10. Financial Plan | Emerging Technologies Program

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10. Financial Plan (planning ranges — v0 placeholders)

All figures are directional planning estimates; tuition, budget-cycle, and campaign assumptions to be verified with the school's business office.

Phase	Period	Est. cost	Primary uses
Phase 0 — Discovery	Fall 2026	$TBD	Comp set research, working-group formation, AI acceptable-use policy, flagship co-curricular affiliation.
Phase 1	2027	$TBD	Pilot course development, faculty stipends + AI upskilling PD, lab compute/software, speaker series, real estate/digital-assets modules, service-corps launch
Phase 2	2027–29	$TBD	Full pathway build-out, practitioner-in-residence or endowed seat, lab expansion, externship program, UYRS/Tiger Racing Outreach

Sources

Donor/campaign — the dominant source. Aligned with the active "For Greater Glory" campaign and the Strategic Plan's "Advancing Academic Opportunities" pillar.
Corporate partnership — GM/Cadillac (pipeline), Tampa tech, digital-asset/fintech and real estate firms for the finance modules.
Operating budget — minimal in Phase 0–1 by design (infusion model + light co-curricular are cheap); absorbs recurring costs only after proof.
Grants — Gene Haas Foundation, NASCAR/motorsports foundations, Catholic education innovation funds.

ROI

Enrollment & retention: the hard-dollar engine. At roughly $25K tuition (verify), a program that attracts or retains just 10 incremental students is ~$250K/year recurring — covering Phase 1's annual run-rate by itself. Donor activation: new-money narrative for tech-wealth alumni and parents the traditional campaign doesn't reach. Brand/rank: first-mover Catholic prep AI pathway is earned-media and placement-outcome fuel. Payback framing for the board: Phase 0 (Discovery) is scoped to cost well under one student's tuition; Phase 1 pays back at 6–12 incremental enrollments; Phase 2's endowment ask is a permanent capability, not an expense.