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Nancy Zimper
February 15, 2010: Quality of Place
Later this week, the State University of New York is going to convene a conversation in Plattsburgh to discuss how SUNY can cultivate "quality of place" in our communities.
"Quality of place" refers to the many aspects of a community that make it exceptionally livable and vibrant.
Communities that do well in quality of place rankings are magnets for creative individuals, entrepreneurs and innovators. People who can make a big difference in the resilience of a local economy.
So we believe SUNY can play a greater role in developing these quality places.
To help us explore this, our keynote speaker in Plattsburgh will be urban studies scholar Ira Harkavy.
Dr. Harkavy is best known for his work on "service-learning," also known as academically-based community service.
He says the deeper purpose of higher education should be engaging and enriching our communities.
I am very interested in this topic, and I am in agreement with Ira Harkavy that institutions of higher education should increase their focus on community service.
There is no question that colleges and universities can and do add greatly to the quality of life in their communities.
But in some cases, campuses have become too insular, and overly interested, as Harkavy puts it, in the "endless pursuit of increased status and prestige."
I would argue that when colleges and universities reach out and participate in their communities, their well-being - and therefore their prestige - will rise in proportion to their engagement.
One of the recurring "big ideas" that has come up during our strategic plan conversations is that service-learning could become an integral part of SUNY's degree programs.
Given that our motto is "to learn - to search - to serve," I think it would be very much in keeping with the founding principles of the State University.
Our campuses already engage in service to the community, but we can and must do more.
I'm confident that when colleges and universities become more deeply embedded in their surrounding neighborhoods, cities and regions, these activities have a ripple effect that can produce dramatic results.
In fact, many of our communities face tremendous challenges, and the future feels uncertain at best.
So that's why there has never been a more important time for institutions like colleges and universities to be a bigger part of the solution.
I'm committed to this goal, and to thinking outside the box about how we get there.
We'll continue this conversation in the coming weeks, about this and other strategies for creating a stronger future for all our communities.
Nancy Zimpher is the 12th Chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation’s largest comprehensive system of higher education in the country.
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February 8, 2010: New Technologies
Today I'd like to talk about the impact of new technologies on higher education.
As the digital age has transformed our society - education has undergone major changes.
There is no question that technology has the ability to create better access to education for many of our people.
Online courses and degree programs have spread like wildfire, and have become an important part of many universities' academic programs - like the SUNY Learning Network.
There are now many higher educational entities whose programs are exclusively online.
I believe we can harness the power of these online courses to meet our mission of broad access to higher education.
One of the students involved in SUNY's strategic planning process handed me a proposal several weeks ago called "OpenSUNY."
The proposal suggested that we post videos of lessons and lectures from a subset of our very creative faculty, and allow New Yorkers to discuss what they learn through social media.
I think this is a very cool idea - and one I'd like to pursue.
Technology has already redefined the way universities interact with their stakeholders.
And the channels driving that transformation are social media - like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
These media may have originated as entertainment platforms, but they have evolved into transformative tools - which can help universities engage the public in new and compelling ways.
It has truly become a basic requirement for just about everyone to have a presence in these media.
At SUNY, we developed a social media presence called "Generation SUNY" to create a collaborative venue to share our Strategic Plan.
It has helped us engage in a dialogue with a diverse audience of students, alumni and the public at large.
In addition to helping SUNY share information, Generation SUNY also allows us to be more transparent and open with anyone who has access to a computer.
Universities around the world are using social media in some very interesting ways. One of our campuses even has a cow that Tweets, informing us about the school's agriculture programs!
There are all kinds of applications - but the bottom line is that technology is only beneficial if it helps us better serve our students and our communities.
The majority of our students are what many call "digital natives" -- young people who don't remember the days before the internet.
I once saw a college's "Top Ten" list for how to identify incoming first-year students: For example:
- Control, Alt Delete is as basic to them as A, B, C
- Computers have always fit in a backpack
- and Cut and Paste has never involved scissors.
These students bring a new set of skills obviously, experiences and learning styles, and our education system must adapt to their needs.
But we must also be aware that the widespread exposure among our children to digital media has not translated into greater educational attainment for this generation.
Instead, 30% of our students drop out of high school, and that number goes up to nearly 50% in minority and impoverished communities.
And we have to confront the fact that we have a digital divide, where the same people who don't have access to quality schools are often shut out of the opportunities the digital revolution has created.
So if we are going to move forward using more technology for learning, we must ensure that all children have the tools and skills to learn in that environment.
That means our teachers must also be prepared to provide for the needs of both the digital natives and the students who need to be brought up to speed.
I believe we in higher education have the capacity - and the responsibility - to address these needs.
We can do this by working closely with our partners in K-12 schools, by changing the way we prepare teachers, and by leveraging our technological resources strategically.
If we do this - we will be able to create the new educational and economic opportunities our state so desperately needs.
Nancy Zimpher is the 12th Chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation’s largest comprehensive system of higher education in the country.
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February 1, 2010: Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act
January 15th, 2010 was a day that just might change the course of higher education in the State of New York.
On that day, Governor Paterson introduced legislation called The Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act.
We like to call it the "SUNY-CUNY Empowerment and Innovation Act" - because it creates an unprecedented cooperation and partnership between the State University of New York, the City University of New York, and the State of New York.
Enrollment at SUNY and CUNY has been growing dramatically during the last decade - and public higher education will continue to be the path New Yorkers will follow to a better future.
We know families across this state are facing tough times and SUNY and CUNY are also facing another tough budget year.
And so, the SUNY/CUNY Empowerment Act offers zero-cost solutions that will create thousands of new jobs, strengthen our campuses and build the state's revenue base.
First, the act eliminates bureaucratic obstacles that prevent public higher education from generating more revenue and creating new jobs.
Campuses would be able to enter into public-private partnerships and to lease land, so that a hotel could build on campus land, which means construction jobs and much needed revenue.
The act cuts red tape that keeps campuses from operating as efficiently as possible.
For instance, a private company wants to build a power plant on one of our campuses which would cut the college's energy costs by 30 percent annually - but the project can't happen because the state forbids SUNY from leasing land to outside entities.
At another campus, a large biotech company wanted to expand its operations on college property - which would have created 300 new jobs and opened up new educational opportunities.
But the legislative hurdles eventually led them to pull up stakes and find another location.
The SUNY-CUNY Empowerment Act would help prevent these lost opportunities for our campuses.
But the Act will also provide financial stability - through multi-year budget plans and increased opportunities for students, employees and taxpayers.
The SUNY/CUNY Empowerment Act also removes tuition from the political process and places decision making with the Boards of Trustees of the two Systems.
Right now, New York's tuition policy goes like this: during good times, the state keeps tuition flat but during bad financial times when students and parents can least afford it tuition goes up, sometimes way up. Worse yet, the state takes the increase away from the campuses to fill holes in the state budget.
The governor's proposal prevents this - by investing all tuition fees and other self-generated revenues in SUNY campuses.
Keeping tuition revenue will allow our campuses to meet goals - and invest in new faculty hires and academic quality initiatives.
The legislation calls on the SUNY Board of Trustees to adopt a tuition policy that is fair, meaning predictable, equitable, because it relates to our real costs, and responsible, responsible because the plan will be adopted with the full participation of student and campus governance organizations.
The plan will be adopted in the light of day with the full participation of student and campus governance organizations.
Right now, SUNY is engaged in a statewide strategic planning process that will guide SUNY for the next five years.
As I've mentioned on these airwaves many times, our goal for that plan is to revitalize our economy and create a better quality of life in our communities.
The Strategic Plan will be our roadmap to meeting that goal - and the SUNY/CUNY Empowerment Act is the enabling legislation to put our vision in place.
Given the state's fiscal crisis, and the long-term outlook of state support for public higher education, we simply must seize this opportunity.
I testified last month at a legislative budget hearing - and asked for their support.
I said -- give us the reasonable reforms and independence the Empowerment and Innovation Act provides, and, in return, we will give New York unprecedented opportunities, jobs and hope.
I hope you will join me in calling on the Legislature to pass this historic legislation.
Nancy Zimpher is the 12th Chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation’s largest comprehensive system of higher education in the country.
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January 25, 2010: Teacher Preparation
A few weeks ago, I spoke to you about a concept called The Education Pipeline which I described as thinking about education system from birth through career and beyond. I talked about how that pipeline is leaking, and how we have reached a crisis point of low school graduation rates. Repairing and reforming education at all levels is a big project, but one we simply can't afford to ignore. And I believe that as a society we need to reach for the ambitious goal of making sure every student succeeds.
As Bill Gates has said: "Every student in America should graduate from high school ready for college, career and life. Every child. No exceptions." I could not agree more with that position and today, I want to focus on what I would argue is one of the most significant strategies to help us reach that goal and that is improving the way we educate our teachers.
As a teacher, this topic is near and dear to my heart since I began my academic career as a teacher and ultimately a teacher educator. There is no question teachers are the foundation of our education system. Without access to excellent teachers, our students will not succeed. Period. Of course we can't separate teachers from the larger education pipeline because a future teacher's experience in school, starting in kindergarten, often influences how they think about themselves as teachers. But once that future teacher enters college, they found out that learning to teach is a lot harder than it looks.
As a result, I would like to propose to you today that teacher education should be re-designed to reflect the fact that teaching is rocket science and importantly, is really a practice-based profession similar to medicine, nursing, or clinical psychology. These professions require not only a solid academic base, but also strong clinical components and ongoing opportunities for learning to teach through practice.
One compelling idea that has been discussed for clinical preparation of teachers is the concept of a "teaching school" that would function like a teaching hospital where teacher candidates would have an opportunity to observe and be observed by veteran teachers in action. This model of teaching practice simply won't work if elementary and secondary schools are not working in partnership with Universities. So a more collaborative approach to the undergraduate education of future teachers is required. And then inside Universities, I believe teachers need to be educated by the whole university through partnerships between teacher education programs and the arts, sciences and humanities.
Fortunately, there is some very encouraging leadership in this direction from a group that oversees hundreds of teacher education programs across the U.S an organization called the National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education or the acronym NCATE. NCATE has convened a Blue Ribbon Panel on Teacher Preparation which I am co-chairing and this panel had its first meeting earlier this month in Washington DC. For most, the panel seeks clinically enhanced preparation for teachers, for example, simulations, cases, as well as sustained intense mentored school based experiences. The panel believes these clinical settings provide an opportunity for evaluating not only what the teacher candidates know, but importantly what they are able to do.
And a second principal of the panel is that the only way that we will be able to move the dial in teacher preparation is by fostering stronger partnerships between schools of education, local school districts, community organizations, and the private sector, all of which have a stake in preparing high quality teachers for the education pipeline.
As you can tell, I am deeply committed to this principle and given the fact that the SUNY system trains more teachers than any other institution in New York, we have both a responsibility and a great capacity to improve this critical piece of our education system.
SUNY is currently engaged in a systemwide strategic planning process and the education pipeline is a big component of the conversation. I hope you'll check out our website at www.suny.edu and click on Strategic Plan on our homepage and let us know your thoughts.
Nancy Zimpher is the 12th Chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation’s largest comprehensive system of higher education in the country.
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January 18, 2010: The State of the State
When Governor Paterson gave his State of the State address earlier this month, he outlined several important initiatives designed to help put New York back on its feet.
So I want to talk today about how colleges and universities can be critical partners in making these initiatives a reality.
I believe that higher education is the most efficient way for New York to implement successful, "shovel-ready" projects in the communities that need them most because colleges and universities have both the bricks-and-mortar and the human capital to hit the ground running on economic development projects. So that's why as a campus president I've always worked to make the university a powerful partner in the community.
As President of the University of Cincinnati where I recently served, I helped create a project called the Uptown Consortium this was a partnership composed of five major institutions to improve the quality of life in the neighborhoods adjacent to the campus and our local hospitals. The university invested over $100 million in neighborhood revitalization and the consortium, the group of 5, which thrives today, focused its work on retail development, transportation, economic development, education and safety.
So when I heard the Governor recently announce the Sustainable Neighborhoods Project, which is geared toward revitalizing housing stock in neglected neighborhoods, I thought now there's an idea I know can work, if the right partnerships is in place. I can tell you that SUNY will look forward to working closely with the Governor and our local communities on developing just such initiatives.
College leaders have a major stake in the quality of life in our communities. The availability of more desirable homes and neighborhoods makes it easier for a campus to attract top faculty and it greatly enhances the quality of life for our students. And it will also help increase the likelihood that our communities are places students will want to stay after graduation hopefully reversing the brain drain from New York to other states.
Another initiative the Governor proposed is the new Manufacturing Legacy Program, whose charge is to purchase, retrofit and sell abandoned manufacturing sites across the state.
This again is an excellent opportunity for higher education to act as an incubator for new business and technology. Colleges can harness their expertise in research areas and put it to work for New York. We can serve as a resource to the companies that will move to the state in search of better facilities and better human capital which we can offer.
With this in mind, I was very encouraged as well to hear about the Governor's $25 million New Technology Seed Fund which will help higher education in New York grow its research and strengthen its partnerships with the business community.
I've been involved in a national movement to support such partnerships like this, particularly in urban areas. One of the hats I wear is chairing an organization called the Coalition of Urban and Serving Universities or USU for short, it brings together the intellectual and economic power of a national network of 46 urban and metropolitan universities several of which are housed right here in the State of New York. To focus our work as USU, we are riveted really on developing human capital, create a workforce for the 21st century, revitalize neighborhoods , increase economic development and improving community health.
Just as USU is working to promote programs nationally, they are very much like the ones Governor Paterson has proposed for New York. I have been working on these issues for a long time now, so I've had the opportunity to learn about many successful models across the nation and I'm absolutely confident we can do this in New York as well.
I took the job as SUNY Chancellor knowing full well that New York faces many challenges. I understand the severity of our fiscal crisis. But I also firmly believe in the power of higher education as a partner with government and communities to increase economic opportunities and enhance our quality of life. That value proposition quite frankly is the foundation of SUNY's strategic planning process and we're talking to people across the state about how the State University can be a part of the solution.
I hope you will join us in this conversation by going to our website at www.suny.edu and click on Strategic Plan.
Let us know your ideas about how higher education can help New York's economic recovery.
Nancy Zimpher is the 12th Chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation’s largest comprehensive system of higher education in the country.
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January 11, 2010: Culture and the Arts
Today I would like to talk with you about how arts and culture fit into SUNY's academic mission, and our goal of driving economic development and enhanced quality of life across New York.
We've recently been exploring the role of arts and culture as part of our process of developing a Strategic Plan that will guide SUNY over the next five to ten years. We've been asking ourselves about SUNY's artistic and cultural strengths as an educational system and about how we can leverage our creative resources to benefit our communities and our state. About how to prepare our students who excel in the arts to find a role in the working world and where they can make a positive impact.
To move our Strategic Planning Process forward, we've been holding a series of public meetings all over the state, open forums, where we've been gathering information about SUNY's strengths and resources and generating ideas that will help us align those resources with the needs of New York. Last month, we held the third in our series of meetings at SUNY's Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. About 200 people from all over New York came together to focus on the topic of arts and culture.
Our keynote speaker was Thelma Golden, she is the director of the highly-regarded Studio Museum in Harlem. Thelma talked about the ways her organization reaches out to engage and support its community. She had lots of ideas about how SUNY could be a stronger vehicle for arts and cultural education and programming across the state. For example, Thelma pointed out that New York has tremendous human capital in terms of people involved in the arts, but what these artists often lack is sufficient or affordable studio space and gallery or performance space, and since SUNY has a vast physical plant across our 64 campuses, Thelma proposed that SUNY could create a network of artists-in-residence … who would then be enhancing the quality of life on our campus and in the community with lectures, and performances, and exhibits. She also emphasized that the arts are an important pathway for our students in inquiring critical thinking skills and for developing insight into different cultures. She suggested that our faculty in all departments could incorporate art into their curriculum to stimulate new ways of processing information.
After Thelma Golden's talk, our 200 delegates worked in small groups to brainstorm about how SUNY's strengths in arts and culture can help SUNY reach its goal of being a major driver of New York's economic recovery and improving the quality of life in our communities. There was a lot of excitement about the potential for the arts to be a catalyst for creativity on many fronts, and we gathered a long list of ideas about how arts and culture can be an important part of our future plans.
SUNY has several campuses that are devoted to the arts including Purchase College, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the College of Ceramics at Alfred University. The arts are also nurtured in different ways at just about every SUNY campus across the state through courses in the humanities, cultural studies and visual and performing arts.
So SUNY is already heavily invested as a convener and a purveyor of arts and culture, but we have the capacity to do much more.
I'm committed to making this a growth area for SUNY because as Thelma Golden pointed out, the arts help us connect to the richness and diversity of life by challenging us to ask new questions and to see the world through a different lens.
And it is yet related to another theme we will be exploring in more detail at our next statewide meeting where the topic will be "Diversity in the World."
We are also looking for your ideas about how to make arts and culture not only a means of creative expression, but also incubators for ideas and industries that build our economy in New York.
You can learn more about SUNY's Strategic Plan on our website at www.suny.edu. Take a look around and let us know what you think.
Nancy Zimpher is the 12th Chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation’s largest comprehensive system of higher education in the country.
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January 4, 2010: Strengthening the Education Pipeline
This week, I'll be talking about the need to improve the educational experience of our children and youth - from their very earliest days as toddlers getting ready for pre-school, right through to college and beyond.
Increasingly, America faces near crisis conditions across the Education Pipeline - the journey that students travel as they make their way through school - from early childhood education prior to entering kindergarten and all the way through high school, college, and beyond.
As Chancellor of the State University of New York, I am especially committed to connecting the dots in the Education Pipeline, making sure that all kids graduate from high school, no exceptions, and ready to successfully enter college and career. In short, nothing is more important to our economic success than educating all New Yorkers to a higher level of school and job success.
In November, we held a public forum at the University at Buffalo as part of our process to create a Strategic Plan for SUNY's future. The topic of the day was just what I'm talking about -- SUNY's role in strengthening the Education Pipeline.
In this endeavor, SUNY joins with the many educational professionals who serve our children, from pre-school education through their elementary, middle and high school experiences, and the preparation they need to enter college and career successfully. SUNY plays a key role in this education process because we prepare teachers across all levels of the education spectrum. And we prepare the social service and health care professionals that support students and families in school, at home and in their local communities.
As we know, too many students start off their school years already behind the curve. Others fall through cracks along the way. And once you've fallen behind, it's very hard to catch up - so many students simply drop out of school, never making their way to graduation, college and career.
In New York State, the high school dropout rate is 30 percent. For minority and poor students, it's much higher.
So how do we repair the Education Pipeline? We do it by calling all hands on deck.
That includes all the institutions that are part of SUNY - and also school districts, local communities, health care and social service agencies, community-based agencies, business leaders, parent groups, libraries, even cultural institutions, all coming together with the same goal.
I've seen first-hand how this can work. Before I came to SUNY, I served as President of the University of Cincinnati. With a number of important partners, we helped build a program called Strive: a community collaborative focused on the building blocks that would ensure a realizing a vision of "successful students, productive citizens and thriving cities."
Working together, we created what we called "A Student's Roadmap for Success" - a map that lays out key milestones for students, and helps make sure they stay on track as they move through the Education Pipeline.
Strive is so successful that other cities across the nation are now adopting the model. And that's exactly what our plans call for with SUNY campuses and their neighboring communities.
We'll be talking more about the Education Pipeline as we continue our Strategic Planning process. For that to succeed, we need input from all SUNY stakeholders.
We need your ideas and your insights. Please join us at one of our statewide meetings. Or go to our website at www.suny.edu and send us your ideas..
We need your help!
Nancy Zimpher is the 12th Chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation’s largest comprehensive system of higher education in the country.
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December 28, 2009: Nanoscale Science and Engineering
This week, I want to talk to you about how the State University of New York can serve as a catalyst of economic growth and prosperity.
Right now, we at SUNY are engaged in a process to create a Strategic Plan to guide our system over the next five to ten years.
We're holding a series of public meetings all across the state to gather information about SUNY's assets and resources, and to generate ideas that will help us align those resources with the economic needs of our state.
In October, we held our first public meeting at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, with more than 200 people from all over the state focused on the question of how SUNY can help New York's economic recovery.
One of our speakers was Paul Grogan, the CEO and President of the highly-esteemed Boston Foundation.
Paul talked about a discussion taking place right now across the country about the role higher education can play in economic development.
As Paul pointed out, colleges and universities like SUNY are already important economic contributors:
- They're major employers in their communities, providing opportunity and long-term job stability for hundreds of thousands of people.
- Every year, they purchase hundreds of millions worth of goods and services.
- And each year, they undertake major construction projects that provide jobs, spread wealth, and improve their communities.
What's more - institutions of higher education are critical to the development of knowledge.
And that's exactly what we at SUNY do - we bring thoughtful, educated people together through collaboration, through study, through research and innovation - and all the synergies that develop when creative people get together.
Let me give you just one local example:
SUNY's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany is the first college in the world dedicated to research and development of nanoscience, nanoengineering, nanobioscience, and nanoeconomics.
Since coming to SUNY, I've learned that nanoscale technology is based on the measurement of a nanometer, or one billionth of a meter.
The behavior of materials at the nanoscale level is often very different than larger forms. Nanomaterials can be stronger, lighter, more easily recycled, and are often able to conduct heat or electricity in a different way. They can even change color.
These special qualities are already being used to manufacture semiconductors, scratch-free paint, wrinkle and stain-resistant fabrics, sunscreen lotions and photographic paper.
We are just beginning to explore the potential of this cutting-edge technology.
And the location of the Nanoscale College here in the Capital Region means we are going to see more than 10,000 jobs in nanotechnology, and it's estimated that number could reach 50,000 over the next five years.
But what's even more stunning is that the center has attracted more than 250 corporate partners from around the world, drawing more than $5 billion in private and public funding to the college, and spreading more than $20 billion in investment across the state.
I think you can see why I'm so optimistic that SUNY can play a major role in New York's economic revitalization. And that's why the development of our Strategic Plan is so important.
But to succeed, we need input from all SUNY stakeholders - and that includes everyone listening today.
Please join us at one of our statewide meetings. You can find the schedule on our website - at www.suny.edu. Go to the section on our Strategic Plan - it's right on the home page - and tell us what you think.
Nancy Zimpher is the 12th Chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation’s largest comprehensive system of higher education in the country.
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December 22, 2009: SUNY's Strategic Plan: A Blueprint for the Future
This week, I'll be talking to you about the Big Idea behind our strategic planning process - that SUNY, the State University of New York, will serve as a key economic engine for our state. Everybody knows we are in challenging economic times. And we know we're going to get through this. That's why, right now, we at SUNY are engaged in a process to create a Strategic Plan that will guide our system for the next five to ten years and help us be a driver for economic recovery. We are travelling all over the state - to every corner, every region - to gather information. We are seeking input from as many people as we can - many hundreds of people have already given us their best ideas. The Strategic Plan is being built on the strength of SUNY's amazing resources:
- the incredible array of educational courses and opportunities we offer
- and our tremendous capacity for research, discovery, and innovation.
SUNY is already making a difference! Let me tell you why:
- Did you know that SUNY is the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the country . . . and that our institutions are distributed literally across the state?
- Did you know that we enroll more than half a million students each year, and that our student body grew this year by a whopping 10 percent?
- Did you know that we employ over 87,000 people in all kinds of jobs - at every professional level?
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- For all these reasons, SUNY is already changing the economic equation in this state.
And we are changing it forever.
- In the years to come, SUNY will serve as the catalyst that will:
- create news jobs
- invent new technologies and industries
- strengthen our educational system from pre-kindergarten right through to job training
- do ground-breaking research in our laboratories and science centers
- save energy, and create new paradigms for energy use
- advance medical science and improve health care for the people of New York
- revitalize our communities, and infuse them with liveliness, creativity, and a better quality of life
- and expand our reach outward - to engage the diverse, globalized world we inhabit.
This is what our Strategic Plan is all about - defining our resources, clarifying our goals, setting our sights high, and making the dream a reality.
To succeed, we need input from all SUNY stakeholders - and that includes you!
We need your ideas and your insights. Please join us at one of our statewide meetings. You can find the schedule on our website - at www.suny.edu.
You can't miss the section on our Strategic Plan - it's right on the home page. And tell us what you think. We need your help.
Nancy Zimpher is the 12th Chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation’s largest comprehensive system of higher education in the country.
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