April 2023
CHERD is pleased to offer a new professional development workshop. If you are an emerging academic leader, an understanding of university budgeting is critical.
Budgeting for academic administrators
April 14 and April 26, 2023
Interactive online sessions from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm CDT
Description
Facilitated by two experienced senior leaders, this professional development workshop provides an overview of university budgeting including current context, external and internal factors, components of budgeting, budget models, budget planning and budget levers at various levels of administration.
Key Topic Areas
- Roles and responsibilities at the senior level: Provost, VP Finance and Administration, AVP Budget and Planning
- Setting the context for university budgets including the institutional context and culture
- External and internal factors impacting university budgets
- Components of a university budget e.g., operating budget and a consolidated budget, base funds, one-time funds, restricted versus unrestricted, fund accounting
- Budget Planning and alignment to vision, mission, and strategic plan
- Budget models in Canadian universities
- Leverages in budgeting and understanding the
- levers a department has
- levers a dean has
- levers a provost has
- levers the VP Finance has
- levers stakeholders and community has
- levers government has
Facilitators
Florentine Strzelczyk, Provost and Vice-President Academic Western University
Florentine Strzelczyk joined Western University in May 2022 as Provost & Vice-President (Academic). A CHERD alum, she also teaches and mentors in CHERD’s Women in Academic Leadership.
Prior to joining Western University, Florentine served as Provost at Memorial University and Deputy Provost at the University of Calgary. Highlights of her work there include the successful negotiation of several collective agreements, oversight of the renewal of the university’s Internationalization Strategy, new policies for academic appointments (tenure, promotion, and merit), membership on the university’s budget team, streamlining of quality assurance processes, chairing of the tri-council-sponsored national Dimensions EDI Pilot, and chairing of the university’s academic crisis management team.
Ruben Chelladurai, Associate Vice-President (Institutional Planning and Budgeting), Western University
In this role, Ruben Chelladurai oversees a broad portfolio incorporating a wide range of institutional planning activities including capital and operating budgeting.
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