Goal 6: Financial Stewardship - Strategic Vision 2029

Goal 6: Responsible Financial Stewardship

Focused on sustainability, SGSC will pursue cost-effective academic practices, expand financial aid access, and implement data-informed budgeting.

Alignment with USG Goal 2: Mirroring USG’s focus on affordability, this goal ensures responsible fiscal management that maintains educational quality while minimizing student costs.

Objective 6.1: Promote affordability for students to make education more accessible.
Metrics:
• By 2029, increase the # of scholarship applications by 15%.
• By 2029, increase the % of courses adopting low-cost/no-cost materials by 20%.

Objective 6.2: Utilize strategic budgeting methodology to allocate funding and optimize efficiency.
Metrics:
• By 2026, data dashboards will be developed to provide key performance indicators and monitor operations.
• By 2029, reduce faculty-related (overload and part-time instructional) costs by 10% through strategic budgeting (e.g., workload efficiency, resource reallocation) to support key initiatives without reducing faculty positions.