INDIANA UNIVERSITY KOKOMO
Fall Convocation 2011
IUK a Community Three Themes • Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student Success • Transforming the Region • Building Relationships and Making Friends
Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student Success Being intentional, current, and relevant • 12 new baccalaureate degree programs • Online courses • 2 new master’s degree programs • More on the way
Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student Success • Enrollment: –
Over 15% expected increase in FTIC
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10% expected increase in total new students (including HS and transfers)
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All-time record in total credit hours
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All-time record in total number of full-time students
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Highest fall-to-fall retention rate: 62%
Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student Success • Three experimental pilot degree completion initiatives • Peer advisors in advising centers • 27% increase in student financial aid • Recruiting new faculty
Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student Success • Received highest percentage increase in state appropriations (9.7%) • New website • Next generation classroom • Introduced club sports • Volleyball and Basketball
Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student Success • Enhanced partnership with Ivy Tech • Partnership with Sungshin University (South Korea) • Campus beautification • Basketball and volleyball courts
Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student Success • • • •
Completion of Simulation Lab Renovation of 3rd floor East Building Replacing seating in Havens Auditorium Purchasing new bus
Building Relationships and Making Friends • Enhanced relationships with the legislature and executive branch • Engaged business community • Community Outreach
Building Relationships and Making Friends • Cultivated relations with donors –
Raised three times more than average of the previous four years
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Successful internal campaign •
74% participation rate
Transforming the Region Regional Events: • ‘Great Connect’ – May • Regional Organizational Collaborative Study in process – May • Hosted Indiana Commission for Higher Education – May • Mayor’s Summit – July
Additional Highlights • Planning for wellness center, welcome center, coffee cart • 16 retirements • Begin working on a new strategic plan • Completing the development of teams
Financial Report Budgets are about values • Transparent budget hearing and process
Financial Strength •
Campus more financially sound at FY2011 closing compared to FY2010 closing (12% growth over FY2010 closing)
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University Budget Office (UBO) lauded our fiscal management
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Fiscal philosophy • Values-based • Accountability, efficiency, & fiscal responsibility • Efficient stewardship of public and private donor funds
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Accomplishments: R&R, ERIP, Financial Aid (27% increase), S&E
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Reporting: simple, clear, & efficient weekly reporting system
FY2012 General Fund (GF) Operating Budget • Revitalized the budgeting process • Transparent, open & value-based • Campus ownership of the process • Larger GF operating budget (5% growth compared to FY2011) • State appropriations (9.7% increase) • Projected increases in revenue
Future Expectations • Accountability • Targeted deployment of resources • Continue building foundation for financially sound campus • Bottom line – support student academic achievement & success, teaching, research & service
2011-2012 Focus • Empowerment/Leadership/Innovation • Continued Growth
With immense humility, courage, and deep gratitude “Optimism is true moral courage.� - Ernest Shackleton
INDIANA UNIVERSITY KOKOMO Fall Convocation 2011 Value-Based Leadership Presented by: Chancellor Michael Harris
Value-Based Leadership Leadership is about: • • • •
A vision and a collective destiny Motivating people to work together to accomplish extraordinary things Making decisions, not being arbitrary and capricious Grounded in and guided by values and integrity
This requires knowing yourself
Value-Based Leadership Leadership: An Art and a Science
ART Creativity, Expression based
LEADERSHIP
SCIENC E Rational, Knowledge acquired by learning
Value-Based Leadership • Is enhancing leadership feasible? • Each of us is a leader
Value-Based Leadership The Search for a Definition Leadership (a definition): Developing a vision and a collective destiny; making decisions, overseeing change and creating transitions through empathy and collaborative work grounded in and guided by values and integrity
Core Values
Constraints (resources, $, time)
Leadership Approach
Value-Based Leadership Foundation & Constraints: Time & resource constraints Organizational structure
Time and resource constraints
Organizational Structure – key to outcomes
Leadership Approach Core Values
Leadership
Core values
Value-Based Leadership Lessons from Sir Ernest Shackleton: Anglo-Irish (1874 – 1922)
Has been called, “the greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth, bar none”
Value-Based Leadership Ad in London newspaper 1913
Over 5000 men responded
Value-Based Leadership The Endurance Expedition to Cross Antarctica: 1914-1916 • “By Endurance we conquer” Shackleton family motto • Named vessel, ‘Endurance’ • First ever attempt to complete a crossing of Antarctica from sea to sea (1800 miles by foot)
Value-Based Leadership The ‘Endurance’ (1914-1916) • August 1914: Shackleton and 27 men set out on ‘Endurance’ • December 1914: ‘Endurance’ leaves South Georgia Island • January 1915: ‘Endurance’ gets trapped in ice
Value-Based Leadership The ‘Endurance’ (1914-1916) • October 1915: Ship crushed, crew live on the ice • April 1916: Crew makes its way to Elephant Island • April-May 1916: Shackleton and five crew members sail 800 miles to South Georgia Island • August 1916: Shackleton returns to rescue men remaining on Elephant Island
Value-Based Leadership Lessons from Shackleton and beyond Leadership in times of limited resources, changing realities and uncertainty: • • • • •
Forward looking – optimism – vision Trustworthy, integrity Empower - people support what they help to build See people for what they can be, not for what they appear to be Team building and collaboration Maximize opportunities, not minimizing risk
Value-Based Leadership Lessons from Shackleton and beyond • • •
Innovative – new solutions to old problems – added value Effectiveness – achieve goals Learn from mistakes
Value-Based Leadership Lessons from Shackleton and beyond • • • •
Communication Passionate and care for people Lead by example through values Flexibility – challenge status quo
2011-2012 Focus • Empowerment/Leadership/Innovation • Continued Growth
Value-Based Leadership “The best explorer, however, is the man who can both ‘conceive and dare.’” - H.R. Mill, Shackleton biographer “Never for me the lowered banner, never the last Endeavour.” - Ernest Shackleton Crew of ‘Endurance’
With immense humility, courage, and deep gratitude