Click any of the four "pillars" or any of the three "foundational commitments" of the strategic plan (Renewing the Iowa Promise) below the graphic for some highlights of recent efforts and investments in that area. Scroll down for additional details (including links to Provost Butler's presentation to the Board of Regents, State of Iowa), or to see highlights of progress in FY 2012.

Progress Report
- Provost Butler's presentation to the Board of Regents, State of Iowa - October 25, 2012 (requires Silverlight plugin. Alternatively, link to this Adobe Connect recording and advance to Provost Butler's presentation at 2:46.)
Executive Summary and
Annual Progress and Status Report, fall 2012
Strategic Plan Scorecard (progress indicators), fall 2012
FY 2012 Highlights
- Record enrollment
- Retention and graduation rates close to record levels
- Reaching out to Iowans: Iowa Scholars Award, admissions improvements
- Graduate programs: 85% ranked top 30 among publics
- Private gifts in support of student success: $150M (FY09 - FY12)
- Private gifts in support of faculty excellence: $94M (FY09 - FY12)
- Des Moines Pollock exhibit: 34,000 visitors
- Degree completion programs with Iowa community college districts
- Efficiency: 4 programs closed, SCH/FTE up 10.8%, e-transactions --> 1M
- 2nd lowest resident undergraduate tuition in BIG 10
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Pillar #1: Student Success
Access and Enrollment Growth
- Highest total enrollment ever (31,498)
- Most diverse incoming class (16.2% minority)
- Highest total percentage international students (11.4%)
- Enhanced efforts to reach out to Iowans: Iowa Scholars Award, recruiting plan, admissions improvements
- Military-friendly school (4th year); ICOVE grant
Affordability
- Second lowest resident undergrad tuition in Big Ten
Improved Retention
- Early intervention helping to improve retention
- On Iowa! immersion program (2nd year)
- Expanding no cost tutoring for students in critical “gateway courses”
- Expanded supplemental instruction for at-risk students
- Full implementation of ALEKs to ensure appropriate placement of students in math coursework
- 1-year retention and 4- and 6-year graduation rates remain close to record levels set in last year
Increased Students’ Academic Engagement
- Enhanced academic components to living-learning communities
- TILE (Transform. Interact. Learn. Engage.) classrooms/learning commons spaces
- Increased funding over past three years to Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ICRU)
- Experiential learning experiences abroad
Outcomes Assessment
- Joined New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability; partnering with CIC
Career Development
- ePortfolio electronic résumé program
Student Success Initiative Funding
- Competitive proposal process, $1M allocated to support student success initiatives
Grad/Prof Student Success
- High quality programs: >85% in top 30 publics
- 4 degree programs closed; additional programs realigned for efficiency and synergies
- New programs: MFA Spanish Creative Writing, 5 new joint bachelor’s/graduate degree programs
- Enhanced career advising/development programs
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Pillar #2: Knowledge and Practice
Invested in Faculty Cluster Hires
- 5 active clusters, ~50 lines allocated, 30 hired
Enhanced Processes for Monitoring/Rewarding Faculty
- Implementing new post-tenure review policy
- Implementing UI Academic and Professional Record (central database of faculty activities)
- Redesigned survey for biennial Faculty Activity Report
Sponsored funding for Research
- Steady despite downturn in federal funding
- Third-highest annual total ever ($438.1M)
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Pillar #3: New Frontiers in the Arts
Rebuilding the Arts Campus
- Working together to move forward on building, renovation, mitigation
- Aligning campaign priorities with arts campus needs
Academics
- Strengthened partnership between School of Art & Art History and UI Museum of Art
Outreach
- Arts@Iowa campus website
- Mural exhibition at Des Moines Art Center
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Pillar #4: Better Futures for Iowans
Educating Iowa
- Degree completion programs with 13/15 Iowa community colleges
- New online BBA, BA in social work in Des Moines
- Partnership with Herbert Hoover Presidential Library – summer institute for teachers, grades 5-12
- 46% of enrollments in for-credit continuing education at Regent universities are in UI programs
Statewide Partners
- STEM engagement – Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council, Kirkwood Community College partnership
- Iowa Obesity Network (UI, ISU, UNI)
- Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities
Engaged Scholarship
- Faculty clusters - serving Iowans
- Digital Studio for the Public Humanities
Carnegie Community Engagement Classification
- Individual identified to lead preparation of application, due 2014
Better Futures for Iowans Initiative Funding
- Competitive proposal process, $1M allocated to support"better futures" initiatives
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Foundational Commitment: Inclusion and Internationalization
Student and Faculty Diversity
- Record diversity of incoming class (16.2%)
- Positive trends in faculty diversity
- Women: 33.0% of TT faculty, 38.5% of total
- Minorities: 19.4% of TT faculty, 19.3% of total
International Students
- UI international students and their dependents contribute $83M to Iowa’s economy
- State-wide, international students contribute more than $280M to Iowa’s economy
Study Abroad
- Positive impact on retention and success
- 2009-10: 912 undergraduates, 453 graduate/professional students (a record)
- 2010-11: 907 undergraduate, 441 grad/prof
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Foundational Commitment: Sustainability
Operations
- Energy conservation efforts include latest generation occupancy sensors, heat recovery systems in laboratories, HVAC upgrades
- Proteus optimization program monitoring costs
- Sort-free recycling program launched
Education and Research
- Sustainability certificate – 145 students enrolled, 41 graduated with certificate; 26 majors represented
- Water Sustainability faculty cluster
- Biomass planning effort
Outreach
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Foundational Commitment: Collaboration, Enterprise, Innovation
Program Restructuring to Promote Efficiency
- International Programs reorganized to promote efficiency and coordination across IP units
Instructional Productivity
- FTE down, student credit hours (SCH) up
- SCH/FTE up 10.8% since 2005
Institutional Cost Savings and Efficiencies
- Sustainability efforts lead to efficiencies (e.g., energy conservation)
- Paperless “e-transactions” growing toward one million per year
- Lowest ratio of executive/administrative staff to total staff in the Big Ten
Inter-Institutional Cost Savings and Efficiencies
- Financial aid systems changes for Iowa undergraduate students: proposal developed
- Diversified investment pools for operating and intermediate investments: 3-year reassessment
- Workers compensation decentralization to Regents
- Joint project to advance course materials rentals and use of e-textbooks through university book stores
- Additional business software projects for UNI developed through UI/UNI collaboration
- Joint participation in STAR program sustainability of measurement
- Alternative construction delivery
- UI and ISU electronic system for student bus services
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