Fall Convocation 2011

INDIANA UNIVERSITY KOKOMO

IUK a Community

Three Themes• Enhancing Academic

Excellence and Student Success

• Transforming the Region

• Building Relationships and Making Friends

Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student

SuccessBeing intentional, current, and relevant• 12 new baccalaureate

degree programs• Online courses• 2 new master’s degree

programs• More on the way

Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student

Success• Enrollment:• Over 15% expected increase in

FTIC • 10% expected increase in total

new students (including HS and transfers)

• All-time record in total credit hours

• All-time record in total number of full-time students

• Highest fall-to-fall retention rate: 62%

Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student

Success• Three experimental pilot

degree completion initiatives

• Peer advisors in advising centers

• 27% increase in student financial aid

• Recruiting new faculty

Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student

Success• Received highest

percentage increase in state appropriations (9.7%)

• New website • Next generation classroom• Introduced club sports

• Volleyball and Basketball

Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student

Success• Enhanced partnership with Ivy

Tech• Partnership with Sungshin

University (South Korea)• Campus beautification• Basketball and volleyball

courts

Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student

Success• Completion of Simulation Lab• Renovation of 3rd floor East

Building• Replacing seating in Havens

Auditorium• Purchasing new bus

Building Relationships and Making Friends

• Enhanced relationships with the legislature and executive branch

• Engaged business community• Community Outreach

Building Relationships and Making Friends

• Cultivated relations with donors• Raised three times more than

average of the previous four years

• Successful internal campaign• 74% participation rate

Transforming the Region

Regional Events:• ‘Great Connect’ – May• Regional Organizational

Collaborative Study in process – May

• Hosted Indiana Commission for Higher Education – May

• Mayor’s Summit – July

Additional Highlights• Planning for wellness

center, welcome center, coffee cart

• 16 retirements • Begin working on a new

strategic plan• Completing the

development of teams

Financial Report

Budgets are about values• Transparent budget hearing

and process

Financial Strength• Campus more financially sound at FY2011

closing compared to FY2010 closing (12% growth over FY2010 closing)

• University Budget Office (UBO) lauded our fiscal management

• Fiscal philosophy• Values-based• Accountability, efficiency, & fiscal

responsibility• Efficient stewardship of public and private

donor funds

• Accomplishments: R&R, ERIP, Financial Aid (27% increase), S&E

• Reporting: simple, clear, & efficient weekly reporting system

FY2012 General Fund (GF) Operating Budget• Revitalized the budgeting process

• Transparent, open & value-based

• Campus ownership of the process

• Larger GF operating budget (5% growth compared to FY2011)• State appropriations (9.7%

increase) • Projected increases in revenue

Future Expectations

• Accountability

• Targeted deployment of resources

• Continue building foundation for financially sound campus

• Bottom line – support student academic achievement & success, teaching, research & service

2011-2012 Focus• Empowerment/Leadership/

Innovation

• Continued Growth

With immense humility, courage, and deep gratitude

“Optimism is true moral courage.”

- Ernest Shackleton

04/10/2023