Frequently Asked Questions – Operating Budget 2013-2014
2013年6月24日
前言：
This document focuses primarily on the annual Operating Budget, approved by the Board of Regents on June 24, 2013. The University of Winnipeg has four distinct potential pools of funds.
a)运营预算，which pays for salaries, benefits and day to day campus expenses. This budget comes from two main sources: tuition and fees, and an annual grant from the Province. We are growing a third stream of revenue from campus related businesses like housing, leasing space to third parties with complementary missions and developing commercialization activities.
b)The Capital Budget,which pays for buildings, new construction and infrastructure. These monies come from assertive fundraising and donations and grants from the private sector and governments and must be utilized for the purposes defined by the funder.
c)Community Learning Budget，这支付了我们的创新外展计划，包括模特学校和Wii Chiiwaakanak中心。这些款项还来自私营部门，特定的政府计划和社区基金会的自信筹款，捐款以及赠款。亚愽娱乐app
d)The Research Budget,which funds the costs of faculty members pursuing specific research projects. Faculty members apply for and receive these monies come from external agencies. This is a growing source of funding at UWinnipeg which supports our academic mission but does not off-set the Operating budget.
- Why is The University of Winnipeg facing a continued crunch in the Operating Budget for 2013-2014?
The provincial government provides approximately 50% of the University’s operating revenues through a grant. Undergraduate and graduate student tuition and fees provide approximately 28% of the University’s operating revenues.
In 2011 the province committed to providing UWinnipeg and other Manitoba universities with a 5% increase in annual grants for three consecutive years. This March, UWinnipeg administration was informed the expected increase would be cut in half to 2.5%.
This means UWinnipeg had to find额外的来年节省了150万美元，超出了本来已经紧张的预算状况，这使我们最近从运营费用中削减了150万美元。
- What other factors are contributing to the operating budget pressure?
由于三个主要原因，在Uwinnipeg的预算一直在建设多年：
a) We receive a much smaller operating grant per student from the province than other Manitoba universities and other comparable Universities across the Country, which is exacerbated as a result of our increasing enrollments.
b) The University continues to deal with the impact of a significantly increased pension expense for its now closed Defined Benefit Plan resulting from changes to actuarial assumptions and the economic downturn of 2008. The University is budgeting a deficit of $2 million for 2013-2014 related to the increased pension expense, down from $3 million in 2012-2013
c）该省最近和当前的学费政策导致运营资金减少。
3.How is UWinnipeg planning to meet the budget shortfall this year?
大学的预算过程是一项咨询过程。预算团队与校园内的院长和部门经理以及参议院的预算咨询委员会会面，以确定平衡预算的最合适方法。
As a result of this consultation we are taking the following steps to balance the operating budget for 2013-2014:
- AGGRESSIVE VACANCY MANAGEMENT – a thorough examination of each vacant position is performed prior to positions being filled, resulting in many positions remaining vacant. The University expects to save over $3.5 million in 2013-2014 as a result of Vacancy Management
- 简化行政职能 - 2012年夏季进行的行政重组导致2013 - 2014年节省了40万美元，并将在未来的一年中进一步节省。此外，近年来，高级执行团队的薪水是第三次冻结
- OTHER SAVINGS – the utilities budget has decreased by $180,000 annually as a result of energy efficiency retrofits. Nearly all discretionary funds have been removed from the budget
4. Uwinnipeg还采取了其他哪些措施来增加运营预算并为校园带来更多资金？
We are focusing on increasing a third stream of revenue to cushion the operating budget shortfalls. In October 2013, we launched theFuture Fundto strengthen and enhance our academic programs. The goal is to raise $15 million to support activities such as faculty research, nurturing of young faculty members, attracting distinguished lecturers and improving IT systems. Our Deans are playing a key role in identifying how we can best nurture and support a culture of innovation. To date we have attracted almost $1 million to the Future Fund, which is, for example, supporting our first Chair in Co-operative Enterprises in the Faculty of Business and Economics. A donation by Sun Life Financial to this fund is supporting a new Diabetes Awareness program for inner city youth coordinated through our Faculty of Kinesiology.
We also created a new entity calledUWin Inc使我们能够在校园开发商业化活动。这项倡议还处于起步阶段，并具有有希望的收入潜力。
我们的教职员工也成功追求研究补助金at an accelerated rate, bringing new funds to campus. Research dollars are up from $4.4 million to $7.1 million in the last five years. That is a 60% increase in external research funding flowing through UWinnipeg.
Uwinnipeg致力于为我们的所有活动提供一种更具企业家的方法，我们将继续建立外部合作伙伴关系以加强我们的学术使命。
5.Why does UWinnipeg receive a smaller annual grant from the province than other universities?
我们在2012年的省级赠款相当于每位学生$ 6,500，布兰登大学和曼尼托巴大学每个学生每名学生获得12,000美元。
这是一个可以追溯到几十年无差异ut good reason. This discrepancy has been multiplied by the rapid enrollment growth at the University of Winnipeg over the past decade (55% increase) which was significantly higher than the other institutions. The Manitoba Government does not link operating grants to enrollment, unlike many other provinces.
The impact on us is substantial. The University has been working with the Provincial Government to address the inequality for several years, including a proposal to increase the University’s grant by $6 million over four years made in 2008. The Province provided the first $2 million of this plan, and had the remainder been received, UWinnipeg would have received an additional $8.5 million over the past four years, and our annual operating grant would have risen by $4 million annually for future years. However the “catch up” plan for UWinnipeg was halted by the Province in 2009.
6. What impact do all the new buildings at UWinnipeg have on the operating budget?
There is no negative impact. Building projects are funded from the Capital Budget, which is separate and distinct from the Operating Budget. The new buildings on campus are possible only because of assertive fundraising and generous donors.
Our successful and on-going fundraising effort has attracted $180 million in private/government donations to our campus and community since 2007. Our campus space has grown by 22%, adding 200,000 badly needed net square feet to campus. Even so, we have just 132 sq ft of space per student, placing us near the bottom of universities in Canada.
与维护新设施相关的成本已被省级和/或新收入对我们的运营赠款的调整所抵消。我们减少了租赁空间，并通过零售以及其他社区和商业伙伴关系增加了校园收入。亚愽娱乐appBuhler中心就是一个很好的例子
7.社区外展计划对Uwinnipeg的运营预亚愽娱乐app算有何影响？
Over the past five years, UWinnipeg has developed a holistic Community Learning mandate and we are proud to offer inner city youth athletic programs, computer classes and pow wow clubs, summer camps, homework clubs with nutritional snacks and much more. We are reaching thousands of youth annually who would not otherwise have access to high quality programs in this neighbourhood. These programs are free to participants.
Our Community Learning programs are funded separately by donors including Foundations, corporate and community partners, private individuals and specific government programs, which amounts to more than $750,000 annually. UWinnipeg contributes volunteers and student practicums as well as some faculty time (for example: Eco-Kids on Campus) to help support our Community Learning initiatives. These programs, complemented by the Opportunity Fund, have played a significant role in bringing University Students to our campus who would otherwise not be here.
自2007年以来，我们还肯定地筹集了筹款。到目前为止，有1,158名学生已经获得了此帮助。
此外，Uwinnipeg提供了320万美元的年度奖学金和助学金，以帮助学生进行直接教育费用 - 高于2004年的190万美元。这是67％的增长。该大学还从曼尼托巴学生援助计划中管理超过710万美元的年度援助。
8. 2013 - 2014年运营预算对Uwinnipeg学生有何影响？
温尼伯大学入学的所有学生都将能够参加他们所需的课程，以便在亚愽国际app下载其部门毕业。满足学生的需求是我们的第一笔预算优先事项。2013-2014预算包括在线学习，较大课程和体验学习方面的试点计划。后二级部门正在发生变化，大学正积极主动，以确保我们能够在新环境中提供优质的学生体验。我们正在尝试提供新的和创新的方法来提供教育经验，并符合我们将学生放在首位的自豪历史，我们将与学生合作，以确保这些变化对他们有用。
国际商务专业的学生将以每3个学分的1,384美元的价格转移到更高的课程费用结构，这仍然是加拿大最低的。通过比较，国际学生奖学金和助学金计划将加强25,000美元，以帮助需要过渡到新的费用结构，国际商学院学生在曼尼托巴大学支付1,442.61美元，在里贾纳大学支付1,954.35美元的费用3个学分。
9.今年的营业预算如何影响圣aff, professors and sessional instructors at UWinnipeg?
The University is committed to hiring 19 new faculty members in addition to 53 faculty members hired in the past two budget years. For the coming year, 12 new faculty will be hired, 7 new sessional instructors will be hired, and an additional 10 sessional instructors will be converted to permanent faculty.
Additionally, a $200,000 fund is available in this year’s budget to faculty members to support initiatives such as digital learning, academic partnerships, joint programs, co-op and internship opportunities.
