Presentation to

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Oregon State University
Presentation to OSU TRIAD CLUB January 31, 2008
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Oregon State University
Strategic Plan Vision
To be one of Americas Top 10 land grant
universities.
Goals

• I. Provide outstanding academic programs that
  further strengthen our performance and
  preeminence in key thematic areas.

• Provide an excellent teaching and learning
  environment, and achieve student access,
  persistence, and timely success through
  graduation and beyond that matches the best land
  grant universities in the country.

• Substantially increase revenues from private
  fundraising, partnerships, research grants, and
  technology transfers while strengthening our
  ability to more effectively invest and allocate
  existing resources.

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Program Excellence
Top 10 Land Grant
Revenue Growth, Targeted Investments, and Cost
Containment
Exemplary Teaching and Learning Environment
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OSU Profile - Enrollment Fall 2007
OSU Main Campus
Headcount 19,753 Headcount growth over past 10
years 40
82.7 82.1 15.2 2.7
47.7 52.3 15.1 4.7 79.8
Women Men Ethnic Minorities
International In-State
Full-Time Undergraduate Graduate First
Professional
Fee Remission 11 million (10 of tuition)
OSU Cascades Campus
Headcount 497 Headcount growth over past 5
years 28
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OSU Profile
Community College Programs

• Degree partnership programs with 16 of 17 Oregon
  community colleges
• Degree partnership programs profile, Fall 2007
• of students 2,610
• student credit hours 30,538
• Since program initiation in 1998, over 2,848
  bachelor degree students have graduated from OSU

Collaborative Educational Programs with 4-Year
Institutions

• Pharmacy (OHSU)
• Public Health (OHSU, PSU)
• Executive Business (PSU, UO)
• Agricultural Sciences, Forestry undergraduate
  programs in Eastern Oregon (EOU)
• Undergraduate programs at OSU Cascades Campus
  (UO)

Extended Campus

• Over 15 undergraduate, graduate degrees and
  certificate programs
• OSU P-12 Outreach and the emerging tribal
  college program

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OSU Profile - Academic Excellence
Peer Institutions
OSU
2008 Target
Average, 05-06 356.6 M 208,504 0.99 209ß 3.5
6/1208
2002-03 139 M 141,252 1.07 39 3.44/1070
2006-07 164 M 197,639 1.13 54 3.49/1065
(set in 2004) 180 M 60 3.50/1125

• Metric
• Expenses and Deductions
• for Research
• Research /T-T Faculty
• Research /State App.
• Invention Disclosures
• Entering High School
• Average GPA/SAT

Retention Rate
Retention Rate
ß 2003-04 2006-07
This figure is 194 M if grant and contract
expenditures not categorized as research,
indirect costs, and sponsored instruction and
other sponsored activity projects were included.
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OSU Profile - Strategic Plan Implementation
Academic Areas of Distinction

• Environmental Sciences (1 in Conservation
  Biology)
• Forestry Agricultural Sciences
• Healthy Living and Disease Prevention
• Oceanic and Earth Sciences
• Sustainability and Water Resources

Emerging Areas

• Health Sciences
• Materials Science
• Mixed-Signal Integration Systems
• Nanoscience and Microtechnology
• Renewable Energy
• Sustainable Rural Communities

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OSU Profile
Quality of the student experience and student
success
2008 Target
Peer Institutions
OSU
2005-06 80.3 61.5 191 14.1
Metric Freshman-to-Sophomore Retention
Rate Six-Year Graduation Rate Student-to-Faculty
Ratio Percent of U.S. Minority Students
(set in 2004) 85 65 201 15
2006-07 80.9 60.0 191 14.3
Average, 06-07 89.3 76.2 161 20.2
Retention Rate
Retention Rate
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OSU Profile - Growing our resource base
Peer Institutions
OSU
2008 Target
Metric Private Annual Giving and
Pledges Expenses and Deductions for Research
Endowment Assets
2002-03 38.1 M 139 M 235.9 M
2006-07 58 M 164 M 434 M
(set in 2004) 50 M 180 M 300 M
Average, 05-06 189.1 M 357 M 1.6 B
Retention Rate
Retention Rate
2004 05
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OSU Profile - Economic Impact

• OSU is a 701 million enterprise with 9,509
  jobs.
• OSUs economic footprint is 1.4 billion with
  17,340 jobs.
• OSUs and related expenditures extend to every
  industrial sector in Oregon.
• OSU leverages its legislative appropriation four
  times in direct expenditures and more than nine
  times in total economic activity.
• OSU brings 328.4 million of new money into the
  state or 2.4 times its legislative appropriation.
• These outside funds almost double within the
  Oregon economy and create a total of 7,591 jobs.
• OSU extends its economic impacts to every county
  in the state with a median impact of 718,000 per
  county per year.
• Based on 2005 data
• Based on 2007 data

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OSU Profile

• 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.

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Going Forward Campaign

• 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 386.1 million, 22.6 million raised in
  December alone!
• 60.7 million raised for scholarships (100
  million goal)
• 71 gifts of 1 million or more, 461 gifts of
  100,000 or more
• First half FY 08 exceeds each of the last three
  Fiscal Years
• Significant funding received for facility
  projects
• Campaign concludes on June 30, 2011
• as of 12/31/07

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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.
• Keck Foundation 1 million for a mass
  spectrometer Meyer Memorial Trust 700,000 for
  distance education classrooms.
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute 1.5 million
  for science education at all grade levels
  throughout Oregon.

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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.

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Progress on Five Themes 3

• Optimize enterprise, innovation, and economic
  development.
• University Venture Development Fund (700,000
  and growing).
• Weatherford Hall, Austin Entrepreneurship
  Program.
• Real Networks, other gifts to Open Source Lab.
• Kelley Engineering Center.

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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.

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Progress on Five Themes 5

• Manage natural resources that contribute to
  Oregons quality of life, and grow and sustain
  resource-based industries.
• Richard Strachan, Chair in Forest Operations
  Management.
• OSU Wine Institute.
• Animal Sciences Pavilion.

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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.

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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.

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Oregon State University
Oregon State University
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Sources

• OSU Department of Institutional Research
• OSU Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning
• OSU Foundation
• Oregon State University An Economic Analysis,
  November 2006