1. Inventing the Future Shaping Lives Engaging Communities
A Southern Colorado Innovation Strategy
Engaging Communities
Inventing the Future
Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak
Year in Preview
Sept. 17, 2008

2. Southern Colorado Regional Needs
11% fewer adults with degrees
Fewer year olds enrolled in college
24% below average per capita income

6. A Southern Colorado Innovation Strategy
Partnerships
People
Places
Title slide

7. Partnerships: Engaging Communities
Southern Colorado Economic Forum
Pre Collegiate Development Program
Colorado Springs Diversity Forum
Steel and Silver Series
North Nevada

8. Partnerships: Engaging Communities
UCCS University Connection
Concurrent Engineering
RN to BSN
BSN to MSN
Homeland Security
Sport and Leisure
PBS “Word World”
State Corrections

9. Partnerships: Engaging Communities
Research and Innovation Planning
Faculty/Technology Transfer
Kraemer Family Professor Sara Qualls
Symetrix Professor Carlos Araujo
El Pomar Professor Michael Larson
El Pomar Professor Terry Boult
Markert Professor Karen Newell

10. People: Shaping Lives UCCS Enrollment Growth (Headcount)
26% overall increase ( )
4.3% undergraduate increase (07-08)
2% graduate increase (07-08)
Low-income, high-ability
42% first-generation
30% Pell Grant-eligible

11. People: Shaping Lives Shaping Communities Personal Success
63% of graduates in region
68% working within major field
93% satisfied with education
Personal Success
90% nursing exam pass rate
100% education exam pass rate
80% CPA exam pass rate (35% natl. average)

12. People: Inventing the Future
42 new faculty
18 tenured and tenure-track
24 non-tenure track
Chandler-Mills
Shin
Lucchesi
Crosby
Kretzer

13. Places: Inventing the Future
Science and Engineering
50% complete
Largest building on campus
159,000 square feet
Spring 2009 completion
Science Renovation
Contractor and architect selected
9 month renovation
Programming

14. Places: Inventing the Future
Event Center
Seating for 1,200
Presidential Initiative Funds
LEED Silver goal
Construction fencing

15. Places: Austin Bluffs Interchange
Open to traffic
Sept. 11
Estimated completion
Sept. 29
One less excuse for being late

16. Places: North Nevada Widening One-way southbound
Two-way northbound
4 Diamonds entrance
Millings to Heller Road
Underpass construction
Mid-September
University Village
June 2009 completion
Kohl’s, Lowe’s, Costco anchors

17. Class of 2012: Inventing the Future
Freshman Class
1,158 members , +14.3%
23 average ACT score
Top one-third of high school class
108 average index score
93% Colorado resident
Undergraduate Enrollment
6,494, +4.3%
Graduate Enrollment
1,466, +2 %

18. Class of 2012: Inventing the Future
26% growth
since 1996

19. What’s Ahead: Economic Forecast
Referendum C expiration
National and State Economies

20. America’s Premier Regional Comprehensive Research
University