Several members of the IU Bloomington community have been named to a committee that will work toward revising and updating the campus budget model.

The campus-specific Budget Model Redesign Committee is part of a larger, university-wide process to revise and update the university’s budget model and processes. That work began this summer with a charge from IU President Pamela Whitten. Updates from the process at the university level are expected to be implemented for fiscal year 2025.

“Our committee members’ deep understanding of our complex institution, as well as their insights into how a new budget model can shape outcomes and opportunities, will bring great value to this process,” IU Bloomington Provost and Executive Vice President Rahul Shrivastav said. “An updated budget model will provide greater transparency; foster additional interdisciplinary activity and collaborative research; and remove some of our administrative burdens while also ensuring that our campus is positioned to achieve the goals of our strategic plan as well as the broader IU 2030 strategic plan.”

Shrivastav said the committee will work collaboratively, and that the process will include listening sessions, focus groups and additional engagement with various stakeholders across campus.

Committee members are:

• Co-chair Aimee Heeter, vice provost for finance and administration.
• Co-chair Ash Soni, dean of the Kelley School of Business.
• Abra Bush, David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean of the Jacobs School of Music.
• Lamar Hylton, vice provost for student life.
• Vasti Torres, interim vice provost for undergraduate education.
• Rick Van Kooten, executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
• R.J. Woodring, associate dean for educational programs in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
• William P. Hetrick, professor of psychological and brain sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences.
• Pnina Fischman, professor and director of the Kling Center for Informatics in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering.
• Jawshing Arthur Liou, associate dean of the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design.
• Danielle DeSawal, clinical professor and coordinator of higher education and student affairs in the School of Education; president-elect of the Bloomington Faculty Council.
• Jonathan Trinidad, senior scientist of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences; co-chair of the Bloomington Faculty Council’s Budgetary Affairs Committee.
• Samantha Tirey, director of research administration in the College of Arts and Sciences, Bloomington Staff Council member.
• Elizabeth Housworth, professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences.