Last year, University Budget Committee members and San Francisco State University officials asked the Chancellor’s Office for help dealing with budget issues and shrinking resources as a result of declining enrollment. A committee of university stakeholders interviewed and evaluated many consulting group proposals, choosing Huron Consulting Group based on their experience and contract proposal, according to Jeff Wilson, vice president and chief financial officer of administration and finance. Huron is a strategy consulting firm that provides financial and operational advice to healthcare, higher education and commercial institutions around the globe. The Huron contract, which amounted to $455,000, was funded directly from California State University’s Chancellor’s Office in Long Beach. For most of the Spring 2025 semester, a group of Huron analysts worked alongside the Institutional Review Committee and Steering Committee to form a report of suggestions to solve the budget crisis b...