1. April Chancellor’s Forum
Creating the Future
April 29, 2008
Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak

2. Topics
Principles of Success
UCCS Strategic Priorities
Budget Update

3. Principle for Success
“The successful university will be increasingly privately supported but increasingly publicly accountable and socially committed.”
“The Role of the American University,” Frank H.T. Rhodes

4. Principle for Success
“The successful university will maintain institutional autonomy, lively faculty independence, and vigorous academic freedom, but will enjoy strong, impartial, public governance and decisive, engaged, presidential leadership.”

5. Principle for Success
“The successful university will be campus rooted but internationally oriented.”

6. Principle for Success
“The successful university will be academically independent but constructively partnered.”

7. Principle for Success
“The successful university will be technologically sophisticated but community dependent.”

8. Principle for Success
“The successful university will be knowledge-based but student centered, research driven but learning focused.”

9. Principle for Success
“The successful university will be professionally attuned but humanely informed.”

10. Principle for Success
“The successful university will be quality obsessed but procedurally efficient.”

11. Vision Statement
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.

12. Strategic Goals/Campus Priorities 2008-09
Create a Vibrant, Engaged Community
Improve student retention.
Expand Student Access to UCCS Opportunities through Vigorous and Responsible Growth
Increase financial aid, scholarships, student support.

13. Strategic Goals/Campus Priorities 2008-09
Customize an Individual Learning, Development and Leadership Experience for Students
Provide entering students necessary academic, intellectual, developmental and social support necessary.
Set high standards for academic rigor and provide all students ongoing support.
Provide Excellence in Learning
Guarantee a quality comprehensive educational experience that prepares students to excel personally professionally and as global citizens.

14. Strategic Goals/Campus Priorities 2008-09
Transform Today’s Potential into Tomorrow’s Leadership
Increase opportunities for faculty and staff to develop achievement, advancement and leadership.
Invest in Growth of Research and Creative Works
Provide an environment conducive to research and creative activity.
Expand Innovation and Entrepreneurship

15. Strategic Goals/Campus Priorities 2008-09
Promote Diversity and Assure Inclusiveness
Make diversity an inclusiveness integral to the work of the university: teaching, research, student success, business operations.
Become a Sustainable Campus
Build Bridges to the Community, Region, National and World by Becoming a Social, Cultural and Intellectual Hub

16. Strategic Goals/Campus Priorities 2008-09
Distinguish and Communicate a Unique UCCS Identity
Steward the UCCS Natural Environment and Build a Campus Infrastructure that Fosters Discovery and Establishes a Sense of Place
Be ecologically conscious and conservationist in facilities design and development.

17. Strategic Goals/Campus Priorities 2008-09
Inspire Alumni to Connect and Grow with UCCS
Support and Develop Faculty, Staff and Administration to Sustain Achievement
Value faculty, staff and administration to realize the campus vision.
Secure Financial Future to Stimulate and Sustain Responsible Growth
Improve student retention.
Stabilize and build financial resources.

18. Stategic Goals/Campus Priorities 2008-09
Create a Vibrant, Engaged Community
Improve student retention.
Expand Student Access to UCCS Opportunities through Vigorous and Responsible Growth
Increase financial aid, scholarships, student support to facilitate access.

19. Budget Information Science and Engineering, $7 million
Science Renovation
One of many higher education projects funded from Federal Mineral Lease bill.
Currently “on the list” for $17.1 million.

20. Budget Information Tuition Increases
UCCS may have lowest increase in state at 7.5%.
Undergraduate lower division resident increases for AY range from $326-$390 at 30 credit hours.
Graduate enrollment fee increases for AY range from $171-$259 for 12 credit hours.
Total cost of attendance increase is 4.7% to 5.4% depending on college and level of student.

21. Compensation Rates-Classified Staff
Budget Information
Compensation Rates-Classified Staff
As approved by the Colorado General Assembly
Salary
- Salary survey average is 3.8%.
Base-building performance pay for level 2 and 3 performers is additional 1%.
- Non-base-building performance pay for only level 3 performers is additional one-time payment of 2%.
Benefits
- The employers contribution to health, life, and dental insurance will increase from 85% to 90% of market.

22. Compensation Rates-Faculty and Exempt Staff
Budget Information
Compensation Rates-Faculty and Exempt Staff
As approved by the Regents on 4/22/08
Salary
Salary pool range is between 0% and 4.8%.
In addition, a pool of 0% to 1% is available at the discretion of the chancellor for salary increases for exceptional merit, salary compression, and salary equity awards.
Benefits
- The employer contribution to health, life, and dental insurance will increase from 85% to 90% of market in order to maintain parity with classified staff.

23. UCCS in the future