I’ve just received my copy of the university’s public budget document for SFU for 2009/2010. This document sets out the $390 million budget and, in fairly broad strokes, what we plan on doing with it.
It’s important to note that the $390 million budget is an increase from last year of only $8 million — an increase of only 2.09% overall. Nothing near matching our increased costs of operation, etc.
The link to the budget is here: http://www.sfu.ca/~kharding/budget.pdf. When I have more time (ie: not tonight, maybe tomorrow) I’ll try and do a bit of analysis, highlighting what I feel to be the main points of interest, concern, etc.
In the meantime, if you enjoy reading things like this, I encourage it — and please, post questions, comments, concerns here, so that I can keep them in mind and actually ask them myself.