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Designing a budget model for Boise State

Boise State Budget Modernization

A Budget Model that fits Boise State

The university launched a university-wide budget modernization initiative initially announced by Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs John Buckwalter and Chief Financial and Operating Officer and Vice President for Finance and Operations Alicia Estey in 2023.

Activities and committee members are listed for each phase of the Initiative. Pages for each phase will be updated as the Initiative continues.

Pre-Planning Phase

Pre-Planning Phase

Planning and Discovery Phases

Planning and Discovery Phases

Design Phase

Design Phase

Values and Guiding Principles

Process Values for the Budget Modernization Initiative

Our planning, discovery, development, implementation and maintenance will:

  • Champion a whole-university, or one Boise State, perspective
  • Support the work of the university’s strategic goals, the Blueprint for Success
  • Strive for transparency in communications and engagement with stakeholders
  • Cultivate knowledge building and change facilitation for the university community 
  • Honor the expertise and experience across all university divisions
  • Emphasize broad-based participation and collaboration

New Budget Model Guiding Principles

  • Develop a simple, flexible and adaptable model that is straightforward to implement and operate.
  • Advance the Blueprint for Success goals and the university’s role as a public good, and be an excellent steward of public funds.
  • Balance the university’s mission, innovation, entrepreneurship, and long-term institutional stability.
  • Enable informed and forward-looking decision-making to align academic and administrative budgets.
  • Advance transparent and local decision making, accountability, and financial sustainability across “all areas, all funds” budgeting.
  • Improve institutional fiscal literacy across the university community.
  • Utilize a system of strong governance and shared rewards.
  • Encourage strategic, efficient, and effective uses of physical, financial, technological, and human resources for all services, programs and curricula.
  • Prioritize incentives across the university for student success in undergraduate and graduate education; high quality academics, research and creative activity; and financial sustainability for all units.
  • Promote interdisciplinary scholarly and teaching partnerships and revitalization of existing programs.

Updates to the University Community