Strategic Budgeting

In Fall 2024, President Keller charged student, faculty, and staff representatives to develop recommendations for a new budgeting model for UNT to advance our university's mission and values as a leading public research university while also offering flexibility for innovation and growth. By Spring 2025, a new budgeting model was proposed to align university resources with strategic priorities, increase financial transparency, and provide a solid foundation for our future.

The guiding principles for this work emphasize the most important parts of this process: making it easier for the UNT community to understand the budget process, improving operational effectiveness and efficiency, and planning for the future.

Read current and past communications from President Keller and those who contributed to the process.

Why create a new budget model?

In recent years, UNT has grown in enrollment and sponsored research. The need for the kinds of opportunities and contributions UNT can provide continue to expand rapidly across our region, our state, and beyond. The approach to budgeting that had been used historically at UNT was a combination of incremental and centralized budgeting.

Read more about the historic budgeting model and process, and the efforts undertaken to update them.

In developing a new budget model and process, our commitment to UNT remains steadfast that we advance our university's mission, values, and strategic priorities.

These efforts have set us on a new trajectory toward more effective, efficient, and responsive budgeting that supports and strengthens UNT for an even greater future.