The Structural Frame:

After reading the article "Samuel Waters College" reflect on:

1. Structural dilemmas, horizontal and vertical coordination issues as they relate to Samuel Waters College Case. Be specific.

2 Can the issues related to the structure of Samuel Waters College Case be addressed through restructuring? Refer to Mintzberg's Model. Support your claims and propose solutions.

Samuel Waters College Case Study: Budget Futures Summit Retreat Background Tight budgets are the reality at Samuel Waters College (SWC) again this year as they are at many colleges and universities. With endowment balances showing only modest gains, and other sources of support flat or trending downward, even moderately aggressive tultion Increases have not allowed SWC to maintain level funding. For the past several years, when funding shortfalls were more modest, SWC's approach was to ask faculty and staff to look for ways to minimize waste and to improve efficiency within their own departments. SWC's budgeting approach constituted minor savings from these requests coupled with across-the-board cuts in operating budgets, largely in administrative areas, and annual tuition increases. Unfortunately, cuts in operational areas and peripheral academic services have resulted in work overloads and poor morale. Many units are barely able to fulfill their missions. Tuition increases don't seem to be the answer. With recent increases, SWC is now near the upper level of tuition compared to its peers. Even with the current tuition levels, the perception-and reality-of the institution's commitment to broad access are increasingly at risk. In light of this history, news that SWC is heading into a two-to five-year period of intensifying economic difficulty is particularly troubling. The customary budget-cutting strategies such as across the board cuts (larger on the administrative side, smaller and more targeted on the academic side and substantial annual increases in tuition will no longer be satisfactory to carry the institution through the challenges of the next several years and beyond. Your Challenge To address daunting circumstances, President Swanson has announced that he will host a two- day College Budget Futures Summit Retreat at his home in three weeks. He has asked members of his cabinet to come prepared to present their views of how SWC should consider and address the next three-year period, given that across-the-board cuts and generic calls for "belt-tightening" will no longer be adequate Each member of the cabinet has been asked to identify and briefly describe possible options that the institution might consider to address this mounting crisis and to provide a high-level cost-benefit analysis for each in developing options, each cabinet member is urged to be Samuel Waters College Case Study: Budget Futures Summit Retreat Background Tight budgets are the reality at Samuel Waters College (SWC) again this year as they are at many colleges and universities. With endowment balances showing only modest gains, and other sources of support flat or trending downward, even moderately aggressive tultion Increases have not allowed SWC to maintain level funding. For the past several years, when funding shortfalls were more modest, SWC's approach was to ask faculty and staff to look for ways to minimize waste and to improve efficiency within their own departments. SWC's budgeting approach constituted minor savings from these requests coupled with across-the-board cuts in operating budgets, largely in administrative areas, and annual tuition increases. Unfortunately, cuts in operational areas and peripheral academic services have resulted in work overloads and poor morale. Many units are barely able to fulfill their missions. Tuition increases don't seem to be the answer. With recent increases, SWC is now near the upper level of tuition compared to its peers. Even with the current tuition levels, the perception-and reality-of the institution's commitment to broad access are increasingly at risk. In light of this history, news that SWC is heading into a two-to five-year period of intensifying economic difficulty is particularly troubling. The customary budget-cutting strategies such as across the board cuts (larger on the administrative side, smaller and more targeted on the academic side and substantial annual increases in tuition will no longer be satisfactory to carry the institution through the challenges of the next several years and beyond. Your Challenge To address daunting circumstances, President Swanson has announced that he will host a two- day College Budget Futures Summit Retreat at his home in three weeks. He has asked members of his cabinet to come prepared to present their views of how SWC should consider and address the next three-year period, given that across-the-board cuts and generic calls for "belt-tightening" will no longer be adequate Each member of the cabinet has been asked to identify and briefly describe possible options that the institution might consider to address this mounting crisis and to provide a high-level cost-benefit analysis for each in developing options, each cabinet member is urged to be