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About the Webconference
A major barrier to adjusting to the new financial reality is the belief that any reduction in academic resources must necessarily reduce quality. Excellence in instruction and scholarship clearly require significant investments of faculty time and other resources, but the relationship between costs and quality is not linear.
Excess spending on the proliferation of courses, specializations, and programs spreads resources more thinly across a broader array of activities, reducing quality by diverting funds from institutional priorities while at the same time producing a level of complexity that creates barriers to student success.
This session will examine the “microeconomics” of academic units and identify targeted opportunities to realign costs in ways that can avoid the negative impact of across-the-board budget cuts or the elimination of entire academic programs.
Presenter: Steve Teske
