Cost Saving, Collaboration and Managerial Efficiency

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Cost Saving, Collaboration and Managerial
Efficiency
New England Board of Higher Education Conference

• Dick Cannon, Vice President of Finance
  Administration
• University of New Hampshire

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Financial Management Practices

• Responsibility Centered Management -Incentives
  and Cost Discipline
• Regular Review of Outsourcing Options
• Regular Offering of Separation Incentive Plans( 5
  Times for Faculty and 2 Times for Staff Since
  1997)
• Attack Structural Deficit

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Energy Management

• Constructed Co-generation Plant
• Eco-line Land Fill Gas to Co-Generation Plant
• Energy Awareness Activities
• Energy Task Force
• Student Contests
• Individual Metering

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Health Costs

• Increased employee share to approx 15
• Healthy UNH
• Broad based grass roots action committee
• Build a culture of health and fitness
• Educate how 40,000,000 spent
• Demonstrate cost drivers and choices to address
• Purchasers group
• Activated consumer
• Ways to improve pricing

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Need for a New Business Model

• Blended Learning
• Mixed on Campus Off Campus Learning
• Compress Time to Complete
• Leverage Fixed Assets More
• Articulation with Community Colleges
• Leveraging IT