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HIGHLIGHTS OF PENN STATE'S
2002-03 BUDGET
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BASIC OPERATING COSTS:
- Faculty and Staff Salaries -
Maintain
competitive faculty and staff salaries.
- Employee Benefits -
Respond to rapidly
escalating health care costs.
- Facilities -
Provide for facilities cost
increases, including support for new facilities, deferred maintenance projects,
and fuel and utilities cost increases.
- Academic Programs -
Address the most
critical academic program needs.
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PROGRAM INVESTMENT PRIORITIES:
- Information Sciences and Technology (IST)
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Complete the build-up of the educational programs in the School of
Information Sciences and Technology, an area that is critically important to
the economic vitality of the Commonwealth.
- Agricultural Research and Cooperative Extension
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Restore lost programming capacity and support areas of high priority
for Pennsylvania's agricultural community.
- Medical Education -
Offset the decline in
income provided from hospital clinical operations and bring the Commonwealth's
support of medical education more in line with public medical schools
nationally.
- Workforce Development at the Pennsylvania
College of Technology -
Strengthen workforce development programs at
Penn College.
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