Hello CEDA Community and in particular Directors, The state of Kansas faces major shortfalls in its budget due to the slow economy. As a result, our Department chair at Kansas State has been asked to trim 10-15% of the budget each of the next two years. Our rather large team is the biggest low-hanging fruit around. I am writing to ask others to share (via listserv or back-channel) successful cost-saving strategies your Department or Squad has employed. I am fairly certain that public schools all across Kansas, Texas, and the rest of the nation may be in a similar situation.
No doubt, this will be a topic of discussion at the Wake Forest Summer Conference. However, decisions over our cuts will come by the end of the month so any information shared prior is appreciated. In a rare move, our school has asked for stakeholder input. We are not in a situation where we need to justify the debate team's academic merit, character, or worth to the school. We simply need to save on costs. Thank you to both Denver and Whitman who have previously shared many of these tips. Debate team strategies we already will have to employ - - Cheaper hotels - - Less meal money - Going paperless - Reducing our number of GTAs - Bring only the bare minimum of coaches necessary to a tournament Departmental Strategies that are currently up for discussion - Go paperless - the University of Western Washington already has done this. - Eliminate Adjunct/Temporary/non-regular teachers - Have others successfully prevented these jobs from being cut? Especially those who have debate coaches in these roles? Thank you for your time and any contributions are much appreciated, Justin Green DOD - KSU _______________________________________________ CEDA-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.ndtceda.com/mailman/listinfo/ceda-l
