Merging Print & Mail

At the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, Gary Anderson, associate director of Business Services (which includes printing, mail, laundry, parking, purchasing and travel), went through a similar budget-slimming process.

"Originally, each department had its own personnel, its own accounting, its own payroll. They all had to take care of themselves," he says. "We combined as many departments as we could into one payroll, one IT area, one administration. That's been able to save us a lot of money."