MN SF3

Commissioner of Management and Budget shall reduce general fund administrative expense planning estimates for each state agency by five percent annually in fiscal years 2022 through 2025, excluding the Department of Human Services direct care and treatment program, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities.

Board of Trustees of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities must conduct an internal audit of expenditures and submit a report to legislative committees by April 1, 2021, analyzing administrative cost increases using uniform historical data.

Report must include for each state college and university the amount and description of expenses in seven categories (instruction, research, public service, academic support, student services, institutional support, and other core expenses) using Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data.

Report must provide ten-year historical expense data with graphs and current and historical ratios of institutional support spending versus instruction spending for each institution.

Report must analyze whether each institution's administrative operations are growing disproportionately compared to core academic functions and may place upward pressure on tuition costs, using Carnegie classification and undergraduate enrollment comparisons; Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota is requested to perform similar audit.