Dean’ s Advisory Council COM
Dean’ s Advisory Council COM
Annual Faculty Meeting Provides A CDU Medical Degree Program Milestone
In his opening remarks at the November Dean’ s Advisory Council meeting, held via Zoom, Chair Dr. Eugene Grigsby characterized the event as an important milestone meeting. The intent was to discern how the CDU Medical Degree Program was progressing and how the DAC can assist in its development. An accreditation planning update, a progress briefing on the schematic design for the Health Professions Education Building, and projections of the road ahead for the fundraising plan were presented.
COM Dean Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith presented the CDU Medical Degree Program timeline, noting that the completed Data Collection Instrument( DCI) and self-study is due in April 2021. She also highlighted the importance of the fundraising effort as the overall foundation component of the project.
DAC member Dr. Phil Hart facilitated the session on the building effort. He praised the team for their work thus far and noted the importance of coordinating academic accreditation with progress on the building. He noted that there will be students enrolled in the medical school prior to building completion.
Karyn Parzych, representing the SLAM architectural team, provided a brief site overview. The DAC was shown a multicolor rendering of the ground floor and the 4th floor facilities. The ground floor presentation offered a schematic view of the planned courtyard, two large facilities designed for active learning, and how access by local community members will be accomplished. The building’ s entry lobby is located on the south side of the facility facing 120th Street.
The 4th floor plan features a simulation center offering a full continuum of care. Also located on the floor will be innovation labs, robotic surgery training, a virtual skills lab as well as space for group gatherings and classroom training.
Project Manager Elaine Nesbit noted that the renderings featured elements that are still in the conceptual stage, pending fine tuning. The team is in the initial planning stages of conducting the environmental impact review.
Dean Prothrow-Stith introduced Marianne Briscoe, President and Managing Director of the University’ s fundraising consultant Brakeley Briscoe, who keynoted the fundraising presentation. Prior to the consultant’ s opening remarks, the Dean highlighted CDU’ s recent fundraising triumphs, including the $ 7.73 million share of the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ $ 100 million gift to historically black medical schools in support of student scholarships. She also noted that in recent months, the University had also received an additional $ 8 million in grant support.
Dr. Briscoe apprised the attendees regarding the campaign planning study that her firm is preparing for CDU leadership. Her firm is conducting an internal readiness review and has assessed the University’ s external market potential. The resultant feasibility report will include key strategy recommendations.
She noted the overarching fundraising task as developing a campaign strategy to accomplish the goal of raising $ 75 million within five-years once the effort is fully underway. Her recommended approach was to identify a mix of high dollar donors whose response will go a long way to determine whether the goals can be met within the allotted timeframe. She noted that securing fewer, smaller top-end gifts than initially projected will cause the effort to focus on securing a higher number of small gifts to reach the targeted goal.
Preliminary findings indicated that a five-year timeframe for developing and executing such a campaign is the best approach. She noted that the
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