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campuses each year of the new biennium. Only part of this increase can be served by the present staff. T h e enrollment of graduate students (the cost of graduate instruction is higher than the cost of teaching freshmen and sophomores) has substantially increased during the present biennium and this trend is expected to continue. Enrollment is not distributed evenly among all the departments, and additional staff will be required in areas where pressures are heavy. During 1959-60, approximately one-half of the additional enrollment can be taught by the present staff, but fifty-five more full-time staff members will be needed at a cost of $350,000. In the second year of the biennium, one hundred twenty more full-time staff members will be needed at a cost of $780,000, making a total of $1,480,000 for the biennium. VII. To improve the educational program $4 100 000 Increases totaling $7,167,459 a year, or $14,334,918 for the biennium, have been requested by Deans and Directors for improving the educational program. Few new programs are contemplated in the reduced requests. Instead, the emphasis will be on expanding areas of teaching, research, and public service to maintain the University's position. T h e University Budget Committee is studying the relative merits of the total requests and will submit an itemization later. T h e sum proposed is less than 30 per cent of the requests from Deans and Directors, and represents the minimum amount needed to enable the University to meet current commitments and to provide for essential improvements in its educational program and services to the state. V I I I . Refunds $80 000 State law requires all income from fees to be deposited in the State T r e a s ury. Students who leave the University early in a semester are entitled to a refund of all or a portion of the fees depending on time of withdrawal. Based on the experience of the present biennium, the amount to be appropriated for refunds should be increased by $80,000. This entire increase comes from the University Income Fund. OBJECT CLASSIFICATIONS The State Finance Act requires that appropriation requests be submitted in terms of certain designated object classifications. These are shown in Schedule D. A word should be added about the classification, "Contingencies." This does not represent funds for which the University has no known need. The present appropriations have been allocated to departments in a line-item internal budget in which all salaried positions are listed. All increases for the coming biennium are based upon specific requests from Deans and Directors, with adjustments by the University Budget Committee. It is not always possible to expand a budget exactly as planned, particularly when estimates must be made as much as three years in advance of some of the actual expenditures. New faculty can not always be found immediately to fill vacancies. A department might decide that it is more desirable to construct a piece of equipment than to purchase it. While the end result would be the same, "Personal Services" and "Commodities" would replace "Equipment" so far as the object classification of expenditures is concerned. Therefore, in order to provide reasonable flexibility, the Department of Finance permits setting up five per cent of the appropriation under "Contingencies," and this amount is later allocated to the other object classifications as the exact distribution becomes known. Schedule B — Increases t o Continue o n a Permanent Basis Expenditures Financed Temporarily from Savings Annual Amount $ 2 200 2 200 2 700 I 500 1 800 3 990

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