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Throughout the units, you will look at how states like California are cutting the money they provide to public colleges and universities. For the Final Project, you will bring your examination of higher education finance full circle and investigate how these state funding cuts can alter decision making at individual institutions.

For the purposes of this project, imagine that you work at a medium-sized state university as the program chair for Developmental Education, a department which offers the remedial reading, writing, and math classes taken by students who do not place into college-level English and math classes based on their placement test scores. At your institution, students do not pay tuition for these courses. Each year, you must offer course sections serving approximately 2,000 students. The sections generally break down as follows:

	Enrollments	Sections
Reading 001	200	10
Writing 001	400	20
Math 001	600	30
Math 002	800	40
Total	2,000	100

You have four full-time faculty members who each teach 10 courses per year, with adjuncts teaching the rest. Each full-time faculty member makes $40,000 per year including benefits. Adjunct pay for one course in reading or writing is $1,500, while it is $1,800 for math, because it is harder to hire people who can teach math. Currently, your courses use normal classrooms, not computer labs, so you do not have any additional costs for labs or equipment.

Recently, your dean let you know that, due to state budget cuts, you are going to have to cut 10% from your budget next year. She has asked you to come up with five possible strategies for dealing with this cut, and an analysis of how each strategy will affect your department, your faculty, your students, and the institution. Strategies could include ways to cut costs or to increase revenue. You can assume that this is a one-time cut, and that funding levels the following year may return to normal; however, at least two of your strategies should assume that the cuts will be permanent.

Recommended Reading

Meisinger, R. J. (1994). College and university budgeting: An introduction for faculty and academic administrators. Washington, DC: National Association of College and University Business Officers. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED378911.pdf

Chapter 4: “Allocating Resources and Increasing Flexibility”

Chapter 5: “Retrenchment and Reallocation”

These two chapters in this publication from the leading organization for higher education business officers will provide some useful ideas for your course project, including ways to meet cuts with creativity and make the most of the resources at hand.

Completing Your Final Project

While it is not necessary to use Microsoft Excel to complete this project, you can certainly do so. If you are not familiar with Excel, you can locate tutorials from Microsoft and other sources. A spreadsheet template is provided for your use that includes the information previously described. If you decide to work with the spreadsheet to model your budget-cutting strategies, this should not require more than very basic Excel skills.

To complete your Final Project, use the following outline:

1. Introduction: State the problem, provide the reader with some context, and give an overview of your direction.
2. Discuss each of your five strategies in a separate section using an APA formatted heading.
3. In each section for each strategy: -Discuss how it will achieve the required cost savings -Discuss how it will likely impact key stakeholders (e.g., the department, the students, and the institution) -Summarize the benefits and limitations of each strategy
4. Recommendation: Describe which strategy you believe presents the best solution and why.
5. Conclusion: Summarize your key points and conclude your paper.

Your completed paper should be 10–15 pages of content. Before you submit it, make sure it has proper title and reference pages and follows APA (6th ed.) style.

 

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As professionals in the industrial/organizational (I/O) field, we may have companies as our customers but employees are our business. They represent us to customers, they make our products, they fix our problems, and they bring us new ideas. Very few companies would succeed if it were not for their employees. The key is finding the right employees. We need to attract and select the right people and then work hard to keep and develop them. The job is never done!

Consider the industrial/organizational (I/O) perspective and address the following questions:

1. You need to conduct a job analysis for a phlebotomist. Which techniques would you use to accomplish this and why?
2. Employee-referral programs can be an effective method of increasing your candidate pool. What are the advantages and disadvantages to an employee-referral program?
3. The employee selection process is filled with human interaction. What is the role of human judgment in selection decisions?
4. You are training managers on how to work with employees with performance issues. What three suggestions would you give managers when it comes to goal setting and employee performance?

Your response should directly address each question, providing references and examples to support your points. You should use at least two scholarly sources, cited in APA format.

Submission Details:

• Write your initial response in a minimum of 300–400 words. Apply APA standards to cite sources.

 

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I need you to do these chemistry questions there are 6 pages, but not difficult. I upload them in the files. Check them I need the to be done in 15

 

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1.Questions to Ask CEO About Valuation – If you were directed to make a visit to a company’s CEO for the purpose of obtaining information in addition to the 10K to complete a valuation of that company’s common stock, what questions would you ask and why?

2. Is it important to address the value of non-operating assets in arriving at an estimate of the value of equity per share? Why? Offer an example from your company?

3.Assume the board of directors of the firm where you are CEO is calling for an increase in the value of the firm, what would you do to respond positively to that direction?

4. Briefly discuss the DCF model and why it’s valuable.

 

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