Program Size and Scope

• Redirect Sponsored Projects staff to identify funding opportunities.
• Pass on full cost of campus/external programming to those who use the programs.
• Consider the cost/benefit of having external companies use Dartmouth facilities and provide rental revenue.
• Review services across campus to determine whether they should be done internally or outsourced.
• Don't subsidize non-essential events such as art installations or performing arts events.
• Cut the budgets of ALL departments by 10% to force a very critical eye towards improving operational efficiency and finding things to stop doing.
• Eliminate the PE requirement and the swim test.
• Combine the library and computing into one unit related by information expertise.
• Evaluate Dining Services hours of operation and space utilization.
• Eliminate all, or some, athletic teams.
• Eliminate athletic recruiting.
• Move to a semester system to save on overhead.
• Determine which programs, departments, and majors students really value and will continue to attend and which should be reduced or eliminated.
• Consolidate student programs.
• Reduce admissions travel and yield events since application and yield numbers are already healthy.
• Examine whether there are programs that could be governed and staffed by a dedicated cross-campus committee, rather than a department, saving on staffing and space.
• Restructure programs that are operating inefficiently.
• Evaluate the appropriate level of financial aid the institution can provide.
• Let staff serve as external consultants in their expertise for institutional revenue generation.
• Offer fewer courses and increase the number of students who can take a given course.
• Offer fewer electives.
• Evaluate foreign language programs for their utility and focus on providing courses only in those languages that will be of the most importance in the future.
• Look for services that can be offered online instead of in-person for more efficiency.
• Increase the undergraduate and graduate student enrollment.