Transcript National Perspectives on FSU

Introduction to the Florida State University
and the 2010 University Work Plan
FSU Mission
• Dedicated to excellence in instruction, research, creative endeavors, and service.
• Preserves, expands and disseminates knowledge in the sciences, technology,
arts, humanities, professions.
• Instills the strength, skill and character essential for lifelong learning,
personal responsibility, and sustained achievement.
Enrollment
Undergraduate
Masters
Doctorate
Law
Medicine
Students:
83% Full-time
17% Part-time
The Princeton
Review list of
100 Best Values for
2010, four-year
public and private
institutions lists
FSU as 4th.
30,500
4,700
2,700
750
450
about 1% growth per year
about 2% growth per year
25.07%
of students
receive
Pell Grants
Faculty Numbers
Filled FTE Faculty Positions
Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Positions
10%
11%
71%
8%
Black students
Hispanic
White
Other
1,565
1,189
9%Out-of-State
Students
Publications Count
(From 2004-2008)
(virtually the same over 10 years (825 tenured)
9-month FTE Faculty Positions
Degrees
7,000
2,150
340
260
75
7,250
1,230
(less than 1% growth per year)
Contracts & Grants – Expenditures:
$200 million
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Our Students Travel Great
Distance to Attend
Residence of Alumni
by Florida County
Distance from Home
FSU
National
0-100 miles
101-500 miles
> 500 miles
9%
68%
23%
50%
42%
8%
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Strengths/Improvements
Strengths
• Nationally recognized faculty
• Distinguished student body
• High levels of student performance
& satisfaction (NSSE 2008: >90%)
• Nationally known programs
• Excellent infrastructure
• Student Centered Focus
Occurs across our campus
(Excellent minority graduation rates, 74%)
(88% completion of on-line courses)
Areas for Improvement
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Competitiveness of salary structure
Competitiveness of student stipends
Class size
Expand student academic engagement
Expand Student research opportunities
Nationally Ranked
Programs
•Dance
•Film
•Music
•Physics
•Chemistry
•Materials Science
•Environmental
Law
•Higher Education
•Undergraduate
Business
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First-Year Retention
Implemented Steps to Improvement
91.0%*
First-Year Full-Time FTIC Retention
Coachin
g
Mapping
ACE
89.0
New
Advisors
Drop-in
Advising
Collect
Data
Cohort Entry Year
86.4
88.1
86.7
85.8
84.8
85.0
84.5
84.1
83.5
82.6
Student
Contact
88.0
89.7
89.2
82.9
* Based on Preliminary Data
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Aspirations
• Already in the top 50 of Publics
(508 Public Institutions) –
FSU intends to climb in the rankings
• Retain the best and brightest in Florida –
FSU institution of choice for our citizens
• Increase federal and corporate investment
Programs
on the Cusp
• Increase the number of superb programs
across academic disciplines
•Scientific
Computing
• Increase the number of programs that
impact Florida’s economy and its citizens
•Neuroscience
• Increase our efforts to collaborate across
the state university system to leverage
individual institutional investments
•Leadership and
Policy Studies
•Urban and
Regional Planning
•Sociology
•Statistics
Despite loss of $84M - which inevitably slows
path to excellence and goals – we continue to
make progress
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SUS Objectives
Our Role in Moving the Needle
I. Focus on a Student Centered
University: Impact
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Continue to Improve Graduation Rates
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Continue to Improve Retention Rates
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Retain the Best and Brightest
II. Strategic Investments
in Faculty and Programs: Impact
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Increase Number of Master and Doctorates
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Expand Research Activity
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Increase Federal and Corporate Grants and Contracts
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Promote Technology Transfer to Create High Value Jobs
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FSU Has Less to Spend
Than Its Public Research University Peers
Core Expenses per FTE Enrollment, by Function: FY 2008
$1,202
Student Services
$964
$2,299
Institutional Support
$2,179
$2,787
Academic Support
Δ instructional = $2,638 per FTE
$1,530
$2,232
Public Service
$1,211
$7,445
Research
$3,688
$11,062
Instruction
$8,424
$0
$2,000
FSU
$4,000
$6,000
$8,000
$10,000
$12,000
Comparison Group Median
Source: IPEDS Data Feedback Report 2009
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Goals, Opportunities & Challenges
Including System-wide Collaborations
End of stimulus funding and constrained resources.
Promote a Student
Centered University
Examples of
Collaboration
• Take advantage of the need for a student
service system to acquire an innovative
BETA Test Site
•Florida High
Performance
Computing
•Focus on
the Coast
• Attract newly available and highly
talented students to help create a
graduate-level workforce to enhance
Florida’s competitiveness and innovation
Retain and Recruit
Outstanding Faculty
• Leverage Investment in STEM to
realize opportunity for strategic hires
in targeted areas.
Increase Contract and
Grant Activity
• Reinforce and Expand Key
STEM Investments
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Example:
Investments in Students
Garnet & Gold Scholars
1. Internships
2. Study Abroad
3. Service
4. Undergraduate Research
5. Leadership
If a student completes formal requirements in 3 of 5 items above:
Graduates as a Garnet and Gold Scholar
(partner to “Honors” which focuses on classroom performance)
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Windows of Opportunity
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
• Unique interdisciplinary user facility
core funding from NSF (FSU, UF,
Los Alamos partners)
• Current award ends 12/2012
• NSF’s National Science Board will
require re-competition of all
facilities from now on
• Additional state contributions will be
needed to build a compelling case to
keep the facility in Florida
• If we do not win the competition,
the state stands to lose 420
scientific jobs and 1,000 scientific
visitors annually
• Request: $3.3 Million recurring
Expect to bring in more than
$250M in non-State resources
over next 5 years.
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Windows of Opportunity
Free Electron Laser Facility (“Big Light”)
• Instruments to be located at the NHMFL
• Design funded by the National Science
Foundation has been completed
• Provides an unprecedented high speed
tool to watch chemical and biological
reactions in process.
• Will be the world’s only such facility
generating unforeseeable opportunities
• Considerable cost-sharing will be
required to build and operate the facility
and to demonstrate state interest in
attracting the project.
• Request:
Recurring - $5 Million
Non-recurring - $2 Million
“Big Light” funding from outside Florida
over the next 5 years is approx. $90M.
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Tuition Differential
First year funding – improve retention
Spent $1.9 million on Library renovation to
create first floor undergraduate commons
space. Students already experience more
tutoring, workshops and other academic
events. A number of small study rooms
were added where groups of 5-12 students
can work together.
Second year funding – improve retention
Funds were used to hire and train additional
advisors and tutors. Faculty formed the
Academic Center of Excellence, a program
of early intervention for students who
struggle during their first year.
Third year funding – improve grad. rate
Funds will be used to hire faculty for areas of
student demand that occurs as shifts result
from the loss of stimulus to ensure timely
graduation and improve graduation rate.
New fee is opportunity to fund critical campus safety, an
issue that will be considered over the next year
(This is the #1 issue of Student Focus Groups)
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