Meet the Speakers

2023 The Three Cs of Higher Education Budgeting: Concepts, Creation & Connections

Linda Kosten, PhD, Senior Vice Provost, University Budget, Planning, and Administration, University of Denver

Linda Kosten manages the development of budget, oversees the institutional research and analysis office and the campus partners business office, and coordinates multi-year strategic planning. Linda has served DU for 30 years, since 2006 at the University level.  She recently served as the University’s interim CFO.

She has her PhD in higher education, with a cognate in business, from University of Denver. Linda’s book, Decentralized Budgeting and the Academic Dean: Perspectives on the Effectiveness of Responsibility Center Management (2009), explores the effectiveness of RCM from the perspectives of 146 deans at 27 universities. She has consulted with other universities investigating a transition to decentralized budgeting, worked with the Lumina Foundation on investigating the connections between states’ outcomes-based funding policies and responsibility center management, and currently teaches at the graduate level on higher education finance.

Sarah Mangum, Associate Vice Chancellor for Budget and Institutional Analysis, University of California, Davis

Sarah Mangum is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Budget and Institutional Analysis at the University of California, Davis. Sarah leads a team that is responsible for the campus budget, budget process, allocations, budget monitoring, policy analysis, and decision support for campus leaders. Her group is also responsible for overseeing campus student fee processes and policy, budget model allocations, the faculty hiring authorization process, and centrally managed faculty resources. She also leads the Institutional Analysis team, the central resource for data about UC Davis. The combined work of these offices supports campus leadership in decision-making, meeting and monitoring progress toward strategic goals, analyzing trends, and discovering new opportunities.

Prior to coming to UC Davis in 2010, she worked for the State of California for over ten years in similar budget and administrative positions, primarily in the Department of Finance. She holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and bachelor’s degrees in Sociology-Organizational Studies and History from UC Davis.

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