doc15396 PRES_REPORT.pdf

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            "text": "In the State of the University address, I spoke about \"KSU: A Work in Progress – Still.\" In that address and in the op-ed piece preceding it, I spoke about what was happening on our campus in terms of the capital additions and the technology improvements. I also addressed why continuing to do what we have always done is not good enough anymore in the face of our \"new normal.\" Exactly what is that new normal? It is:"
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            "text": "To help us succeed in our new environment, we are reorganizing our administration and carefully relooking at our budget to make up for the loss in students that KSU and many historically black colleges and universities saw this fall. For KSU, the drop in enrollment resulted in a $4.8 million negative impact on this year's budget, assuming no additional students in the spring. Many of the students who pre-registered but failed to enroll were short of money. Their Pell grants were smaller; more of their Parent Plus Loans were denied because of new federal regulations regarding qualifications. Even more students faced a high hurdle meeting the satisfactory academic progress standard. This meant they were unable to receive financial aid until they came back into compliance, and they also didn't have money to pay for their classes until they became eligible again for financial aid."
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            "text": "I laid out a five-point plan to help us overcome the obstacles /challenges we are facing. Our roadmap will make us stronger and better able to compete financially as an institution and will help us better prepare our students academically and retain and graduate more of them."
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            "text": "4. Academic programs at KSU must be efficient and should optimize the use of our faculty.\nDevelopmental/supplemental education must be transformed as quickly as possible so college credit counts upfront. Online programs must grow.\nThe use of technology must expand.\n5. KSU must spend efficiently on Financial Aid and increase the opportunities for need based assistance; we must also increase the number of transfer students and the amount of aid going to them.\nIf we follow the five-point plan, be transparent and present data on a regular basis to ourselves, our Board of Regents and to outside agencies such as the Council on Postsecondary Education, I have no doubt that we will show consistent and sustained improvement.\nDespite all the change going on around us, one thing has not changed – our commitment to our students. For 126 years, students have arrived at Kentucky State University with sometimes little more than a dream of what the future could hold for them. Kentucky State University was not an \"end place,\" but rather a starting place for them on their journey toward the one thing that would make a profound"
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            "text": "Since coming to Kentucky State University in 2004 as its 13th president, I have stood before you – students, faculty, staff, alumni, members of the Frankfort community and the KSU extended family – nine times to deliver the State of the University Address. This address will be a bit different than those I’ve done in the past, however, because these are different times. While I will certainly highlight the progress we have made in the past year, I will spend even more time focusing on the tremendous challenges before us and the opportunities that await us at the end of the journey under this, our new “normal” situation.\nSome of you may remember that the title of my inaugural address was KSU: A Work in Progress. That theme came from the title of the painting done in 2004 by one of our students, Yvette Hardy. Her work won the national Verizon art contest. It is a painting of a young girl getting her hair braided. The braids are so integral that you wonder how it is possible to keep the design in mind and ever get it done. The theme this morning – KSU: A Work in Progress … Still – is purposeful in that my goal is to remind us that while we have done much, there is much yet to do. Let's talk first about some of the things we have accomplished."
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            "text": "center, you have seen new green park benches. There is the area planted by the chiller facilities by Dr. Tamara Sluss and her students that deals with sustainability of the area. Another area in front of the motor pool building suffered from very bad erosion. Funds given by the university allowed that group to plant trees to beautify and to help stabilize the area."
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            "text": "creating value, considering consolidating or eliminating programs for the first time in many years and taking advantage of economies where possible. Like most institutions, our greatest cost is in our people."
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            "text": "This fall, like some of the institutions here in Kentucky, we experienced some downward changes in some categories of our enrollment. The final numbers are in and total enrollment is down 8 percent. Undergraduate enrollment went down 7.8 percent, from 2,490 to 2,296. Graduate enrollment went from 256 to 228. However, first-time transfer numbers are up 43.5 percent. Of note, when I surveyed many of the institutions in the HBCU community, all were either flat, because they had put money into paying off seniors' bills ranging from $200,000 to $700,000, or they were down 200 to 400 students each."
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            "text": "KSU's enrollment last fall was 2,747; and this fall it is 2,524, a difference of 222 students last year over this year. When you further add in the fact that we planned to grow by another 180 plus students this year, we are down with respect to our budget a little over 400 plus students."
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            "text": "The loss of 400 plus students from our budgeted 4 billion means that our revenue will be down $4.8 million this fiscal year. We will present to our Board of Regents a revised budget later this month that will eliminate this deficit. Most of the money/savings will come from an immediate freeze on vacant positions and the related benefits. That will generate a little more than $3 million. The remaining money to make up for this shortfall will come from the consolidation of some program services and the elimination of some positions."
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            "text": "Many of these jobs to be eliminated will be in areas not central to our mission and our strategic plan. Others will come from comparing our staffing to the best practice industry standards and aligning ourselves with them to operate more efficiently. The first reductions will take place around the first of November, after the Board of Regents has been thoroughly briefed. Some of the reductions will be offset by holding some of the new positions associated with our Title III umbrella programs open so qualified people"
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            "text": "We also have to make some additional adjustments in the 2013-2014 budget because we have $2.5 million in this year's budget that will not be carried over into next year's budget. The bottom line is that we have to cut a total of a little more than $7 million. That means that by the second round of adjustments in February, we will lose approximately 15 to 20 jobs. We are waiting for the spring's firm enrollment count to make those final adjustments. Any change in academic programs will also wait until next fall."
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            "text": "Now, let's look specifically at our strategic takeaways that will serve as the roadmap for KSU for the next three to five years, as we chart a new course to establish a culture of completion and to deal with the worst economic times since the Depression."
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            "text": "Developmental/supplemental education on our campus must be transformed as quickly as possible so college credit counts upfront for many of the students coming in underprepared. This can be done by designing hybrid courses that allow for some credit while students are in supplemental education courses. Our online program must grow – rapidly – as well as our use of technology to help in supplemental education and in our teaching in general. This is imperative.\nKSU must spend efficiently on financial aid, increase the opportunities for need-based assistance and increase the number and amount of aid for transfer students. We also plan to aggressively address what we can do to assist more of our out-of-state students in reducing their costs. They leave owing $40,000 plus on average more than in-state students. For a group of students who are 60 percent likely to remain in Kentucky and to expand the diversity of its human capital, something must be done to help them get through school with less debt."
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            "text": "We must also get more financial aid to our students – quicker. The Green to Gold campus work program will be expanded, and we will work to help reduce the number of students whose Free Application for Federal Student Aid files are pulled for verification because of initial errors or missing information. Another looming problem is the satisfactory academic performance issue where students can have an acceptable grade point average but not be able to receive funds because the number of hours earned when compared to the number of hours attempted does not meet our 75 percent threshold."
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            "text": "While a final decision has not been made, I will be strongly urging the administrative leadership to consider eliminating our current rolling admissions policy, a policy which means that Financial Aid never stops processing applications. If we stop mid July, for all but exceptionally qualified candidates, this would give us much-needed time for the processing and review of files in both the Admissions and Financial Aid offices. This would help speed up the timely processing and receipt of more student financial aid."
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            "text": "Sitting as an umbrella over these five key strategic points is our need to clearly tell our story better about who we are and how we succeed where others don't. Marketing ourselves and using social media is critical in recruiting and keeping students. We will add a position in this area, and we will fill our chief information officer position, even in these difficult times, because these jobs are on the frontline of our engagement strategy."
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            "text": "As I conclude, it is important to note that KSU is Frankfort's university. Our students contribute $14 million in sales to the Frankfort economy annually and the university contributes more than $40 million. What happens to KSU happens to Frankfort. So the city also has a role to play in our success."
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            "text": "It is important that the faculty, staff, alumni, groundskeepers, housekeepers and the community understand we all need to see the urgency in our taking action immediately."
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            "text": "If we go back to today's theme, \"KSU: A work in Progress ... Still,\" I hope you now see that this title was intended to convey the important message that while much has been done here at Kentucky State University despite the obstacles we have encountered, much remains to be done. The biggest barrier KSU faces is getting all of its stakeholders to understand that we are facing fundamental challenges unlike any we have faced before. This is the new normal. Now is the time that we must remember that being good is simply not good enough this time. We must commit ourselves to action. Students, you must also commit yourselves – almost dedicate yourselves – to the fact that you came to KSU to get an education and that you don't plan on leaving KSU without a degree, that you don't plan on giving up your dreams and your futures."
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            "text": "like any we have faced before. This is the new normal. Now is the time that we must remember that being good is simply not good enough this time. We must commit ourselves to action. Students, you must also commit yourselves – almost dedicate yourselves – to the fact that you came to KSU to get an education and that you don't plan on leaving KSU without a degree, that you don't plan on giving up your dreams and your futures."
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            "text": "If students are accepted into KSU and walk through our new gate, we must all believe that they can graduate, and we will all do everything in our collective power to see them march across the stage to get their diploma, at the most, in four to five years."
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            "text": "Fall is a time of change. So, it is most appropriate on this autumn day, as the leaves turn into brilliant colors of gold and red, that we focus on KSU's next three to five years and its long-term future, because our mission continues to be that we provide both access and opportunity. Everyone should leave the auditorium today committed to change and accountable for ensuring student success at KSU."
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            "text": "So, my message is not one of doom or gloom. Rather, I come to you with an earnest sense of optimism, and even determination. While we have faced many challenges, and I am sure there will be even more in the next two to two-and-one-half years as the national and state economies stabilize, we simply need to focus on the five big things that form our roadmap and never forget that it all depends on people, quality and training. We can't continue to work on the margin with 25 to 30 little things that won't make a profound difference."
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