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Financial Sustainability in Ontario Universities
Financial Sustainability in Ontario Universities
Trudy Pound-Curtis
CAUBO Conference, Saskatoon SK
June 14, 2004
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Current Environment in OntarioCurrent Environment in Ontario
No Inflationary Grant Funding.
Unfunded student spaces.
Tuition freeze.
Large growth in capacity due to double cohort.
Growth to continue in GTA due to demographics.
Projected Population of 18-24 Year Olds in the GTAfor the Period 1999 through 2028
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Source: Ministry of Finance, 2001.
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Current Environment in OntarioCurrent Environment in Ontario
Increasing pressures on Quality and Accountability.
No plan for growth in graduate enrolment.
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Financial sustainability can only be achieved by:
Financial Sustainability – A Balancing ActFinancial Sustainability – A Balancing Act
Decreasing base expenditures
Increasing base revenues
Managing cost pressures
While maintaining a high quality institution.
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Increasing Base RevenuesIncreasing Base Revenues
1.1. Increase Government GrantsIncrease Government Grants
Funding Formula Review to ensure Equal and Full Average
Funding for all students.
Lobby Government for Inflationary Grant Funding to ensure
that Quality can be maintained.
Work with Government to maintain/grow Capital Funding for
New Buildings and Facilities Renewal.
Increase in Indirect Cost of Research Funding.
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Increasing Base RevenuesIncreasing Base Revenues
2.2. Tuition – Tuition – in the face of a tuition freeze?in the face of a tuition freeze?
Regulated vs Deregulated.
Increase Visa fees, which are not covered by the freeze?
Increase offerings of Professional Development or Full Cost
Recovery programs?
Use the increased fee revenues to cross-subsidize the
programs whose fees are frozen.
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Increasing Base RevenuesIncreasing Base Revenues
3.3. FundraisingFundraising
Undertake a comprehensive fundraising program to offset
the increasing cost of scholarships/bursaries, faculty,
research, etc.
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Reducing Base ExpendituresReducing Base Expenditures
Explore different program delivery methods; i.e. Distance
Learning.
Adjust program array to reflect the new funding reality.
Renegotiate collective agreement clauses that restrict course
delivery methodology or that create other inefficiencies.
Outsource some non-core services; i.e.
Janitorial/Maintenance, Postal, and Food Services.
Utilization of Technology – Ontario buys Program.
Horizontal vs Vertical cuts.
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Managing Cost PressuresManaging Cost Pressures
Normal inflationary increases.
Compensation costs.
Benefits and pension costs.
Impact of poor investment returns and lower projected
spending rates on endowments.
Proposed elimination of mandatory retirement.
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Real RisksReal Risks
Deterioration of institutional quality.
Deterioration of faculty complement.
Deferred maintenance.
Deterioration of administrative staff complement.
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ConstraintsConstraints
1. Speed of Change in Universities.
2. Gaining Consensus in a Collegial Environment.
3. Creating Attitudinal Change.
4. Strength of Collective Agreements.
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SummarySummary
In order to be sustainable, Universities must:
1. Get a commitment from the government on sustained full funding for all students.
2. Negotiate Capital Funding in order to sustain and renew facilities.
3. Reduce expenditures through changing the way that courses are offered and reducing the array of programs to reflect the funding environment.
4. Renegotiate collective agreements to gain the flexibility required to create efficiencies through outsourcing or other means.
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