And now please welcome San Diego State University's president, Sally Roush.
Thank you and good morning to all of you wonderful
and interesting people. I want to start by thanking a number of people who
helped put this together. I want to thank Marcie and Chimezie for
your remarks. I look forward to working with you this year and as both of you
said, I'm confident we're well equipped for the year ahead working together.
I would also like to thank Leo Morales for joining us today. We are fortunate to
enjoy the support of over 400,000 passionate alumni and of the Alumni
Association, which has sponsored the Monty Awards for many, many years.
Thank you and thank you, Leo. And thank you to the Alumni Association, along with Aztec
Shops and to Provost Enwemeka for supporting faculty excellence. Our Monty
Award winner stories were so very impressive. I have to say, each and every
one of you now has a special place in that category of interesting and
wonderful people. All of you out here and all of you out here. I'm not too much of
a crybaby, but I did get tears a few little times. And did we lose our
toddlers? Oh, okay. We have a 5-year-old here whose mommy won an
award. You want to say hi? Okay. Hi. (Laughter) (Applause)
And the two-year-old made an exit stage left, I think. Or right (Laughter) I hope all of
you were very proud of the achievements we reviewed in the video of the past
year. The collective efforts of each and every one of you, regardless of your
roles -- or because of your roles -- are inspiring. As we begin this year I want
to thank you for your dedication, day in and day out, to serve San Diego State
University and the public good. Convocation is a custom that binds us to
our rich history, to our 120 years of leadership -- and counting I might add.
Recent events in our nation make it clear that now, more than ever, there is a
need to gather as a community -- as a community of friends and co-workers -- to
exercise our leadership and to reaffirm our shared values of diversity, inclusion
and respect. As we embark on another year of serving the public through excellence
in teaching, scholarship, creative activities and service, we have the
opportunity to demonstrate the benefit of living our shared values every day.
I had someone recently send me a letter saying that diversity wasn't a value, it
was a condition. Either way I think it's one of the most important things that we
experience on a daily basis at San Diego State University, so that even -- or
especially -- when we may have disagreements, our foundation of respect
and civility will see us through whatever the year may bring. One thing
this year will bring is the completion of the final year of our strategic plan,
Building on Excellence. Marcie gave a great summary of that plan that has seen
us through these past several years. Its initiatives have led to record-high
graduation rates, nationally recognized scholarships,
and engaged alumni and friends who donated $105 milllion
just this last year alone to support our students and programs.
Mary Ruth, I'd like to say the big number -- $815 million over the
course of the campaign and $88 million from faculty and staff. If
that isn't a remarkable number I don't know what is. (Applause)
Yes. It's an uncommon thing I've been told from people at other universities that
their faculty and staff would never do anything like that -- so another point of
pride for us. During this year, we will continue our focus on student success,
which occurs first in the classroom but also, as you've seen with our awardees here,
everywhere that the influence of their interaction with their professors takes them.
To that end, student success, we will seek to hire 88 new tenure-track faculty
with a continuing emphasis on inclusive excellence. We continue to recruit and
support under-represented students, and we will improve time to degree by moving up
the registration timeline -- a not easy task that we have a lot of people
working very hard to do -- by continuing improvements in student advising and
by building on our success and increasing summer enrollment, which
was significantly online this past summer. So if it felt a little vacant
around here to you, as it did to me, it's because we had so much of the summer
enrollment online. The Fowler College of Business and the College of Extended
Studies are collaborating on our first (online) undergraduate degree program, a Bachelor
of Science in Business Administration. I actually found that to be a bit of a
surprise. I thought we would have had another one by now, but no, it's the first.
For sure? Okay.(Laughter) First of more to come, I'm sure. At SDSU Imperial Valley we are
partnering with the University of California and UABC to offer courses
that will prepare students for jobs in sustainable energy
We also will pilot aspects of our new Sophomore Success Program which, in part
emphasizes the academic benefits of living on campus. Activities and events
outside the classroom we'll continue to enrich learning. The acting Surgeon
General of the United States will be speaking at our fall Provost
Distinguished Lecture. And in the spring, our music and dance
students will present "SDSU Pops Downtown" at
Copley Symphony Hall. I'm sure it will be another sell-out event. Where's Joyce?
It will. I don't know where she is; there she is. Okay. We will continue our distinctive
focus on integrating undergraduate scholarship and research across many
programs. We will be increasing participation in the Student Research
Symposium, which i think is just a wonderful event.I hope many of you have
served as judges in that program. It's just an outstanding activity. We will be
increasing the number of graduate students who mentor undergraduates, and
we will be developing a website to match students with research in faculty labs.
A very noteworthy event, which Marcie alluded to, will be the opening of the
Engineering and Interdisciplinary Sciences Complex, scheduled for early
next year. And a tidbit that I learned just this
morning is that it's such a dynamic building that immediately
upon opening, will start to renovate a lab for somebody on this stage (laughter) so he can
continue to do his wonderful research. This building will double teaching
facilities and space for engineering students, as well as research space for
engineering and sciences. There will be new labs, collaborative spaces, a brain-
imaging facility and a space for entrepreneurial efforts. Our success in
completing this great facility to which we owe President Hirshman an incredible
vote of thanks.People who have been around the
university as long as I have, which is a long time, know that forever we wanted a
new engineering building. And then, an opportunity arose because of changes
that happened with state funding in the way that state system was handling
things, and Elliott saw that opportunity and he went for it. And from the time
that Tom McCarron told me we were thinking about it and the time I heard
that it was a done deal. I couldn't believe it was true. So really
thank you to president Hirshman for that remarkable accomplishment. (Applause)
But our success in completing this facility reminds us of the importance of
the right kind of space. I had tea and cookies with some of the, with as many of the
Monty awardees as were available, and we were talking a little bit about
the CSU graduation initiative, which is to double the four-year graduation rate
by 2025. And I will say, the faculty members said, "Really?" It's a daunting task
but one observation that's stuck with me is that what we need in order to be able
to do that -- along with more faculty -- is more of the right kind of space. And to
that end you may have read that San Diego State is part of the community
discussion around the future of Qualcomm Stadium. That would give us an
opportunity to have space, land, to develop the right kind of space if we're
successful in reaching the right kind of partnership there. We have said quite
publicly that we believe any development on the Mission Valley site should serve
higher education and a public good -- which we, of course, do -- as well as the
community's goals and aspirations for that site. As we saw in our video, the
scholarship, teaching excellence and artistic success that occurs every day
at our university is broad and well- recognized. The faculty and staff who
make this possible achieve this excellence despite the challenges that
we face and have faced and overcome for many years. Someone said to me after
joining San Diego State not too long ago that we were kind of gritty and scrappy
about what we do here and how we do it. He knows who he is; he just smiled in the
front row here. (Laughter) And he's right. Something that
distinguishes us is our determination. When someone says, "You can't do that," to
say, "Yes, we can." This year, despite the improved economy, we've demonstrated
again that we can persevere. State finding accounts for just 21 percent of
our total revenue. That is an improvement over a few years ago when it was
hovering or just above 10, but it still falls far short. The Campaign for SDSU
has ended but private philanthropy remains critical to our future. A key
initiative this year is continued fundraising, in particular for the $25
million Fowler Challenge. For now, our budget remains stable. We were able
to allocate this year an additional $5 million in base budget funding
and over $24 million in one-time funds to support our strategic plan and critical
support needs. But I want to take a moment and consider the most important
thing we will do this year and that is to help select a new president for San
Diego State University. The campus Advisory Committee that Marcie mentioned
has sought and continues to seek your input and the trustees search committee,
which is where the decision will actually take place as to what
candidates to put forward, that search committee will solicit your input on the
qualifications, the characteristics and the qualities that you want in the ninth
president of San Diego State University. I implore you, I implore you, to give this
task your best thinking and recommendations. The Presidential Search
Committee will hold an open forum for your thoughts on September 25th from
12:30 to 2:30 at the Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center and I know from past
experiences with the trustee search committees that I've been a part of,
that they listen very very carefully and attentively to the input that they get
from the campus. It's very, very important that you can articulate not our past
complaints about each other -- we have those, we know that we do and we just
move on -- but what we want for our future, what kind of qualifications, qualities
and characteristics. So I hope you will give that some really careful thought
and that you'll participate in this crucial task because, in the end, the
success San Diego State University enjoys today is due to the hard work and
efforts of faculty and staff, students and alumni over 12 decades -- but also over
the next decades to come. So finding someone who can lead you
forward in that first year of the next 120 -- or will it be 121 by then -- is
really an important thing to do. At this point in my remarks I was going to share
a story with you about something very meaningful to me at San Diego State, but
after thinking about the wonderful and interesting Monty Award winners here
and those stories that we saw this morning, I know each one of them
had a special memory of San Diego State. Rather than share my special memory,
which seems kind of selfish now that I'm standing up here in front of all of you,
I'd like for you all, or each of you and together, however that it works for you,
to think about something special about San Diego State University for
yourselves. It might be something that you did yourself. It might be something
that you did with a group. It might be some new discovery that you made. It
might be how much you loved teaching a particular class on that particular day.
It might be helping a student on their new day find directions to their
classroom. I love doing that.
It makes me feel like I have a role and purpose that is important . (Laughter) There are so many opportunities to feel good about your
contribution to the university. So while you're talking with each other and
getting to know our awardees this year, I would really like to ask that you share
with each other those special moments that you have in your memory about San
Diego State. These stories from our history will remind us that whatever
large or small part one may have at SDSU, we are all contributors in the
classrooms, laboratories, offices, and hallways. We are contributors to the
future of the university. This year we will add our own contributions to this
tradition of sustained excellence. If we continue to have the courage to make
tough decisions, to hold ourselves accountable, to recognize and value the
diversity of ways that each of us contributes, and to demonstrate the
creativity needed-- and I would say the scrappiness and edginess needed -- to find
new pathways, then we will persist in persevere on our collective journey of
excellence. So I thank you all, and I look forward to an exciting year of success. (Applause)
Gina is waiting to come up here, but I want to just ad-lib a couple things
here, which I know makes Catherine crazy. I want to thank. Catherine Snapp, who helps me
put together all of these remarks, which I edit often, and I'm sure it's a
frustration, but it's all the better for her help in getting that done.
And I want to thank someone whose words I plagiarized a little bit -- I did have them in quotes
in my speech -- and that's Steve Welter. He spent a lot of time
reviewing the remarks and helped remind me of the wonderful essence of San Diego
State University. So ,Catherine and Steve, thank you in particular (Applause)
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