Donna Souder Hodge, Ph.D., Vice President of Operations and Advancement
Operations and Advancement
Mission
The Office of Operations and Advancement will work creatively and diligently to:
- Build capacity and elevate CSU Pueblo mission in order to implement and drive Vision 2028
- Manage Vision budgets, fiscal planning, and reporting
- Support Facilities Management and the campus physical plant, Auxiliary Services, Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives, and the Denver-based Advancement team
- Develop people, expand student, and employee experiences and opportunities
- Expand external partnerships in order to elevate the University's work across Colorado and the Southwest United States
Vision
Support a financially sustainable university
Values
Enhance the appeal of campus, increase student success, and invest in our people.
Defining Our Work
Advancement
- All endeavors to reposition CSU Pueblo in the higher education marketplace, build external partnerships, seek expertise, and radically rethink approaches to advancing CSU Pueblo in order to guarantee institutional resilience.
- Foster unique collaborations, and support inclusion, access, and affordability to create new pathways and possibilities for student success; prepare students to navigate opportunities in a rapidly changing world.
Capacity Building
- The monies (including federal funding) allow us to implement and drive Vision 2028 initiatives.
- Efforts to expand opportunities for our campus–including students, staff, and the Pueblo community–particularly in terms of resource development and philanthropy.
Project Management
- Infrastructure that oversees both programming and financial responsibilities of daily Advancement work includes our employees as well as our internal partners (HR, MCCR, etc.), collateral, IT resources, and business financial services.
Collateral
- Pieces and printables that illustrate–using visual information and written words–what our team is doing.
- This includes reports, grants, proposals, marketing materials, and campus communications.
Prospects
- The people, corporations, and foundations in the Metro-Denver area (and beyond) that we are creating relationships with to support Vision 2028 initiatives.
