COLLEGE ASSEMBLY
27 September 2013
AGENDA
• 9:00-9:45am (Tom Fisher)
– Welcome
– Introduction of new faculty and staff
– State of the College
• 9:45-10:05am (Marc Swackhammer/
Brad Hokanson/Rebecca Krinke)
– Northrop update
• 10:05-10:30am (Brandon Sullivan)
– New and improved Employee Engagement survey
STATE OF THE COLLEGE
BRIGHT SPOTS FROM FY13
• Record amount of grant dollars received
BRIGHT SPOTS FROM FY13
• Record amount of gifts pledged/received
ENROLLMENT CONTEXT
• Record number of undergraduate applications
in 2013
• Colleges, companies interested in partnering
with us
• Opportunities have never been greater
• But…there is a disconnect between demand
and the reality of our enrollment
ENROLLMENT CONTEXT
• State support is not likely to increase
• President Kaler has promised to reduce
administrative costs by 15M per year
• More local competition for our programs
– Dunwoody
– St. Kate’s
• Enrollment drops in CLA & CEHD
– Impacts course enrollment
• Minimal flexibility in raising tuition
– We can’t solve this by raising professional tuition 35%
2013-2014 ENROLLMENT
• Total enrollment: 1576
• Drop in enrollment within majors (-7%)
– 105 fewer UG students
– 6 fewer graduate students
– 8 fewer professional students
• Drop in course enrollment (-5.6%)
– 305 fewer registered seats
– 1053 fewer student credit hours
FY 14 REVENUE IMPLICATIONS
• Tuition target is $18,116,507
• Summer/Fall tuition is $9,140,797 – 50% of
target
– That’s a 5% drop from normal fall tuition
revenue
• If spring tuition is also down 5%, total tuition
shortfall could reach $1,500,000
COLLEGIATE FEES
5-7% drop in tuition
also means 5-7%
drop in collegiate
fees
Estimate $60,000
drop in fees
revenue
Collegiate fees pay for all
or part of the following
services:
– Computer labs
– W.L. Hall Workshop
– Imaging labs
– Digital Collections and
Archives
– Student Services
– Goldstein Museum of
Design
FISCAL YEAR 2015
• If this is the new normal, we will need to
reduce the budget by $1,500,000 with
recurring cuts and/or increase revenue
– That’s 5.8% of total O&M budget
• Potential/possible cuts from Central are
above and beyond this figure
O&M ALLOCATION TREND FY07-FY14
12,000,000
10,000,000
8,000,000
Academic Units
Admin
Student Services
Reserves & Compact
6,000,000
4,000,000
2,000,000
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
FY12
FY13
FY14
PAYING THE FY14 BILLS
1,600,000
1,400,000
1,200,000
600,000
1,000,000
800,000
400,000
600,000
400,000
500,000
200,000
-
Additional cuts/revenue
Position reserve
Tuition reserve
MOVING FORWARD
• We are beginning to model scenarios on how to
address the short and long term
• Department Heads are already having
conversations within departments
• Consultation with faculty and staff will occur to
get feedback and ideas
• This will require both short and long-term
practical solutions and creative, design thinking
QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION
EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Imagine Fund now accepting applications
– Deadline October 29
• Graduate Student Research Slam
– Thursday, November 14, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
– McNeal 274
• Faculty Research Slam
– Thursday, November 22, 10:30 – 12:00 p.m.
– Rapson 225
• Other announcements?
CDES INNOVATION LAB
@ “NEW NORTHROP”
information & input sessions
Prepared by Brad Hokanson and Rebecca Krinke, CDES, Sept. ’13
The Northrop Revitalization Project Team
Architect of Record: HGA Design Architect: Tim Carl (HGA) Theatre and Acoustic: ARUP New York Construction Manager at Risk: J E Dunn Construction
New Northrop: Vision
2006: the strategy for fundamentally rethinking Northrop's interior, tenants, and vision was
developed by an Advisory Committee:
“The New Northrop will:
fuel innovation and creativity, and serve students, faculty, artists, audiences, and the State of
Minnesota.
become a vital center of academic distinction and discovery that will bring together The
University Honors Program, the Institute for Advanced Study, the CDES Innovation Lab, and
Northrop Concerts and Lectures.
be a bustling, dynamic destination for collaboration and study, central to everyday life on
campus.
The New Northrop will increase by 50% the amount of public study and collaborative space on
the East Bank, and be a global platform that uses the latest technologies to engage the world's
most innovative thinkers, connecting the University with world-wide audiences, and enabling
academic, cultural, and civic programs to build upon existing initiatives.
A café and coffee bar will serve students, faculty, and the public.”
First floor plan
Second floor plan
CDES Innovation Lab as part of “New Northrop”- timeline
Spring 2013
Northrop is awarded a grant (EMC arts) to focus on their reinvention with their 3 other resident
units: The University Honors Program, the Institute for Advanced Study, the CDES Innovation
Lab. Teams assembled, EMC Arts facilitated meetings held on campus.
Summer 2013
Week long off site session for New Northrop team, facilitated by EMC Arts. This led to the team
selecting “Pop Up Northrop” as a way to create new DNA for collaboration and to prototype
ways of thinking and making new work together.
Fall 2013
First Pop-Up event held September 4: Light Plays, a performance, participatory video piece
projected across the Northrop façade.
Pop-Up events will continue this fall outdoors.
Rebecca Krinke is piloting the role of a “CDES Northrop Fellow”, one of many possibilities for
our work in/with New Northrop.
December 2103
Some space ready for move in—Innovation Lab ready?
April 4,2014
Grand re-opening of Northrop
WHAT IS THE
CDES INNOVATION LAB
@ “NEW NORTHROP” ?
Idea
Space
CDES Innovation Lab
600 square feet
View into the CDES Innovation Lab from the atrium
August 2103
“panorama” view into the CDES Innovation Lab from the atrium
August 2103
CDES Innovation Lab: ideas, input, questions, discussion
CDES Northrop Fellow
CDES faculty members apply – similar to IAS Faculty Fellow process.
Questions include: criteria, process, relationship to other 3 Northrop resident units, numbers of
CDES fellows, duration of fellowship, role of lab space itself. Course release? etc
CDES Northrop studios or classes
CDES faculty propose why their studio or class should be based in Innovation Lab. Or if not
physically based there - but uses the Northrop building and ideas in expanded ways.
CDES Innovation Lab Team w/New Partnerships
Teams of faculty/staff find a new partnership outside the University (from industry, a non-profit,
etc) to address an issue of their choice in an “innovative way”. Manifest this work in the
community (?), etc
New Northrop yearly theme
All 4 Northrop resident units engage collectively/individually with the same yearly theme. The
Innovation Lab is where CDES explores / manifests our College’s work on the theme.
Proposals from community
Proposals come from outside/community/public to use Innovation Lab with UMN faculty and staff
providing expertise: like a start-up, incubator space.