As Vice Provost Dr. Dowell collaboratively leads divisional planning for and management of an academic budget in excess of $120 million, admission policies and practices, enrollment of more than 36,000 students, academic support services, student success initiatives, and academic facilities. As Director of Strategic Planning, Dr. Dowell collaboratively leads the process for annually updating the campus strategic plan and he leads cross-divisional initiatives related to enrollment, student success, and accountability.
The recent Academic Senate retreat focused on the 2010-11 budget and presented the framework that academic colleges are using in planning for 2010-11 budget reductions.
For several reasons, the framework assumes that furloughs do not continue. Furloughs cannot be a campus-level decision; they require agreement between the Chancellors’s Office and the unions. Current agreements expire at the end of the current fiscal year. A renewal of faculty furloughs would probably require another system-wide vote and we cannot anticipate the outcome. For these reasons, we cannot count on furloughs for a second year as a solution. More.
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