<p>FYI</p><p>UPDATE from OEA. All should be aware of the impact this will have on negotiations. Please share will your colleagues.</p><div> </div><div>Ivan<br /><br /> </div><div>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />From: <b>Gascon, Gregg [OH]</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="https://my.ysu.edu/fckeditor/editor/" xonclick="javascript:view('https://my.ysu.edu/cp/email/compose?to=gascong@ohea.org'); return false;"><strong><font color="#333333">gascong@ohea.org</font></strong></a>></span><br />Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:48 AM<br />Subject: Update on Higher Education Portion of Budget<br />To: Higher Education Local Presidents <<a href="https://my.ysu.edu/fckeditor/editor/" xonclick="javascript:view('https://my.ysu.edu/cp/email/compose?to=HigherEducationLocalPresidents@ohea.org'); return false;"><strong><font color="#333333">HigherEducationLocalPresidents@ohea.org</font></strong></a>>, HEAC <<a href="https://my.ysu.edu/fckeditor/editor/" xonclick="javascript:view('https://my.ysu.edu/cp/email/compose?to=HEAC@ohea.org'); return false;"><strong><font color="#333333">HEAC@ohea.org</font></strong></a>><br />Cc: HQ MSS Mgrs <<a href="https://my.ysu.edu/fckeditor/editor/" xonclick="javascript:view('https://my.ysu.edu/cp/email/compose?to=hqmssmgrs@ohea.org'); return false;"><strong><font color="#333333">hqmssmgrs@ohea.org</font></strong></a>>, HQ CBAR <<a href="https://my.ysu.edu/fckeditor/editor/" xonclick="javascript:view('https://my.ysu.edu/cp/email/compose?to=HQ_CBAR@ohea.org'); return false;"><strong><font color="#333333">HQ_CBAR@ohea.org</font></strong></a>>, "Wilk, Valerie [NEA]" <<a href="https://my.ysu.edu/fckeditor/editor/" xonclick="javascript:view('https://my.ysu.edu/cp/email/compose?to=vwilk@nea.org'); return false;"><strong><font color="#333333">vwilk@nea.org</font></strong></a>><br /><br /><br /><div vlink="purple" link="blue"><div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">Colleagues:</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">The Governor’s budget for FY12 and FY13 is detailed in the document ‘OBOR’ (attached). The Governor’s comments on the budget are highlighted on pages 14 and 15 of the ‘Budget Overview Doc- Kasich’ (attached). An overview is provided below. </span></div><div> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">A.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Governor’s Proposed Budget – Higher Education</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">1.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Numbers for the Ohio Board of Regents</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-right: 0in"> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">a.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Total appropriations:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">(i)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Proposed FY12 appropriation is $2,299,390,<span style="color: black">000</span> a decrease of 10.5% from the estimated FY11 level ($2,568,618<span style="color: black">,000</span>). </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">(ii)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Proposed FY13 appropriation is $2,384,474,<span style="color: black">000</span> a decrease of 7.2% from FY11.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in"> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">b.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">State Share of Instruction</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">(i)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Proposed FY12 appropriation is $1,735,530,031, an increase of 2.7% from the estimated FY11 level ($1,689,299,265).</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">(ii)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Proposed FY13 appropriation is $1,751,225,497, an increase of 3.6% from FY11.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in"> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">c.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Student Access</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">(i)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Proposed FY12 supplement for Shawnee State University is $2,448,523, a decrease of 5.0% from the estimated FY11 level ($2,577,393).</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">(ii)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Proposed FY13 supplement for Shawnee State University is $2,326,097, a decrease of 9.8% from FY11.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in"> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">2.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Explanation</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">a.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">Proposed reductions take into account the inclusion of the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority within the operations of the Ohio Board of Regents as per Am. Sub. H.B. 1 as passed in the 128<sup>th</sup> General Assembly.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">b.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">Proposed reductions also include the loss of the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt">GRF-Federal Stimulus appropriation from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (<span style="color: black">an estimated </span>$308,803<span style="color: black">,000</span> in FY11).</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0in"> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">B.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">Governor’s Budget Comments</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt"> 1.The Chancellor will submit a report to the Governor advocating charter universities wherein higher education institutions receive less state aid </span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt">in exchange for being released from state regulations.</span></div><div> </div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">2. Universities will be required to produce plans on how to move to 3-year baccalaureate degrees. The plan to transition 10 percent of their </span><span style="font-size: 10pt">programs will be due in 2012 and a plan to transition 60 percent of their programs will be due in 2014.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in"> </div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt">3.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt">Ohio public colleges and universities will be required to increase full-time research and instructional faculty teaching loads by one class in every other year. The Ohio Board of Regents will report the instructional workloads of faculty for all colleges and universities for FY2010 through FY2013.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 2in"> </div><div><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt">C.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt">Important Dates</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">1.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">March 2011: Main operating budget bill <span style="color: black">is introduced and debated</span> in the House of Representatives<span style="color: black">.</span></span></div><div> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">2.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">April – June 2011: Hearings <span style="color: black">in</span> House and Senate on budget bills.</span></div><div> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-right: 0in"><span style="font-size: 10pt">3.<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">June 2011: Conference committee works out differences between budget bill versions of House and Senate<span style="color: black"> to produce a bill for the Governor to sign into law</span>.</span></div><div> </div><div><i><span style="font-size: 10pt">Note: Campus-level figures <span style="color: black">should</span> be released by the Office of Budget and Management or the Ohio Board of Regents by the end of the month. </span></i></div><div> </div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">Gregg Gascon, Ph.D.</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">Collective Bargaining and Research </span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">Ohio Education Association</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">225 East Broad Street</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">Columbus, Ohio 43215</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">(T): <a href="tel:614.227.3019" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#333333">614.227.3019</font></strong></a></span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">(F): <a href="tel:614.228.2349" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#333333">614.228.2349</font></strong></a></span></div></div></div></div><br /><br />--------------------------------------------<br />
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