Where’s the money going?

Amazing numbers. I had no idea. Why is CAS getting hosed so badly? Does it reflect enrollment? I haven’t a clue.

Seems to me this is the kind of stuff the UO Senate and especially the UO Board should be discussing.

What is the purpose of UO General/Budget Control? Is it an attempt to centralize spending into one opaque account?

And linearly extrapolating, it’ll be two more 3 year cycles before (publicly acknowledged) Athletics spending will be higher than CAS spending.

Kudos UOM.

FIRST, this kind of spreadsheet is not the kind that should be the basis for any kind of second guessing. That is what the VPFA, detailed open finances, and a governing board doing its job and demanding the kind of information and accountability that engenders trust and respect of from the state, students, parents, employees, faculty and most importantly (by sum of space allotted to ‘giving’ on the website) donors. That said: begin the second guessing.

There seems to be quite a few things that could be broken down more. I assume there are lower level account codes for things like Enrollment Management, which contains the old tried and true entities like Financial aid, Registrar, Admissions, etc. I would guess that each of these has expenditures more Like Institutional Research or Budget and Finance where it is pretty easy see that budgets were flat or got a new position. I wonder if the bulk of the money besides going to an outlandish quantity of various flavors of directors, is going to marketing and junkets (just a guess).

I too wondered about student life administration. It seems that unlike Enrollment Management a few of its departments are broken out in the 267xxx, 422x, 425x, 490x, etc. So yea VPSL another interesting bucket.

CAS getting slashed by $13.58 Million had to hurt a little.

Didn’t someone say police would cost less than what UO used to pay EPD?

Yes, what is Business Affairs and the increase? I am sure it is just a code shift but it looks like the UO is doing something the old overlords (OUS) did for fractions of the cost.

It seems to me that when there is a clear ‘old’ management structure, the budgets seem reasonable if not down right cheap– You can really do the entire budget, finance, for $1.3-$1.6M, or purchase and run the computers, servers, networks, phones, databases and banner for $22-$28M; however, amorphous amalgamations of overlapping oxymorons take huge bites out out of the pie without much clarity on what we are getting for these dollars (eg. business affairs, budget control, VPFA, student life, student services and enrollment management, international affairs, communications, etc.)