Both of these factors bring the actual student share of costs at access campuses below the levels assumed in the instructional subsidy formula. OBM has indicated that agencies should request no more than a seven per cent increase each year. At the last meeting, several members of the Commission encouraged us to be aggressive. We need to be sure that operating lines benefit from this restraint. Whether to Subsidize Out of State Undergraduates from Contiguous Counties See attached proposal from Bruce Beeghly.
Regents are to make awards on the basis of plans submitted by campuses.
Plans are due by December 31, 1998. At a subsidy consultation meeting earlier this year, some campus representatives suggested that plans be required to be submitted by consortia of institutions, on the theory that cross-institutional collaboration has the promise of creating economies of scale. The promise of special state funding might help overcome the natural barriers to collaboration. One university suggested that both individual and joint proposals should be permitted, that the plan could be prospective or could describe actions taken within the past five years, that the plan could describe either administrative or academic savings, and that an institution should be permitted to submit as many as three plans. One college representative suggested that the awards be given to campuses with the lowest costs per FTE, as measured in Resource Analysis.