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President's homepage About Geoffroy Biography Download photo Speeches Planning Strategic plan Accreditation, planning President's report 'Where Breakthroughs Happen' (PDF) President's staff President's Council ISU organization chart Distinguished Awards Celebration 2009 Presidential Lecture series	Geoffroy: Govenor's budget recommendation better news than expected Gov. Culver's FY2011 budget recommendation and his proposal to restore some of ISU's funding losses is better news than anticipated, Geoffroy said in a Jan. 30 letter to faculty and staff. But he asked university officials to remain cautious in planning since changes may occur as the Iowa Legislature takes up the recommendations. Geoffroy: Future of Iowa's universities endangered In a Jan. 10 op-ed article in the Des Moines Register, President Gregory Geoffroy said that "budget cuts seriously threaten our ability to maintain the high-quality Iowa State University education that generations of graduates have received." He added cuts threaten to erode the excellence and service that all three state universities provide to Iowa. Guidelines for FY11 budget planning In a Dec. 2 memo, executive vice president and provost Elizabeth Hoffman outlined the strategy for developing ISU's next few budgets in the face of declining state funding and anticipated declining enrollments. Geoffroy: ISU must deploy resources to areas that contribute most to future success If Iowa State is to continue to fulfill its land-grant mission, it must find ways to deploy its severely reduced resources to programs and activities that will contribute most to the university's future success, Geoffroy said in a Nov. 30 letter to faculty and staff. Budget reduction plan to regents President Geoffroy presented Iowa State's plan for dealing with a mid-year $24.5 million reduction in state funding during the Oct. 29 meeting of the State Board of Regents. Geoffroy's presentation to the board (PDF). Letter to employees on reduction plan In an Oct. 29 e-mail, president Gregory Geoffroy thanked the campus community for input on budget reductions and outlined plans for handling a mid-year cut in state funding. Geoffroy: More budget challenges ahead In his Sept. 21 fall convocation remarks, President Gregory Geoffroy praised the university's overall response to difficult economic times and predicted more budget challenges in the coming year. "The real challenge for all of us is how to best adjust to those changes and to the new fiscal realities while simultaneously staying true to our mission and still finding ways to fulfill it at the highest levels of excellence and impact," Geoffroy said. University leaders discuss budget issues with legislative subcommittee President Gregory Geoffroy and the other regents university presidents met with the Iowa Legislature's Education Appropriations Subcommittee March 3 to discuss the effects of reduced state appropriations to the universities. See: President Geoffroy's remarks ISU response to subcommittee questions Regent President David Miles' remarks (PDF file) Vision: To make ISU a model of energy efficiency President Geoffroy and his advisory committee seek to make Iowa State University a model of energy efficiency -- a university that leads the way in conserving energy and minimizing its impact on global climate change. More about Live Green! About the president Gregory Geoffroy became Iowa State's 14th president on July 1, 2001. He has 35 years of teaching, research and administrative experience at three of the nation's leading land-grant universities. Feature on the Geoffroys \| Biography	Holiday greeting Click here for an interactive musical holiday greeting from the Geoffroys. Making an impact Iowa State is the source of $1.52 billion that is channeled into the Iowa economy each year -- more than six times the state's annual appropriation to ISU. Read more about ISU's contributions to the Iowa economy (pdf). President Gregory Geoffroy.