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TABLE 11.3
Candidates for Outsourcing
Essential to
Revenue Primary Outsourcing
Activities Generating Mission Funding Candidate
1. Athletic Yes, fully No direct link Separate Yes: Challenging
programs to research revenue and no one has
and teaching; stream done it
may help
fundraising
2. On-campus Yes, fully No direct link Separate Yes: Could lease
housing revenue campus buildings
stream to private
company
3. Food Yes, fully No direct link Separate Yes: Done
services revenue frequently
stream
4. Bookstores Yes, fully No direct link Separate Yes: Done very
revenue frequently
stream
5. Parking Yes, fully No direct link Separate Yes: Should be
services revenue relatively easy
stream to do
6. Hospitals Yes, fully Yes, when Separate Yes: External
and clinics institution revenue company can
has medical stream manage hospitals
and nursing and clinics
schools
7. Student Partial, No direct link May require Yes: Should be
healthcare students some possible when a
must have tuition hospital is
insurance funding proximate
8. Janitorial No No direct link Fund by Yes: Basic service
services tuition that could be
easily outsourced
9. Campus No No direct link Fund by Yes: Could be
security tuition contracted to a
private company
or local police
10. Intracampus No No direct link Fund by Yes: could be
bus service tuition contracted to a
private carrier or
local public
transport
company