STATE OF THE
UNIVERSITY ADDRESS
May 29, 2012
STATUS UPDATES
SUMMER 2012
• The campus is offering a state-supported
summer.
• Summer 2012 FTES target:
– 5400 Resident
– 161 Non-resident
CONVERSION
Quarter to Semester Task Force:
• Co-Chairs:
– President James M. Rosser, Cal State L.A.
– President Jeffery D. Armstrong, Cal Poly SLO
• Systemwide Academic Senate
Representative:
– Dr. Kevin Baaske
THE UNIVERSITY
STRATEGIC PLAN 2011-2016
Vision Statement:
California State University, Los Angeles
will be nationally recognized as a leader
in transforming student lives through
effective learning and community
engagement in a diverse urban setting.
THE UNIVERSITY
STRATEGIC PLAN 2011-2016
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES:
I. Student Success
II. Community Engagement: Resources,
Recognition & Partnerships
III. Collaborative Culture: Working
Together Toward a Common Purpose
INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Cal State L.A. has identified the following
Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs):
• Knowledge: Mastery of content and processes of inquiry
• Proficiency: Intellectual skills
• Place and Community: Urban and global mission
• Transformation: Integrative learning
GRADUATION INITIATIVE
GOALS
First Time Freshmen:
• Increase 6 year graduation rate for all students from 34%
to 45%.
• Increase 6 year graduation rate of underrepresented
minority students (URM) from 30% to 42%.
Transfer Students:
• Increase 4 year graduation rate for all students from 49%
to 57%.
• Increase 4 year graduation rate for underrepresented
minority students(URM) from 47% to 56%.
CSULA FY Retention and
Graduation Rates by Cohort
2001-2010
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
Retention
40%
6 yr GRAD
30%
20%
10%
0%
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Fall cohort
2007
2008
2009
2010
CSULA CC TRF Retention and
Graduation Rates by Cohort
2001-2010
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
Retention
40%
4 yr GRAD
30%
20%
10%
0%
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Cohort
2007
2008
2009
2010
GRADUATION INITIATIVE:
ADVISING ENHANCEMENTS
• Increase in the number of Student Services
Personnel (SSP).
• Established SSP training program.
• Super Senior initiative.
• Enhancement to “Degree Completion Report”.
• Initiated University Advising Council.
• Approval of Student Success Fee.
• College advising plans completed by May 31.
ADDITIONAL GRADUATION
INITIATIVE EFFORTS IN
MAY 2011-12
Across campus, in the colleges and in the divisions:
• Enhance communication with students.
• Enhance academic and social support to
students.
• Improve student learning achievement with the
assessment of student learning outcomes.
• Revise general education.
EARLY START
EARLY START
• EO 1048 requires all students who have not
demonstrated college readiness in English
composition and/or mathematics to begin
remediation prior to the term for which they have
been admitted.
• Summer Quarter 2012, CSULA will offer Early
Start courses in two summer sessions in English
composition, for students who need ENGL 095
and in mathematics, for students who need
MATH 089, 090, or 091.
• As of May 24th, 666 students have enrolled in
Early Start courses at CSULA.
EARLY START
Other means by which Early Start requirement
may be met include:
• Participation in Summer Bridge or Summer
Transition into the ECST Program (STEP) and
the English and/or math workshops offered by
the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP).
• Completion of acceptable community college
course.
• Participation in Early Start at another CSU
campus.
SENATE BILL 1440
SENATE BILL 1440
Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act
• There are 18 Transfer Model Curricula (TMCs)
that have been approved as similar at CSULA.
• For Fall 2012, students completing an approved
TMC for the transfer AA degree will have
admission priority.
• Students who complete a TMC will also be
admitted to CSULA in Spring 2013.
K-12 AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
PARTNERSHIPS
Cal State L.A. –
• El Monte Union High School District – Rio
Hondo College
• LAUSD (Local Region 4) – Los Angeles City
College
• Pasadena Unified School District – Pasadena
City College
STUDENT SUCCESS FEE
• The $80 per quarter fee will be assessed
beginning Fall Quarter 2012 to provide students
with supplemental academic advising and
retention services; personal development and
career services opportunities; and expanded
access to vital infrastructure and applications
technologies.
• Administrative procedures currently under
review.
HONORS COLLEGE
THE INAUGURAL YEAR
Honors College –
• Orientation welcomed newly matriculated students (40 first-year,
27 sophomores, 17 juniors).
• Student Center and Housing promoted community.
• Faculty collaborated to teach innovative and interdisciplinary core
courses focused on local and global citizenship.
• First year students introduced to undergraduate research.
• “Teas and Talks” enhanced student/faculty interaction.
• Specialized advisement promoted pathways to graduation,
graduate school, internships, and study-away with national honors
exchange programs.
• Honors College Preview Day introduced prospective students and
families to CSULA’s tradition of academic excellence.
• Students (including EEP and President’s Scholars) received
recognition at Honors Convocation.
FINANCIAL AID STATISTICS
UNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT
Fall 2012 Applicant Information
Enrollment Confirmation Deposit
Fall 2011
Res
Non res
Total
Fall 2012
Res
Non res
Change
Total
FTF
2,885
60
2,945
3,684
158
3,842
897 + 30%
Transfer
3,689
149
3,838
3,275
148
3,423
-415
-11%
Applications
Fall 2011
Res
Non res
FTF
Transfer
22,305
13,563
1,917
1,191
Total
24,222
14,754
Fall 2012
Res
Non res
24,808 2,487
12,625 1,042
Change
Total
27,295 3,073 + 13%
13,667 -1,087
-7%
CSU BOARD OF TRUSTEES’
INFORMATION SECURITY AUDIT
FINDINGS FOR 2012
2011-2012 INFORMATION
SECURITY AUDITS
CSULA continued to perform well, with minimal campus audit findings
in previous two audits.
• Sensitive Data Audit – one recommendation:
1. Sensitive data on servers and in paper documents are not
identified, reviewed, secured and reported annually.
Remediation underway with current risk assessment
survey.
• Student Administration Audit – two recommendations:
1. Remove security administration access from employees
working outside CSM and enterprise systems.
Remediation completed.
2. Improve notification to ITS to remove user access to
administrative systems when employees transfer within or
between departments.
Remediation completed.
INFORMATION SECURITY RISK
ASSESSMENT SURVEY FOR 2012
Who? All faculty, staff and administrators must participate.
Why? CSU policy requires an annual review process to
identify, assess, monitor and mitigate campus risks.
How? The brief online worksheet, taking about 10 minutes,
addresses physical security, electronic documents
and paper documents.
Where? Visit www.calstatela.edu/its/forms.
Look under the risk assessment category for the
Information Security Risk Assessment
Worksheet.
INFORMATION SECURITY RISK
ASSESSMENT 2012 DEADLINES
February 6 Vice Presidents notified of the requirement.
July 13
Last date for employees to complete online
worksheet.
July 16
Data extraction and report preparation
begins.
July 23
Report distributed to the Vice Presidents.
August 15
Vice Presidents’ Risk Remediation/
Acceptance report due to the University
internal auditor.
DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION
FOR STUDENTS
• First vital technology project made possible by the
Student Success Fee.
• Students will be able to “virtually” access applications
on-campus, or remotely from any device with an
Internet connection.
• Applications available beginning in Fall Quarter 2012
include Microsoft Office 2010 suite, Adobe Creative
suite, Visual Studio, Mathematica, Matlab, SPSS, SAS,
and Windows XP and Windows 7 virtual desktops.
CAPITAL PROJECTS
GOLDEN EAGLES APARTMENTS
Student housing renovated
SUSTAINABLE HYDROGEN
FACILITY
Construction completed
CORPORATION YARD
Main building complete
Shops for the trades: July completion
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Undergoing seismic reinforcement
TELEVISION, FILM, AND MEDIA STUDIES
Anticipated completion: Summer 2012
LOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
FOR THE ARTS SHARED USE FACILITY
Scheduled completion: end of Fall 2012
2012-13 BUDGET
2012/13 FISCAL IMPACT TO CSU
2011/12 Budget Act General Fund Appropriation
2011/12 $100M Mid-Year Reduction
2011/12 Retirement Adjustment
2011/12 Revised General Fund
$2,141,273,000
($100,000,000)
($38,521,063)
$2,002,751,937
2012-13 Base Budget Adjustments:
Lease Revenue Bond Payments Adjustments
Annuitants' Dental Insurance Adjustment
State Interest Payment Adjustment
Provision to Shift General Obligation Bond Debt Service
2012/13 General Fund After Base Adjustments
$5,495,000
$1,096,000
$1,310,000
$189,775,000
$2,200,427,937
2012/13 General Fund Trigger Reduction *
2012/13 General Fund
($250,000,000)
$1,950,427,937
*Including unfunded mandatory cost (i.e., health, dental, energy, and new space)
of approximately $22.4 Million, total budget cuts to CSU is about $272 Million
** CO budget letter B 2012-01 includes original trigger cut of $200 Million
Sources: CSU System Budget Office Budget Letter B 2012-01
**
CSULA Budget Impacts 2012/13
• FTES Resident Target will be 16,350, which is zero growth from the 201112 Target.
• Proposed budget includes $4.7 Million reduction, which is the campus
pro-rata share of the prior year mid-year reduction of $100 Million.
• Proposed budget includes an additional $11.9 Million reduction, which is
the campus pro-rata share of the $250 Million trigger cut.
• Unfunded mandatory costs (i.e., health care and energy) estimated at
$891,000.
• No 2012-13 compensation increases.
• Assumes the 9% tuition rate increase approved by the BOT in November
2011.
CSU Budget Response
Key Message
• CSU continues its efforts to educate
legislators on ramifications of deeper cuts.
The $250 Million trigger cut will result in
serious long-term damage to student
access, closing the achievement gap,
student services, workforce development
and job growth in the state.
FACULTY, STUDENT AND
CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS
FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
•
Paula Arvedson (Curriculum and Instruction) was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant
to lecture in Durban, South Africa, for the 2011-12 academic year.
•
David Blekhman (Technology) was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach and
conduct research in Saint Petersburg, Russia, during the 2011-12 academic year.
•
Carlos G. Gutiérrez (Chemistry and Biochemistry) was selected by the Society for
Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) for its 2011
Distinguished Undergraduate Institution Mentor Award, Oct. 2011.
•
Taylor Dark (Political Science) was selected for a June 2012 Fulbright German
Studies seminar, entitled "Nation-State and European Identity,” to begin in Berlin and
conclude in Brussels, Germany.
MORE FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
•
Helen Ryaciotaki-Boussalis (Electrical Engineering) was presented a 2011 Faculty
Research Award by The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
•
Kirsten Fisher and Paul Narguizian (Biological Sciences) both were bestowed the
title of Education Fellows in the Life Sciences by The National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, 2011.
•
Frances Siu (Special Education and Counseling) received the 2011 New Career in
Rehabilitation Education Award.
•
Yongyi Song (University Library) was honored with the California Library
Association’s 2011 Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award for his librarianship and
dedication to resisting censorship.
•
Ping Yao (History/Asian and Asian American Studies) was awarded a 2011-12
Fulbright Scholar grant to China in spring 2012.
•
Feimeng Zhou (Chemistry and Biochemistry) in January received the 2012 Faculty
Research Award by the CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology
(CSUPERB).
STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS
•
Anthropology major Mario Giron-Abrego received the William Randolph Hearst/CSU
Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement. He also received the CSU Foundation Board
of Governors’ Scholar, a distinction enhancing the Hearst scholarship.
•
Cal State L.A.’s “Super Stars” Australia Cazares, Christina Harding and Benjamin Wu
made it to the top 10 in the American Institute of CPA’s Fraud and Forensic Accounting
Competition last fall.
•
Jacqueline Kiwata,’11, who earned a Master of Science in Kinesiology, received the
2010/2011 WAGS/UMI Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award. The award recognizes
distinguished scholarly achievement based on originality, significance of the study, overall
quality, and outcomes and accomplishments.
•
Jazma Tapia, microbiology, is one of 11 CSU students recently honored with the HowellCSUPERB Research Scholar Award at the 24th CSU Biotechnology Symposium.
MORE HIGHLIGHTS
•
Biology students Adrianna Hernandez and Jennifer Retana were selected to
participate in the CSU-LSAMP Costa Rica Research Summer 2012 Program, a fourweek intensive, interdisciplinary tropical field experience for undergraduates.
•
Selected as one of only five undergraduates nationally, and the only CSU student,
Amy Wat will attend the 2012 Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge
to the Doctorate International Workshop in Grenoble, France.
•
Representing the largest group from any CSU campus, 11 CSULA students were
selected as Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholars for the 2011-12 academic year.
•
Cal State L.A.’s Model United Nations team, which served as ambassadors for
Belgium, received honors at the annual National Model United Nations in New York.
•
Two alumni have established a fellowship in honor of faculty who profoundly impacted
their lives: Ethan Lipton (Technology) and Ali Modarres (Geosciences and
Environment).
•
CSULA students placed second and third for innovative projects—the Cal State L.A.
Pepper Mill and The Eagle Stove—at the WESTEC (Western Tool Exposition and
Conference) 2012 Manufacturing Challenge.
ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS
•
Touted as one of the best in the nation, CSULA’s nursing program celebrates its 60th
anniversary this year.
•
The Peace Corps has recognized Cal State L.A. as among its top volunteer-producing
Hispanic Serving Institutions. This year, CSULA ranked fifth with 11 undergraduate
alumni serving as volunteers for the international support program.
•
Cal State L.A. and Cal Poly Pomona have received a three-year, $1.5 million grant
renewal for stem cell education and research from the California Institute for
Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Five students from each campus are selected for
CIRM internships. The grant also helps develop stem cell curriculum and promote
cross-campus faculty and student interactions.
MORE ACHIEVEMENTS AND
HIGHLIGHTS
•
Through the system-wide Math and Science Teacher Initiative (MSTI), the CSU
achieved its goal of doubling the number of math and science teachers. At Cal State
L.A., nearly 90 qualified math and science teachers are ready to enter the workforce
each year. As a result of the system’s success, the University has been included in the
“100Kin10” national initiative to increase by 100,000 the number of science, technology,
engineering and math (STEM) teachers in the next decade.
•
The American Society of Engineering Education’s Corporate Member Council (CMC)
named the Professional Practice Program (Senior Design Program) as the recipient
of 2012 CMC Excellence in Engineering Education Collaboration Award.
•
The Memorandum of Understanding with the National University of Education, South
Korea, promotes educational and professional development, including student/faculty
exchanges.
THANK YOU.