The $1.4 million dollar hole in the 2013-2014 A&SF budget will not be the only area impacted by the credit hour over-projections during the 2013-2014 academic school year.
KnightNews.com has confirmed that the health, transportation access, and athletics budgets will also be facing shortfalls this year. The health budget will be facing around a $733,551 shortfall, transportation access will face a $736,572 shortfall, and athletics will be around $1.7 million dollars short.
When KnightNews.com contacted Andy Seely, the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications, he told us that the athletic budgets remained flat this year rather than growing, citing the budget shortfall as one of the reasons.
The shortfalls stem from an over-projection on the amount of credit hours students would take. KnightNews.com learned that the Institutional Knowledge Management office is responsible for making the projections each year.
“The total number of student credit hours this fall is now projected to be about 1.5 percent lower than our number of actual credit hours last fall,” UCF spokesperson Chad Binette said.
