The Year in Preview
Deans, Directors and Chairs
Meeting
Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak
Sept. 19 & 20, 2007
“When I want to understand what is
happening today, or try to decide
what will happen tomorrow, I look
back.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Honoring the Past
Professor James Busey
 UCCS founder
 UCCS professor of political
science 1965-1980
 CU-Boulder 1952-1965
 Campus memorial service July 30
Honoring the Past
Leslie Manning
Dean, Kraemer Family Library
27 years CU service
Campus builder
“How do we buy a book?”
86,000 to 1.2 million item collection
700,000 in-person and 1.3 million web visits
Honoring the Past
Professor Tim Tregarthen
 Professor of Economics, 1971-1996
 Computer-aided communication, scholarship
 First Dwire Hall dedication
-- Colorado Springs Gazette photo
Honoring the Past
Inventing the Future
Dwire Hall
 First true university building
 Constructed 1972
 $10 million remodel and expansion
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9 conference rooms
11 classrooms
77 offices
1 lecture hall
1 coffee shop
 1 p.m. Aug. 16 rededication ceremony
Honoring the Past
Inventing the Future
Campus Recreation Center
 Features
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Pool
Aerobic and fitness rooms
Two gyms
Green/LEED certification
 2:30 p.m. Aug. 16 dedication ceremony
 Student fee-funded
Inventing the Future
New Programs
 Master’s of Engineering
 Games and Media Integration track
 Computer Science links to Geropsychology, VAPA
 Connect technology to people
 Doctorate of Nursing Practice
 Doctorate of Educational Leadership
 Bachelor of Innovation
 Bachelor of Criminal Justice
Inventing the Future
New Programs
 Athletics
 Women’s soccer, Fall 2008
 All teams GPA 3.15 (Spring
2007)
 Most successful UCCS teams
in history
Inventing the Future
What’s Ahead: New faculty/staff
 29 new tenured, tenure-track faculty this fall
(12 new positions)
 1 associate dean
 1 professor
 2 associate professors
 25 assistant professors
 18 new staff (positions)
Inventing the Future
What’s Ahead: Vice Chancellors
 Provost/VCAA
 VCSS search
 Peg Bacon, chair
Inventing the Future
What’s Ahead: Strategic
Planning
 Campus priority setting forums
 3 p.m. Sept. 26
 11 a.m. Oct. 25
 9 a.m. Nov. 27
 Priorities linked to University
budget
Inventing the Future
What’s Ahead: Reciprocal tuition
 Pikes Peak Community College
 Space available
 Tuition only
 Faculty and staff
 Spring semester launch
Inventing the Future
What’s Ahead: Five-day schedule
 Headcount steady since 2005
 30% increase in Friday classes since 2005
 Importance?
 Space utilization
 Parking
 Student behavior
Student photo
Inventing the Future
What’s Ahead: Enrollment
Fall enrollment 7,662, 1.9%
increase
 Increases in minority
freshmen, transfer and
graduate students
 Increases in Business, LAS,
SPA
 COF impact
Inventing the Future
What’s Ahead: University Advancement
 Martin Wood, chief operating officer
 Jennifer Hane, director, University Events and
Alumni Relations
 Branding, marketing, fundraising, alumni, and
community relations focus
Inventing the Future
What’s Ahead: UCCS Construction
 Frontage road to University Hall
 Oct.-Nov. completion
 Science and Engineering
 Additional green space
 November, structural steel
 Spring 2009, completion
 Summer 2009, move-in
Inventing the Future
What’s Ahead: UCCS Construction
 Heller Center
 Field House
Inventing the Future
What’s Ahead: Near-campus construction
 Union/Austin Bluffs
Dec. 2008 completion
 N. Nevada
 Just the beginning …
-- Underpass bridge
-- COSMIX ends, N. Nevada reconstruction begins
Inventing the Future
What’s Ahead: Near-campus construction
LDS Church
 Religious institute near FDC
 Compliments campus look
 Spring 2008 construction
 100 + additional students anticipated
UCCS: Coming of Age in the 21st
Century