Welcome to the

University of Northern Colorado

Dr. Robbyn R. Wacker

Provost and Senior Vice President

UNC History• Founded in 1889 as the

State Normal School

• Offered our first bachelor’s program in 1911 and first graduate program in 1914

• 1911 State Teachers College of Colorado

• 1934 Colorado State College of Education

• 1957 Colorado State College

• 1970 University of N Colorado

Academic integrity is valued and expected

Excellence is sought and rewarded

Teaching and learningflourish

Diversity of thought and culture is respected

Intellectual freedom is preserved

Equal opportunity is afforded

Values… UNC’s distinctive service to society can only be offered in a

student-centered atmosphere of integrity that is grounded in honesty, trust,

fairness, respect, and responsibility. For this reason, UNC is committed to

promoting an environment in which:

Teacher - Scholars

UNC Profile• Demographics (Fall 2016)

– Total Enrollment • 12,260 students (increase of 476 since 2014)

• 9,503 UG (77%) and 2,757 Grad (35% increase in new master’s and doctoral students since 2014)

– Diversity • UG – students of color - 29.6% (18.9% Hispanic);

• Grad – students of color – 15.8% (8.8% Hispanic)

• International students – 3%; representing 40 different countries

– 37% UG are first generation students

– 70% from Colorado

– 80% receive some financial aid

– 1,477 total full-time employees; 537 FT faculty

UNC Profile• Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher

Education as "Doctoral Universities: Higher Research Activity" (R2). Member of Assoc of Public & Land-Grant Universities

• Top UG degrees – Teacher Education; Business; Nursing; Exercise Science; Psychology; Criminology and Criminal Justice

• Top Masters and Doctoral degrees – Counselor Education, Education, Special Education, Sport Administration, Exercise Science, Speech Language Pathology; Nursing, Music

Org Charts

UNC Profile• Academic Portfolio

– 106 UG programs

– 120 master’s and doctoral programs

– Delivered • in-state - face to face at Denver, Loveland and Colorado Springs;

• Online and/or hybrid

• Internationally (in China and Viet Nam)

UNC Profile• International – Active Partnerships

– 13 China

– 2 Japan

– 2 South Korea

– 7 Thailand

– 3 Viet Nam

• 18 different Research Institutes/Centers

• 19 Division I athletic teams

• 250 acres of campus green space;

– 3,700 trees; designated a Tree Campus USA

– Czech Republic

– France

– Germany

– Ireland

– Italy, Northern Ireland, Spain

– Egypt and Saudi Arabia

Proud to be a Bear

Jazz program has received more than 100 Down Beat Magazine awards

Instructional Services Department of University Libraries has been recognized as one of five university library programs nationally that illustrates best practices in pedagogy

for “Colleges with Psychology at Their Core” and 44th among top U.S. Colleges & Universities for Teaching Education

Ranked

12th

Proud to be a Bear

One of 240 universities receiving Community Engagement Classification from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

UNC’s online graduate programs in education ranked eighth in the nation

University Orchestra has been named the top university orchestra in the U.S. seven times in the past 10 years

Proud to be a BearNearly one-third of the recipients of the Colorado Department of Education's Teacher of the Year award are UNC graduates

Among U.S. undergraduate-only physics programs, UNC ranks in the top 35 for the largest number of bachelor's degrees granted, according to the American Institute of Physics

Sport Administration graduate program is one of only two in the U.S. ranked in the top five worldwide.

Faculty Colleagues – From Across the US and Internationally!

• Clemson • Columbia University• Cornell• Eastman School of

Music• Florida State• Indiana University • Iowa State• Michigan State• Osaka University • The Ohio State • Oregon State • Penn State• Princeton • Purdue• San Diego State

• Stanford• Texas Tech • University of

Alabama• University of Alberta-

Edmonton, Canada, • University of AZ• University of British

Columbia• UC- Berkeley• UC-Davis• UC – Santa Barbara• University of Georgia• University of

Joensuu- Finland;• University of Kansas

• University of Maryland

• University of Michigan

• University of Missouri

• University of New Castle, UK;

• the ‘other’ UNC –Chapel Hill

• USC• Univ of TX – Austin • University WI -

Madison• Vanderbilt• Virginia Tech • Wake Forest

Faculty Colleagues

• Significant basic and applied research at UNC– Post-Exercise Benefits of Dairy Supplement for Cancer Survivors

– Research presented at WHO and CDC on Hearing Loss, Prevention

– $1 Million Grant for Inclusive STEM Initiative

– NIH funding to examine effects of marijuana use on academic motivation and performance among college students

– Conducting data on a 290-mile river expedition of the Canadian Arctic

– Research on snake venom that could help scientists develop better anti-venoms and cancer treatments

– $2.2 Million Grant for establishing the Rural Education Center

Faculty Colleagues• …More basic and applied research activities

– NSF grant funds the Bioarchaeology of Mediterranean Colonies Project in Italy

– Social behavior and habitat use of canyon wrens and rock wrens

– UNC Cancer Rehabilitation Institute, research informs cardio and resistance workouts to combat the effects of chemotherapy and cancer

– RIAS Berlin: Sounding the Cold War, 1949-1961

– Pathways to Freedom: Helping Women Escape and Recover from Sex Trafficking

– "Romeo & Juliet Project" musical production

– The Development of an Eating Screening Inventory for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

– Developing an Aging in Place Measure

Our Students• 70% of freshmen said UNC was their first choice

college

• 64% aspire to some type of post-baccalaureate degree

• 69% of students disagreed that “Realistically, an individual can do little to bring about change in our society.”

• Over 50% indicate they want to engage in research with a faculty member (Undergraduate Research Journal)

Outstanding Alumni• Proud of our 141,400 Alumni

http://www.unco.edu/about/alumni/

Key Initiatives

• Proactively responding to challenges

– Academic portfolio

• What we offer and academic quality

• Unique identity in the State

– Expanding student base – enrollment initiatives

– Retention and student success

• Campus Commons

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Gateway• Entry point for 30k

visitors

• Showcase our degrees, co-curricular programs, faculty, alumni, donors, history

• Starting place for tours

• Home base for new student orientation

• Connecting point for community & alumni

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Student Success

Integrated student support via the One-Stop+

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Address Curricular Needs 600 seat performance hall - addresses rehearsal & performance space needs

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Address Curricular Needs

• 400 seat multipurpose auditorium3

Address Curricular Needs Art gallery to showcase student work

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Proactively Responding to Our Reality• Increased competition in higher education –

private sector

• Demographics - numbers of HS students declining;

• Public perception of the high cost of tuition;

• Permanently changed funding model for higher education;

E. Gordon Gee, Ohio State University

Robert H. Atwell Lecture

American Council on Education Annual Meeting, February 2009.

http://www.acenet.edu/media/mp3s/AM09_Gee.mp3

“…the choice for higher education

during this critical juncture is

“reinvention or extinction.”

Five-Year Fiscal Sustainability PlanBy FY 2018

• Grow enrollment to 14,118 students.

• Increase the proportion of graduate students in our total enrollment from 20% to 25%.

• Increase the average year-to-year undergraduate persistence rate by 2 percentage points (to 83%).

• Identify at least $2.4 million in new sustainable cost savings.

• Continue to pursue funding to break ground on the Campus Commons.

9 Core Plans to Guide Action

The Way Forward

• We do our work as teachers and scholars in a rapidly changing, highly competitive environment – we will work together to shape our future

• At UNC, we want to provide you the resources to help you thrive as teacher-scholar

Welcome. We’re glad you are here.

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