President Gary Forsee gives State of the University address
UM President Gary Forsee gave his State of the University Address at the Board of Curators meeting this morning.
He presented his perspective on the challenges and opportunities that will lie ahead. Reflecting on the past year, Forsee stressed how much he had learned and reflected on what he could do to make even more changes.
"Everyday I learn more, find more to be proud of and even more to brag about as I become more confident in what we can do in higher education to help lead our state," Forsee said.
Forsee discussed the highlights of 2008, including establshing a health science center and a performance management system.
"I want you to be impressed with the scope and scale of the impact that we have on the state of Missouri," Forsee said.
Forsee discussed the importance of ensuring that UM remains competitive on both the global and national scale. He proposed "five actions of shared engagement".
The first of these is a proposal which Forsee referred to as "focusing on the 'outside-in.'" This plan will ask Missouri's largest private and public employers what their needs are so that a UM education may appropriately match them. A task force will begin making recommendations on Dec. 1.
Forsee also proposed identifying critical areas across the state where the university can offer support to state P-20 efforts to ensure that there is a more "seamless pipeline" for Missouri students between early childhood to higher education. He also discussed holding intensive university-wide audits as well as an increase in licensing revenue to $50 million annually by 2014.
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