UIC’s Budget Model will use the following overarching guiding principles to propose revisions and redesign of the budget model:
- Advance the university’s mission and strategic priorities.
- Balance incentives and rewards for innovation, revenue generation and cost containment with central funding for campus-wide initiatives.
- Emphasize transparency & accountability in the budget process.
- Promote financial stewardship and sustainability by examining pathways to offset growing costs through reinventing structures and ensuring responsible management.
- Simplify revenue and cost allocation methodologies.
- Encourage interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Optimize the delivery of business and related essential administrative services through an institution-wide commitment to customer service, best practices, and organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Consider high-impact practices and student success factors beyond enrollment data to improve retention and graduation rates.
- Minimize negative duplication and competition between colleges and administrative units.
- Offer adequate communication intervals to stakeholders with information about proposed budget model revisions, with appropriate opportunities to provide feedback for consideration by decision-makers before changes are implemented.
- Provide understandable links between resource allocation and revenue generation with rules that are predictable, clear and consistently applied.
- Produce a set of reliable, understandable data, planning forecasts and performance reports.