Strategic Financial Advisory Committee

Revenue generation opportunities

  • Develop a renewed emphasis and strategy for increasing the endowment and fundraising at all levels
    • Leverage faculty participation in fundraising
    • Better focus our investment in Development
    • Reevaluate alignment of Development leadership and staff
    • Expand international development opportunities
    • Improve Development infrastructure (tools, messages, structures)
  • Identify and remove barriers to collaborations and partnerships with outside enterprises
    • Identify opportunities and create incentives to generate entrepreneurial collaborations and / or corporate sponsorships
  • Evaluate opportunities to lease campus space and facilities to external users
  • Assess opportunities to provide fee-based services to other SUNY / Academic institutions Examples include:
    • Manage electronic products for libraries
    • Payroll
  • Assess opportunities to more fully utilize the campus during traditional off-periods (e.g., summer)
  • Continue to develop strategies for increasing grant submissions
    • Identifying traditional and non-traditional grant opportunities
    • Greater support for developing grant proposals including statistical consults
    • Mentoring new principal investigators
    • Grant administration
  • Seek opportunities to increase tuition revenue through a rational tuition policy, differential tuition and increased enrollment of international and out of state students
  • Consider expanding international programs abroad
    • Explore licensing and curriculum revenue opportunities
  • Create practice plan equivalents for Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work.
  • Evaluate opportunities to increase university fees such as course , lab and student fees , UBF Services Fee (7% fee) , gift fees, and various service fees
  • Create opportunities to grow revenues in Campus Dining & Shops and Housing
  • Consider opportunities to increase Parking and Transportation revenues
  • Evaluate Licensing and Trademarks and develop strategies for increasing revenues