Your University.Your University.Missouri’s Future.Missouri’s Future.

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Your university. Missouri’s future.

Goal: Be recognized as one of

the best public research universities

in the nation and world• Missouri’s only public, land-grant, doctoral-granting

research institution• Educates more students than any other public or private

institution in the state• Four distinct campuses, consolidated

health center and extension component;

all share common vision

Higher Education

Our state university system is a mirror reflection of how much we, as Missourians, value higher education.

For nearly 170 years, the University of Missouri has been a proud reflection of Missouri’s thirst for learning, desire for growth and drive for innovation.

But today, that reflection is beginning to grow dim ... We need your help.

Four Critical Initiatives

1. Caring for Missourians2. Taking intellectual capital to

market3. Retaining and recruiting world-

class faculty4. Building and preserving our

physical infrastructure

Four Critical Initiatives

1. Caring for Missourians2. Taking intellectual capital to

market3. Retaining and recruiting world-

class faculty4. Building and preserving our

physical infrastructure

Caring for Missourians

• Looming crisis in Missouri health care– 14th in nation in the number of people 65 and older– Communities can’t fill openings for health care

professionals– Shortages

• Physicians: 95% of counties underserved

• Nurses: 20% shortage by 2015• Pharmacists: Shortage of 157,000

by 2020• Dentists: 93% of counties

are underserved

Caring for Missourians

• UM health care system– Serves more than

164,000 patients– Focuses on 26

community service areas– Provides $49 million in

uncompensated care

Caring for Missourians

• Limited funding – 220 applicants turned away

from UM’s three nursing schools– MU & UMKC medical schools

rank among bottom 7 of 74 schools in terms of state support

• National average = $94,000 • UM = $32,000

Caring for Missourians

• The plan – Teaming up with all of the state’s public

two- and four-year institutions– Goal to increase number of health

professional graduates by 20%– In total, requesting $39.8 million from

General Assembly• If approved, equates to

900 additional health care professionals over 5 years

Four Critical Initiatives

1. Caring for Missourians2. Taking intellectual capital to

market3. Retaining and recruiting world-class

faculty4. Building and preserving our physical

infrastructure

Taking intellectual capital to market

• UM is an economic growth engine for the state

• UM infuses nearly $572 million into the state’s economy, creating almost $1.1 billion in economic activity and more than 13,000 jobs

• UM generates a 5:1 return for every dollar appropriated

Taking intellectual capital to market

• MU had two discoveries on Discover’s top 100 science stories in the world– The only public or private university in

Missouri on the list

• Each campus contributes to the innovation initiative:– Missouri S&T: chrome-free primer– UMKC: regeneration for bone loss in jaw– UMSL: $2 million grant to study plant lipids

as an energy replacement to petroleum

Taking intellectual capital to market

• The plan– $1.5 million request in state funding for:

• Professional staff• Software resources• Grants to campus faculty

Four Critical Initiatives

1. Caring for Missourians2. Taking intellectual capital to

market3. Retaining and recruiting world-

class faculty4. Building and preserving our

physical infrastructure

Retaining and recruiting world-class faculty

• Strong faculty attracts the best and brightest students

• The university has been falling behind in competitive faculty pay for 9 years

Retaining and recruiting world-class faculty

• Average national faculty salary increase between 1997-2006:– Increases in surrounding states: 29%-47%

– UM was only 20%

• MU ranks last out of 33 public AAU universities in the growth of base faculty salaries

• Other three UM campuses also significantly lag behind peers

Retaining and recruiting world-class faculty

• The plan

– $21.6 million investment in compensation

– Will bring salaries of ranked faculty to average salary levels of comparable institutions

– Funding for this initiative was not included in the 2009 state appropriations, creating a need to reallocate resources within the UM

System

Four Critical Initiatives

1. Caring for Missourians2. Taking intellectual capital to

market3. Retaining and recruiting world-

class faculty4. Building and preserving our

physical infrastructure

Building and preserving our physical infrastructure

Regardless of the quality of teaching

that goes on inside, our facilities can

either demonstrate to the outside

world that we are a first-class

institution …

or that we are struggling

just to keep pace.

Building and preserving our physical infrastructure

• Quality facilities = quality educational environment

• Preventative repair and renovations needed• New construction needed to accommodate

programs, students• State-of-the-art equipment

that helps drive innovation

Facilities for the Future

Missouri ranks 47th in capital expenditures per capitafor higher education

Facilities for the Future

NEED$624

million

University’s Share:Private gifts & capital reserves

General Assembly request

$497 m

$127 m

Critical Repairs: $35 m

Highest Priorities:

$346 m

Call to Action

Here’s how you can help:

• Complete survey card.

• Get more information atwww.umsystem.edu/speakers

• Sign up to be a speaker.

• Ask friends, family, neighbors to support legislative request.

• Talk to your state senator and state reprensentative.