Business and Finance Despite the 7% budget reduction for 2008-09, the Division of Business and Finance has contributed significantly to improving the overall campus environment. Efficiency, accountability, and sustainability, accompanied by improvements in safety, improvement in student services, maintenance of campus buildings, and campus beautification have helped FSU to maintain fiscal integrity this year. • The UNC Financial Improvement and Transformation Project (UNC FIT), which was kicked off at FSU in December 2008, has already improved establishing accounts, billing accounts, and paying out of accounts in Contracts and Grants, Financial Aid, and General Accounting. • The number of audit findings for 2007-08 was reduced from 14 to 2. • Public safety was improved with the implementation of “Shots Fired” – Response to Active Shooter Training: employment of a Director of Emergency Management, Environmental Health, and Safety; and the installation of video surveillance in academic buildings.
“Senior officers at colleges and universities need to make difficult choices and trade-offs so that our institutions will grow, thrive and excel- not just for the next five years- but for the next 100. The unprecedented economic challenges that confront us are too significant.”
• Strides made in sustainability included: the replacement of florescent lights with energy efficient lamps; the purchase of twelve green electric powered utility vehicles; expansion of the Campus Single Stream Recycling Program; establishment of the student organization the FSU Green Team; became a certified Green Campus with Sustainable Sandhills; and incorporated sustainability as a priority in the FSU Strategic Plan. • 12 out of 18 of the higher education bond projects for construction, renovation, and repair have been completed. Construction on the new nursing building began in July 2009.
Ground was broken on the new Southeastern North Carolina Nursing Education and Research Center in June 2008. The Center is scheduled to open in 2010.
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