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The primary functions of the University Budget Office
are:
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To assist the President and the Budget Task
Force in developing, implementing, monitoring, and controlling the University's
annual operating budget. The office serves as principal staff to
the Budget Task Force, preparing all agenda materials and implementing
budgetary decisions.
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To support the University strategic planning and budget process through participation in deliberations of
committees and hearing panels, presentation of essential institutional data and
preparation of various analyses and reports. |
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To serve as the primary office for complying
with the University's central external reporting requirements. In most cases,
the reports are prepared by the Office. In other cases, consistent, "official"
data are provided to other offices for reporting purposes. |
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Continue to develop and produce institutional
databases to provide the source of "official" data for both internal and
external reporting. |
These functions are accomplished by the
administration's three divisions.
The Budget &
Reporting division provides
primary staff support to the University's Budget Task Force; the University
strategic planning process; implements and monitors current year operating budget; and
provides cost studies and analyses. This division develops the state
appropriation request, income and expense projections, tuition projections, and
information pertinent to salaries, employee benefits, new program initiatives
and other general university operating cost increases.
Information is provided for a myriad of mandated federal and
state reports, surveys and ad hoc requests from the Association
of American Universities Data Exchange, publishers, students,
employees, and other persons and agencies/corporations needing
information about the University.
The
Information Resource division includes computer support for many of the major
functions served by the Budget & Reporting division; development and maintenance of
appropriate ISIS and IBIS functions for the office and the University.
Information Resources also provides the annual production of official files and mandatory official reports on
core human resources, student, and financial data for the U.S.
and Pennsylvania Departments of Education and the Association of
American Universities Data Exchange. Various university-wide
data is presented in the Factbook which is maintained by the
University Budget Office.
Network Services provides
computer hardware, software, training and network expertise to
more than one hundred users within the University Budget Office,
Offices of the President, Board of Trustees, Finance and
Business, Corporate Controller, Associate Treasurer and
Educational Equity.
Updated July 2008 |
