Trustees extend visionary leadership of President Machtley through 2020 At the January meeting of Bryant University’s Board of Trustees, held January 15, 2016, the Board voted unanimously to extend the contract for President Ronald Machtley through 2020. Machtley has served as Bryant’s president since 1996. William J. Conaty ‘67, retired senior vice president of Corporate Human Resources for General Electric, Chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, said, “The Board is thrilled to extend and retain President Machtley’s commitment to Bryant University thru July 2020. Ron and Kati Machtley’s accomplishments over the past 20 years are truly remarkable and have elevated Bryant to a world-class university.” A record of achievement Having served Bryant with distinction for 20 years, the Honorable Ronald Machtley has already established an unparalleled record of achievement for a college and university president and positioned Bryant for even greater accomplishments in the future. During his presidency, Bryant:
Transformed from a college of business to a university with an AACSB-accredited College of Business that is recognized among the foremost in the world, a College of Arts and Sciences, and a new School of Health Sciences; Enhanced its academic reputation and ascended in national rankings (currently recognized among the Top Five 4-year business degrees by College Factual/U.S.A. Today and 11 th among U.S. News & World Report peers);
President Machtley stated, “For the past 20 years, Kati and I have been honored to serve a great university with tremendous faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends. We are humbled by the support and confidence of the Board and appreciate their confidence to continue the many initiatives now underway at Bryant.”
Volume 16 Issue 1, WINter 2016 A Newsletter for Members of the Alumni-Admission Connection Volunteer Opportunity! AAC Phone Calling Campaign We are looking for AAC members to connect with admitted, prospective students in their area to provide information to help them make their final college decisions. We’ll send you information on about 10 students and ask you to call them between
March 6 And March 20, 2016. Then we ask you to return the call records to us. We’ll even give you a pre-paid envelope.
Expanded and diversified student enrollment, which has grown 60% since his tenure began, with new graduate degree programs and significantly more rigorous admission requirements;
It’s easy to sign up!
Added nearly 450,000 sq. ft. of new facilities to Bryant’s Smithfield campus, including recent investments of $75 million over the past 15 months for an additional 100,000 sq. ft. including a 50,000 sq. ft. Academic Innovation Center to be opened in August 2016;
By February 26, email Mallory Rousseau (mrousse1@bryant.edu) and she will send you a link to the sign-up form.
Grew the endowment from $107 million to $176 million, accomplished through the success of Bryant’s first capital campaign and another historic fundraising campaign currently underway, which has already raised $53 million towards a goal of $75 million;
The Social Corner
Established itself a leader in international education, with nearly 50% of students participating in study abroad programs and new areas of study including international business and global supply chain management; Extended its international footprint by increasing the internationalization of the Smithfield campus and in September 2015 opening a new four-year branch campus in Zhuhai, China, with an entering class of 160 students who will study business and receive the Bryant University degree. A 100,000 sq. ft. academic facility is under construction in Zhuhai and will be ready for the second semester; Transitioned to NCAA Division I, competing against some of the nation’s top champions and earning back-to-back Northeast Conference Commissioner’s Cup trophies while preparing studentathletes with exceptional levels of academic success. Bryant built a world-class Sports & Conditioning Center which opened in August 2015, and is currently completing construction on a new indoor turf facility that will be the finest in New England.
Although typically it is the president who gets most of the credit for transformational accomplishments in the life of a university, it was noted by Bryant’s Board that a strong and talented leadership team has been a trademark of Machtley’s tenure.
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In addition, the Board also recognized the significant contributions of his spouse, Kati Machtley, who is the Director of the Bryant University Women’s Summit. Now in its 19th year, this annual conference is attended by more than a 1,000 and has sold out every year- becoming one of the most highly sought-after conferences of its kind. President and Mrs. Machtley, who live on campus, have created a special close-knit community through their personal engagement with students, faculty, and staff, and their tireless President and Mrs. Machtley participation in activities.
Alumni-Admission Connection The Character of Success Bryant University Office of Admission 1150 Douglas Pike Smithfield RI 02917
The Bryant Connection is published three times a year for the Alumni-Admission Connection members of Bryant University.
Phone: 401-232-6100 Toll Free: 800-622-7001 admission@bryant.edu
Layout and design is done by Jaewon Back, Class of 2016. Please send comments on this newsletter to the Managing Editor, Mallory Rousseau, ‘11, Assistant Director for Events and Volunteers at mrousse1@bryant.edu.
SMITHFIELD, RI - President Machtley and the entire freshmen class welcomes the class of 2020 to Bulldog Nation with a “Selfie Video” at the conclusion of the 2016 IDEA program. Want to learn more about what the Bryant IDEA is? Turn the page!
What would we do without our talented and dedicated alumni helping to recruit future bulldogs to Bryant? As each semester passes, we are more and more grateful for the continued assistance of our AAC members and how each of you helps create this wonderful community we are all so proud of. Some of the best testimonies from prospective students often include interactions with Bryant alumni, so for that we thank you! This past fall was no exception and we’d like to personally thank the following AAC members who volunteered to represent Bryant at various college fairs across the country: Nickie Archambault ‘10 Suzanne Broyles ‘90 Steven Cowen ‘69 Alexandra DiGregorio ‘12 Veronica Eichmann ‘14 Kathryn Farrell ‘13 Anthony Franco ‘12 Emily Hatfield ‘15 Tyler Keating’14 Catherine Kennedy ‘12 Stephanie Sudol ‘10
Chris Kolias ‘12 Jim Magee ‘88 Alicia Morea ‘10 Pratik Parikh ‘10 Christine Pennell ‘07 Kate Rokos ‘12 Bonnie Roop ‘91 Sonali Shah ‘12 Aisha Whichard ‘09 Margaret Wong ‘14
In addition, for every Bryant 101 session, we ask an alumnus to speak briefly about their Bryant experience and how it has influenced their career and life after Bryant. Last fall, the following AAC members spoke to prospective students at each of these sessions: Ronnie Blanchard ‘13 Raquel Cordeiro ‘13 Katie Generazio ‘11
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The Bryant idea
Ambassador Angle
What do you get when you bring 900 students, 111 mentors (faculty, staff, student), 11 leadership team members, 53 alumni mentors, and 159 judges together on Bryant’s campus for 72 hours? The Bryant IDEA!
Nicole Kelly—Class of 2017 Major: International Business with Concentrations in Finance and Chinese
Bryant IDEA (Innovation and Design Experience for All) is a fast-paced, intensive three-day experiential learning program for all first-year students, that took place on January 25-27, 2016. IDEA represents a key component in Bryant's unique integrated Gateway curriculum. The 13 credit Gateway consists of five courses all focused on a set of common learning outcomes. Although the IDEA is just three days, it’s fun, exciting and often transformative for first-year students. All of the IDEA students are broken into cohorts of approximately 35 students, which they work with throughout the three days. Each cohort is assigned a student, faculty, staff, and alumni mentor who works to support the group throughout the three days and to come up with innovative solutions to real-world problems. Over the course of the program, students are taught the design thinking process, learn about their own strengths and weaknesses, brainstorm solutions to their problem, and eventually prototype a solution that is presented in front of a panel of judges… all in three days! It’s a lot of work and a lot of fun! Take a look at some of the pictures below that include the project reveal, brainstorming sessions, Design Thinking Bridge Challenge, completed projects and some students still finding time to have fun in the midst of all the hard work.
Brainstorming
Design Thinking Bridge challenge
The much anticipated project reveal in the rotunda Students “resting and refreshing” in the halls of Unistructure
Prototyping... fro-yo anyone?
Thumbs up for the Tradeshow
The end of IDEA!
The student mentors 2
More showcasing at the Tradeshow
When Junior, Nicole Kelly visited Bryant for the first time, it was the coldest and snowiest day you could imagine. Despite the blizzard-like conditions, Nicole absolutely fell in love with Bryant’s beautiful campus. In addition, she was extremely impressed by Bryant’s International Business Program, and was specifically interested in the Chinese culture and language. Fast forward a few years from that first visit to January 2016. Nicole just returned from a semester abroad in Shanghai, China. Being back on campus is bittersweet, Nicole says. She considers Bryant her home so it’s good to be back but is so grateful for her experiences during her semester abroad. Nicole took four classes in China, including a Chinese language class and three classes taught in English: modern Chinese history, Chinese economics, and the changing business environment of China. When she wasn’t busy working hard on her studies, Nicole certainly kept busy and took advantage of everything China had to offer. She spent a week of traveling during “Golden Week”, a 7-day national holiday in China which she said was one of her favorite parts about her semester. Visits included Sichuan Province where she saw lots of pandas in the capital of Chengdu and Jiuzhaigau National Park. She also traveled with other Bryant students to see the Great Wall of China, the Silk Road, Tiananmen Square, and the Gobi Desert where she even got to ride a camel! Nicole loved seeing the countryside of China which was a Admiring Jiuzhaigau National Park stark difference from the business -feel of Shanghai and the government-feel of Beijing. Nicole notes that she enjoyed the food in China and the most interesting thing she ate was a scorpion! Although Nicole still has a little over a year left at Bryant, she hopes to one day become a financial analyst for a global company since she loved her experience abroad so much and learning about other cultures. She is currently looking at corporate finance internship opportunities to take advantage of this upcoming summer. In addition to being a student ambassador on campus, Nicole is also a member of Colleges against Cancer, Model UN, the International Business Association and the Collegiate Entrepreneurship Organization (CEO).
Go green! Are you currently receiving a hardcopy of this newsletter? Consider going green and receiving the newsletter electronically in a flipbook!
Just email Mallory at mrousse1@bryant.edu and we will add you to the electronic mailing list! AAC Membership
Know someone interested in joining AAC? Easy! - www.bryant.edu/aac We’ll make them a member before you can say - “Go Bulldogs!” -
Don’t forget!
Share your Alumni Pics! The official site of Do you have pictures of Bryant Athletics is the yourself with fellow Bryant Or pictures from place for news stories alums? your days at Bryant? and videos, schedules and scores, rosters and stats, We’d love to See & share ticket information and them on our more! Facebook page! Www.BryantBulldogs.com
Email Mallory Rousseau at mrousse1@bryant.edu with your pictures today! 3
The Bryant idea
Ambassador Angle
What do you get when you bring 900 students, 111 mentors (faculty, staff, student), 11 leadership team members, 53 alumni mentors, and 159 judges together on Bryant’s campus for 72 hours? The Bryant IDEA!
Nicole Kelly—Class of 2017 Major: International Business with Concentrations in Finance and Chinese
Bryant IDEA (Innovation and Design Experience for All) is a fast-paced, intensive three-day experiential learning program for all first-year students, that took place on January 25-27, 2016. IDEA represents a key component in Bryant's unique integrated Gateway curriculum. The 13 credit Gateway consists of five courses all focused on a set of common learning outcomes. Although the IDEA is just three days, it’s fun, exciting and often transformative for first-year students. All of the IDEA students are broken into cohorts of approximately 35 students, which they work with throughout the three days. Each cohort is assigned a student, faculty, staff, and alumni mentor who works to support the group throughout the three days and to come up with innovative solutions to real-world problems. Over the course of the program, students are taught the design thinking process, learn about their own strengths and weaknesses, brainstorm solutions to their problem, and eventually prototype a solution that is presented in front of a panel of judges… all in three days! It’s a lot of work and a lot of fun! Take a look at some of the pictures below that include the project reveal, brainstorming sessions, Design Thinking Bridge Challenge, completed projects and some students still finding time to have fun in the midst of all the hard work.
Brainstorming
Design Thinking Bridge challenge
The much anticipated project reveal in the rotunda Students “resting and refreshing” in the halls of Unistructure
Prototyping... fro-yo anyone?
Thumbs up for the Tradeshow
The end of IDEA!
The student mentors 2
More showcasing at the Tradeshow
When Junior, Nicole Kelly visited Bryant for the first time, it was the coldest and snowiest day you could imagine. Despite the blizzard-like conditions, Nicole absolutely fell in love with Bryant’s beautiful campus. In addition, she was extremely impressed by Bryant’s International Business Program, and was specifically interested in the Chinese culture and language. Fast forward a few years from that first visit to January 2016. Nicole just returned from a semester abroad in Shanghai, China. Being back on campus is bittersweet, Nicole says. She considers Bryant her home so it’s good to be back but is so grateful for her experiences during her semester abroad. Nicole took four classes in China, including a Chinese language class and three classes taught in English: modern Chinese history, Chinese economics, and the changing business environment of China. When she wasn’t busy working hard on her studies, Nicole certainly kept busy and took advantage of everything China had to offer. She spent a week of traveling during “Golden Week”, a 7-day national holiday in China which she said was one of her favorite parts about her semester. Visits included Sichuan Province where she saw lots of pandas in the capital of Chengdu and Jiuzhaigau National Park. She also traveled with other Bryant students to see the Great Wall of China, the Silk Road, Tiananmen Square, and the Gobi Desert where she even got to ride a camel! Nicole loved seeing the countryside of China which was a Admiring Jiuzhaigau National Park stark difference from the business -feel of Shanghai and the government-feel of Beijing. Nicole notes that she enjoyed the food in China and the most interesting thing she ate was a scorpion! Although Nicole still has a little over a year left at Bryant, she hopes to one day become a financial analyst for a global company since she loved her experience abroad so much and learning about other cultures. She is currently looking at corporate finance internship opportunities to take advantage of this upcoming summer. In addition to being a student ambassador on campus, Nicole is also a member of Colleges against Cancer, Model UN, the International Business Association and the Collegiate Entrepreneurship Organization (CEO).
Go green! Are you currently receiving a hardcopy of this newsletter? Consider going green and receiving the newsletter electronically in a flipbook!
Just email Mallory at mrousse1@bryant.edu and we will add you to the electronic mailing list! AAC Membership
Know someone interested in joining AAC? Easy! - www.bryant.edu/aac We’ll make them a member before you can say - “Go Bulldogs!” -
Don’t forget!
Share your Alumni Pics! The official site of Do you have pictures of Bryant Athletics is the yourself with fellow Bryant Or pictures from place for news stories alums? your days at Bryant? and videos, schedules and scores, rosters and stats, We’d love to See & share ticket information and them on our more! Facebook page! Www.BryantBulldogs.com
Email Mallory Rousseau at mrousse1@bryant.edu with your pictures today! 3
Trustees extend visionary leadership of President Machtley through 2020 At the January meeting of Bryant University’s Board of Trustees, held January 15, 2016, the Board voted unanimously to extend the contract for President Ronald Machtley through 2020. Machtley has served as Bryant’s president since 1996. William J. Conaty ‘67, retired senior vice president of Corporate Human Resources for General Electric, Chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, said, “The Board is thrilled to extend and retain President Machtley’s commitment to Bryant University thru July 2020. Ron and Kati Machtley’s accomplishments over the past 20 years are truly remarkable and have elevated Bryant to a world-class university.” A record of achievement Having served Bryant with distinction for 20 years, the Honorable Ronald Machtley has already established an unparalleled record of achievement for a college and university president and positioned Bryant for even greater accomplishments in the future. During his presidency, Bryant:
Transformed from a college of business to a university with an AACSB-accredited College of Business that is recognized among the foremost in the world, a College of Arts and Sciences, and a new School of Health Sciences; Enhanced its academic reputation and ascended in national rankings (currently recognized among the Top Five 4-year business degrees by College Factual/U.S.A. Today and 11 th among U.S. News & World Report peers);
President Machtley stated, “For the past 20 years, Kati and I have been honored to serve a great university with tremendous faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends. We are humbled by the support and confidence of the Board and appreciate their confidence to continue the many initiatives now underway at Bryant.”
Volume 16 Issue 1, WINter 2016 A Newsletter for Members of the Alumni-Admission Connection Volunteer Opportunity! AAC Phone Calling Campaign We are looking for AAC members to connect with admitted, prospective students in their area to provide information to help them make their final college decisions. We’ll send you information on about 10 students and ask you to call them between
March 6 And March 20, 2016. Then we ask you to return the call records to us. We’ll even give you a pre-paid envelope.
Expanded and diversified student enrollment, which has grown 60% since his tenure began, with new graduate degree programs and significantly more rigorous admission requirements;
It’s easy to sign up!
Added nearly 450,000 sq. ft. of new facilities to Bryant’s Smithfield campus, including recent investments of $75 million over the past 15 months for an additional 100,000 sq. ft. including a 50,000 sq. ft. Academic Innovation Center to be opened in August 2016;
By February 26, email Mallory Rousseau (mrousse1@bryant.edu) and she will send you a link to the sign-up form.
Grew the endowment from $107 million to $176 million, accomplished through the success of Bryant’s first capital campaign and another historic fundraising campaign currently underway, which has already raised $53 million towards a goal of $75 million;
The Social Corner
Established itself a leader in international education, with nearly 50% of students participating in study abroad programs and new areas of study including international business and global supply chain management; Extended its international footprint by increasing the internationalization of the Smithfield campus and in September 2015 opening a new four-year branch campus in Zhuhai, China, with an entering class of 160 students who will study business and receive the Bryant University degree. A 100,000 sq. ft. academic facility is under construction in Zhuhai and will be ready for the second semester; Transitioned to NCAA Division I, competing against some of the nation’s top champions and earning back-to-back Northeast Conference Commissioner’s Cup trophies while preparing studentathletes with exceptional levels of academic success. Bryant built a world-class Sports & Conditioning Center which opened in August 2015, and is currently completing construction on a new indoor turf facility that will be the finest in New England.
Although typically it is the president who gets most of the credit for transformational accomplishments in the life of a university, it was noted by Bryant’s Board that a strong and talented leadership team has been a trademark of Machtley’s tenure.
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In addition, the Board also recognized the significant contributions of his spouse, Kati Machtley, who is the Director of the Bryant University Women’s Summit. Now in its 19th year, this annual conference is attended by more than a 1,000 and has sold out every year- becoming one of the most highly sought-after conferences of its kind. President and Mrs. Machtley, who live on campus, have created a special close-knit community through their personal engagement with students, faculty, and staff, and their tireless President and Mrs. Machtley participation in activities.
Alumni-Admission Connection The Character of Success Bryant University Office of Admission 1150 Douglas Pike Smithfield RI 02917
The Bryant Connection is published three times a year for the Alumni-Admission Connection members of Bryant University.
Phone: 401-232-6100 Toll Free: 800-622-7001 admission@bryant.edu
Layout and design is done by Jaewon Back, Class of 2016. Please send comments on this newsletter to the Managing Editor, Mallory Rousseau, ‘11, Assistant Director for Events and Volunteers at mrousse1@bryant.edu.
SMITHFIELD, RI - President Machtley and the entire freshmen class welcomes the class of 2020 to Bulldog Nation with a “Selfie Video” at the conclusion of the 2016 IDEA program. Want to learn more about what the Bryant IDEA is? Turn the page!
What would we do without our talented and dedicated alumni helping to recruit future bulldogs to Bryant? As each semester passes, we are more and more grateful for the continued assistance of our AAC members and how each of you helps create this wonderful community we are all so proud of. Some of the best testimonies from prospective students often include interactions with Bryant alumni, so for that we thank you! This past fall was no exception and we’d like to personally thank the following AAC members who volunteered to represent Bryant at various college fairs across the country: Nickie Archambault ‘10 Suzanne Broyles ‘90 Steven Cowen ‘69 Alexandra DiGregorio ‘12 Veronica Eichmann ‘14 Kathryn Farrell ‘13 Anthony Franco ‘12 Emily Hatfield ‘15 Tyler Keating’14 Catherine Kennedy ‘12 Stephanie Sudol ‘10
Chris Kolias ‘12 Jim Magee ‘88 Alicia Morea ‘10 Pratik Parikh ‘10 Christine Pennell ‘07 Kate Rokos ‘12 Bonnie Roop ‘91 Sonali Shah ‘12 Aisha Whichard ‘09 Margaret Wong ‘14
In addition, for every Bryant 101 session, we ask an alumnus to speak briefly about their Bryant experience and how it has influenced their career and life after Bryant. Last fall, the following AAC members spoke to prospective students at each of these sessions: Ronnie Blanchard ‘13 Raquel Cordeiro ‘13 Katie Generazio ‘11
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