University of Louisville

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University of Louisville

• Alumni Leadership Weekend

UofL Its Happening Here!
9/4/08
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First Thank You

• UofL has never needed you/our Alumni more

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Whats Happening Here?Lets start with where we
have been

• Milestones
• 1970 UofL enters State Higher Education System
• 1970-97 Another mouth (expensive) to feed
• 1996 Boyle Report
• -- Community agenda to grow/diversify
  economy-new cluster
• Healthcare/Life Science
• Logistics/Distribution
• -- Role of UofL
• 1997 HB1 Postsecondary Education Improvement
  Act
• -- Public Agenda increase economic
  opportunity/Quality of life
• -- UofL shall be a premier nationally
  recognized metropolitan research
  university

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Whats Happening Here? Lets start with where we
have been
House Bill 1 - 1997 A Public Agenda for Higher
Education to Build Economy
Boyle Report 1996 Community Agenda to Build
Economy
Challenge for Excellence U of L 10 Year Plan 1998
- 2008
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The Goals

• Achieve classification as a Carnegie Research I
  University -- Done
• Have a national reputation for its quality
  undergraduate programs Done
• Have at least 20 nationally recognized research
  and graduate/professional programs Done
• Attain designation as a National Institutes of
  Health (NIH) Cancer Center In Progress
• Have 75 endowed chairs and professorships in key
  fields Done
• Graduate at least 140 doctoral students per year
  Done

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The Goals

• Increase federal funding to more that 40 million
  annually and increase total sponsored funding to
  80 million per year Done
• Increase its endowment from 255 million to 500
  million Done
• Increase significantly the number of business
  start-ups that develop from university research
  activity Done
• Increase the number of patents and licenses based
  upon university research Done
• Be recognized as a national leader for linking
  its resources to the needs of its community
  Done

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Pretty good progressBut you have heard the
expression What have you done lately?

• Its time to finish the job.
• -- President James Ramsey
• State of the University address
• September 2007

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Board of Trustees Mandates

• Strategic Plan 2008-2020
• Vision
• Goals
• Business Plan
• Strategies
• Tactics
• Funding Plan
• Capital Campaign
• Branding Effort

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The 2020 Plan

• Educational Excellence
• Achieve Double the Numbers goals
• Award 350 doctoral degrees, up from 153
• Achieve Phi Beta Kappa Chapter
• Transform campus life and housing so that 32 of
  our students live on campus
• Double the number of nationally recognized
  programs

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The 2020 Plan

• Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity
• Recruit 180 nationally recognized
  researcher/scholars and increase total grant and
  research to 400M, including 193.5M in federal
  funding
• Achieve NCI Cancer Center designation

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The 2020 Plan

• Community Engagement
• Expand our commitment to downtown Louisville and
  support all Kentucky cities through the City
  Solutions Center
• Achieve the 13 goals of the West Louisville
  Signature Partnership to reduce disparities in
  education, health, economic and social conditions

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The 2020 plan

• Diversity, Opportunity and Social Justice
• Be the leader nationally in preparing students to
  live and work in a global society, with
  particular emphasis on cultural diversity,
  international studies, and social justice

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The 2020 Plan

• Creative and Responsible Stewardship
• Increase our endowment from 796.8M to 1.5B in
  2014 and 3B in 2020
• Spur economic development in Louisville and
  Kentucky through the commercialization of
  research at our business development and
  commercialization enterprises (Nucleus, Metacyte,
  Haymarket, Shelby Campus)

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But

• Fiscal Year 2002-Fiscal Year 2005 State cuts
• Fiscal Year 2008 5 million cut
• Fiscal Year 2009 10 million cut
• Fiscal Year 2010 10 million cut

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So a New Challenge

• Keep momentum
• Keep moving forward
• Look for light at the end of the tunnel

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How, You Say?

• Efficiency
• Underperforming assets
• Clinical operations
• Private partnerships
• Fundraising
• Research Commercialization
• Being Smart
• TIF

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And We Need You

• Story
• Development/political influence
• Students
• Alumni giving