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• Grew my team from 1 to 4.5 FTE
• Launched a new strategic communications plan
sunshine and rainbows
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Our time today
• What higher education budgets can teach us about being better “words” people
• A framework for opportunity in a time of challenge
• Tactics, tips and strategies to help you do less stuff better
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UW-Madison/Madison/Wisconsin
Source: Matt Wisniewski, photos.news.wisc.edu nytimes.com
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"Once you understand how budgets work, you begin to understand everything and
everyone and how it all works together. You will know the
institution.” - unnamed coworker who is amazing and brilliant
Smart Person Thing #1@meggo_costello
Other Operating Receipts 4%
Auxiliaries 13%
Non-Federal Grants 3%
Gifts 14%
State Labs 1%
State Revenue 17%
Tuition & Fees 17%
Federal Financial Aid 8%
Federal Grants 23%
Source: UW-Madison Budget-in-Brief
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* There’s more “less” than more
“more”
Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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Lesson 1*• Budget complexity: it’s not black and
white.
• Fundamental funding shift—and we’re all in it together.
• New/renewed debate about and scrutiny of higher education.
*wake-up call
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– my dean (and most economists)
"Our budgets should be a reflection of our values."
Smart Person Thing #2
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Our values• Create life-changing learning experiences.
• Preserve and enhance our status as a research powerhouse.
• Embrace the liberal arts as essential to equip our students to be informed, engaged global citizens ready for success in life and work.
• Extend the benefits of the university beyond the campus -- to live the Wisconsin Idea.
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My 2008 comm budget• 2x print alumni newsletter to all college alumni
• 1x print report to some important constituents
• Small budget for collateral
• Time*
• Tenacity*
• Creativity*
* important
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That budget valued• Print only
• Primarily mass communications
• Bite-sized news content from campus releases and highlights
• Broad messages in a “college” voice
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Lesson 2*• Your budget should reflect your content
strategy values (and should support your overall institutional values —> alignment)
• Prioritize opportunities where you will efficiently and effectively reflect those values —> biggest bang for your buck.
* new tool: the “value” test
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“If I was investing in higher education, I would bet long.”
- my dean
Smart Person Thing #3
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College has a strong ROI
* don’t short this market
Source: Carnevale, Jayasundera, and Cheah (2013)
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Lesson 3*
• Higher education has value (financial and other forms).
• Higher education is in demand.
* what we do matters
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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/celinet/2466977292/in/photolist-4KZUpf
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A plan to do less
1. Get help: Pre-plan.
2. Be bold, honest, focused: Make the plan.
3. Constantly adjust and revisit goals.
4. Be loud: Show Your Work.
Copy And Steal Everything (CASE)
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I listened and learned. cost: time, tenacity, creativity
MarketingFoundation &
Alumni Association
Housing
Communications
Faculty chairs
UW staff doing things like me
Career ServicesAlumni
Board Members & Volunteers
People like you! #internet
University Relations
Department administrators
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cost: mostly free research + $$ for an alumni survey
Source: photos.news.wisc.edu
I did research.
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I asked alumni for help.cost: $ FREE $
Source: photos.news.wisc.edu
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I made a focused plan.cost: reinvest all legacy resources —> “DO OVER”
Our print alumni
newsletter + annual report
Source: https://flic.kr/p/5owdK4
The darling gave us…• A writer (new!) and then another (new).
• A young staffer who wanted to explore design/photography with her other duties.
• FOCUS: launch a new strategic gift impact hybrid-annual report for 1/5 cost.
• FOCUS: Plan a new mass communications program for 8 dept. newsletters for 1/5 cost.
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Target alumni
Donors
All alumni
Internal
State residents
Parents
Percentage of Communications Portfolio
0 12.5 25 37.5 50
Legacy Plan “Do Over” Reinvestment Plan
FOCU
S HE
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Mass Communications:All UW alumni, WI residents, general public, media
Friends & Followers:L&S alumni, event attendees, social media
followers, students, parents, donors
Inner Circle:Boards, VIPs, leadership gift
prospects, corporate sponsors
1-to-1Major donors,
major gift prospects
Inform &
Inspire
Demonstrate value.cost: time, tenacity, creativity
return: more staff and creative flexibility
Source: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=157
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(thanks to these people/things)• Flickr + people on Flickr + free clipart
• Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
• John Karl Scholz, dean, UW-Madison College of Letters & Science
• Matt Wisniewski, director of marketing & communications, Wisconsin Energy Institute
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• University of Wisconsin (Go Badgers!)
• College of Letters & Science annual reports
• Libraries (yeah, librarians!)
• University Communications Photo Library, Jeff Miller and Bryce Richter
• University Marketing "Budget in Brief"
• Wisconsin Foundation & Alumni Association
• The Wileys