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Legislative auditors flag data gaps and duplication; system agrees and outlines follow-up, while presidents pare $50M of requests in consensus budget
Summary
The Office of the Legislative Auditor General reported that Utah's higher-education institutions often lack program-level cost and outcome tracking and recommended uniform efficiency measures; system leaders agreed and said presidents jointly removed roughly $50 million of institutional requests to form a single system budget proposal.
Legislative auditors told a state committee that Utah's public higher-education institutions do not consistently track program-level costs and outcomes, limiting presidents' ability to compute program-level return on investment. System leaders agreed and described actions and budget decisions responding to the audit.
Mathias Boone and audit staff described an audit that anticipates enrollment declines after 2028 and noted enrollment and market competition pressure from online and private institutions. The auditors recommended better program-level data, a uniform method for calculating program efficiency, and…
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