FY2010 House 1 Budget Recommendation:
Policy Brief
Deval L. Patrick, Governor
Timothy P. Murray, Lt. Governor
The fiscal year 2010 House 1 recommendation includes a new consolidated budget structure to fund the 15 community colleges, 9 state colleges, the 5 university campuses and specific university programs. The consolidated approach provides maximum flexibility to leaders in the Education Secretariat and Department of Higher Education leaders to manage within limited resources. In these challenging economic times, more students are considering attending our state’s strong public higher education system, seeking an affordable, high-quality education. As more students look toward our public higher education system, the campuses are met with the challenge of expanding their delivery of a world class education with diminishing resources. These real challenges and the recognition that each campus has unique programs and finances led to consolidating the disparate accounts into 3 separate line items.
FY2009 GAA Structure | FY 2010 H.1 Proposed Structure | |
71000200 | University of Massachusetts | |
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71000300 | Toxics Use Reduction Institute - University of Massachusetts Lowell | |
71000500 | Commonwealth College Honors Program | 7100-0200 University of Massachusetts |
71000700 | Office of Dispute Resolution | |
71090100 | Bridgewater State College | |
71100100 | Fitchburg State College | |
71120100 | Framingham State College | |
71130100 | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts | |
71140100 | Salem State College | 7100-3000 Massachusetts State Colleges |
71150100 | Westfield State College | |
71160100 | Worcester State College | |
71170100 | Massachusetts College of Art | |
71180100 | Massachusetts Maritime Academy | |
75020100 | Berkshire Community College | |
75030100 | Bristol Community College | |
75040100 | Cape Cod Community College | |
75050100 | Greenfield Community College | |
75060100 | Holyoke Community College | |
75070100 | Massachusetts Bay Community College | |
75080100 | Massasoit Community College | |
75090100 | Mount Wachusett Community College | 7100-4000 Massachusetts Community Colleges |
75100100 | Northern Essex Community College | |
75110100 | North Shore Community College | |
75120100 | Quinsigamond Bay Community College | |
75140100 | Springfield Technical Community College | |
75150100 | Roxbury Community College | |
75160100 | Middlesex Essex Community College | |
75180100 | Bunker Hill Community College | |
Massachusetts’s public higher education system includes 56 campuses, satellites and other classroom locations across the state. The public higher education system is governed by the Department of Higher Education and its Board and is committed to ensuring that all residents have the opportunity to benefit from a post-secondary education that enriches their lives and advances their contributions to civic life, economic development and social progress in the Commonwealth. Budgeting for these institutions is a great challenge and the Department of Higher Education and its Board utilize two budget formulas – one for the state and community colleges and the other for the University – to determine total operating requirements at each individual campus and then allocates state support in a manner that is transparent, equitable, and is based on quantifiable data. The budget formulas are premised on both aspirational and policy targets, and use a wide variety of financial and institutional metrics to determine total annual operating requirements.
The Commonwealth and the rest of the country are coping with a severe economic and fiscal decline that present new budgeting challenges not previously encountered. In this environment the public higher education institutions will need to deliberately and creatively manage their budgets. The individual institutions will be faced with unique challenges due to anticipated enrollment increases, various capacity capabilities of the campuses, and different levels of reserve funds. The new consolidated line item structure presents a significant shift in the approach to budgeting that will allow campuses to make unique proposals to the Department of Higher Education and the Executive Office of Education to request funds based on the factors that can assist the institutions in continuing to provide high-quality education at a competitive level while managing to continue operations during this recovery period.
Prepared by the Executive Office for Administration and Finance · Rooms 373 & 272 · State House
For more information contact:
Brian Gosselin (brian.gosselin@state.ma.us)
www.mass.gov/budget/governor