Public Forum General Use Fee

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Tuition-Designated Fees
University of Texas at San Antonio
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Key Issues

• UTSAs role of providing accessible quality
  educational programs is critical to the future of
  South Texas.
• Level of state resources for both operations and
  buildings primarily drive the level of student
  fees.
• Growth related faculty and infrastructure needs
  create further upward pressure on fees.

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FY 2002-03 Budget
State Appropriations 84,416,528 Tuition and
Fees 71,648,125 Gifts Grants
40,678,491 Other 13,572,279 Total 210,315,
423
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FY 2003-04 Budget
State Appropriations 80,220,143 Tuition and
Fees 93,814,749 Gifts Grants
50,991,072 Other 15,879,208 Total 240,905,
172
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Percentage of the Texas State Budget that Goes to
Higher Education
18.0
13.7
1984-85
2002-03
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Tight State Funding

• In 2001 UTSA ranked 29th out of 38 state
  institutions in appropriations per student FTE.
• If UTSA received the median amount for all
  institutions, UTSA would receive almost 15
  million more from the formula.

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Tight State Funding

• Formula uses BASE YEAR approach thereby under
  funding growth.
• Teaching supplement should be amended for
  emerging institutions.
• Plant formula does not provide sufficient funds
  to cover current costs.
• Increase in energy costs is not adequately
  addressed in the funding formula.

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Infrastructure Facts

• UTSA is one of the states fastest growing public
  universities.
• UTSA has and will continue to have a significant
  space deficiency.
• UTSA has the highest classroom utilization in
  Texas.
• UTSA has one of the highest faculty workloads in
  Texas.

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Projected Enrollment by Level
TOTAL 25,000 26,322 27,644 34,253 40,862
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Projected Space Deficiency Compared with
Coordinating Board Standard

59
68
74
60
50
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Space Utilization Fall 2002
THECB Rank Institution Fall 2002 Number of Classrooms Fall 2002 Average Weekly Hours Used
1 UT San Antonio 102 49.2
10 UT Austin 430 39.6
THECB Std 38.0
18 UT Arlington 186 32.9
20 UT El Paso 139 32.6
27 UT Dallas 122 27.2
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Student/Faculty Workloads
INSTITUTION 1998 1999 2000 2001
UTSA 23.8 23.6 23.8 22.7
UT Arlington 16.9 17.2 17.9 18.5
UT Austin 17.8 18.4 18.9 18.8
UT Dallas 17.0 17.9 18.8 21.0
UT El Paso 17.7 17.9 17.8 17.9
All Texas Public Institutions 17.9 179 17.8 17.9

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Growth Impact on Budget(FY 2004 FY2005)

• 11.3 million need for tenure track faculty.
• 8.9 million need for deferred maintenance and
  adaptive renovations.
• 3.6 million need for lease payments
• 2.1 million need for maintenance and utilities
  including the cost of new facilities.

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Tuition Designated
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Budget Distribution