These pages provide an overview of the campus’ comprehensive plan for navigating our identified $17M structural deficit through 2026-27. The aim at this time is to achieve this budget reduction in 2025-26 through voluntary means to the greatest extent possible, and in so doing, to align our workforce, course offerings, and campus services with: (1) the size of our student body, which this year matches enrollment from Academic Year 2012-13, and (2) expenditure benchmarks comparable to our sister º£½ÇÉçÇø campuses that are also small and region-focused, such as Sonoma State, Cal Poly Humboldt, and Cal State Monterey Bay.
What follows is a three-part plan for achieving a permanent $17M reduction in recurring expenditures, beginning in 2025-26. This plan is based on current projections (as of December 2024) of where we will be with enrollment and budget next year, which are subject to change over time. It is important to note that this plan necessitates an iterative process with continuous and recursive feedback loops informing each successive step of the plan. This will be a difficult process, but essential as we right-size our operations in accordance with our enrollment.
For additional budget context and information, please visit the Strategic Resource Planning Committee (SRPC) page.
Please visit the pages below for information on each part of the plan:
- Part 1: Benchmarking
- Part 2: Workforce Response Plan
- Part 3: Other Cost Mitigation Strategies