COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
TRUSTEES RETREAT
October 14 – 16, 2004

Thursday, October 14

BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING

10:00 Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees (Coors Board Room)

RETREAT

On Thursday afternoon the Board of Trustees and Advisory Members of the Board of Trustees will meet to discuss their role and to hear presentations from the President and Vice Presidents that will provide background information on state funding, enterprise status and other issues already familiar to the campus community.

Friday, October 15

7:30 Buffet Breakfast (optional, Ballrooms D & E)

8:00 Strategic Plan Review and Current Status (Nigel Middleton) (Ballrooms A & B)
(Status report on strategies 1 – 5)

9:00 Enabling Strategy 6: Expand the Financial Resource Base (Robert Moore, Harold Cheuvront)
(Status report on each of the goals)

9:45 Long-term Tuition Strategies (Robert Moore)

10:15 Break

10:45 The Implications and Opportunities of Enterprise Status (Robert Moore)
(TABOR exemption; tuition revenues; pledging of tuition for capital financing)

11:15 Master Plan for Endowments (Peter Han)
(Current endowment statistics; peer comparisons; future projection models; key issue identification and discussion)

12:00 Buffet Luncheon (Ballrooms D & E)

1:00 Enabling Strategy 7: Restructure the Deployment of Financial Resources & Capital Assets (Robert Moore)
(Status report on each of the goals)

1:45 Research Opportunities and Challenges (Nigel Middleton)

2:30 Break

3:00 Master Plan and Physical Plant Challenge (Robert Moore, Harold Cheuvront)
(Identification of space shortages; financing new space)

4:00 Organizational Structure Issues (John Trefny, Nigel Middleton)

5:30 Cocktail Reception (Ballrooms D & E)

Saturday, October 16

On Saturday morning the Board of Trustees and Advisory Members of the Board of Trustees will meet to distill the discussions from Friday’s session and re-address the role of the Trustees and Advisory Board related to implementation of the strategic plan.