Approaching the Campus Budget - Part I

Other Income

The campus also earns a variety of other income such as Federal Appropriations primarily for the land grant mission, revenue earned by the athletic department, and interest earned on the campus’ cash balances.

External Scholarships and Auxiliary Enterprises: A separate category in this diagram captures the revenue and expenses of two independent revenue/expense streams. In the case of scholarships provided students from external funds, the campus serves primarily as an intermediary between the provider of scholarships and the students, but does not receive the money unless the student spends it on fees or some other campus activity captured elsewhere. As a result, we show the volume of student scholarship money here, but do not count it as either a revenue or expense because we do not control the acquisition or expenditure of these funds. Auxiliary operations offer a somewhat different perspective. Auxiliary operations are designed to be self-supporting. They charge fees calculated to support the full cost of their operations including the indirect costs incurred by other campus offices in supporting the auxiliary enterprises. These activities include such items as student housing, health services, the Mullins Center, parking, dining facilities, the Campus Center, and a variety of other campus operations that engage in self-supporting sales and services. In total these activities represent a relatively large set of activities in support of the campus, about $122 million or just over 20% of the revenue and expenses.

Each of these sources of revenue responds to different mixes of campus programs and activities, and campus strategies for increasing the revenue earned in each category will differ. Nonetheless, all are critical to the campus’ success.

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