1. The Year in Preview Deans, Directors and Chairs Meeting
Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak
Sept. 19 & 20, 2007

2. “When I want to understand what is happening today, or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

3. Professor James Busey UCCS founder
Honoring the Past
Professor James Busey
UCCS founder
UCCS professor of political science
CU-Boulder
Campus memorial service July 30
There will be a sound file that plays where Busey recollects coming to campus and the custodial staff is mopping up at Cragmor, the smell of disinfectant and deciding that he would be unable to fulfill his task of filling a vaancy on the campus unless he did so himself.
Other details
-- Born 1916 in Seattle
-- Taught in one-room schoolhouse in Alaska as part of Civilian Conservation Corps during Great Depression.
-- College of Puget Sound
-- WWII service in Alaska as Military Police Officer
-- MA and PHD from Ohio State
-- Expert in Latin American politics
-- Faculty at Wyoming

4. Leslie Manning Dean, Kraemer Family Library 27 years CU service
Honoring the Past
Leslie Manning
Dean, Kraemer Family Library
27 years CU service
Campus builder
How do we buy a book is reference to Leslie’s creation of purchasing and other policies for fledgling library
1.2 million items in current collection
700,000 visitors last year
“How do we buy a book?”
86,000 to 1.2 million item collection
700,000 in-person and 1.3 million web visits

5. Professor Tim Tregarthen
Honoring the Past
Professor Tim Tregarthen
Professor of Economics,
Computer-aided communication, scholarship
First Dwire Hall dedication
From hospice, new edition of his text “Economics” (in third edition). I’m told has also written a novel based on a Certifiied Nursing Assistant (CNA) as well as his own autiobiography.
Told a Colorado Springs Gazette reporter “it (the computer) has given me a new life. He uses a voice-activation program to correspond via , edit text and to read.
Present at first Dwire Hall dedication in 1972 when jackhammers were used to get the doors to open for the grand opening. Building was already shifting …
Subject of a recent PAGE ONE story in the Gazette as he returned to teach Freshman Seminar
-- Colorado Springs Gazette photo

6. Honoring the Past

7. Inventing the Future
This is the series of 3 photos. Just click.

8. Dwire Hall First true university building Constructed 1972
$10 million remodel and expansion
9 conference rooms
11 classrooms
77 offices
1 lecture hall
1 coffee shop
1 p.m. Aug. 16 rededication ceremony

9. Honoring the Past

10. Inventing the Future
This is a series of 3 photos. Just click

11. Campus Recreation Center
Features
Pool
Aerobic and fitness rooms
Two gyms
Green/LEED certification
2:30 p.m. Aug. 16 dedication ceremony
Student fee-funded

12. Inventing the Future New Programs Games and Media Integration track
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

13. Inventing the Future New Programs Women’s soccer, Fall 2008
Athletics
Women’s soccer, Fall 2008
All teams GPA 3.15 (Spring 2007)
Most successful UCCS teams in history

14. 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)
1 associate dean is Nancy Smith of Beth-El
1 professor is Kathryn Blair of Beth El
All new tenured and tenure-track to be profiled in Communique

15. Inventing the Future What’s Ahead: Vice Chancellors Provost/VCAA
VCSS search
Peg Bacon, chair

16. 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
Forums are repeats so please attend one, encourage faculty and staff to attend

17. Inventing the Future What’s Ahead: Reciprocal tuition
Pikes Peak Community College
Space available
Tuition only
Faculty and staff
Spring semester launch
Reciprocal tuition will help with partnership with PPCC, building of relationships.

18. 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
Steve Ellis has a space/time analysis report that I can provide as additional background.
Susan Szpyrka estimates that Friday classes could reduce need for parking spaces by 300.
Student behavior reference is mine. Thursday night has become the party night because there are so few Friday classes (nationally and at UCCS). By scheduling Friday classes (particularly Friday AM), we reduce the amount of alcohol consumption and related problems.
Student photo

19. 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
Steve has provided considerable detail about enrollment. Bullets are the highlights. For the first time in my memory, both Rocky and Post mentioned UCCS in their enrollment stories. Reference to COF is that UCCS now more enrollment driven than ever, more closely resembles a small private than a large public in need to enroll, retain students.
News release issued 9/12 below
More than 7,600 students enrolled at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs for the fall semester, an almost 2 percent increase from a year ago, according to statistics released today. Steve Ellis, director, Admissions and Records, reported that 7,662 students were enrolled after 12 days of classes at UCCS, 145 students or 1.9 percent more than for the Fall 2006 semester. “We continue to attract many high-quality, motivated students who recognize that earning a college degree is integral to their personal and professional goals,” Ellis said. “UCCS continues to offer individuals seeking both undergraduate and advanced degrees exceptional value.” There are 6,225 undergraduate students enrolled at UCCS, a 131 student or 2.1 percent increase from last year. There are 1,437 students enrolled in master’s and doctoral degree programs, a 14 student or 1 percent increase from last year. UCCS also attracted more men this fall with 3,188 enrolled, a 183 student or 6.1 percent increase from a year ago. There were 4,474 women enrolled, a 38 student decrease from a year ago. The UCCS student body is now 58 percent women and 42 percent men. There were 1,389 students, or 18.1 percent, who self-identified as members of an ethnic minority group, the same as last year. Of the 1,013 student incoming freshman class, 234 or 23 percent self-identified as members of an ethnic minority group, a 39 student or 4 percent increase. Last year, 195 freshman students identified themselves as a member of an ethnic minority group. The largest increase occurred in the number of Hispanic students enrolled. For Fall 2007, there are 119 Hispanic freshmen at UCCS compared to 100 in Fall 2006, a 19 percent increase. There are 39 African-American freshmen for Fall 2007 a three student or 8.3 percent increase from last year. There are 70 Asian-American freshmen for Fall 2007, an 18-student or 35 percent increase from last year. UCCS also posted increases in the number of students using military tuition waivers and transfers from other colleges. There are 285 members of the military who received resident tuition rates at the university, a 12 student increase or 4.4 percent from last year. There were 746 new transfer students, a 45 student or 6.4 percent increase from last year. UCCS, located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in Colorado Springs, is the fastest growing university in Colorado, and one of the fastest growing universities in the nation. The University offers 29 bachelor’s degrees, 18 master’s, and four doctoral degrees. The campus enrolls about 7,700 students.

20. 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

21. 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

22. Inventing the Future What’s Ahead: UCCS Construction Field House
Heller Center
Field House

23. Inventing the Future What’s Ahead: Near-campus construction N. Nevada
Union/Austin Bluffs
Dec completion
N. Nevada
Just the beginning …
-- Underpass bridge
-- COSMIX ends, N. Nevada reconstruction begins

24. 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
Steve Ellis has provided numbers for BI and CJ enrollment as follows
BI Business – 6
BI Comp Science – 3
BI Elec Enginer – 1
BI Game Design – 13
This may also be a good place to state the positive trend for enrollment (possible 2-3 percent overall increase and as much as a 10 percent increase in freshman)

25. UCCS: Coming of Age in the 21st Century