Rotary club talking points as presented october 2010

Jazzmin Randall, SGA President

Sophia Y. Glover, Director of University Communications

A. Zachary Faison J.D., Director of Alumni Affairs

Albany State University

POTENTIAL . REALIZED.

BOR Strategic Priorities

Record EnrollmentFall 2010

4,653 Students

Retention Rate Ranking

One year retention rate for the fall 2008 cohort is 76.84% ranking us 7th among the 35 institutions in the USG

Graduation Rate Ranking

ASU Ranks 8th out of 35 schools in the USG for the sixth-year graduation rate

Funding and Programs

Embracing Agriculture

ASU hosted the 1st Food Commodity Contracting Opportunities for Rural America conference in 2009.

USDA awarded ASU’s Flint River Water Planning & Policy Center a $400,000 grant to assist with technology for water resource management on area farms

FY 09 received $800,000 Congressional Award for Renewable Energy Initiatives

Renewable Energy Certification Programs beginning Spring 2011, pending Board of Regents approval

DOE (Dept. of Energy) grant to provide Business Assessment Model for Industrial Assessment Center

Energy Conservation Project with Installation of Energy Management System in Early Learning Center

Renewable Energy Initiatives

ASU awarded a grant of nearly $2.4 million over two years for the Center for Applied Logistics Management (CALM).

ASU now offers a Bachelors in Logistics Management with pending approval for Masters degree

ASU is working with ATC & MCLB

Logistics Initiatives

CALM National Advisory Board – Pictured at ASU

MASTER PLAN2009 UPDATE

MASTER PLAN PROGRESS 

MASTER PLAN PROJECTS 

MASTER PLANFIRST PROJECTS

New Student Center Fall 2011

Pedestrian Mall View

New Student Center Fall 2011

Radium Springs View

Pedestrian Mall View

Will add 60,000 square feet to existing dining hall. $15.8 million cost

Lord, Aeck & Sargent Architecture + Chasm Architecture

Albany State University Student Housing

Albany, Georgia Rotary Club

New Residential Housing Fall 2011

Courtyard View Between Buildings

Two new residential halls, adding more than 600 beds. (One freshman hall and one upper-class hall).

Courtyard View

Building cost of $23 million

Site and Background

Albany State University Student Housing

New Residential Housing Fall 2011

Ray Charles Language, Performing and Visual Arts

Center

 Cost: $28.7 Million Total Economic Impact

$57.3 Million

$1.8 million for Design in FY 2011 Budget

Program Managers and Design firm selected

Ray Charles Language, Performing and Visual Arts

Center Future home for English & Modern Languages, Music, Art, Mass Communication

and Speech &Theater

Will replace long crowded Holley Hall in lower campus floodplain

Thank you for supporting Homecoming 2010!

Economic Impact

•Economic Impact of Homecoming Weekend is estimated at $2.5 million dollars.

•Total Economic Impact of ASU on Albany/Southwest Georgia region is nearly $150 million.

What Others Say About ASU

Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranks ASU 3rd in USA for graduating minority students with four year degrees in education

New programs

Center for Advanced Logistics Management (CALM) is leading ASU in the effort to assist logisticians of the Marine Corps and defense industry with their training initiatives.

Online Programs

Masters of Science in NursingMasters of Criminal JusticeBachelors degree in Business Information Systems

Other Progress & Accomplishments

SACS COCS reaffirmed our accreditation in 2008

ASU is in the fourth year of our 2006-2011 Strategic Plan

President Freeman just celebrated his 5th anniversary

Alumni contributions are increasing every year

Athletic teams continue to win conference titles & participate in playoffs/tournaments

We retired multi-million dollar debt on football stadium

We have survived multiple years of state budget cuts

ASU Audit Improvement

• ASU received a Code 1 rating (it’s best ever) from the BOR Internal Audit staff last year

•The audit rating has improved from a 5 (worst)

to a 1 (best) over the last four years

• This is the first time there have been “NO findings” on an annual audit!  

•ASU also received an “Excellent” rating from a

recent BOR internal audit.

Jazzmin Randall, SGA President

Sophia Y. Glover, Director of University Communications

A. Zachary Faison J.D., Director of Alumni Affairs

Albany State University

POTENTIAL . REALIZED.