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ng term sustainable they do have to make some financial choices that are difficult but important to make them sustainable jn t he truth is no money is attached to a major and no money is saved by eliminating them the savings would only come from eliminating budgeting to that program faculty support staff technical support etc but not one word has been said about those efforts for example will there be layoffs time wasted on efforts that will bring little to no measurable improvement should become secondary suny fredonia means so much to the campus community and impacts the surrounding communities in multiple ways we are definitely on the precipice we cannot fall into the abyss chancellor king has made it crystal clear that he needs to see significant efforts from financially distressed campuses to climb out of the budgetary holes they are in as a result of the combination of decreases in direct state aid and in enrollment that i discussed in the last section given multiple opportunities in his latest interview he refused to endorse calls from campus governance bodies or unions or legislative leaders for ladders of dedicated new state funding to be extended into those budget holes or even any climbing ropes than enrollment directed ones and he s remained steadfast in his position that every suny campus has needs challenges and opportunities so every campus needs funding increases and it would neither be fair nor strategic to focus limited investments only on the most struggling campuses but where does this leave fredonia and others like us i understand that as the leader of an entire system chancellor king needs to balance the needs of every part of that system and i m glad he quickly backpedalled from that empty classrooms quip first off not all teaching occurs in a classroom there can be all kinds of good reasons for an institution to invest in high quality high engagement very small classes such as internships undergraduate research opportunities labs theses assistantships etc music lessons independent studies and so on and even if a major is very small faculty teach all kinds of courses not just upper level courses that can be taken only by majors of which there are fewer than you might expect moreover fredonia has been focusing on curricular efficiency for over a decade which means that any section with fewer than 12 students requires a special justification from the chair and dean to continue running after working with the delaware cost study ad astra and eab over the years fredonia puts together one of the most efficient class schedules in the nation every single semester furthermore every new faculty line in the last decade has had to be fought for and justified in the face of incredibly strict scrutiny while retirements and other kinds of attrition in many academic areas have led to incredible shrinking faculties in many departments so i question chancellor king s implication that campuses in financial distress have brought their problems on themselves over the last decade through inaction or other failures of fiscal responsibility when in fact we ve saved over 20m at fredonia over that time period through a combination of strategies including curricular efficiency and curricular transformation but also unfortunately radically reducing staffing in non instructional areas where workers are part of csea as well it s precisely because we ve become so good at controlling non personnel costs and directing significant resources toward instructional costs that we face the current dilemma how to advance curricular transformation and innovation in smart strategic ways that will lead to enrollment stabilization and growth minimizing harm to student retention success recruitment and actual faculty whose teaching conditions after all are student learning conditions if chancellor king will not rethink how suny allocates the state operating funds it receives for next year s budget how will fredonia keep from falling from the precipice into the abyss professor niebel warns about her language here reminds me of my october 2023 message why is it that everyone involved in designing and running the marathon of the last two decades from new york state governors and legislative leaders to suny chancellors and suny fredonia presidents has been complicit in kicking the financial sustainability and stewardship can down the road that longstanding efforts by united university professions and the suny university faculty senate among many others to point to the unsustainability and inequities of new york state s funding model for suny and to offer alternatives and solutions repeatedly get dismissed delayed deferred what seems to be happening across new york state is a realization that this situation is untenable that kicking the can down the road is becoming an ever riskier option as the marathon s course rises and narrows and as that cliff on the other side of those increasingly rusty guardrails with the concerning number of rusted out sections becomes deeper steeper and more jagged with every kick what remains to be seen is what follows from this realization i would submit today that new york state s elected and appointed leaders are no closer to taking responsibility for their own financial decision making regarding public higher education than they were when i wrote this nearly four months ago this ties to the reason i gave suny s report on long term enrollment and financial sustainability only a b just over a month ago despite writing that it may well be the best piece of research analysis and writing to come out of suny system administration in my 25 year plus career at fredonia to be frank it s a level work all the way up until the financial sustainability section where it barely rises to a c and may actually be incomplete after nearly two years to put together this report where is the analysis of costs of instruction and total non instructional costs including breakdowns such as costs of academic support other student services management confidential administrators uup professionals and csea workers on every campus over time where is the response to the suny ufs s april 2022 costs of administration study resolution 191 02 1 where is even the acknowledgment of receipt of the fredonia university senate s october 2023 public good index resolution where is the system wide data on section sizes faculty fte student credit hour ratios costs and revenues per credit hour student progress toward degree and other measures that would help chairs and deans build efficient schedules identify obstacles and chokepoints on the path toward graduation and response to sandy baum s and michael mcpherson s call to examine spending patterns attempting to analyze which programs instructional and non instructional are particularly important for student success campus economics 2023 102 there is so much data that suny system administration should be collecting using to create dashboards and providing to campuses to help them make the difficult financial decisions that chancellor king is calling for i ve been looking at budget books and listening to campus presidents and chief financial officers for a very long time and i can think of fewer than five years out of my 25 at fredonia that we weren t facing some kind of deficit including many years when our enrollments were much higher than they are now so if chancellor king is committed to the long term sustainability of campuses like fredonia s at some point he s going to have to make it clear what balance of public and private revenues he expects us to arrive at which means making it clear what suny system is willing to invest in recurring direct state operating aid to fredonia to get us to that equilibrium at some point this year he s going to have to put his cards on the table college affordability and state financial aid jk suny s tuition is extraordinarily affordable just over seven thousand dollars it s more affordable than many of our neighboring state peers so that commitment to affordability has to be matched by a commitment to continued investment in the suny system if we re going to be financially sustainable jn the annual tuition at fredonia is 23 960 there are several different ways of understanding college affordability this exchange between chancellor king and professor niebel illuminates the difference between tuition on its own 7k and the total price of attendance 24k we know that over half of suny s students attend tuition free and almost half of suny s students graduate debt free thanks to federal state university and private sources of financial aid but what about the other half and what about the students who choose more affordable options as the father of a 20 year old college sophomore and a 17 year old high school senior one of the biggest things that matters to me is the net price of attendance for a year of college for my daughters my older daughter is attending a small liberal arts college for about 7k less per year than the nearest competitors which included other small liberal arts colleges such as my own alma mater hamilton college and ub i ve argued repeatedly here and elsewhere that suny needs to get serious in the net price wars the inevitable tuition and other discounting that higher education institutions of all types and sizes can t help but avoid in the decade plus of the demographic cliff that s new york will go over in 2025 this is why i m so excited that so many players are lining up from campus and system governance bodies to higher education unions from suny to cicu from senator stavisky to assemblymember fahy to nypirg to pressure the federal government to increase the value of the pell scholarship the state government to turnonthetap and both to rethink long standing income thresholds and other barriers to eligibility yes it s no substitute for further increases to direct state aid for public higher ed and should not be pitted against those increases but when 91 of fredonia s class of 2019 took on some debt you know there s an affordability crisis for those who would benefit the most from a fredonia education i would include among that population a fairly strong proportion of the students graduating this year in the top 10 of their high schools given disparities in local property tax bases and historic patterns of state underfunding of public schools in lower income zip codes many students across the state will not be as well prepared to excel as their better funded peers on suny s most selective campuses which turn out to be its largest campuses by and large which turn out to be its research institutions which turn out to not have invested in faculty teaching as much as at places like fredonia geneseo doesn t have the capacity or the program mix to meet all their needs for most of my career fredonia was a selective institution it s only in recent years that we started accepting more than 50 of our applicants thus we re well placed to help less well funded students among the top 10 succeed the fredonia university senate called attention to the cost of attendance again back in october 2023 offering many solutions so let s turn to baum and mcpherson again to set up what we re calling for children from different racial and ethnic groups at different levels of income and wealth and with parents with different educational backgrounds grow up in vastly different circumstances these differences are associated with how well prepared they are for college how well they can navigate the enrollment process and what kinds of external support financial academic and social they need to succeed in college as campuses strive for greater diversity and inclusion they need to accept the need to invest in creating a culturally responsive environment that will encourage all students to see themselves as full members of the campus community these efforts involve costs that must be factored into the finances of the institutions there is strong evidence suggesting that reductions in expenditures resulting from the failure of state appropriations to keep up with rising enrollments have contributed measurably to increases in time to degree and declines in completions rates particularly at institutions educating less well prepared students 11 17 20 their footnote points us to a 2007 study on cohort crowding by bound and turner and a 2017 study on the impact of price and spending subsidies on u s postsecondary attainment by deming and walters zachary bleecher mukul kumar aashish mehta chris muellerleile and christopher newfield make a similar point in metrics that matter counting what s really important to college students 2023 in crossing the finish line 2009 bowen chingos and mcpherson found that the less students actually pay the more likely they are to graduate a student with more grants fewer loans and less financial self help expectation an amount the student must find a way to pay themselves can work less while in college and therefore study more a student who studies more and who has more flexibility in their schedules to pour extra effort into courses that are hard for them is more likely to do well academically and to graduate 46 47 think their sources are too old to be relevant check out this may 2021 report from the state higher education executive officers association sheeo check out jonathan turk s essay in unlocking opportunity through broadly accessible institutions ed gloria crisp kevin mcclure and cecilia orphan 2022 which concludes that greater financial and human resources will be needed in order for many b roadly a ccesible i nstitution s to be able to provide the comprehensive student support services that many of their students require in order to graduate 195 and ends on this note federal and state need based grant aid programs should be expanded e g in increasing the maximum pell grant award and should receive at minimum yearly inflationary increases state governments should reinvest in higher education by restoring appropriations to colleges and universities to help lower their reliance on tuition and fees furthermore states should provide additional funding to support the expansion of student support programs and services at broadly accessible and open access institutions finally colleges and universities must take into account the full costs of college when putting together financial aid packages this includes addressing housing costs and food insecurity bais are routinely tasked with doing more with significantly fewer resources than their more selective counterparts more resources must be made available to these institutions so that they may better support student success and greater equity in society through higher education 196 i could do this all day but i have other things to do this weekend the work of making public higher education a true public good is ongoing but not perpetual for any individual by the 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