UNIVERSITY SECRETARIAT S.08-113

SFU

UNIVERSITY SECRETARIAT

S.08-113

MEMO

Simon

Fraser University

8888 University Drive

Burnaby BC V5A 1S6

Canada

tel 778.782.3495

fax

778.782.4860

FOR INFORMATION

The Board of Governors approved the President's Agenda for 2008/09 at its

meeting on 25 September, 2008, and it is forwarded to Senate for information.

Part 1 Agenda for 2008/09

Part 2 Report on quantitative indicators for 2007/08

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

THINKING OF THE WORLD

Senate

IFROM

Alison Watt, Director, University Secretariat

Presidents Agenda

2008/2009

DATE

1 October, 2008

SFU

MICHAEL STEVENSON, PED

PRESIDENT AND VICE—CHANCELLOR

Part 1 Agenda for 2008/09

Simon Fraser University

July 3, 2008

8888 University Drive

Burnaby BC VSA

tS6

Canada

Dr. Nancy McKinstry, Chair

Board of Governors

Tel

778,782.4641

Simon Fraser University

Fax

778.782.486o

Burnaby, BC V5A. 1S6

stevensnsfu.ca

www.sfu.ca

Dear Nancy,

In keeping with my previous agenda statements, this supplementary report reiterates

the following broad objectives for SFU:

Increasing differentiation of programmes and enrolment.

Increasing intensity of research.

Deeper engagement in community.

As discussed at the Board Strategy Session, my priorities for the corning year will be:

(1) Further development of the health sciences, especially in the following areas:

Public and population health;

Mental health;

Medicinal chemistry and infectious disease;

Bioinforrnatics and Personalized Medicine;

Nanornedicine.

(2) Implementation of the plan for the new Faculty of Applied Sciences, with

emphasis on:

Mechatronics;

Medical Engineering;

Environmental Engineering;

Visual Analytics.

(3) Implementation of the plan for the new Faculty of Communication, Art and

Technology, with emphasis on:

Community outreach in the Downtown East Side;

Cultural Events management for SFU at Woodward's;

Integration of arts community members as adjunct Eculry;

Partnerships with cultural and communications sectors of the

Vancouver business community.

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Dr. Nancy McKiriscry

July 3: 2008

(4) Follow-up on Planning for new Faculty of

Environment and Sustairiability,

with focus On:

Development of Environmental Science programme;

New professional or semi-professional programmes;

Expanded recruitment and enrolment.

In addition to

these

dimensions of planning for greater differentiation of

undergraduate and graduate programmes, I will continue to give

priority

attention

improving the student experience at SFU and improving SFU's profile in community

and

government relations. The concentration of attention with respect to student

experience

will

be on the improvement of student spaces and the improvement of

extra-curricular,

cultural

programming. The focus

with

respect to

community

and

government relations will be on the follow-up to the Board special committee's

survey and communications exercise.

Finally, the

major

preoccupation in the corning year will be on resource and budget

planning. The

overriding

priority is to obtain relief from the current budget cuts,

and to

minimize

cuts going

forward.

A top

priority

is a proposal for the expansion of

enrolment and the building of a

new

science

building

at the Surrey campus.

I look forward to continuing consultation and advice in pursuing these objectives.

Yours

sincerely,

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Michael Stevenson

President and Vice-Chancellor

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MIC

HAEL STEVENSON, PHD

PRESIDENT AND VICE—CHANCELLOR

Part 2 Report on quantitative indicators for 2007/08

Simon Fraser University

July 3, 2008

8888 University Drive

Burnaby BC V5A 1S6

Canada

Dr. Nancy McKinscry, Chair

Board of Governors

Tel

778.782.4641

Simon Fraser University

Fax

778.782.4860

Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6

stevensn@sfu.ca

www.sfu.ca

Dear Nancy,

As required by the Board's May 2008 resolution concerning my performance review,

I am submitting my annual report. I also attach a qopy of my agenda for the coming

year, which I discussed at our recent Board Strategy Session. This report is organized

around the general criteria stated in the Board policy.

Academic Leadership

As indicated in my agenda for last year, I have focused on initiatives building SFU's

profile in three areas: health sciences, environment and cultural change.

I have been intimately involved throughout the past academic year in the

deliberations over the reorganization of the utuversiry's Faculty structure. These

deliberations have focused on the creation of two new Faculties to address the areas of

environment and culture, with a third, more narrowly defined Faculty of Applied

Sciences to focus on computing and engineering science. Although much of the

credit for the successful conclusion of these deliberations lies with the VP Academic

and others, I think I may claim some share of the credit for the leadership required to

initiate and conclude this process.

Throughout the past year, I have also maintained a focus on the further elaboration of

our interests in the health sciences. Again, I share the credit with many others, but I

believe we have made significant strides forward, including strong partnerships with

Fraser Health Authority, with the Provincial Health Services Authority and with

St. Paul's Hospital and its Foundation.

The priority focus on these areas is consistent with my general interest over the last

eight years in advocating and advancing the differentiation and research intensity of

SFU. I believe I played a role in securing recent government commitments to new

investments in graduate enrolment, and while we did not do as well as we hoped in

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

THINKING OF THE WORLD

Dr.

Nancy McKinstry

2008

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the competition for new enrolment and funding, we significantly expanded graduate

enrolment last year. The attached documentation from Mario Pinto also indicates the

significant successes in increasing research activity and funding throughout the

university last year.

Aside from my work within the university, I have played a role in academic

leadership within provincial, national and international associations. I have been chair

of AUCC's standing committee on Economic Issues and Funding, and I am now also

chair of the Council of Western Canadian University Presidents, the regional

organization represented on the AUCC Board of Directors. I have been a panelist at

the annual meetings of the AUCC, and have hosted and presented a paper at the

Trans-Atlantic Dialogue of European Rectors and American and Canadian University

Presidents, held recently at the Wosk Centre. I am also active on the Boards of

MITACS and GENOM.E BC, which serve important academic and research

communities. Finally, I have been an active player in TUPC and closely involved in

the development of the BC universities' advocacy agenda, budget planning, and post-

budget communications and government relations. While I am depressed at our

failure to dissuade government from its withdrawals of funding, I believe I have been

a high profile advocate of the interests of SFU and BC's other universities.

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External and Internal Communit

Relations

Over the past year, I have continued to place emphasis on external community

relations. I have actively supported the Board initiative to review our activity in this

area. I have played a role on the Boards of the Vancouver Board of Trade and the

BC Business Council. I have been very active in meetings and in residence dinners

held for members of the external community, as my periodic reports to the Board

will show. I have been active on our Liaison Committee with the City of Burnaby,

the Advisory Board to SFU Surrey, the University's India Strategy Advisory Board,

and Geoff Plant's Civil City Steering Committee. I have maintained active

connections to the Mayors of Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey. I have maintained

regular contact with the Minister, Deputy Minister and Assistant Deputy Minister of

Advanced Education, and have had meetings with MLAs of both parties, as well as

with more than a half dozen other cabinet Ministers in addition to the Premier during

the past year. One unusual aspect of government relations that touches on my

responsibilities to improve the public knowledge and image of SFU has been my

active involvement in the Premier's missions over the last year to India, and

subsequently to Korea and China.

Within the university, I have continued to host dinners and receptions for academic

and non-academic staff, for the Student Society, for the Athletic Teams, and for select

groups within the community deserving of special recognition. I have also continued

to play an active part in arranging symposia and dinners for the nascent Burnaby

Mountain College, and have participated in numerous academic symposia organized

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by colleagues in different departments across the university. I continue to invest

considerable energy in relations with employee groups, especially in monthly

meetings with the President of SFIJFA and separately with the SFUFA executive. I

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Dr. Nancy McKinstry

Jul

2008

consider my obligations as Chair of Senate among my highest priorities, and I trust

that Senators and members of the university community would concur that I

"encourage collegiality and productive relationships. ..wirh students, staff and

faculty.....

Financial Resource Management

Although budgeting and financial management were particularly challenging during

the past year, especially-in the set-up of the budget for this current financial year, I

believe I have played a useful leadership role in this area. Although much of the

responsibility here is shared with the VPs and Deans, I play an important role in the

public explanation of our financial predicament and in advocating particular strategies

for adjusting to it. I also play a vital role in managing internal conflicts over resource

allocations. Finally, I play a key oversight role in respect of advancement as well as

the key role in large gift fundraising, and I believe that the attached reports indicate

another very successful year in this respect.

Although I am confident about my managerial record in this area, I recognize, and I

hope the Board will recognize the very serious concerns raised over the last year

about our financial situation. Our budget planning process, leading up to the draft

budget prepared for Board approval in the Spring, was complicated by the great

difficulty of handling unfunded inflation, and the necessity of a significant cut to

preexisting budgets. Added to this complexity was a very late realization that

misestimates of revenue assumptions for 07-08 required significant cash calls in order

to balance for that year. Finally, the surprise government announcements of

significant withdrawals of funding commitments for 08-09 just prior to the new

financial year seriously threatened our ongoing work.

In these circumstances, there is widespread disillusionment within the university

about our future, and I cannot be sanguine about SFU's future financial position.

Human Resource Management and Development

Perhaps the key responsibility in this area over the last year has been in developing a

succession strategy for the university's leadership team. I chaired and managed the

search for a new Vice-President Academic. I was actively involved in the searches for

new Deans of Business and Education. With the very strong appointments last year

of the Associate Vice-President Finance and Deans of Arts and Social Sciences and

Health Sciences, I believe the senior group is stronger than it has been for decades.

Nevertheless, the interim arrangements or extensions of decanal appointments in

Business, Education, Science and Continuing Studies will require close attention in

the coming year. And, of course, I will be working with the Board to ensure that a

smooth process begins next year for my own succession.

General

I believe the most significant successes of the past year are as follows:

the approval of our plans for the relocation of the School for Contemporary

Arts as part of the Woodward's redevelopment project;

the approval of the Faculty Restructuring proposals;

Dr. Nancy McKinscry

Jul y

3. 2008

the second consecutive year of fund,

more than $30 million;

a 3.2% increase in revenue from research grants and contracts excluding

infrastructure awards from CFI and BCKDF;

improvement in our communications with a rou

hly 20% increase in news

coverage;

average grades for students entering directly from grade 12 continue to be in

excess of 80% across all Faculties, despite continuing growth in enrolment

coupled to demographic decline in BC's high school graduating class.

My agenda for next year builds on the momentum created this past year. I will focus

on the development of niche programmes in health sciences, applied science,

environmental science and sustainability, and communications arts and technology,

with major efforts devoted to the successful expansion of the Vancouver campus at

Woodward's and the development of a new science facility and expanded enrolment

at Surrey. Sadly, the optimism underlying these goals must be tempered by the very

pessimistic financial scenarios possible under current government budget

commitments, and my major preoccupation has to be in the area of financial

management next year.

I will be happy to discuss these matters further with you.

Yours sincerely,

Michael Stevenson

President and Vice-Chancellor

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, RESEARCH

Memorandum

TO:

Michael Stevenson

FROM: B. Mario Pinto

President & Vice-Chancellor

Vice-President, Research

RE: Performance Criteria

DATE: July 2, 2008

The following are the relevant data for those performance indicators related to my portfolio.

1. Research Intensity

Objective: To increase the scope, impact, and competitiveness of SFU's research activity.

Indicators:

(a) The

percent increase in research funding 2007 to 2008:

According to the CAUBO figures,

our sponsored research funding has grown from $69 million in budget year 2005/06 to $77.6

million in 2006/07 and

$75.5 million

in 2007/08. It is important to note that total research

revenues can be subject to significant fluctuations because of funding variations through the

CFI/BCK.DF major projects. For example, in 2006/07, the total CFIJBCKDF component was

$13.6M, whereas in 2007/08, the figure was l2.8M—an 8.7% decrease in CFI and a 0.1%

increase in BCKDF funding. Overall, research revenue grew by 3.2% this year when

CFI/BCKDF revenue is excluded.

(b)

The percent

of faculty successful in holding NSERC, SSHRC, Canada Council or CIHR

grants, 2007 to 2008:

NSERC

In the 2007/2008 NSERC Discovery Research Grants competition, SFU had a success

rate of 84% as compared to the national average of 70%. In the Research Tools & Instruments

competition,.SFU had a success rate of 58% as compared to the national success rate of 46%.

Overall, the percent of faculty members by Faculty holding NSERC grants in 2007/08 was as

follows: Applied Sciences, 65% (107 current faculty members holding NSERC grants/165

faculty members; Arts & Social Sciences, 6% (23/357); Business Administration, 7% (5/75);

Education, 2% (1/62), Health Sciences, 0% (0/25); Science 94% (171/182).

SSHRC In the 2007/08 SSHRC Standard Research Grants competition, SFU had a success rate

52%

compared to the national average of 33%. Overall, the percent of faculty members

holding SSHRC grants in 2007/08 was as follows: Applied Sciences, 12% (20 current faculty

members holding SSE{RC grants/165 faculty members; Arts & Social Sciences, 29% (105/357);

Business Administratibn, 32% (24/75); Education, 40% (25/62), Health Sciences, 12% (3/25);

Science 0% (0/182).

CIHR

For the 2007/08 Operating Grants competition, SFU had a success rate of 18%

compared to the national average of 25%. Overall, the percent of faculty members holding CIHR

Research Intensity 2007-08

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713/08

• grants in 2007/08 was as follows: Applied Sciences, 5% (8 current faculty members holding

CIHR grants/165 faculty members; Arts & Social Sciences, 2% (8/357); Business

Administration, 0% (0/75); Education, 0% (0/62), Health Sciences, 24% (6/25); Science 9%

(17/182).

The percent of faculty members holding NSERC, SSHRC, Canada Research Chairs program,

and CIHR grants in. 2007/08, broken down by Faculty are as follows: Applied Sciences, 78%

(128/165); Arts & Social Sciences, 36% (128/357); Business Administration, 40%

(30/75);

Education, 42% (26/62); Health Sciences; 32% (8/25); Science, 98% (179/182). (Data provided

by Institutional Research and Planning with source data from the Office of Research Services.)

(c)

The number of peer reviewed publications—ranking of

SFU

in humanities

and social

sciences, and natural sciences:

The

Canadian Universities Publications

2006

study by Re$earch InfoSource Inc. named SFU'

the

top comprehensive university in Canada for publication

effectiveness, a measure of the

quality and impact of research at each university (11 were included in the 'comprehensive"

category) relative to its cost. Data analysis was performed on information compiled from

approximately 6,000 leading international peer-reviewed journals covering the natural sciences,

health sciences, social sciences and humanities for the period 1999-2004. This report appears

every second year, so statistics from 2004 will appear in early 2009.

Research Intensity 2007-08

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In thousands of dollars

Data from Re$earch nFoSource's 2007 report

Canada's Top Research Unive

rsities

indicates that

SFU has the highest research intensity (i.e., Tri Council research funding per faculty

member) of comprehensive universities (see following figure).

Research Intensity

(total Tr-Council research income per full-time faculty member)

Research Intensity 2007-08

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7/3/08

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND PLANNING

To: Dr. Michaet. Stevenson

From: Jacy Lee

President and Vice-Chancellor

Director, Institutional Research &

Planning

Subject: Performance Indicators

Date:

July 4, 2008

As requested, the data for the three performance indicators related to the objective, To achieve

targets for domestic and international enrollment growth without sacrificing quality' are as

follows:

a) Percentage of domestic enrollment target achieved, 2007/08: 100.9% (i.e., actual

undergraduate, domestic program FTEs as a percent of undergraduate FTEs funded by

the Ministry of Advanced Education).

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bi Percentage of international enrollment target achieved, 2007/08: 99.6% [i.e., actual

undergraduate, international program FTE5 as a percent of undergraduate, international

program FTEs approved by Senate).

ci GPA average for undergraduate entrance qualifications by Faculty [for BC 12 students

registered at SFU in 2007/08):

1. Applied Sciences: 80.6%

II.

Arts and Social Sciences: 81.0%

III.

Business: 88.4%

IV.

Health Sciences: 80.3%

Sciences: 82.8%

The source for the actual data above is OASIS as at the official reporting date each semester.

SFU

MEMO

Simon Fraser Universiry

8888 Universicy Drive

Burnaby BC VA

rSo

Canada

Tel 604.2-91.4641

Fax 604.291.4860

www .s Lu c a

ATTENTION

Michael Stevenson

FROM

Mavis MacMillen, Executive Assistant

President's Performance Indicators

DATE

July 2, 2008

Your letter to the Board Chair in September of 2006 identified three quantitative

performance expectations that are to form a pact of your annual performance review.

One of the measures for raising the profile of SFU in the general public and among

community leaders is the number of contacts made with government and community

leaders. I have reviewed your bi-monthly President's Activity Briefings for the period

July 2007 through June 2008 and report the following statistics:

Government Contacts Community Contacts

July 2007— June 200B

319

Last year's statistics were:

July 2006 - June 2007

269

On a comparative basis, this represents a 40% increase in government contacts and a

increase in community contacts during the 2007/2008 year.

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Public Affairs and Media Relations

The MEDIA COUNT

In the 12 months from 01 June 2007 through 31 May 2008, SFUs media-monitoring service

recorded 8,072 mentions in news media, up by 19.8% from the same period of 2006-7.

That meant we averaged 22.1 hits a day, compared with 18.5 the previous year.

Meanwhile, UBC was up by 17.8% from a year earlier, with an average of 47.7 hits a day

compared to 40.5 in the previous year. UVIc slipped to 24.1 mentions a day from 25.4.

The increase in SFU's media-count is attributable in large part to increased time spent on making

direct "pitch calls" to media outlets to push stories about SFU people and programs. That's an

arduous and challenging process, but has clearly paid off during the year.

• As well, SFU'S office of Public Affairs and Media Relations (PAMR) has stepped up the proactive

provision to media of contact info for SFU "experts" who can comment on news of the day. PAMR

strives to anticipate the news, and to guide reporters to experts before the stories break.

PAMR has also worked hard and successfully to build relationships with ethnic media in the

Lower Mainland. This because something like one million people in the region do not read, watch

or listen to the "mainstream" media outlets.

2007-8 print media references:

(In parentheses, the item count for the same period of

2006-7)

Month

UBC

UVic

June 2007

(532)

932

(832)

660

(869)

July 2007

11.

563

(496)

1186

1011

485

(462)

August 2007

(615L

1181

1056)

708

(696)

September 2007

(620)

1562

(1214)

683

(875)

October 2007

578

____

16421

1399

(1466)

491

(823)

November 2007

677

(6)

1455

(1692)

802

(940)

December 2007

444

(38fl

980

(11)

516

(673L

January 2008

750

(481)

1693

(17)

823

(754)

February 2008

749

(503)

1776

(1209)

919

(8021

March 2008

657

(618)

1743

(1604)

785

(864)

April 2008

992

(58QL

1666

(1161)

1013

(771)

May 2008

826

1822

(1278)

907

(727L

Totals

1072

(6740)

17395

(14782)

8792

(9256)

NOTES

The statistics on the preceding page are seriously understated. They are limited to

Canadian

print media

with online outlets selected and monitored by a single service,

lnfomart.

Broadcast media are not covered, nor are magazines, ethnic media outlets or foreign media.

Thus, for example, the figures for May 2008 exclude scores of foreign media hits from all

around the world on the Human Security Report issued by SFU's School for International

Studies.

According to public-relations veterans, the numbers above should be multiplied by at least

four to approach the reality in Canadian media alone. But we find the understated numbers

useful for watching trends.

UVic's coverage is heavily 'local', in the

Victoria Times Colonist

and Vancouver Island

community papers. It does not get the national or province-wide exposure that we do at SFU.

While continued improvement in the media-count is a constant priority, it is worth noting that

UBC has twice as many full-time-equivalent students as we do and is a bigger enterprise

over-all with total revenues three times ours.

As well, UBC has 2.5 times the faculty, and their research funding is six times ours. It is also

heavily biased towards media-popular medical research. As research generates at lot of

media coverage, the results we've been able to achieve with such a comparably small corps

of researchers speak volumes to the quality of SFU faculty.

SFU's office of Public Affairs and Media Relations has a complement of 9.4 FTEs. UV1c,

meanwhile, has 15 FTEs in its CommunibationS office. And UBC's Public Affairs department

has 23 (13 FTEs on staff and six under contract at UBC Vancouver, and four FTEs at USC

Okanagan).

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University Advancement

Fundraising Summary 2007/08

1.0

Introduction

University Advancement achieved its second highest Fundraising results in 2007/08,

rdsin' S32,

307,

087 in

ifts and pled

g es,

2% of

Fundraising Results

$35 million goal.

Despite slightly

decreased gifts and

535000,000

annual

cfld

the lack of an

520.000.000

excep

the B.lusson

t ional gift,

donation

such as

2006/07,

our donors

004/04

00/05

200D/0'

200/07

007/0

continued

to generously

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support untver5i

prorities.

Results

Fundraising activitydeclined 8.4%

2007/08

from

the

2006/07 record

high of

$35,236,104.

However, Fundraising

sifts by Purpose

exclusive of' special

33.000-000

gifts

($10

million+)

aCtuaLly ulcreaseu

&r r Ofl.00O

-,_''

ncr, talPr

29%

over

2006/107.

SUPV011,

This

ncluded a 3t%

increase

(

1 -

)

-ifts less

now

than St million,

5t^,J-1 Aid.

K111—CO

$14,016,553 in

. LSQU.UQU

2007/013 as compared

with $0,676,868 in

2006/07. In addition,

the university received cash of $21,304,364.

SFundraising Summary

Fiscal Year 2007/013

2.0

S M()N F IIASI- R IJNIVEI1SII'Y

ir'II'JiOI.

I5 W 0 q t.-)

Capital Projects

16,573914

7,915,900

Academic Support, Endowed

7,043.453

5 12,386,311

Academic Support. Non-endowed

1,704,821

1881,007

Unrestricted

37,941

20.360

Collections

888.748

1.992,322

Equipment

5,669,665

1,99.798

Other

101,956

191,150

Student Aid, Endowed

2.257,424

2,350,861

Student Aid, Annual

987,182

1,679.378

32.307.087

2.1

Capital Projects

This is one of three designation categories that showed a

decline in donations. Even so, SFU received more than $7.9 million in capital

funding (including the $4.9 million booked for the augmented value of a gift-

in-kind of land), mainly to our School for the Contemporary Arts. Our focus

for the coming year will be on raising the $12 million required to complete the

fundraising for the Contemporary Arts Building project.

2.2

Academic Support

2007/08 was a strong year for gifts to both endowed and

non-endowed Iaculry support, with a total of $16,267,318 coming in to

support Chairs, Professorships, non-contract research, and research centres.

Endowed Academic support increased by 76% while gifts to non-endowed

academic support more than doubled over the previous year.

2.3

Student Aid

2007/08 saw a marked increase in gifts to student support. Both

endowed and non-endowed categories increased, although non-endowed gifts

showed a more

significant gain.

Studeif SnpPort

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Overall, student

Funding received

$4,030,239, a 24% 1

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increase over

2006/07.

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UIfl

Z000/07

2o1/s

NUMI

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3.0

Notable Donations

SFU was the recipient of numerous remarkable gifts and pledges including:

• $1.5 million from Richard and Valerie Bradshaw for the Liber Ero Chair in

Coastal Studies

•

$1 million from the Ministry of Children and Families to the Chair in Excellence

in Autism Intervention

• $300,000 from Len and Judi Libin for the Leadership Chair in Reducing Violence

Among Children and Youth

Fundraising Summary

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Fiscal Year 2007/08

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•

S [.5 Lfldhou [torn Sr. Paul's Hospital Foundation for the Chair i

IV/Aid,

ftesearch

•

53.128 million fron Sr. Pants Hospital Foundation, the Heart and StrOke

Foundation and Pfizer for the P[izet/Hearr & Stroke FoOndarion BC & Yukon

Chair in Cardiovascular Prevention Research

•. $1.5 million For the Containment Lab in infectious Disease ftesearch and $2.5

million for the MowaEghian Endowment in Children's Health Policy Research

from the Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation

• A pledge of a gift of real estate valued at $723,000 from Margaret T. Morgan, to

benefit the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

•

A pledge of Si million in real estate or cash from Dale Pegehr, to benefit the

Close to I-lowe Scholarship Endowment at SFU Surrey

• A pledge of St million from Mr. Sam Belzberg to the School for the

Contemporary Aics Campaign.

• A previously reported gift of land to the School for the Contemporary Arts

increased in value based on real estate appraisals

4.0

SFU's Donors

2007/08's $32,307,087 was donated via the generosity of 7,412 donors. The largest

single group of donors is alumni. Corporations account for the largest portion of

dollars raised. 41% of the total.

Donors by $ raised

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Furiciraising, Summary

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Fiscal Year 2{)7/08

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Fundraising Summary

Fiscal Year 2007/08

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This

ear, SFU received no gifts or pledges of over $3 million. A total of 56% of funds

raised came from $lmillion plus gifts.

601,888

6833

<$1,000

$1,000-$9,999

1,132,334

427

$10,000 - $ 24,999

872,727

$ 25 0

1,918,374

$100,000 - $49999

5,426,676

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$500000 - $999,999

4,064,588

1M-4.9M

18290,500

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Total

32,307,087

7,412

5.0 Gifts

to Endowment

Gifts and pledges to endowment amounted to $14,737,172, a 58% increase over the

previous year.

Annual Programs

In 2006/07 University

Advancement

Annual Campaigns

implemented an

automated system for the

.000.000

- -

alumni calling program

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replacing a paper-heavy

manual calling system with

state of the art computer

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software and screens that

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provide callers with critical

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information at a glance. Although our investment has not yet provided an increase in

dollars raised, we have greatly improved our contact rate, and hope to see fundraising

increases in the next fiscal year. Our Annual Programs, including the Calling Program,

Campus Appeal, and Annual Student Support Fundraising, contributed $1,145,245 to

the total.

7.0

Planned Giving Programs

The foundation of a comprehensive planned giving program was established this past

year. First, a baseline for the accumulated total of all legacy expectancies, named the

SFUIFuturefund was researched and established at $23,432,349 as of April 1, 2007.

Additionallv,10 new planned giving brochures were researched, designed and

published: a new planned giving web page was launched in September; and the first

SFU Futures newsletter was mailed in November to 16,160 alumni, donors, retirees

and friends.

6.0

There were 68 respondents to the newsletters who conLirnied new expectancies oL6.3

million by March 31., 2008 with potential for an additional

S3.7

million iclentiLled

directly by donors or indirectl

throuih donors advisors. A pledge of $723,000 in

real

estate was secured and assistance provided in securing another real estate gift/

pledge of

$1 million. Significant progress has been made in establishing a sell' insured gift annuity

prdgrain, a first for a BC university.

Gifts of $202,481 were received from estates.

8.0

Cost per dollar raised

University Advancement exceeded its budget by approximately $32.6 13, or 1.3%, with

total spending ofS2,588,975.9lori a budget of

$2,556,362.32.

The cost to

Advancement per dollar raised increased from last

ear's $ 0.064 to $0.08. including

Facult y

expenses oF$4$[,215.67, the cost per dollar raised was $0.05 as compared to

$0078 in 2006/07. In both 2006/07 and

2007/08,

Universit y

Advancement incurred

a special fundraising cost. When added to our total costs, the $550,000 in 2007/08

resulted in a cost per dollar raised of $0.11. This year's actual costs per dollar raised are

still well within fundraising best practices; man

post-secondar

fundraising operations

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spend between :10 and 15 cents per dollar raised.

9.0

University AcFvancement Productivity

Last year, we assessed our productivity at $1.74 million for each qualifying

advancement staff meniber (flindraisers, support staff researchers). For fiscal 2007/08

productivity has dipped to $1.5 million, still well above our yardstick" of$L million

per person.

10.0 Future Challenges

University Advancement's biggest challenges in the coming year include: managing

expectations for philanthropic support to alleviate extraordinary budget pressures with

no increases to staff complement, and maintainin

competitive position in the market

where major competitors are greatly ramping up fundraising capacity and targets. in

Particular-, BC Children's Hospital Foundation and LJBC are significantly increasing

staff to support m.ega-cainpaigns of $500 million or more (U.BC is expected to launch a

billion dollar campaign). SFU will need to explore new models for financing the

University Advancement operation to remain competitive in this environment.

Efforts to plan for the next major SFU campaign will continue with the development

of a list of transformational opportunities to build on University strengths.

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Fiscal Year 2007/08

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