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FISCAL YEARS 2021-2023 FINANCIAL PLAN TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Executive Summary 4 Mission 6 Governance 9 CFO Outlook Operating and 10 Enrollment Plan 23 Capital Budgets 38 Philanthropy 40 The Endowment 2 THE FINANCIAL PLAN FY 2021 - 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I am pleased to present our updated three- epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was year Financial Plan. The plan reflects our shared the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it commitment to ensure we guarantee and celebrate was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” Regis University’s 150th anniversary in 2027 and We are wiser. Our faith has been tested and continue to deliver on our promise of a distinctive strengthened. We see the light through the darkness Jesuit, Catholic, and mission-focused education. every day. We hold steadfastly onto hope. There is In many ways, a university is like a small city. much to celebrate. We have integrated five colleges Of course, our deans and faculty are our most into three and developed curricula to meet the direct link to our students. On any given day — on demands of the future marketplace and needed skills. campus and virtually — there are many complex We have invested in campus improvements to the and unique operations, functions, and staff that benefit of students and employees alike. We have come together for the same purpose and common invested in technology to secure our infrastructure, good. We aspire daily to do more and to deliver on our intellectual property, and to deliver online our core business and our core promises. Whether learning. We have honored service and tenure by facilities management or library services, whether providing an incentivized, voluntary retirement student success coaches or advancement, whether program. We have modernized our Regis University accounting or athletics, we all collaborate to ensure a website to better attract and retain students. return on our investments — and yours — at all levels. Our updated Mission Statement will permeate our On top of our beautiful complexity, we have had strategic planning, our actions and our behaviors. unparalleled events to deal with in framing our As a Jesuit Catholic university, Regis seeks to build a financial plan. The cyber event in August 2019, was more just and humane world through transformative devastating but not defeating. Regis University’s education at the frontiers of faith, reason and culture. response to COVID-19 was swift and our transition to We have a new perspective on what are our worst of online learning — a space we mastered decades ago times and know the best of times are yet to come. — was seamless. We are doing all we can to support our faculty and student health professionals as they I recommend that the Board of Trustees approve the prepare for and go into the front lines. FY 2021 unrestricted operating and capital budgets. If you will indulge a forever English professor, Charles Gratefully, Dickens wrote in “A Tale of Two Cities,” “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the THE FINANCIAL PLAN FY 2021 - 2023 3 MISSION AS A JESUIT CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, REGIS SEEKS TO BUILD A MORE JUST AND HUMANE WORLD THROUGH TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION AT THE FRONTIERS OF FAITH, REASON AND CULTURE. Mission SERVICE TO THE MISSION: CURA PERSONALIS AND CURA APOSTOLICA As a Jesuit Catholic university, Regis seeks to build a “Cura apostolica was never about building up more just and humane world through transformative institutions,” says Jesuit historian Fr. John Padberg. education at the frontiers of faith, reason and culture. “It was and is about seeing `the work’ as the people engaged in it and the people served by it.” In the Inspired by the vision of Ignatius of Loyola, the words of Dr. Stephanie Russell, Vice President of the Ignatian character of Regis University is a vision AJCU, “While we need the practical means to sustain of education of the whole person in relation to the and grow our institutions, our core work is flesh and common good, asking, “How ought we to live?” As blood, not bricks and bitmaps.” our new mission statement affirms, we are called together across all the university disciplines to help Our people are the heartbeat of the Regis educational bring reconciliation and justice to a broken world and apostolate, and the financial plan is the concrete transformation to a suffering ecosystem. embodiment of our commitment to Mission. An Ignatian way of discernment prayerfully asks: Do we Jesuit education is also a call to the future — always have all the necessary data? Have we heard from adapting, imagining new forms toward the realization those who will be most impacted by our decisions? of the magis. What unifies Jesuit education across the How do we align our budgetary resources with the generations is not uniformity or mere repetition but number of students that we currently serve, and look a faith-informed way of proceeding that is passed on to the future, with the apostolic concerns prioritized from person to person, from heart to heart. To say it by the global Society of Jesus? another way, care for the person (cura personalis) and care for the mission and flourishing of the institution Listening deeply to one another and discerning the (cura apostolica) are two sides of a single fabric, call of the Spirit in our world, we rededicate ourselves, both integral to Regis’ effectiveness as a “social for the greater glory of God, to the work of the magis. projection.” As difficult as it can be to keep these values in healthy balance, we must take care not to drive a wedge between them. THE FINANCIAL PLAN FY 2021 - 2023 5 GOVERNANCE Governance UNIVERSITY BUDGET COMMITTEE For the Academic Year 2019-2020 The President has put in place a more streamlined approach to building the MEMBERS University’s budget and developing its multi-year financial plan. The committee, Salvador D. Aceves Roberta Mancuso known as the University Budget Committee (UBC), is advisory to the President Senior Vice President and Professor, Social Sciences, and reflects a commitment to a shared role in institutional governance. Guiding Chief Financial Officer CCLS principles that define the committee structure include a meaningful level of Roby Blust Stephanie Morris faculty participation. Vice President, Associate Vice President, Enrollment Management Financial Affairs Regis University’s committee has 12 voting members. The committee’s charge is to Jay Campisi Jerry Perez develop and recommend a budget and multi-year financial plan to the President Associate Professor Director, Infrastructure, through his Cabinet. The committee is composed of the following members: and Chair of Biology, Operations and Security, Regis College Information Technology • Six Academic Affairs representatives of up to four faculty and two deans. Services KariAnne Cvencek One of the faculty member representatives is appointed to the Board’s Assistant to the VP Shari Plantz-Masters Resource Planning Committee. Each Academic Affairs appointment is for Advancement Academic Dean for a two-year term. Members may be reappointed for another term. and Professor, Michael Fisher CCIS Professor, Division • Six staff members. With the exception of the CFO and Provost, each staff of Health Services Robert Spagnola appointment is for a two-year term. Members may be reappointed Education Associate Professor, for another term. Anderson College Janet Houser of Business Provost Tuition and fee recommendations are submitted to the President through the Brent Vogel Cabinet for review and approval. The multi-year financial plan, including the Senior Director of one-year budget, is developed and submitted to the President through the Partner Engagement, Admissions Cabinet for review and approval. THE FINANCIAL PLAN FY 2021 - 2023 7 Governance COMMITTEE MEMBERS’ PERSPECTIVE Roberta Mancuso Jerry Perez Professor of Applied Psychology Director of Infrastructure Operations and Security College of Contemporary Liberal Studies Information Technology Services As a member of the UBC, I have the privilege of As a member of the University Budget Committee (UBC), simultaneously examining the 30,000-foot and my participation has afforded me insight into the University’s the 3-foot views of the university. Aside from the process of developing and establishing a multi-year financial warm collegiality and distinguished expertise of its plan. The experience has given me a more comprehensive members, the element of the UBC that has been most and holistic view of how resources are distributed across the refreshing is the degree to which Jesuit discernment institution. Our meetings and members have displayed their contributes to the decision-making process. My commitment to the UBC charter while ensuring decisions experiences as a faculty member on the UBC have are aligned with our Jesuit values and mission. The planning given me a significantly more informed and balanced process and the makeup of the committee of both faculty and perspective of our university budget — one that I staff have allowed us to take into account multiple voices when share with my Regis colleagues. While the common discussing revenue and spending matters. theme is Regis’ financial well-being, our committee With my first year of service coming to close, I look forward meetings create an opportunity to infuse the Regis to year two and serving alongside my colleagues to securing Mission into nearly every budgetary decision. Such an a financial plan that can be used as an instrument to guide undertaking fortifies the future of our institution. our leadership as they look to achieve financial stability while working toward institutional objectives and goals. 8 THE FINANCIAL PLAN FY 2021 - 2023 Governance CFO OUTLOOK There is no better time to test your plans and your planning historic unemployment lows.