1. Inventing the Future Shaping Lives Engaging Communities
A Southern Colorado Innovation Strategy
Engaging Communities
Inventing the Future
Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak
CU Board of Regents Meeting
Aug. 21, 2008

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

5. Red dots reflect clustering of medium and high security prisons (state and federal) in south

6. A Southern Colorado Innovation Strategy
Partnerships
People
Places

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

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 (1997-2007)
16% overall increase
24% undergraduate increase
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
National Institute of Science, Space and Security Centers
Executive Director Mike Perini
Center for Homeland Security
Marshall Grant
Bachelor of Innovation

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

14. Places: Inventing the Future
Event Center
1:30 p.m. Groundbreaking
Seating for 1,200
Presidential Initiative Funds
What was the grassy knoll becomes the new event center and the end to the smallest ncaa div II field house

15. America’s Premier Regional Comprehensive Research
University