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The Fall 2024 charge by President Keller to develop recommendations for a new budgeting model at UNT included efforts and collaboration among students, faculty and staff. This page serves to document our journey to show the steps taken in achieving this goal.

Historic budgeting process and model

Prior to the establishment of a new budgeting process and model, UNT historically used a combination of incremental and centralized budgeting.

Incremental budgeting means budgets are based on the previous year’s funding with only new revenue being allocated each year. This also means that budget cuts, when needed, are typically made as a percentage of the total budget and often implemented across the board. This approach is easy to implement, but can be difficult to determine how expenditures relate to costs, revenues, and institutional priorities since the primary focus is maintaining a stable, steady budget.

Centralized budgeting creates a pool of revenue that allows university leaders to make decisions about distributions of funds. When used in combination with incremental budgeting, this model usually requires relatively few decisions. However, this approach may lead to confusion about how resource allocation decisions are made.

Initial committees

Creating a new budgeting model to advance the mission, values, and strategic priorities for the university required collaboration among students, faculty, and staff. The executive sponsor committee created two committees to contribute to this work: the Technical Committee, which researched best practices and gathered data; and the Steering Committee, which combined feedback from the UNT community with the information provided by the Technical Committee to create a proposal for the new budgeting process and model. Each committee included members from key areas across the university.

Comprised of student, faculty, and staff members, the Steering Committee will work together to consider how various models might work at UNT, invite input from across the campus, and recommend elements for a new strategic budgeting model.


Members
  • Dr. Albert Bimper, Executive Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and chair of the Steering Committee
  • Danny Armitage, Associate Vice President of Auxiliary Services
  • Dr. Robert Bland, Professor of Public Administration
  • Dr. Diane Bruxvoort, Dean of University Libraries
  • Brandon Buzbee, Vice President for University Advancement
  • Coby Condrey, Associate Librarian
  • Alfred Dozier, President of Student Government Association
  • Chris Foster, Associate Vice President of Student Accounting and liaison for the Technical Committee
  • Clayton Gibson, Vice President for Finance & Administration and liaison for the Executive Sponsor Committee
  • Shannon Goodman, Vice President of Enrollment
  • Dr. Karen Hutzel, Dean of the College of Visual Arts and Design
  • Walter Itoman, Associate Vice President of University Budget and Analytics
  • Jeffery Kam, Accounting Coordinator for UNT Union
  • Bala Sankar Kilaru, President of Graduate Student Council
  • Dr. Paul Krueger, Dean of the College of Engineering
  • Jared Mosley, Vice President of Athletics and Director of Athletics
  • Dr. Pam Padilla, Vice President for Research and Innovation
  • Dr. Audhesh Paswan, Vice Provost of UNT at Frisco and Dean of the College of Applied and Collaborative Studies
  • Dr. Lou Pelton, Professor of Marketing
  • Dr. John Puthenpurackal, Associate Dean for Ryan College of Business
  • Dr. John Quintanilla, Dean of the College of Science
  • Maleia Torres, Associate Vice Chancellor of Treasury for UNT System
  • Margarita Venegas, Senior Communications Strategist for the Division of Finance and Administration
  • Dr. Marilyn Wiley, Dean of the Ryan College of Business
  • Dr. Kim Williams, Chair and Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management
  • Dr. Elizabeth With, Senior Vice President of Student Affairs