POSTED BY MARTIN KICH

Our administration has asked our chapter to meet with them to discuss budget shortfalls. Noeleen McIlvenna, our chapter president, and other members of our executive committee recruited groups of faculty who have done detailed research on multiple “cost centers” on which the university has not adjusted its spending despite the financial crisis that was a major contributing cause of our three-week strike last winter. That research has been distilled into a series of Powerpoints.

Although the Powerpoints are focused on spending priorities at our university, the basic approach can be applied very easily to almost any institution: that is, our problems are hardly exclusive to our institution–even if, in some cases, they may stand as extreme illustrations of broader problems.

Beyond its providing a model, there are several slides in this Powerpoint, which Noeleen is narrating, that I have not seen in other presentations on spending on intercollegiate athletics.