Miscellaneous and Communications

• Identify "courier" to deliver checks for deposit to Cashier's Office, and to deliver checks from Cashier's Office to various departments, reducing duplicate effort in all the various offices.
• Offer centralized courier services for other functions and services, or change policy to deliver things through Hinman and allot additional time.
• Reduce error rate of Journal Entries; make Best Practices training classes mandatory.
• Reduce discretionary funds for faculty and senior administrators.
• Provide incentives for "best cost-saving option" at the college.
• Make suggestions for cost savings public.
• Have a blog that is intended to promote faculty and staff conversations about the ways of saving the college money (and thinking about better ways of doing our business).
• Provide driver training to reduce number of accidents in College-owned vehicles or that are paid through College insurance.
• Give faculty one-half teaching credit for courses with eight or fewer students.
• Request that faculty who are no longer actively pursuing research teach an additional course or otherwise serve in another way.
• Stop providing feminine products in administrative buildings.
• Freeze, reduce, or eliminate discretionary accounts.
• Charge more for FLIP courses for non-Dartmouth participants.
• Shift to bulk mailing instead of first class.
• Use in-house design resources instead of outsourcing.
• Centralize the design and printing of generic letterhead, business cards, envelopes, etc. to reduce the price per piece; departments could request an amount from a stored supply.
• Use free online subscriptions to periodicals, or get group online paid subscriptions.
• Lower academic admissions standards for wealthy potential students.
• Move to a traditional academic calendar so the College can be more cost-effective in the summer.
• A variety of comments have been submitted regarding altering the structure of the parking fee system and encouraging alternative transportation.
• Reduce or eliminate the parking rebate.
• Reduce or eliminate financial support to transit providers; have users pay for transit.
• Eliminate (by attrition) the big screen televisions in the libraries.
• Promote Dartmouth to movie and television production companies as a filming location.
• Promote Dartmouth as a place for professional athletes to train.
• Raise the cost of Guest and Corporate Guest borrower privileges by a small amount.
• Raise the cost of replacement books slightly.
• Create a continuous quality improvement program, and share the cost savings generated by and idea with the individual that came up with the idea as an incentive.