UAS Resolution on Enrollment Assumptions

UAS Resolution AHC-5

A Resolution Implementing University Faculty Committee on Budget and Financial Planning Recommendation #5

WHEREAS, the University Faculty Committee on Budgets and Financial Planning’s March 14 report finds that the overestimation of enrollment contributes to budget shortfalls; and,

WHEREAS, the University Faculty Committee on Budgets and Financial Planning’s March 14 report recommends that “UAS work with ELT to evaluate current practices regarding enrollment and revenue projections”; Now Therefore:

BE IT RESOLVED, that it is the sense of the University Academic Senate that the University Faculty Committee on Budgets and Financial Planning meet with any offices and individuals identified in the March 14 report as being involved with the development and approval of enrollment assumptions, to evaluate the potential impact of employing more modest undergraduate enrollment assumptions than those used currently.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that it is the sense of the University Academic Senate that the University Faculty Committee on Budgets and Financial Planning report on the results of this discussion to University Academic Senate during the Fall, 2024 semester.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that it is the sense of the University Academic Senate that:

1. Deans and program directors should review the budgeted enrollment assumptions in the FY25 budget for the graduate and professional programs they oversee and consider adjustments—upward or downward—for these enrollment numbers to reflect their current expectations.
2. These revised numbers should be given to the Graduate School and the Office Finance at the start of the process of generating the FY26 budget.

Adopted by University Academic Senate on April 15, 2024