Ensuring Financial Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency

Pillar Four

Enhance SUNY Schenectady’s ability to be flexible and agile in response to a rapidly changing marketplace by strengthening the College’s financial sustainability and self-sufficiency.

• Realign budget to reduce operating expenditures
• Develop academic program costing methodologies that help identify areas of revenue contribution and maximization
• Diversity revenue streams that ensure less dependence on state appropriations
• Increase private support to the endowment through enhanced alumni engagement
• Expand SUNY Schenectady’s relationships with corporations, foundations, and agencies to increase grantmaking and sponsorships to the College
• Develop a robust master facilities plan that identifies capital projects to leverage public and private funding