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Divisional Funding Model (DFM) Allocation

Metrics based allocation to support divisional staffing other than Senate faculty or the staffing covered in the IS and TA allocations and funds for other divisional expenses. The metrics driving the DFM allocation include Senate faculty, student FTE, and degrees, and take into account inflationary adjustments for compensation increases.

There are a few central fund commitments that will continue outside the metrics-based divisional allocations. These fall under the following three categories:

• Set-asides — by-agreement allocations for divisional services/functions that are not reasonably captured in the divisional allocation metrics. Set-asides might include expenses beyond the division’s normal I&R responsibilities (such as land use environmental impact mitigation expenses) or a sharing of expenses in support of an ORU/MRU. All set-asides will be reviewed periodically (normally every three-to-five years), the associated agreements may outline additional conditions/accountability for outcomes, and set-aside funding may sunset.
• Competitively-awarded allocations (or matching funds for those externally-secured resources) such as the Advancing Faculty Diversity funds.
• Allocations provided in response to ad-hoc individual requests prior to FY24, which were not incorporated into any component of the divisional allocations, suitably updated as set asides (hence conforming to the new policy and process for set asides).

All funding requests (other than faculty recruitment and retention) should be submitted through the annual resource call and not on an ad hoc basis, barring real emergencies.

The DFM allocation is provided in fund 20086. DFM is not subject to true-up.

Excluded from DFM is funding for senate faculty professorial appointments. Senate faculty will have their regular payroll and related benefits expenses fully supported by the center on fund 19900. At fiscal year end, budgets will be reconciled against paid senate faculty professorial salary; funding will be provided to match payroll expenses and any unspent senate faculty salary dollars will be returned to the center.Page title