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Founders’ Day 2016 Ferris State University Past, Present, and Future David L. Eisler, president Ferris State University Thank you for taking time to review and consider these thoughts, ideas and reflections presented at Founders Day, September 1, 2016. I have annotated these slides with comments using the Adobe sticky note function. If you will save this file to your computer and open it with an Adobe product, clicking on the yellow squares with the balloons inside will open a comment box. As always I appreciate hearing from you, please write me at [email protected]
Founders’ Day 2016€¦ · “The purpose of the Ferris Institute is to make the world a better place.” Woodbridge N. Ferris. Mr. and Mrs. Ferris began their school to provide
Thank you for taking time to review and consider these thoughts, ideas and reflections presented at Founders Day, September 1, 2016. I have annotated these slides with comments using the Adobe sticky note function. If you will save this file to your computer and open it with an Adobe product, clicking on the yellow squares with the balloons inside will open a comment box. As always I appreciate hearing from you, please write me at [email protected]
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Thank you for taking time to review and consider these thoughts, ideas and reflections presented on Founders' Day, September 1, 2016. I have annotated these slides with comments using the Adobe sticky note function. If you will save this file to your computer and open it with an Adobe product, clicking on the yellow squares with the balloons inside will open a comment box. As always I would appreciate hearing from you, please write me at [email protected].
Woodbridge N. and Helen Gillespie Ferris
First Class, Big Rapids Industrial SchoolSeptember 1, 1884
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Mr. and Mrs. Ferris began with 15 students. They soon instituted an evening school, and enrollment grew to 50 students by the end of 1884.
Mission
“I was establishing a school for “lumber jacks”, miners, farmers’ sons and daughters, girls who worked in Michigan factories…”
“The purpose of the Ferris Institute is to make the world a better place.”
Woodbridge N. Ferris
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Mr. and Mrs. Ferris began their school to provide an education to those who had missed out on the opportunity to receive one. The Big Rapids Industrial School began with an 18-month program that provided the equivalent of a high school education.
Ferris State University prepares students for successful careers, responsible citizenship, and lifelong learning.
Through its many partnerships and its career-oriented, broad-based education, Ferris serves our rapidly
changing global economy and society.
Mission
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Our mission today is centered around preparing students for careers, encompassing the concepts of citizenship, lifelong learning, and the preparation of students for our global society.
Vision
“My plea in Michigan – and it will be my plea to the last breath I draw, and the last word I speak – is education for all children, all men, and all women of Michigan, all the people in all our states all the time.”
Woodbridge N. Ferris
Vision
The recognized leader in integrative education, where theory meets practice throughout the curriculum, and where multi-disciplinary skills important in a global economy are developed with the result that Ferris State University will also be:
• The preferred choice for students
• The premier educational partner
• A stimulating, student-centered academic environment
• A university that aligns its practices and resources in support of its core values
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Today's vision is focused on an education where theory meets practice and is centered around students.
Values
“I say put humanity first and money second and even further down the line, if needed.”
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Strategic Plan Core ValuesLiving Our Values
— Our strategic plan details six core values:— Excellence— Collaboration— Ethical Community— Diversity— Learning— Opportunity
— Within these are 20 areas of strategic focus
— Strategic Plan Progress Report, Year Twowww.ferris.edu/strategic-planning2/2016-Strategic-Plan-Progress-Report.pdf
— Strategic Plan Dashboardhttp://161.57.5.112:6700/idashboards/?guestuser=guest
We are currently in the third year of our strategic plan which is developed around our six core values. The areas of strategic focus are centered on our students.
Excellence – Superior Education Experience
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The newest section of the strategic plan dashboard reflects information from a revised student graduation survey.
Strategic Plan Progress:Year Two
• Areas of Improvement– Financial aid for students– Student debt reduction– Net price of attendance comparison– FTIAC and transfer students graduating in four years– Student ethnicity– Dual enrolled high school students– % of associate and bachelor’s degree students with experienceship
• Areas of Decline– # of bachelor graduates beginning as transfer students– % of masters students graduating with an experienceship
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In reviewing the strategic plan dashboard, these are the areas of improvement and decline.
Each spring, building around the strategic plan and working with the presidents council and the Board of Trustees, University-wide expectations are developed. The first University-wide expectation is continued work on the strategic plan.
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Vice presidents then develop division-wide expectations based on the above while reflecting the needs of the division.
Academics
• General Education
• Student Success
• International Alignment & Development
• Diversity Plan Implementation
• Program Innovation
• Leadership Development
• External Engagement
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The second University-wide expectation focuses on academics, continuing work on general education, student success, implementation of the diversity plan, program innovation, and external engagement adding emphasis on international alignment and leadership development.
Academic Achievements
• Money Magazine – “one of top fourteen, most improving, high value public universities in the nation”
• Five new academic degree programs, 3 graduate, 2 undergraduate including new Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, 24 new degree programs in last 5 years
• TIP student and General Studies program students retention increases by double digits
• Promesa program expands to 4 locations with 5 programs
• Expanded Summer Student Research experiences using Shimadzu Core Lab
• Accreditation successes with Social Work Program and College of Pharmacy
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These are selected examples from many academic achievements during the past year.
Enrollment and Student Success
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During the past year much work has been accomplished on enrollment with continued refinements to financial aid leveraging and the development of a strategic enrollment management plan. One of the challenges facing enrollment efforts is the population decline in Michigan, which is the second highest percentage in the country. This is accompanied by a significant decrease in the numbers of students graduating from Michigan high schools. Projections through 2027 show continued decline in these figures.
Enrollment and Student Success
Source: Pew Research Center, 2008
Child Population by Race and Ethnicity, Actual and Projected
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An additional challenge to the population decline in Michigan is the changing ethnicity of the student population. To be successful we will need to attract increasing numbers of minority students and to help them succeed in college and graduate.
Woodbridge N. Ferris
Michigan Manual of Freedman’s Progress. Address by Governor Woodbridge N. Ferris, 1915.
Woodbridge N. Ferris
“The Ferris Institute is one of the most democratic schools in the
United States. It has no color line; it has no age limit; it has no educational
requirements for admission. It is open to every man and woman
every boy and girl who are hungering for an education.”
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Mr. Ferris was strongly committed to educating all people at the Ferris Institute. This slide was used to promote the presentation later on Founders' Day by David Pilgrim and Franklin Hughes from the Diversity and Inclusion Office. They have been researching the relationship Mr. Ferris established with the Hampton Institute in Virginia, by which African American students received college prep classes at Ferris before moving on to education at major universities throughout the Midwest.
Family Background Matters More than 8th Grade Test Scores for College Graduation
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This graph is taken from p. 190 in Robert Putnam's book, "Our Kids." The graph reflects scores by students on a standardized math test. The bars on the right represent students whose families are in the top 25% economically, the bars on the left from the bottom 25%. The three bars in each group reflect low, medium and high test scores for each group. The % is the number of students who will graduate from college. On these graphs the bottom third of test scores from the upper quartile are more likely to graduate than the upper third of test scores from the bottom quartile.
Ferris State UniversityChange in Net Price
2009 to 2014
<$30k-35.32%
$30k-$48k-23.24%
Average-12.30%
-10.08%
>$110k 2.17%
MPU Average 2.70%
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As one of our efforts to increase student success we have worked at addressing student debt. One of the successful approaches to this has been reducing the net price, the amount students pay for their education after financial aid and scholarship support is applied to these costs. Over the past five years we have reduced the average net price for all income groups except for students whose family income is greater than $110k. The average net price for Ferris students has decreased by 12.3% over the past five years. During this same period the average net price at Michigan public universities increased by 2.7%.
Average Debt DistributionBS Graduates at Ferris State University
For the past two years we have decreased the average debt of graduating seniors with debt by more than $1,600. These graphs show the distribution of this and the change over the past five years.
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2006 2007 2008 2009Entering Year Cohort
Six-Year Graduation RateFor Full-Time FTIAC Bachelor’s Degree Students
Data Source: FSU Institutional Research Graduation Report
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While more FTIAC students graduate within four or five years, an area of concern with student success is the decline of the six-year graduation rate.
External Engagement and Support
• Partners – arts, business, community development, design, diversity, economic development, education, entrepreneurship, industry, and manufacturing.
– How do we measure and assess the success of these efforts?– How do we share the success of these efforts?– How do we leverage these relationships to raise both our profile and
the value of these for our partners and the communities we seek to serve?
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Ferris is a university with many partnerships in a wide variety of areas. It is worth considering how we measure and assess the success of these efforts. We should be more proactive in sharing the success of these efforts and considering how we leverage these relationships both for our partners and for ourselves.
Currently there are four targeted fundraising campaigns underway. Pharmacy Forward has raised more than $12 million in gifts and pledges. Plans are to conclude the PGM campaign by December and the Strength and Conditioning campaign by this spring. The Swan Annex Expansion Campaign is just beginning with a goal of $7.5 million.
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The Ferris Futures Scholarship Campaign seeks to raise $18 million in gifts to existing or new scholarship endowments. Beginning in July over $1.25 million has been rasied.
The Ferris FoundationEndowment Assets
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The Ferris Foundation Endowment has now passed the $65 million mark. In 2003 this fund was just $18 million.
Leadership Development
• Foster a culture of leadership among interested faculty, staff and administrators
• Create career paths for Ferris employees
• Leverage resources of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, Staff Center for Training and Development
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As a university Ferris continues to grow and prosper, and attract some of the best and brightest people in our field. Building upon previous efforts, it is our intent to foster an environment of leadership development, creating career pathways for our people.
Campus Development - 1920
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The Ferris Institute in 1920. The building to the right of Old Main is the Music Building. This structure was destroyed in a fire in 1922.
Campus Development – 1950 & 1970
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These pictures chronicle the growth in the University under the leadership of Victor Spathelf, beginning with the Alumni, East, West and Prakken Buildings on the left, and on the right approaching the University from the south with views of Ward, Miller, Taggart and Pickell Residence Halls.
Campus Development – 1999 & Today
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These pictures show the development of the campus between 1999 and the present. On the left you can see construction underway on the FLITE library, on the right is the campus with the completed University Center.
Expansion of West Campus Apartments
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This fall we opened the new beds of the two-building addition to the West Campus Apartments.
Intramural Fields
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Renovations and infrastructure improvements to the intramural fields west of the Pharmacy Building are completed with configuration as softball or flag football fields.
Athletic Fields
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East of the Rock Dining Facility we are midway through a two-year infrastructure project to renovate the women's soccer field, create an additional multipurpose field and a football practice field.
New Mechanical Systems/Upgrades to UREC
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The mechanical systems of the University Recreation Center have been completely upgraded including the addition of air conditioning.
New North Residence Hall
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In the area between the University Center and the Science Building construction has begun on a new 402-bed residence hall, the first new residence hall on campus since 1966. This structure will be open to students in the Fall of 2017.
New North Residence Hall
New North Residence Hall
Swan Annex Expansion
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In October we will begin construction on the $31.6 million renovation and expansion of the Swan Annex. This project has a completion date of January 2018.
Swan Annex Expansion
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As part of this project, a new entrance will be completed to the Swan Building from the north, entering on the 2nd floor of the building.
1. Education for in-demand occupations2. Students value our career-oriented programs.3. Programs provide technical skills as well as critical thinking
and management abilities4. Offer programs not found at other universities5. Learning environment strongly aligns with hands-on and visual
learners, as opposed to large classes and lecture formats6. Physical presence across Michigan, virtual presence on the web,
enabling greater access
Source: Anderson Economic Group Study
Comparative Strengths
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As part of an economic impact study, the Anderson Economic Group identified these strengths of the University.
External Challenges
• Declining enrollment – fewer students graduating from K-12
• Compliance
• Declining state support
• Competition
• Political divisiveness
• Larger societal problems show up here
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During the President's Council planning meetings this summer the following external challenges were identified.
Opportunities
• Building donor support• Distinctiveness with niche programming• Great students/willing to learn and serve• Career-focused education• We are competitive• Correctly position ourselves as an institution that changes the
lives of poor people • Many dedicated employees devoted to students
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Vice presidents also identified the following opportunities for Ferris State University as we chart its future.
Thank you for the good work you do everyday –
- encouraging and supporting our students
- helping to make a great university greater
- and continuing the vision of our founders Woodbridge and Helen Ferris.
Thank You
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Thank you for taking time to view these thoughts on our University, its past, present and future. I appreciate you and the efforts you make every day for the success of our students and our university.
