Innovations at UCCS

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Innovations at UCCS
"Research is the transformation of money into
knowledge Innovation is the transformation of
knowledge into money!"               Ray Mears,
3M, "Protect and Survive" Design Council Business
Network Surgery, 4/2001

• T. Boult
• www.vast.uccs.edu/tboult/COI/BI.html
• www.vast.uccs.edu/tboult/COI/COI.html

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Review Current Degree Programs

• Undergraduate programs solid but nothing unique
  or innovative to really attract to UCCS.
• Masters Ph.D. are not nationally competitive.
• Not sufficiently ranked to effectively produce
  academic/research oriented graduates (at any
  level). So who do we attract? (Industry/career
  oriented!)
• How to draw to CS, not just from CS.
• Not really training students for innovation
  nor (modern interaction in industry)
• Local companies/organization have few
  opportunities for in depth interaction

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Context

• March 2004 Chancellor predicts 6 million
  shortfall 2 million structural deficit 4
  million reduction
• May 2004 Campus Executive Team initiates Invent
  the Future strategic approach to 6 million
  shortfall
• July 2004 VCAA and EAS Dean target EAS Phoenix
  team as part of Invent the Future

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Marketing questions for UCCS

• What is it that our current clients
  (students/funding agents) have in common?
• What market segment are we targeting for growth?
• How do we set ourselves apart from the
  competition?
• What is different about services or products that
  we offer?
• What are the "extras" that we bring to the
  market?

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Review Community Expectations

• 2 economic development roles
• Support economic health and growth of community
  regional and global competitiveness via
  innovation, research development, productivity
  applied interdisciplinary innovation
• Supply a technology workforce lifelong
  learning.

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Review Position University/College to meet those
expectations

• Do environmental scan
• What is the real demand?
• What is the campus actually able to do?
• What are the partnerships needed?
• Develop model of innovation reorganize more
  functionally bring eng, sci, bus together .
  College of Innovation radically different
  curricula.

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Innovation is more than invention or research

• Innovation is the sequence of activities by which
  a new element is introduced into a social unit,
  with the intention of benefiting the unit, some
  part of it, or the wider society.
• "Innovation is the successful exploitation of new
  ideas and is a vital ingredient for
  competitiveness, productivity and social gain
  within businesses and organizations"

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What is involved in innovation

• "The innovation process is the combination of
  activities - such as design, research, market
  investigation, process development,
  organizational restructuring, employee
  development and so on - which are necessary to
  develop and support an innovative product or
  production process."
• CBI Innovation and Trends Survey

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Why Teach Innovation

• "Once you've worked on a truly innovative project
  you realize how important transformation is to
  the success or failure of a project. Your way of
  thinking changes, you priorities change, your
  company changes and your way or working changes
  forever. True innovation is not just about
  changing a product, a service or even a
  marketplace it's also about recognizing and
  relishing the need to change yourself."
• Ralph Ardill, Marketing Strategic Planning
  Director, Imagination
• - London Innovation Conference, 2003

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College of Innovation - Overview

• New Bachelor of InnovationTM and Master of
  InnovationTM degrees in Business, Engineering
  and Science disciplines
• Existing BS/BA programs retained
• College of Innovation combining EAS and Business
  and some Sciences within new college structure.
• Market/branding of degrees and the new structure.
• Reorganization helps make it clear this is a
  serious change and that we are focused on
  innovation.

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College of Innovation Internal structure

• Possible divisions or schools
• the school of business and entrepreneurship,
• the school of engineering and science,
• the school of applied inter-disciplinary
  innovation and research, and
• (possibly) the school of international issues in
  innovation
• Balanced Matrix organization, with committee (not
  dean) allocation policies

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College of Innovation Long Term Goals

• Increase enrollments
• Better prepared innovative graduates
• Increase fund-raising, sponsored program, and
  for-profit opportunities
• Increase Research Funding Graduate Programs
• Funding of more students
• Focused program to compete and attract
• Increase innovation and Tech.Transfer
• Strong teaming with community/Research
• Be a national leader in University reform

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EAS Current Structure

• Vast majority of resources in departments
• Top-down directives, bottom up decision with
  multi-layers of committee approval

College Fac.
College/Dean/Adean
C Com
C Com
C Com
C Com
Dept/Chair
Dept/Chair
Dept/Chair
Prom/Ten Com
Ugrad Com
Grad Com
Committee
Faculty
Staff
Instructor
Supplies/facilities
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
RD Contract
Class
Class
Class
Class
RD Contract
Class
Class
Class
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Matrix Structure
College Fac.

• Vast majority of resources by Committee
• Yearly Direct program control of resources.
• Resources may be split across programs

College/Dean 2 Adean
C Com
C Com
Resource Committee
C Com
C Com
C Com
C Com
ZZZZZ
RD Contract
G Program C
U Program B
U Program A
Faculty
Instr
TA
Staff
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
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Class
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Class
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College of Innovation Merging and financial
implications

• Merge EAS and Business as schools within new COI.
• Other faculty and departments could be included
  e.g., biology has expressed interest
• Three areas of financial impact
• New revenue from new student tuition marketing
  survey
• Streamlining and cost reductions
• New opportunities for fund-raising, for-profit
  activities (incentives), grant and development

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College of Innovation New degrees

• Increase resources by offering new innovative
  programs while also reducing costs.
• Added programs are Bachlors of Innovation in X
  where Xscience engineering or business fields
  (Keep accredited degrees for now). Masters of
  Innovation program as well.
• These program draws from existing courses with
  only a few new courses.
• Replaces unspecified humanities with focused
  electives in economics, law and other HU/SS that
  tie directly to innovation.
• Add Business core (either increasing total
  credits or reducing speciality a little) to
  Eng/Sci majors and add Eng/Sci core to Business
  majors.
• Focus on learning and self-learning, with
  testing out for credit!
• Required multi-term, multi-disciplinary
  innovation project with local company (Masters
  through freshman teams

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College of Innovation Revenue from new students

• Novel and innovative program to attract students,
  especially non-resident
• Survey going out for industry and students
• Market uniqueness and elitism of program to
  bring non-resident students
• Challenge out of courses to incentivize
  experiential and self-learning -- attract
  entrepreneurial students key for innovation
• Branding program (including trademarking)

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College of Innovation Streamlining and cost
reductions

• Streamlining
• 1 dean, 2 associate deans
• No departments, no extra pay for chairs (EAS)
• Staff to be distributed probably reduced.
• More efficient allocation of teaching so
  retirements or other attrition shared overall not
  in a single department.
• Possibly reducing lecturers/honoraria
• Removing colleges may allow program
  discontinuation clauses if that is needed to
  balance the budget, but doing it with a mission
  focus.

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College of Innovation Cost reductions

• Use early retirements to make a reduction in
  direct costs. Matrix help cover teaching across
  areas.
• Estimate 800K to 1.5K cost reductions are
  possible from reduced positions.

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College of Innovation New opportunities for
fund-raising, for-profit, and grants

• Some of the foundations that are interested in
  Business and Engineering programs Alfred P.
  Sloan Foundation, Pew Charitable Trust, Apple,
  Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, IBM, Atmel, 3M, Henry
  Luce Foundation, The Altus One Fund, American
  Express, The Joyce Foundation, ATT Foundation,
  Bechtel Foundation, Coors, Bill and Melinda Gates
  Foundation, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Packard
  Foundation, American Honda Foundation, Deloitte
  Foundation
• Campaign endowed professorships, endowed
  fellowships

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COI Faculty issues

• Faculty in COI should be able to teach just about
  any freshman-junior level course of college's
  BOI program. (If not they are not good role
  models for innovation, and need to update their
  skills).
• Faculty in COI responsible for more than just
  their speciality area, e.g. A EE faculty may
  end up teaching calculus, or a Marketing
  faculty teaching writing, or a CS faculty
  teaching statistics.
• As student population grows or faculty leave,
  faculty are added to support innovation focus
  areas, not service areas. Even in short term
  it may help save

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COI Relation to Short/Long term issues

• Can quickly be the leading (only) program of its
  kind.
• New BI/MI programs provides potential for
  competitive edge improving both ugrad and
  graduate draw TO UCCS which may increase income
  (growing enrolments faster than without them).
• COI provides potential short/long term cost
  savings
• Improved interaction with community by increasing
  focus on innovation and partnering with them for
  projects.
• Better preparing students for the future where
  innovation experience and team skills will be as
  important than as technical skills.