Revitalization of CanadianUndergraduate Education

Dave Marshall

President, Mount Royal University

Western Canadian Association of Deans of Arts and Science

October 1, 2010

Banff, Alberta

Acadia

Alberta

Brock

Calgary

Carleton

Concordia

Dalhousie

Guelph

LakeheadLaurentian

Laval

Lethbridge

Manitoba

Mc Gill

Mc Master

Memorial

Montreal

Mount Allison

Mount St. Vincent

Nippising

Ottawa

Queen's

Regina

Ryerson

Saskatchewan

St. Mary's

St. Francis Xavier

St Thomas

Toronto

Trent

UBC

UNBC

UOIT

UPEI

Victoria

Waterloo

Western

Wilfred Laurier

Windsor

York

124.35, 28

Sat

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Number of Federal Grants per 100 FT Faculty

Institution Satisfaction (%) VS Number of Federal Grants

NSSE 2009-Canadian Benchmark (25%)

NSSE 2008-Overall Benchmark (34%)

Data Sources: Maclean’s University Rankings (Nov 2009), NSSE 2008 , NSSE 2009.

Satisfaction % is based upon Excellent Level Responses of First Year Students Cohort of NSSE.

0 200

60%

Indicates Plotted Group Centre (Mean, Median)=(124.35 Grants, 28%)

High NSSE Satisfaction - Low Federal Grants High NSSE Satisfaction – High Federal Grants

Low NSSE Satisfaction - Low Federal Grants Low NSSE Satisfaction - High Federal Grants

Sat

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n (%

)

Research Intensity - Research Dollars By FT Faculty ($)

Institution Satisfaction (%) VS Research Intensity ($)

High NSSE Satisfaction - Low Research Intensity

High Satisfaction - High Research Intensity

Low Satisfaction - Low Research Intensity Low Satisfaction - High Research Intensity

Data Sources: Maclean’s University Rankings (Nov 2009), NSSE 2008

Satisfaction % is based upon Excellent Level Responses of First Year Students Cohort of NSSE.

0 $ 400,000

60%

Indicates Plotted Group Centre (Mean, Median)=($121,098 , 28%)

Financial sustainability…rules for surviving the grant roller coaster…or…financial lessons my

wife taught me.

1. Savings account

2. No base expenditures on soft money

3. Don’t build what you cannot support under current base funds

4. Don’t balance the budget using tuition revenues

5. Don’t balance the budget using “accounting” measures

6. Don’t balance the budget with deferred liabilities

7. Establish fixed revenue allocations for all areas during good times and stick with them during bad.

8. Full disclosure of budgets…where everything comes from and where it goes.

9. Don’t “pre-spend’” revenues you don’t yet have.

10.If you do all of the above then salary settlements can be whatever you want as long as you are willing to face the real pain… that’s what sticking to these “rules” means

Thank you.