What RCM has done well is provide some efficiency throughout the administration, although the balancing of cost is passed on to students emotionally and financially. Strangely, Murphy Hall is much better than it was 5 to 10 years ago. Everywhere you go, things cost money. Photocopying, transcripts, use of the Wooden Center, athletic games. We can achieve both without inflicting a corporate mentality on the entire student, staff and faculty populations.
Fiscal priorities are the nature of government, and they come together in a public institution.
It is not part of our core principles of academics. It won't be, it shouldn't be and the state government should protect these principles and preserve the public's interest, learning for learning's sake. Fiscal management should be emphasized in the administration's role as middleman, ensuring that the transactions between faculty and students, and ultimately the staff, are neutral financially, while productive and beneficial to the institution as well. The need for continued shared governance cannot be better illustrated.