The Year in Preview
Deans, Directors and Chairs Meeting
Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak
UCCS: America’s Premier Regional Comprehensive
Research University
Year in Preview
A look back: Thoughts
“When I want to understand what is happening
today, or try to decide what will happen
tomorrow, I look back,”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Look back, and smile at perils past,”
Sir Walter Scott
Year in Preview
A look back: Inventing the Future
Areas identified
• Student retention and recruitment
• Financial aid
• Division of Innovation
• Experiential learning and innovation
• Chancellor’s area reorganization
• VCAF reorganization
• CU Foundation reorganization
Year in Preview
Inventing the Future: Recruitment and retention
• Barbara Gaddis as director of retention
• Enrollment Management Team
• Freshman Seminar sections
• Focus on undeclared majors
• Visits to southern Colorado community colleges
• Daniels Fund grant to aid transfer students
• Increased WUE role, non-resident recruitment
Year in Preview
Inventing the Future: Recruitment and retention
•Graduate student recruitment retreat
•Recruitment coordinator assigned to graduate dean
•New UCCS logo
Inventing the Future: Financial Aid
•Aid for low-income students increased
•Multi-year financial aid commitments
•Improved freshman merit aid award
Year in Preview
Inventing the Future: Division of Innovation
•Decision to retain current structure
•Bachelor’s of Innovation degree
•Approved by colleges
•Interdisciplinary
•Unique
•UBAC Review
•CCHE, Regents to review
Year in Preview
Inventing the Future: Experiential Learning
• Bachelor’s in Innovation
• Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice
• Doctorate in Nursing Practice
• PhD. in Education Leadership (proposed)
• Freshman Seminar sections
• Head of the Class
• Life and Death
• Garbage
Year in Preview
Inventing the Future: Chancellor’s Area
• Merge alumni relations with community relations
• Affirmative action functions become part of broader
social equity focus
Year in Preview
Inventing the Future: Administration and Finance
• Division of Resource Management
formed from Budget Office, Accounting
Office, Bursar’s Office, Loan
Administration
• Division of Human Resources brings
together personnel functions
• TRD model with CU Foundation
•Ent
•Mountain Lion field
• Campus entry signs
Year in Preview
Inventing the Future: CU Foundation
• Martin Wood, chief operating officer, Advancement
• Funding shifted to President’s Office
• Marketing planning
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead:
• NCA
• Salary initiatives
• VCAA search
• New faculty and staff positions
• Construction
• Blue Ribbon Commission
recommendations
• Strategic planning
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: NCA visit
• All campus process
•Accreditation renewal fundamental
•Website updates required
•Flexibility required
•Nov. 13 and 14 campus visit
•David Moon, associate vice chancellor,
Academic Affairs, leads process
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: NCA visit continued
•Goals: review and counsel
•Five criteria
-- Mission and integrity
-- Preparing for future
-- Student learning and effectiveness
-- Knowledge
-- Engagement and service
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: Faculty salary committee
Tom Christensen, dean, Letters, Arts and Sciences
Ceil Malek, senior instructor, English
Robyn Marschke, interim director, Institutional Research
La Vonne Neal, dean, Education
Jim Null, professor, Political Science
Allen Schoffstall, professor, Chemistry
Gayanne Scott, director, Resource Management
Susan Szpyrka, associate vice chancellor, Administration and
Finance
Tom Zwirlein, professor, Business
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: Staff salary committee
Kathy Andrus, director, Teaching and Learning Center
Sean Flaherty, director, Residence Life
Jeremy Haefner, dean, Engineering and Applied Science
Robyn Marschke, interim director, Institutional Research
Drew Martorella, producing director, Theatreworks
Carole Schoffstall, dean, Beth-El College of Nursing
Gayanne Scott, director, Resource Management
Susan Szpyrka, associate vice chancellor, Administration and
Finance
William Whitfield, manager, Parking Services
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: VCAA search
Cathy Brittain, accountant, Loan Administration
Tom Christensen, dean, Letters, Arts and Sciences (co-chair)
Randy De Pry, associate professor, Education
Gwen Gennaro, director, Sponsored Programs
Kathy LaSala, associate dean, Beth-El College of Nursing
Mary Lou Makepeace, Colorado Springs
Ceil Malek, senior instructor, English
Leslie Manning, dean, Kraemer Family Library (co-chair)
Chris Martinez, senior instructor, Kraemer Family Library
Eric Olson, associate dean, College of Business and Administration
Gayanne Scott, director, Resource Management
Sudhanshu Semwal, professor, Computer Science
Kay Smith, graduate student
Kee Warner, professor, Sociology
Mary Yates, director, Campus Life
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: New faculty and staff positions
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: Construction
•Dwire
•Recreation Center
•Science/Engineering
•Heller Center
•Roads
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: Blue Ribbon Commission
•Sept. 29 meeting at UCDHSC
•18 recommendations in six broad areas
-- Increase diversity of faculty, staff and students
-- Strengthen retention of diverse faculty, staff and students
-- Build an inclusive campus climate
-- Increase community outreach
-- Share best practices
-- Develop diversity plans with accountability and performance
measures
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: Strategic Planning Process
Key elements
•2007-2012 time frame
•Build excellence
•Deepen learning experience
•Enhance diversity
•Build bridges to community
•Secure financial future
•Shared responsibility culture
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: Strategic Planning Process
UCCS Mission
The Colorado Springs campus of the university of Colorado shall be
a comprehensive baccalaureate university with selective admission
standards. The Colorado Springs campus shall offer liberal arts and
sciences, business, engineering, health sciences, and teacher
preparation undergraduate degree programs, and a selected number
of masters and doctoral degree programs.
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: Strategic Planning Process
UCCS Vision
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs will
provide unsurpassed, student-centered teaching and
learning, and outstanding research and creative work that
serve our community, state, and nation, and result in our
recognition as the premier comprehensive, regional
research university in the United States
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: Strategic Planning Process
UCCS Values
•Excellence
•Student Success
•Community interactions
•Enriching environment
•Quality teaching
•Research and creative work
•Service
•Staff contribution
•Innovation and change
•Life-long learning
Year in Preview
What’s Ahead: Strategic Planning Process
•Academic Strategic Plan, Peg Bacon
•Facilities Strategic Plan, Brian Burnett
•Diversity Strategic Plan, Kee Warner
•Student Success, Jim Henderson
•Sustainability Strategic Plan, Linda Kogan
•Financial, Brian Burnett
•Marketing, Martin Wood
•Faculty and staff compensation, Pam Shockley-Zalabak
•Overall UCCS Goals, Pam Shockley-Zalabak