A list of bullet-points is nice, especially to try to drum up fund-raising.
But with no evident plan to achieve any of those bullet-points other than the colossal failure of increasing enrollment (even without the pandemic), it was just another in a long set of Tech underachievements.
Epic fail.
Stating the obvious...
How many other "plans" were set to culminate in 2020. How many of those plans involved a tornado and an epidemic during the 12 to 18 month wrap up period. Also, throw in the state politicians who have screwed us around...
Interesting that the tornado assisted some of improvements, but local residents suffered in a great way. Tough times.
Yep! I was on the finance advisory committee to then president of NSU, Dr. Webb. The shift has basically flipped the funding model, from 80-20 state giving to the school, 80% "state funded" and 20% "self-reliant," to now being 80% "self-reliant." Along the way most state universities have seen their budgets slashed by upwards of 40%. But, truthfully, there is still too much "fat" in their budgets. More can be trimmed.
I rotated off that committee in late 2014, but stayed connected to it and what was going on at NSU and throughout the UL system. Many department heads, and their faculty, got off their lazy azzes and went out to secure funding from outside sources and donors. I had to do that for my department too, but had already been doing that since 2009 when I was appointed department head. There were Federal grants available too, but again, that required EFFORT! to seek them and write the grant application. I secured two such grants, each about $350,000, and each time I was able to hire a temporary staffer to manage it and provide the services it would cover.
BUT!!! here's the big question, I have never been able to find the answer. When the state shifted $hundreds of millions away from the public universities, which they did over about an 8-year span...what happened to that money? Some (a little) was shifted to K-12 public schools, but not enough to account for the whole wad. Hmmm....It just disappeared!
Tax credits to businesses, including the Hollywood type.
Yes, but tax credits while great to get, as a business, still netted some into the state treasury. And the total of all those credits does not add up to the amount "taken" from the state colleges. I have somewhere in my stack of mess in my home office financial reports on all of that...they cover from 2006 to 2015.
So we finished up 2020, nothing from Guice on Tech 2020.
They shouldn't announce any future campaign. There is no follow through.