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wednesday November 21, 2012
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President Frank proposes new budget process New system would tie departments to own revenue by Svetlana Ozden news@dailylobo.com
UNM President Robert Frank looks to change the University’s budget model to a system that would require each department to depend on the money it generates.
UNM mulls new college
Frank said the model, which is called “Responsibility Center Management” (RCM), would change the way money is distributed throughout the University. He said that rather than money being allocated from a central source, schools and departments at the University, such as the College of Arts and Sciences, would use departmental revenue for funding. “The way revenue is calculated,
is it comes from the student credit hours. You get credit for how many student credit hours you create and you get credit for grants and contracts and tuitions. And then how much you have in, if you have endowments and gifts and other things that come in,” he said. “So that creates all of your revenue and then you also track what your costs are.” Frank said departments would be responsible for funding depart-
mental staff and faculty members and overhead for the University, which includes costs for departments that don’t generate revenue, such as the president’s office and the libraries. Frank said the system is simpler than the current budget system in that the new system would track the revenue each department collects and spends. He said that it’s easy to forget how each depart-
ment’s budget was calculated with the current system because funding is allocated for specific reasons, such as a new professor. “Each year we put money in each place, and then over time we don’t remember why we’ve put all the money everywhere,” he said. “And then somebody comes forward and says ‘You know, we need
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President says public health college would benefit NM by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com
As part of his goals as the new president, UNM President Robert Frank plans to establish a College of Public Health that will offer undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees to students. Frank said UNM offers a master’s degree in public health that has been successful but still needs improvement. He said that if the University approves his proposal, it would be the first public health college in New Mexico. “We’ve been running that program for a number of years and it’s been very successful,” he said. “But a college provides … much broader training on public health. This is where we’re planning to go.” Frank said that at 21 percent, New Mexico has a comparatively high rate of uninsured patients. He said a college of public health at the University could address this problem. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 16.7 percent of people in the United States were uninsured in 2009. According to the bureau, about 26.1 percent of people in Texas were uninsured, the highest rate in the country. Florida and New Mexico followed at 22.4 and 21.7 percent, respectively. Frank said that because New Mexico has a diverse population, some people, including undocumented immigrants, do not have enough access to health care. He said many New Mexicans lack basic vaccinations and are more prone to various diseases. “Some parts of our community have high rates of diseases like diabetes and hepatitis C,”
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Natalia Jácquez / Daily Lobo The LGBTQ Resource Center hosted a candlelight vigil at the Duck Pond on Tuesday night to honor transgendered murder victims on the Transgender Day of Remembrance. The vigil featured luminarias to represent transgendered people who have been murdered within the last year. Of the 265 people murdered, five were from New Mexico.
Women’s basketball takes the Rivalry Lobos thrash the Aggies 60-37 at The Pit by Michael Sol Warren sports@dailylobo.com @MSolDub
Defense was the theme of the night for the UNM women’s basketball team, which beat instate rival New Mexico State 60-37. The Lobos held their rivals scoreless from beyond the arc, with the Aggies missing all 18 of their attempted 3s. UNM is off to their first 4-0 start since the 2004-2005 season. That team finished 26-4, setting the mark for best win percentage in school history before falling to
Purdue in the first round of the NCAA tournament. “4-0, that’s fun,” UNM head coach Yvonne Sanchez said. “We’re still a work in progress, and we’re going to be for a little bit, but you’d rather learn your lessons through a win.” The Lobos got out quick in the first half, taking a double digit lead within nine minutes. The gap between the two teams remained the same for most of the half. The Aggies picked up their scoring near the end of the period. The two teams returned to the locker rooms with the score 27-22 in the Lobos’ favor. “There was a stretch where we just didn’t stay poised,” Sanchez said. “They pressed us and we
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threw the ball away, but in the second half we figured it out.” The first half lead was due in large part to strong efforts by senior forward Jourdan Erskine and freshman guard Bryce Owens. Erskine dominated the paint throughout the half, with four rebounds and two blocks before the break. Owens, who played all 20 minutes of the first half, consistently found open Lobos. She had five assists at halftime. Opening the second half on an 11-4 run, the Lobos took the momentum from the Aggies and never gave it back. Senior guard Caroline Durbin led all players in scoring with 14 points, including a 3-point basket in the second half. The score put an end to any hopes
of an Aggie comeback. “I could feel the momentum,” Durbin said. “Right before that I had missed a three, so when I got it back I knew ‘I have to knock this down’. I feel like it got us going, I think everyone felt energized by it.” UNM outscored NMSU 33-15 in the second period, holding the Aggies to just 4-32 from the field. “We just made sure that we contested shots,” Sanchez said. “We sat on their right hand so they had to go left. Some of our little adjustments hurt them; they rushed their shots and we tried to get the rebounds.”
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