1. Dealing with Recession
CHECO, September 2009
Mike Nicholson, ASC

2. ASC Institutional Overview
4-year liberal arts, State College
By statue, rural and teachers education special emphasis
Incorporates 2-year, 4-year, Masters and extended studies program
ASC Institutional Overview

3. ASC Institutional ASC Overview
Approximately 2,900 undergrads and grads (headcount); another 2,500 through Extended Studies
Colorado’s first Hispanic Serving Institution – nearly 30% of students identified as Hispanic
Situated in the most geographically isolated and economically challenged region in the state
Historically, Colorado’s low-cost 4-year college
ASC Institutional ASC Overview

4. Full-Time Required Tuition and Fees for a Freshman Arts and Sciences Major, (Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2008, Tuition and Fee Report)

5. FY 09-10 Budget ASC FY 09-10 GF cut of $1.5M (12.3%)
Backfilled by stimulus dollars
9% undergraduate tuition increase as approved by the state
Significant graduate tuition increase
Selective fee increases
Course Specific fees
Capital Fee (passed 2008)
Headcount increase of nearly 17% this semester
FY Budget

6. Institutional Response
No layoffs - $1.5M of administrative and faculty positions frozen
Recognition we must generate new revenue streams to meet 2012 funding cliff
New academic programs
New athletic programs
Facility construction and modernization
Institutional Response

7. Have historically run lean – only general fund IT increases since 2004 due to maintenance-related inflation or legal issues
Revenue growth has come from student technology fee – increased in 2007 to $15.40 per hour up to 11 credit hour
Recession impact on IT

8. Recession impact on IT (Cont.)
Major impact is inability to fill an open position and to hire a desperately needed network engineer and desktop technician
Including CIO, 18.5 IT personnel
Have funds to complete campus switch upgrade and wireless implementation but lack manpower to do it
Recession impact on IT (Cont.)

9. IT response to recession
Very careful about accepting new tasks or pursuing new capabilities – always a late adapter (business as usual)
Exploit the use of open source or free products
Linux, Google Apps, project mgmt
Student to gmail
IT response to recession

10. IT response to recession
Outsource where it makes sense (and where cost can be shared by others)
WebCT
Streaming Server
Purchase products that improve our efficiency
SCCM, Bradford, Kaspersky
System monitoring and reporting tools coupled with smart phones for system administrators
IT response to recession

11. IT Response to recession
Continue virtualization track
Stood up Academic Instructional Technology Center in 2008
Established AITC tech fee for on-line courses
Share the campus technology costs between IT and AITC
IT Response to recession