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Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles OregonSecond Statelevel University Third level to Presentation level AssociationFourth of Office Professionals February 2008 Fifth level 1 Today • Campus Highlights • Campaign Progress • Update on University Priorities • Q and A 2 Oregon State University Campus Highlights Faculty recognition: • Dawn Wright, geoscientist, named Oregon’s top professor by CASE and Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching. • Alan Acock given the biannual Ernest G. Osborne Award for excellence in teaching (in Canada and the U.S.) by the National Council on Family Relations. • Paul Farber, distinguished professor of History, named Vice President, History of Science Society. • Three COAS faculty – Dudley Chelton, Robert Duncan, and Anne Trehu – named Fellows of the American Geophysical Union. 3 Oregon State University Campus Highlights (cont.) Recent Program Quality Rankings • Top national ranking in Wildlife Science. • Second in Fisheries Science. • Fourth in Zoology. • Fifth in both Plant Pathology and Forest Resources/Forestry. • Seventh in both Pharmacy and Agricultural Economics. • Ninth in Science Education. • More top ten rankings than any other Oregon institution. 4 Oregon State University Campus Highlights (cont.) Other Good News • Continued growth in enrollment, including most diverse entering class in OSU history. (Headcount up 40% in a decade.) • E-Campus – 17% enrollment increase last year, 18% in degree-seeking undergraduates (now over 3,000). • Four accounting students won First Prize in a competition at the University of Washington against 14 other teams. • New Economic Analysis shows OSU’s “economic footprint” is up 50% in a decade, to $1.5 billion. 5 OSU Financial Strategies • Self-investment in key interdisciplinary initiatives to advance the five thematic areas. • Re-directing resources through rebasing to core teaching colleges. • Increasing competitiveness of faculty salaries. • Initiatives to enhance student engagement and diversity and campus climate. • Re-engineering business practices to increase effectiveness and redirect resources to teaching and research. • First university-wide capital campaign. 6 Campaign Update The Campaign for OSU This Amazing Place. This Historic Moment. • Campaign began on July 1, 2004 • Goal is $625 million • Public launch on October 26, 2007, at $350 million • Now at $392 million, $22.6 million raised in December alone! * • $61.5 million raised for scholarships* ($100 million goal) • Campaign gifts in first half FY ‘08 exceeds any of the last three Fiscal Years! • Significant funding received for facility projects • Campaign concludes on June 30, 2011 * as of 1/31/08 7 Progress on Five Themes – #1 Advance the arts and sciences. • Henry Sayre and Sandra Brooke Professorship in Liberal Arts. • The Linus Pauling Science Center - $62.5 million for the LPI Science Center and $15 million in program support. • Student Success Center – $5 million anonymous gift. 8 Progress on Five Themes – #2 Understand the origin, dynamics, and sustainability of the Earth and its resources. •Robert S. Yeats Professorship of Earthquake Geology and Active Tectonics. •Gifts to marine mammal research support “institute” status, add two new nationally recognized researchers. 9 Progress on Five Themes – #3 Optimize enterprise, innovation, and economic development. • University Venture Development Fund. • Weatherford Hall, Austin Entrepreneurship Program. • Kelley Engineering Center. 10 Progress on Five Themes – #4 Realize fundamental contributions in the life sciences, and optimize the health and well-being of the public. • Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families. • Lois Acheson gift to the College of Veterinary Medicine. 11 Progress on Five Themes – #5 Manage natural resources that contribute to Oregon’s quality of life, and grow and sustain resource-based industries. • Richard Strachan, Chair in Forest Operations Management. • OSU Wine Institute. • Just-announced Giustina Chairs in forestry, turf management. 12 Priorities 2007-2008 • Update plan to advance our strategic priorities. • Analyze business activities and practices. • Implement action agenda on student engagement. • Address key budget, space, and information technology issues. • Continue improving faculty salary competitiveness. • Enhance OSU-Cascades enrollment management. • Develop Integrated Marketing Communications Plan (Lipman Hearne survey completed). 13 Going Forward – Challenges • Keeping focus on quality and excellence in an uncertain fiscal environment. • Providing infrastructure for excellence (deferred maintenance). • Enhancing faculty capacity in targeted areas. • Maintaining statewide public services (SWPS) research and outreach programs in the face of federal budget challenges. 14 Re-examine OSU Business Activities • Goal: identify $5-10 million in continuing funding for academic priorities. • Strengthen the university’s culture of service with responsive, costeffective support activities and business practices. • Build on OSU’s passion for working across boundaries creatively. • Strategy: provide business services through centralization and/or regional service centers. • Analysis led by Provost Randhawa and Vice President McCambridge, in consultation with others. • Schedule: analysis complete by spring, start implementing next fall. 15 Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level Oregon State University 16 Sources OSU Department of Institutional Research OSU Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning OSU Foundation 17