{"id":2825,"date":"2012-01-10T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/highlights-of-state-of-the-university-address-by-chancellor-zimpher\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T17:45:15","slug":"highlights-of-state-of-the-university-address-by-chancellor-zimpher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/highlights-of-state-of-the-university-address-by-chancellor-zimpher\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of State of the University Address by Chancellor Zimpher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Nancy Zimpher delivered her State of the University address yesterday and below is a rundown of her major points. Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suny.edu\/chancellor\/speeches_presentations\/SOU2012.cfm\">full transcript<\/a> of her remarks. To view the address, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/generationsuny\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/generationsuny<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shifting Administrative Cost Savings to Instruction:<\/strong> Through  its shared services initiative, SUNY will reduce administrative costs  and move those resources toward academics and student services. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Regional Administrative Centers<\/span> will centrally process payroll, benefits, purchasing, travel, and other  basic administrative services. Over the next 3 years, all SUNY campuses  will shift\u2014at minimum\u20145 percent of their administrative spending to  academics and student services, resulting in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">$100 million being invested in instruction.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Allocating Resources Based on Performance:<\/strong> The current funding model for SUNY campuses is based on the number of students and the cost of programs at each campus. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Performance-based allocations<\/span> are made using indicators, such as graduation rates or a diversity  index, to determine the amount of funding each campus receives. SUNY  will put in place a Finance and Administration Strategy Team (FAST) to  manage this new process. Their initial charge will be to determine a pilot program for the 2012-13 academic year, with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">campuses seeing these allocations reflected in their operating budgets in 2013-14.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Crossing the Digital Divide: <\/strong>Over  the last few decades, devolution of the SUNY system has led to every  campus having the freedom to choose its own path for information  technology resources. By summer 2013, a plan for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all SUNY campuses to operate on common Information Technology (IT) data systems<\/span> will be in place, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">by summer 2014<\/span>, these systems will be implemented across the board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Productivity<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Delivering on 6 Big Ideas:<\/strong> In the coming year SUNY will take its Report Card from a statement about  accountability\u2014the \u201cYou can hold us to it\u201d promise\u2014to a testament to  progress and a tool for improvement. SUNY will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">invest resources, and look to external support as well, for major initiatives found in its strategic plan<\/span>, <em>The Power of SUNY<\/em>. The impact of those <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">actions will then be assessed by the data collected in our report card<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eliminating Remediation: <\/strong>SUNY  spends $70 million a year in remediation. All of SUNY\u2019s ag\/tech  campuses combined receive $63.6 million in state support. This means,  for SUNY students alone, the state is spending more on remediating its  high school students than it is on supporting 8 entire college campuses.  The Chancellor has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">invited K-12 leaders throughout the state to partner with SUNY in eliminating the need for remediation<\/span> over the next decade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Producing New York\u2019s Future Workforce: <\/strong>Strategic  enrollment management is the key to ensuring that students have access  to the programs and courses they need to graduate prepared to work in  the competitive, global 21<sup>st<\/sup>-century job market. SUNY will utilize data to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ensure that program offerings meet New York\u2019s high-need workforce demands<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Access &amp; Completion<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Connecting the Transfer Dots:<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">By fall 2013<\/span>, SUNY will implement <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">seamless transfer for community college graduates<\/span>.  This means an AA or AS degree from a SUNY community college will  satisfy general education requirements at SUNY\u2019s four-year institutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Opening the Door to Online Education:<\/strong> <em>Open  SUNY has the potential to be the nation\u2019s most extensive distance  learning environment, connecting students with faculty and peers from  across the state and throughout the world and giving them access to the  best in open educational resources. Using a <\/em>combination of online courses, an expanded YouTube channel, and a new presence on iTunes U, O<em>pen SUNY will be launched in time for the Fall 2013 semester. <\/em><em> <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Turning Access into Completion:<\/strong> Access is only half the battle. Completion is the other half, and SUNY will work to ensure that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">every student who walks through its doors leaves, on time, with a degree<\/span>.  Each campus will set targets to improve its completion rates. These  targets will be set by the SUNY Council of Presidents and, once agreed  upon, will be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">included as a factor in presidential evaluations<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:45:15 +0000 by\u00a0e.bryant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Chancellor Nancy Zimpher delivered her State of the University address yesterday and below is a rundown of her major&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}