Plan 2008
BUDGET COMMENTARY
The possible sources for funding for the implementation of Plan 2008 are new general-purpose revenue (GPR) from the State, reallocated funds from campus, extramural grants from the federal government and the private sector, and funds raised from the private sector in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin Foundation. The University faces big challenges in finding ample funds required for Plan 2008 to be a success. The University of Wisconsin System Administration has requested approximately $17.5 million in new funding for the 1999-2001 biennial budget cycle on behalf of the 13 institutions in the System. These funds were requested to support pre-college and undergraduate scholarships, fellowships and other important diversity initiatives. As of mid-April, the Governor's version of the budget recommended only $732,000 earmarked for pre-college programs and only for the second year of the biennial budget cycle. As of the printing of this report, efforts are being undertaken by System Administration in cooperation with all of the campuses to secure as much of the requested funding as possible.
The University already has a substantial investment of public and private funds for its diversity initiatives. The total expenditures for a wide array of undergraduate programs for the 1998-99 academic year is approximately $6 million dollars. We will work cooperatively with System Administration and the State on a budget strategy centered around requesting and hopefully obtaining substantial increases in funding primarily for pre-college programs, the Lawton Retention Grant and the Advanced Opportunity Fellowships Program to support graduate and professional students. We will attempt to cover costs for increasing participation in pre-college programs with additional scholarships from the Department of Public Instruction, funds raised from the private sector, federal grants such as TRIO (Talent Search and Upward Bound), and the new "Gear-Up" program funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The University will also be more focused and efficient in requesting and obtaining Minority Supplement to Grant funds from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy to support high school students to work in labs and research apprenticeship programs, for stipends to support undergraduate research assistants, graduate research assistants, and for visiting faculty positions in the sciences.
The University will continue to work closely with the University of Wisconsin Foundation to advance fund raising strategies to support Plan 2008 initiatives. A total of approximately $4 million has already been raised towards a $10 million endowment for the Chancellor's Scholars program. The Foundation is close to meeting its goal of raising $100,000 for the PEOPLE program for the summer of 1999. Some of the funding raised by the Foundation and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) towards the Graduate School's $100 million endowment will be used to support graduate students of color. The Graduate School will work to encourage graduate programs to get a better distribution of funds (research, project and teaching assistantships and traineeships) used for supporting students of color all of which will help greatly in addressing unmet need.
Table of contents
- Guide to the plan
- Foreword to the campus
- Introduction
- The seven goals of UW System’s Plan 2008
- Summary of recommendations in Madison Plan 2008
- Commentary and recommendations
- Budget commentary
- Estimated budget for Plan 2008
- Appendix A: Planning guide for Implementation
- Appendix B: PEOPLE proposed budget
- Appendix C: Undergraduate enrollment, retention, and graduation profiles
- Appendix D: CIC freshman seminar survey
- Appendix E: Graduate and professional enrollment and graduation profiles
- Appendix F: Advanced opportunity fellowships
- Appendix G: Strategic hire initiative program
- Appendix H: Faculty and staff profiles
- Appendix I: UW-Madison and community partnerships
- Appendix J: Faculty Senate on diversity
- Appendix K: Governance leaders’ diversity statements, 1997-98
- Appendix L: Plan 2008 governance resolutions, 1999
- Appendix M: Letter of support from Wisconsin Alumni Association
- Appendix N: Process
- Appendix O: Participants