Purdue University Calumet
2003 - 2004 Annual Report

Submitted by
Chancellor Howard Cohen

Summary of Activities

• Implemented Enrollment Management Plan to progress toward growth to 10,500 students. Major components budgeted for 2004-05.
• Implemented major retention strategies: Orientation, Freshman Seminars, and Supplemental Instruction. Required a reorganization of University Division.
• Campaign Kick-off for $10.8 million "Plan for Success" comprehensive campaign
• Initiated planning for Water Institute, Center for Energy Efficiency and Reliability, and Center for Minorities and Women in Construction
• Addressed transitions in Leadership Team (replacing Executive Assistant and preparing to replace Vice Chancellor for Advancement)
• Formed Chancellor's Advisory Board
• Construction planning and implementation for Student Housing, Parking Garage and Academic Learning Center (Merrillville). Also participated in development of Purdue Technology Center of Northwest Indiana development
• Created Academic Integrity Task Force

1. Strategic Initiatives Implementation

   Goal 1: Student Success

   What we accomplished:

   Reconstructed University Division into the Student Success Network

   • Hired Assistant Vice Chancellor Ron Kovach to oversee this effort
   • Reassigned staff to schools, learning center, supplemental instruction program, internship development and outreach
   • Implemented New Student Orientation (29 sections in Summer 04 for Fall)
   • Completed implementation of Freshman Seminar in all academic programs
   • Implemented Supplemental Instruction (130 sections served in 2003-04)
   • Increased participation in Undergraduate Research Program (70 students and 37 faculty members participated)

   Student Financial Support

   • Adopted Student Employment Task Force report and allocated $400,000 to student wages in supplemental instruction
   • Increased annual scholarship awards to $718,000
   • Received more than $300,000 for 21st Century Scholars mentoring program and 21st Century Scholars summer transition program
   • Created "Best and Brightest" Scholarship award program and implemented it for Fall 04 (170 students have applied and 89 have registered to date for Fall 04)
   • Developing a financial aid early notification process

   Student Housing

   • Completed all approvals. Groundbreaking in March 2004

   Goal 2: Faculty and Staff Excellence

   Professional Development

   • Created a Faculty Development plan and allocated $180,000 to implement it in 2004-05
   • Conducted the first Purdue Calumet Forum on Research
   • Supported professional development program at monthly "faculty club" lunches
   • Identified niche areas of academic excellence around faculty expertise and provided support for seeking applications-focused sponsored research
   • Developed conceptual frameworks for Water Institute, Center for Energy Efficiency and Reliability and Center for Minorities and Women in Construction
   • Identified administrative professional staff to reallocate into a staff development program

   Positions and Compensation

   • Allocated funds to convert 20 visiting and continuous lecturer positions into tenure track faculty lines
   • Added 0.5 percent to salary increase funds for EMME
   • Planned for five Lilly Challenge professorships

   Goal 3: High Performance Learning Environment

   Technology Infrastructure

   • Created Academic Computing Council and Technology Infrastructure Committee to plan technology improvements
   • Participate in Purdue Enterprise Resource Planning
   • Adopted Web-CT/Vista instructional software to replace Blackboard Challenges require work to continue in order to complete this transition in April of 2004

   Facilities

   • Developed plan for replacing Gyte Annex with Emerging Technologies Tower. Part of Purdue capital submission for 2005-07

   Goal 4: Regional Economic Development

   Purdue Technology Center of Northwest Indiana

   • Construction underway
   • Hired a Program/ Facilities Manager and a Business Development Specialist
   • Worked out supervision and reporting with Purdue Research Foundation

   Entrepreneurship Center

   • Developed a fundraising plan to support participants
   • Created "Opportunities" program to encourage new start-up businesses
   • Participated in Lilly Initiative "Opportunities for Indiana" and placed 11 students in summer internships with small business technology companies in Northwest Indiana.
   • Partner with Empowerment Zone and Hammond Development Corporation to support emerging small businesses
   • Working on a major gift for naming rights to the Entrepreneurship Center

   Academic Learning Center

   • Completed approval process for construction (Purdue Research Foundation) and lease of building in Merrillville
   • Successful bid in July 2004

   Community Advisory Boards

   • Increased boards to 20 and membership to 228
   • Closed East/West Partnership with City of Hammond (regime change)

2. Enrollment Management

   • Implementation of Enrollment Management Task Force Plan
   • Funded five new positions: academic advisor/recruiters
   • Added positions in recruitment and financial aid
   • Expanded inquiry pool
   • Using Best and Brightest Scholarships as recruitment tool
   • Increased high school visits
   • Met with Illinois community college transfer institutions (South Suburban, Moraine Valley, Prairie State) to establish articulation agreements
   • Met with Ivy Tech Northwest to update articulation agreements and collaborate on new programs
   • Created Enrollment Management Assessment Committee
   • Registered 85 students (1,346 hours) through the Purdue System-wide joint admission program

3. Accreditation

   • Completed successful accreditation reviews in Nursing and Engineering (ABET)
   • Created first draft of AQIP accreditation portfolio

4. Student Housing

   • Raised $1.2 million in private funds
   • Established a $900,000 security fund to complete $2 million in external funding sources
   • Continuing to raise private funds
   • Completed all approvals and conducted a successful bid process
   • Construction underway
   • Developed a first draft of residential life policies
   • Established a management arrangement with American Campus Communities (contract still to be executed)
   • Developed initial marketing pieces

5. Advancement

   • Comprehensive campaign kick off 10/28/03
   • Initial meeting of Chancellor's Advisory Board
   • Added a 17-member Purdue Alumni Association-Calumet (PAA-C) Student Delegate board while facing PAA-C Board turnover in leadership.
   • Addressing ongoing staffing issues resulting from the death of Vice Chancellor for Advancement Dolores Steuer Wagner and a failed search for an academic affairs development officer
   • Significantly strengthened collaboration with Purdue West Lafayette's Development offices, including Planned Giving; Research Services; and Foundation Relations.
   • Received approval for Lilly Endowment challenge grant
   • Added 18 new Chancellor's/President's Council members prompted by the PC16K Challenge
   • Raised $4.5 million (includes $2 million Lilly Endowment Challenge)
   • Reached $6.75 million toward campaign goal of $10.8 million

6. Marketing and Communications

   • Implemented "Plan for Success" brand campaign
   • Initiated a communication audit to evaluate campus communications (conducted by students under the supervision of faculty member Tom Roach)
   • Interviewing consultants to evaluate campus communication plan

7. Facilities

   • Noted elsewhere: construction of student housing, Purdue Technology Center of Northwest Indiana, and the Purdue University Calumet Academic Learning Center
   • Construction initiated for the campus' first parking structure (all approvals completed)
   • Developed program statement for the Emerging Technologies Tower (2005-07 capital request)
   • Completed update of campus facilities plan
   • Initiated remodeling design of student space on first floor of SFLC

8. Information Technology

   • Developed committee structures to support IT: Academic Computing Committee and Technology Infrastructure Committee
   • Established a presence in Enterprise Resource Planning for Purdue systems

9. New programs

   • Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs is designing a process to develop additional academic programs called for in strategic plan
   • Three new institutes designed for implementation - Water, Energy, Construction Management

10. Institutional Research

    • Director position funded. Offer pending

11. Diversity

    • Implemented campus diversity climate audit. Reviewed a leadership level
    • Training and salary study yet to be complete

12. Regional Economic Development

    • Purdue Technology Center of Northwest Indiana under construction
    • Staff for Technology Center hired
    • Chancellor's participation in regional economic development efforts continues
    • Northwest Indiana Forum, Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce, Northwest Initiative, etc...
    • Hosted Senator Bayh's job fair
    • Continued to work with steel industry on blast furnace efficiency

13. Leadership Development

    • Implemented campus five-year review of senior administrators (Newsom and Bryant)
    • Conducted a survey on Senior Leadership Team leadership effectiveness