Chancellor Cheek provided an overview of the university's accomplishments and progress toward its goals at the DDDH retreat on August 27.

1. Deans, Directors and
Department Heads
August 27, 2012
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE

2. Journey to the Top 25

3. June Board of Trustees
 8% Tuition Increase
 Fee Increases
 Take 15, Graduate in 4
 5% Raises
 Long Term Compensation

4. Campus/System/BOT Relationships

6. Development
Celebration: $860 Million

7. Development Priorities
 Chairs & Professorships
(Chancellor’s Challenge)
 Scholarships & Graduate
Fellowships
 College Priorities

8. Athletics

9. Compensation/Performance
 Hire at market
 Work with Provost and Human
Resources
 Performance-based raises
 Merit raises/plan for full Professor

10. Teacher/Scholar Model
 Teaching/Advising
 Scholarship
 Research
 Creative Activities

11. Take 15,
Graduate in 4
Fall 2013 Tuition Model
A New Expectation for
Undergraduate Students

12. Graduation in Four Years
 Used to be the “norm”
 Off track
 Must become the “new norm”
 Critical to our Top 25 goal
 Better for our students and our state

13. It’s Better for Students
 Spend less on their education
 Incur less debt
 Opportunity costs
 Begin their careers earlier

14. It’s Better for Students
“ Students who
complete a
bachelor’s degree
within four years
earned more than
all other degree
”
recipients
“A Profile of Non-Completers in Tennessee
Dr. Bill Fox
Higher Education”—a study by the Center for Director of the Center for
Business and Economic Research and the
Tennessee Higher Education Commission
Business and Economic
Research

15. Impact on Student Debt
Average UT student debt: Less than $20,000
UT students with NO debt: 52%
Average expenses: ~$24,000/year
Most scholarships expire: 4 years

16. It’s Better for UT
 Improves graduation rate
 Increases state funding
 Increases capacity to serve other students
 Produces more undergraduate
degrees/year
 Accelerates progress toward Top 25

17. It’s Better for Tennessee
Increase the number of college graduates
Population with
Bachelor's Degree*
*25+ years of age
35%
30%
25%
20%
15% 30%
10% 21%
5%
0%
Nat. Average Tennessee

18. Degrees Awarded 2010-
2011 Academic Year
7000
6161
6000
2053
5000
4344
4000 715 3624 3496
3000 1062 2704
1913
831 2001
2000 4108 1734
3629 473 1433 1424
459 1146
2562 449 267
1000 129 800
1873
1583 1528 1275 1157 1017
984 683
0 117
Bachelor's Graduate/Professional

19. Graduation Rates
80.0%
60% 58% 60% 61% 61% 63% 66%
70.0%
4.5%
60.0% 4.7%
5.3% 5.1% 5.1% 4.7%
4.7%
50.0% 25.8% 26.3%
24.8%
24.2% 24.7% 24.3% 25.2%
40.0% 23.7%
30.0%
20.0% 40.0%
33.7% 35.7% 36.7%
30.6% 29.4% 30.0% 31.2% 30.6%
10.0%
0.0%
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
FOUR-YEAR FIVE-YEAR SIX-YEAR Preliminary

20. Six-Year Graduation Rate
Fall 2006 cohort
100%
Aspiration Target Peer
95%
90%
85%
80%
75%
70%
65%
60%
55%
50%

21. Proposed New Tuition Model
 Take 15, graduate in 4
 Students pay for 15 hours
 Implementation in Fall 2013
 Full year to communicate
 No additional cost for 15+ hours
 Increase revenue by ~$6 million in year 1

22. Funds Will Provide
 Courses and laboratories needed for graduation
 More academic advisors
 UTracK system for monitoring progress to
graduation
 More tutoring and academic support services
 More effective communication with undergraduates
 Increased communications with prospective
students

23. Funds Will Provide
 Better faculty/student ratio
 More summer school options
 More courses online
 Additional need-based scholarships for
Tennesseans
 Performance-based, market-driven
compensation

24. Implementation
 All current students continue under the old
model
– No change for current students
 Proposed new model starts fall 2013
 Expectation – limit tuition increases to 3%
annually for three years
 After four years, pay the prevailing rate
 15 hours becomes the “new norm”

25. Average Net Price of Tuition
$4,000.00
$2,870.00 $3,040.00
$3,000.00
$2,013.00
$2,000.00
$1,000.00
$-
$(1,000.00)
$(2,000.00)
$(3,000.00)
$(4,000.00)
$(5,000.00)
$(6,000.00) $(5,711.00)
$(7,000.00)
Second Third Fourth
Bottom
Quartile Quartile Quartile
Quartile
($43,066 - ($87,801 - ($143,045 -
($0 - $43,065)
$87,800) $143,044) $1,430,000)

26. We Remain a
Great Value

27. New Tuition Model Endorsed
“The prime beneficiaries will
be UT students. Graduating
sooner translates into
spending less money on
school and incurring less
debt….
The new tuition model is a
positive step that will bring
UT closer to its laudable goal
of becoming a top-25 public
research institution.”

28. JOURNEY
TO THE
TOP 25

29. UTK Position
UTK UTK UTK Change
Metrics
June 2010 June 2012 2010-2012
ACT Equivalent 29/24 29/24 No change
Retention Rate 84% 85% +1 pt
6-Year Graduation Rate 60% 63% +3 pt
Ph.D. Degrees 277 270 -7
Master’s and Professional Degrees 1,845 1726 - 119
Federal Research Expenditures $70 M $109 +$39
Total Research Expenditures $165 M $208 +$43
Tenure-Line Salary Range $66 to $107 K $71 to $115 + $5 to $8
Undergraduate Student/Tenure-Line
20 20 No change
Faculty
Faculty Awards 10 TBD
Teaching and Support Expenditures/
$16,100 $17,698 + $1,598
Student
Endowment/ Student $14,380 $16,250 + $1,870

30. Progress
 7 Metrics improved
 2 stayed same
 2 decreased
 1 Metric TBD

32. 18
21
24
27
30
33
36
Vanderbilt
Florida
Texas A&M
Auburn
Georgia
UTK
South Carolina
Arkansas
LSU
Missouri
Alabama
Kentucky
Miss. State
ACT Scores for SEC Schools
Mississippi

33. Freshman Retention Rate
1st to 2nd Year Retention Rate; 2004 to 2010 Freshmen Cohort Years
90
88
86
84.5%
84
82
80
78
76
74
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

34. Research
Federal Research Expenditures; 2004-2011
$200
$180
$160
$140
$120
$100
$80
$60
Top 25 Target Peers, No Med School
$40
UTK
$20
$-
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

35. Faculty
Average Assistant Professor Salary; Fall 2011
$95
Aspiration Target Peer
$90
$85
UTK in
$80 2010 –
up 4
$75 positions
$70
$71
$65
$60
$55
$50

36. Faculty
Average Associate Professor Salary, Fall 2011
$120
Aspiration Target Peer
$110
UTK in
$100 2010 –
up 1
position
$90
$83
$80
$70
$60
$50

37. Faculty
Average Full Professor Salary, Fall 2011
$170
Aspiration Target Peer
$150
UTK in
2010 –
$130 up 1
position
$115
$110
$90
$70
$50

38. Top 25 Infrastructure Progress
 Buildings underway
 Student Union
 Natalie Haslam Music Center
 John Tickle Engineering Building
 Strong Hall
 Residence Hall
Major Renovations
Humanities and Social
Sciences
Greve Hall
Brehm Animal Science
and Food Science Buildings

39. Top 25 Investments
 Strategic Instructional Fund
 Relieve bottleneck courses
 Additional tenure-line faculty
 Additional lecturers
 Raises
 First Year and Transition
Programs
 Additional advisors

40. The
journey
we take
is just as
important
as
achieving
the goal

41. Issues for
the Future

42. Civility/Diversity/Citizenship

43. Internationalization

44. Internationalization
Top 25 Institutions % of Total Enrollment
2010-11
#13 University of Illinois-Urbana- 18.22%
Champaign
#2 UCLA 15.78%
#17 Ohio State University 10.85%
#19 University of Florida 10.82%
#25 Rutgers University 7.26%
#46 University of Tennessee 3.79%

45. Communication
How do we
communicate
better?

46. Academics
 Focus on Better Teaching and on
Student Learning
 Rigor
 Advising
 Tracking students
 Course availability

47. Academics
 How much do we grow? When?
 Utilization of summer
 Distance education
 Harvard/MIT/Berkeley Experiment
 Multiple Approaches to Institution

48. Higher Education is Under Attack

49. Higher Education is Under Attack

50. Governor’s Review of Higher Education
 Access
 Quality
 Preparing the
Workforce

52. Morrill Act Anniversary
 Celebrating the 150th
Anniversary
 Land grants vital to future of
higher education

54. Questions/
Comments