• For SIUE, there has been a $14m reduction since FY02
• For SIUE, state support has fallen from 70% in FY02 to
40% in FY14 of our state dollars
The Problem of Tuition Increases
•
•
•
•
Student debt is over $1 trillion
61% consider higher education to be of fair or poor value
85% say high cost is an obstacle to earning a degree
At SIUE, a 130% tuition increase would be needed to
offset the loss of state revenue for this year alone!
• SIUE has the 2nd lowest tuition in Illinois
The Demographic Problem
• Illinois public universities have lost over 10,000 students
in the past 5 years.
• All Illinois public universities lost enrollment this fall
except SIUE, GSU, ISU, and UIC.
• The number of Midwest high school graduates will
decline until 2022.
The Problem of Competition
•
•
•
•
Illinois publics and privates
St. Louis privates
Online universities
For-profits
Illinois Higher Education
•
•
•
•
Performance-based funding
“Efficiency and Effectiveness”
Low-performing programs
Employment of graduates
SIUE FY16 Strategic Budget Spending Plan
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
FY16 Strategic Budget Spending Plan by Area
Area
- Provost
- VCA
- VCSA
- VCUA
- Chancellor
- Intercollegiate Athletics
- Central Funds (GA/IFM)
Subtotal
- Scholarship/Admissions Funding
- Fire Protection Funding
Total State Budget
State Budget
$98,862,197
28,294,569
2,381,971
2,500,608
3,860,855
525,277
6,346,163
$142,771,640
6,114,010
311,000
$149,196,650
DRAFT
11/5/15
9%
$9,298,007
2,661,109
224,025
235,183
363,114
62,777
596,858
$13,441,073