3 Bay Area Cal State schools to merge administrative services amid budget crunch
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco State University is one of three Bay Area Cal State schools that could merge administrative services with one another amid an ongoing budget crisis. In a letter to the campus community Tuesday, SFSU President Lynn Mahoney said the administration was 'working hard to align our costs with our budget and enrollment.'
In addition to many cost-cutting measures the school had undertaken, 'we have also been looking for innovative ways to reduce expenses, particularly administration costs,' Mahoney went on to say.
Mahoney went on to put forth a 'new effort toward financial sustainability' that Cal State University Chancellor Mildred Garcia had announced at Tuesday's board of trustees meeting. Mahoney explained that she, along with the presidents of Cal State East Bay and Sonoma State University had provided Garcia with a written commitment to 'create a singular administrative network.'
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The network, she explained, would integrate finance and administrative services including budget, audit, capital planning design and construction, human resources, payroll, procurement, IT, and academic technology. It would be called the San Francisco Bay Region Network.
Additional services that could also be integrated under the network's umbrella include library services, Title IX/DHR operations, and some back-office financial aid, admissions, and records services. However, the universities would remain independent of one another, Mahoney maintained.
'Please be assured we are not proposing a merger of the three universities,' she said. 'Cal State East Bay, San Francisco State, and Sonoma State University will remain independently accredited universities.'
SFSU does not plan to implement layoffs as a result of the integration, Mahoney said.
'Existing employees in administration and finance functions will be needed as part of the networked operation, campus-based service centers, and during the design and transition period,' she said.
The proposed network, which Mahoney said is at the beginning stages, would not stave off any of the other budget reduction initiatives underway at the schools. Both SFSU and Sonoma State have recently announced sweeping cuts to their athletic programs, with Sonoma State doing away with theirs entirely.
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