In a normal year — i.e., a year that is not 2020 — I would have delivered State of the College remarks early in the fall semester. This year, it seemed best to move those remarks to the spring after we’d made it through the fall and had some better sense of the state, University, and collegiate budget and fiscal situation.
Two years ago we introduced the State of the College Data Deck, designed to provide an overview each fall of important information about the college. The 2020 edition is now available. My thanks to CLA Chief Financial Officer Brent Gustafson for his extensive efforts pulling the deck together and for his prodigious patience when I would suggest yet one more tweak.