President Robert S. Nelsen declared 萨克拉门托州 “萨克拉门托’s anchor university” during his 2018 Fall Address to the campus community on Thursday, Aug. 23.
“An anchor university is driven to improve the community in which it lives,” Nelsen told the standing-room-only crowd of more than 1,100 students, faculty, and staff gathered in the University Ballroom.
“An anchor university wants to see true, lasting change through civic engagement,” he said. “It seeks solutions to poverty, hunger, inadequate education, unemployment, and health deficiencies. 它克服了院系、学院、部门和学科的分裂。 Instead, it marshals all of the University’s knowledge and expertise and strives to solve real-world problems.
校长罗伯特·s·尼尔森（Robert S. nelson）领导了一场“竖起毒刺！”活动，背景是博彩平台的新壁画，画在沙斯塔大厅的一侧。 (博彩平台/杰西卡·弗恩 更多的照片"And, in solving those problems, it creates new knowledge, advancing research, learning, and teaching, as well as service.”
An anchor university “is committed to community and place,” he said. 这一承诺在一定程度上是由萨克拉门托州立中心推动的，该中心将于8月28日星期二盛大开幕。
Nelsen then provided updates on the progress of his administration’s five imperatives:
毕业倡议 – 囊状态’s projected four-year graduation rate for 2018-19 is 14 percent, a notable increase from 8 percent a few years ago. 预计两年的转学毕业率已经上升到37.5%。
“Our ‘Finish in Four’ and ‘Through in Two’ campaigns are working,” said Nelsen, who also noted that nearly 75 percent of first-year students are taking 15 or more credits, an improvement from 21 percent in 2010.
多样性、公平和包容 – Of the 58 tenure-track faculty hired for 2018-19, only 35 percent reported they are faculty of color. 尼尔森指出，并不是所有的雇员都报告了他们的种族，但他说，尽管如此，这个数字是不可接受的。
“The Office of Faculty Advancement and the Office for Inclusive Excellence need to work hard, hand-in-hand, to reverse this surprising and disappointing downward trend," Nelsen said. “多样性不仅仅是种族和肤色的问题。 It is also about sexual identity, gender, abilities, religion, experiences, and many more distinguishing factors.”
慈善事业 – 囊状态 last year raised $23.89 million, exceeding the goal of $15.5 million set for the campus by the 博彩平台 (CSU). Included was Ernest E. Tschannen’s $9 million donation for the new Science Complex, which will bear his name. 萨克州立大学必须再筹集1 100万美元，以补充建造这一最先进结构所需的借入储备。 Nelsen also alluded to an coming announcement of the University’s first gift of more than $10 million.
社区参与 – “Even though community engagement is at the heart of who we are as a University,” Nelsen said, “it lacks purpose and focus. 它遍布整个大学的语料库，但并不协调。
“它开始联合起来，特别是随着萨克拉门托州立市中心的出现。 所有的学院都聚集在那栋大楼里解决问题，无论是通过艺术治愈种族问题，还是为无家可归者提供心理健康解决方案，还是提高选民投票率。 萨克拉门托州 Downtown will be truly multidisciplinary.”
安全 – A chemical spill in a chemistry lab, high levels of lead found in Santa Clara Hall, and the discovery of elevated lead levels in campus drinking water prompted a safety audit by the state of California.
“I deeply regret that these incidents happened,” Nelsen said, “but I do not regret that we had an audit as a consequence. We now have better practices because of that audit.”
这些改进包括8-2020热线，向风险管理部门报告潜在的校园危害，所有饮水机上的快速响应代码标签，以及一项新的校园政策，以提高实验室和商店的安全。
“We are, and we must always be, 萨克拉门托’s University and the anchor for our community,” Nelsen said in closing. “We can and will realize our community’s dream. 我们将拥有这座城市。 我们将成为这座城市。 And we will be successful.” – 迪克西•里德