SACUB & General Fee
SACUB makes recommendations involving revenue collected through what student charge?
General Fee
UC traces its founding to what year?
1819
Which General Fee-supported service helps students get around campus and nearby areas?
Bearcat Transportation
A cost center receives $80,000 and spends $76,000. What is its utilization rate?
A center uses 99% of its allocation and demand is growing. Is that alone enough to justify an increase and why?
No; it strengthens the case but you still evaluate need/impact/request.
SACUBs recommendations ultimately advise university leadership rather than doing what itself
Directly allocating/controlling the General Fee
UC joined a new athletic conference in 2023. What conference(s) was UC in during the years 2003, 2010, and 2016? (Answer all, no partial credit)
Conference USA 1996-2004
Big East Conference 2005-2012
American Athletic Conference 2013-2022
What student publication has reported UC news since the 1800s?
The News Record
Funding goes from $40,000 to $50,000. Percentage increase?
25%
Program A serves 5,000 students; Program B serves 150 students with a service unavailable elsewhere. Which deserves funding?
Not enough information; reach alone shouldn’t decide.
What percentage of filled SACUB seats constitutes quorum under the past charter?
51% / simple majority
Nippert Stadium is named after James “Jimmy” Nippert, who died after sustaining an injury while playing football UC vs Miami on Thanksgiving day 2024. He continued playing on the muddy field, but the wound became infected, and he died of blood poisoning on Christmas Day 1923. After so, the field was named after him. What year was Nippert Stadium named after him?
The venue was officially named James Gamble Nippert Memorial Stadium in 1924.
Which cost center weve reviewed operates an open, non-audition ensemble available to students across UC colleges?
UC Choruses
A center has $100k allocated but spends $70k. It asks for another $20k. What’s the utilization rate SACUB should immediately notice when they give us those numbers?
70% and their not using 30% of their budget
A department receives a $30k grant restricted to one program. Can SACUB assume it has $30k available for anything?
No. restricted funds matter. It could go specifically to transportation, events, operating or even salary.
What voting threshold does the current SACUB charter require to amend the charter?
Two-thirds / 67%
UC’s Bearcats nickname was born on October 31, 1914, during a football game against the University of Kentucky Wildcat involving a player whose last name sounded like “bearcat”. In the second half, UC cheerleader Norman "Pat" Lyon rallied the crowd with a clever play on words regarding their star fullback. What was the players name and what did the cheer leader say to rally the crowd to get Cincinnati the win?
Leonard K. “Teddy” Baehr
The cheerleader said “"They may be Wildcats, but we have a Baehr-cat on our side."
Which cost center we’ve reviewed operates wheelchair tennis and para track & field?
Adaptive Athletics
A budget drops from $50k to $40k. What percentage reduction occurred?
20%
A center gives an amazing presentation but cannot tell you what its requested $25k increase will actually purchase. What’s SACUB’s next move?
Request a specific incremental spending plan before recommending the increase.
SACUB has 25 voting-member positions under the current charter. If all 25 are filled, what’s the minimum number needed for quorum?
13
Before becoming the University of Cincinnati, one of UC’s predecessor institutions was Cincinnati College. What famous American statesman helped establish and organize it from the ground up? He also became a US president.
William Henry Harrison
This General Fee-supported program actually consists of three separate groups that represent UC at events, university functions, and competitions. What is it called collectively and what are those three groups?
Collectively they are known as the Spirit Program!
A cost center receives $240,000. It spends $204,000 and generates $30,000 in unrestricted outside revenue. The following year, it requests a $60,000 General Fee increase while expecting expenses to remain unchanged.
Before considering the outside revenue, what percentage of its existing General Fee allocation went unspent?
What question should SACUB immediately ask?
15%.
$36,000 unspent ÷ $240,000 = 15%.
Why does the center need another $60,000 when it left $36,000 unspent and has $30,000 of unrestricted outside revenue?
A cost center consistently spends 100% of its budget over multiple FY allocations. Give three reasons why SACUB might still deny an increase.
weak amount of student impact
poor marginal use of new funds
alternatives funds available
budget isn’t prepared
lower priority than competing needs