Dean Van Alfen announces CA&ES budget planning process
Our campus does not yet know how much of a budget reduction we will face next year, but we know enough now to begin planning for specific cuts that must be considered best-case scenarios, based on projections of the state budget. In planning for next year’s budget, Interim Provost Horwitz has requested that our college submit a plan to her by April 25, 2008, to detail how we will reduce our permanent I&R and AES budgets by a total of about $1.7 million.
I will ask the CA&ES Dean’s Council to serve as the primary group to advise me on how we should take these cuts. This council contains representatives from my office, department chairs, the College Executive Committee, and the CE Specialists Advisory Committee. The recommendations of this group will be taken to the Executive Committee and department chairs for comment. My office, the department chairs, and department managers will then meet to consider these recommendations. The college will also establish a website that will give faculty members and staff the opportunity to comment on our budget reduction planning.
I recognize that a budget reduction of this size will impact all of us, so I feel it is important that our college community be engaged in the planning process. We have absorbed larger cuts to our budget in the recent past, so I have confidence that we will be able to work our way through this challenge while maintaining the excellence of our programs, just as we did a few years ago.
As always, I value your feedback. If you have questions or comments, please e-mail me.
Neal
K. Van Alfen
Dean
College
of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
nkvanalfen@ucdavis.edu
CA&ES Budget Planning Process Links
