University Report 2014

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Campbell University On Jan. 5, 1887, James Archibald Campbell, a 26-year-old Baptist minister, welcomed 16 students to a small church in Buies Creek, North Carolina, for the first day of classes for the school he founded: Buies Creek Academy. By the end of the first term, there were 92 students.

Since then, Buies Creek Academy has evolved to become Campbell Junior College (1926), Campbell College (1961), and Campbell University (1979).

Throughout these transformations, the university has remained true to its founding principles to address the most pressing needs of North Carolina and to educate men and women for Christian service around the world.

A testimony to how these founding principles still guide Campbell University today is the establishment of three new schools in the last two years. Campbell launched the School of Osteopathic Medicine — North Carolina’s first new medical school in over 35 years — in 2013. In 2016, it will open the doors to its eighth and ninth schools, nursing and engineering.

They join Campbell’s other established schools — College of Arts & Sciences, the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law (1976), the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business (1983), the School of Education (1985), the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (1985) and the Divinity School (1996). In addition to its main campus in Buies Creek, Campbell University has extended campuses in the Research Triangle Park, Camp Lejeune, Fort Bragg/ Pope Air Force Base, and Raleigh, where the law school relocated to in 2009.

Today, Campbell University enrolls nearly 6,500 students, including more than 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students on its main campus. They’re studying across nearly 100 disciplines in the liberal arts, health sciences and professions — and continuing the university’s tradition of excellence in faith, learning, and service.

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Historic transition for Campbell University Dynamic organizations remain dynamic through an intentional and strategic willingness to change with the times and respond to their competition. In my eight years with Campbell University, I have been blessed to be involved with some of the most exciting and transformational change ever demonstrated within higher education.

Since assuming the role of president in 2003, Dr. Jerry Wallace has inspired a level of change and progress at Campbell that is unmatched in the history of the university. During his presidency, the university has invested in programs, facilities and people at an impressive, some would say staggering, rate. But to keep Campbell on the forefront as a “destination school” in North Carolina, every penny raised, every new academic and athletic program, and every new campus facility has been a strategic investment in Campbell’s future.

This 2015 university report looks back over the past year and highlights new milestones in university academics, athletics, student achievements, capital investments, community partnership and other key areas. It also highlights an historic transition for Campbell University, yet another major change — Jerry Wallace stepped down as university president as of June 30, 2015, following 12 years of service in this role and 45 years of total service to Campbell. His successor — and just the fifth president of Campbell since the founding in 1887 — is Dr. J. Bradley Creed.

Building on the vision and legacy of Jerry Wallace, Norman Wiggins, Leslie Campbell, and our founder, J. A. Campbell, Dr. Creed comes to Campbell from Samford University, in Alabama, where he served as provost and executive vice president. Founded in 1841, Samford is Alabama’s flagship private university. The academic reputation of Samford is outstanding, and Dr. Creed will bring new ideas and vision and will continue to expand Campbell’s forwardthinking and strategic agenda.

Campbell has a history that most colleges and universities would love to possess. The university has experienced over 128 years of growth, achievement, and recognition, and a list of larger than life figures including J. A. Campbell, Leslie Campbell, Norman Wiggins, A. R. Burkot and scores of others have called Buies Creek home. Jerry Wallace now joins the ranks of the celebrated former leaders. However, what I have learned throughout this season of change is that these wonderful leaders will come and go — they write their chapter in the Campbell book — but Campbell University remains constant.

We are deeply grateful to Jerry Wallace and the three presidents who came before him. Each of them brought survival, growth, and progressive change in Buies Creek. Godspeed to Brad Creed as the new university president.

May the Lord bless the positive change and vision that he, too, will bring to Campbell University.

Britt J. Davis Vice President for Institutional Advancement & Assistant to the President Communications Staff Haven Hottel (’00)

Assistant VP for Communications & Marketing

Billy Liggett

Cherry Crayton

Jonathan Bronsink (’05)

Carlos Cano

Director of Publications Director of Visual Identity

Director of Digital Media Web Designer / Developer

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2014-15 Campbell University’s 201415 academic year was again historic with the election of our fifth president in 128 years, the announced addition of another new school and the groundbreaking of the second building on our new Health Sciences Campus.

Campbell also enjoyed record enrollment, continued success both academically and athletically and national recognition for our undergraduate and professional programs. Join us in looking back at the year that was, and discover why we continue to be Campbell Proud.

New Online Degrees Campbell University expands its online education offerings, enrolling students in seven new bachelor’s and master’s degree programs that can be completed entirely online.

Designed with adult learners in mind, the new, fully-online degree programs are the Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice, Bachelor of Arts in Religion, Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Security, Bachelor of Science in Information Management, Bachelor of Business Administration, and Master of Science in Clinical Research.

“Moving to online education is a strategic decision positioning the university for growth and the development of new educational opportunities to meet the evolving needs of traditional and nontraditional students,” says John Roberson, dean of Campbell’s Adult and Online Education program.

“The new reality is almost half of all undergraduates are older than 22 years and are nonresidential students. As many nontraditional students are juggling the responsibilities of work, marriage, family and school, they prefer the convenience of online learning. Campbell is embracing this new reality.”

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Katy Brewer Med school legacy Katy Brewer will be a part of history when she graduates in the charter class of the Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine in 2017. She’ll also be carrying on a legacy — her great-great uncle really is in the history books as one of Harnett County’s first physicians.

Dr. James H. Withers (1856-1928) spent most of his life in the Leaflet Community between Lillington and Sanford and even served as Harnett’s Clerk of Superior Court from 1901 to 1907. According to the history books, Withers was a “conscientious doctor and a friend to all his patients. When a patient was critically ill, Dr. Withers would stay in the home with them until the condition improved. He was one of the good, old-fashioned doctors.”

It’s just the kind of doctor Brewer — a native of Sanford and graduate of Wake Forest University — hopes to one day be.

“It means a lot to me to follow in footsteps like that,” she says. “I want to be the kind of doctor who’s well-loved and respected in their community. It made sense to me to choose a school where the goal is to train physicians to serve in rural and underserved areas.”

Much has changed in medicine in the last 100 years, yet many communities in North Carolina lack quality physicians and health care even now. Brewer and her classmates, who began Year 2 in July, are out to change that.

“My intent all along was to stay in North Carolina for my training, and I fell in love with Campbell,” Brewer says. “I love helping people, and I love science and learning why things happen to our mind and our bodies.”

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BEST WEEK EVER Campbell’s 128th academic year kicked off with the “Best Week Ever,” more commonly known in Buies Creek as Welcome Week. The festivities began with a concert in the Academic Circle, freshman medallion ceremony, the second Running of the Camels 5K, the annual Street Fair and the 2014 Football Fan Fest. They ended with mud volleyball and more in Saylor Park that Friday and a Saturday beach trip … the last chances for fun before the “work” began.

More North Carolinians than any other private university ...

Over the past five years, Campbell University has enrolled more undergraduate students from North Carolina than any of the 36 private colleges and universities in the state, according to the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities’ 20132014 Statistical Report released in August. Campbell enrolled 4,440 undergraduate students from North Carolina during fall 2013. Only one other private college or university in North Carolina enrolled more than 2,000 in-state undergraduate students during fall 2013, according to the NCICU report.

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A RECORD CLASS Campbell began the 2014-15 academic year with 1,185 new undergraduate students, the largest entering cohort in the University’s 127year history and a 10-percent increase from the prior year.

sciences, and professions over the past several years,” Campbell President Jerry Wallace said.

“That pride and excitement is bubbling over, and it’s reflected in the record number of firstyear undergraduates we have at Campbell.”

“I’ve been at Campbell University for more than 44 years, and the pride and excitement on campus has never been higher as we have opened a medical school and expanded our academic portfolio across the liberal arts,

Health-related programs were the most popular majors or tracks for Campbell’s new students.

Nearly a third declared an intention to major in a pre-professional health-related program to begin the 2014-15 academic year.

Pre-professional health-related programs

195 100

pre-pharmacy

biology preprofessional

71

nursing

45

pre-physician assistant

30

pre-physical therapy

Popular majors and tracks

65

business administration

36

criminal justice

42

pre-law

34

athletic training

42

40

PGA professional trust and wealth golf management management

34

homeland security

29

exercise science

36

psychology

26

communication studies

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Chris Hemeyer Voice of the Camels It’s Chris Hemeyer you hear when you listen to the football or men’s basketball games on WCLN-FM 107.3 or at GoCamels.com for wrestling or the women’s basketball, soccer, volleyball, lacrosse, softball and baseball games. He also produces the videos, hosts a weekly coaches’ show and emcees the annual athletics banquet — The Cammys — each spring.

“I love being at Campbell,” Hemeyer says. “I love the variety. I love the people.

I love working with students.”

He grew up in Columbia, Missouri, the son of two sports fanatics. He became one, too. When he realized at age 12 that he would never make it as a professional baseball player, he decided to pursue a career in sports journalism.

As a student in the renowned Missouri School of Journalism, at the University of Missouri, in the mid to late 1990s, he did some television play-by-play for college sports and was a radio play-byplay announcer for a local A.M. station in central Missouri, calling high school sports. He loved the experience because he felt like he was part of the team, he said.

After a stint at WCTI-TV in New Bern as a news reporter and eventually fill-in sports anchor in 2001, Hemeyer became the radio play-by-play man for the Kinston Indians minor league baseball team. That work led Robert Harper, the then-play-by-play announcer at Campbell, to call Hemeyer in 2010. “My color commentator is sick, and I got your name from somebody who knows you,” Harper told Hemeyer. “Would you be interested in doing color commentary for a Saturday game?”

Hemeyer soon fell in love with Campbell.

When the job came open the next year, Hemeyer made the move to Buies Creek full time. “When I was 12, I knew I wanted to work in sports,” he says. “But as you get older, you realize there aren’t a lot of jobs in a very competitive field. So I feel very lucky.”

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White coats for PA’s fourth class The physician assistant program celebrated the beginning of its fourth academic year by issuing 44 white coats to the students who’ll make up its Class of 2016. “Your white coat is not just a piece of cloth,” speaker Jeffrey Lamphere of Wake Physician Practices, said at the ceremony. “It’s the start of your change.”

Medical school lands cancer research grant The School of Osteopathic Medicine has received notification of its first federal grant award from the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute in the amount of $300,000. The three-year research project, led by primary investigator and faculty member Dr. Yunbo Li, focuses on the relationship between chemotherapy and chronic heart failure.

The grant research, entitled “Cruciferous Dithiolethiones for Chronic Heart Failure: Signaling Mechanisms,” proposes to provide not only a novel strategy for protecting against cancer chemotherapyinduced chronic heart failure, but also an effective modality for the intervention of heart failure resulting from other causes, such as myocardial ischemia.

High-Res Mass Spectrometer The College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences received a $195,960 grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to purchase and install a high-resolution mass spectrometer that will enhance the ability to perform research related to the pharmaceutical sciences.

Already installed and located in the Pharmaceutical Education & Research Center, the state-of-the-art technology enables Campbell faculty and students to characterize both small molecules and large proteins faster and with higher confidence and allows them to analyze drugs, metabolites, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates in complex samples to address clinically-relevant questions that otherwise cannot be answered.

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J. Rich Leonard Campbell Law Dean

Lawyer of the Year Campbell Law Dean J. Rich Leonard was named 2014 Lawyer of the Year by North Carolina Lawyers Weekly at the Leaders in the Law awards banquet in Raleigh.

Since he began serving as dean of Campbell Law in July 2013, Leonard has initiated a plethora of beneficial and impactful initiatives — increasing its already generous scholarship program, performing a top-tobottom review of its curriculum, partnering with leading local law firms to sponsor competitive advocacy program student teams and exploring the expansion of clinical programs.

Campbell Law also announced its Campbell Flex admission program, Campbell Law Connections mentorship program, Certificate in Patent Law and two advanced international certificates with the University of Reading under Leonard’s direction.

Prior to Campbell Law, Leonard served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina since 1992, acting as Chief Judge from 1999 through 2006.

54% FIRST-YEAR STUDENT increase

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Home Sweet Home Campbell Law’s downtown Raleigh campus was tabbed as one of the 55 best law school facilities in the nation by preLaw magazine. In selecting institutions for inclusion, the magazine assessed aesthetics, square footage per student on campus, library hours, number of library seats per student on campus, and amenities — including dining options, parking, and lockers. Of the seven North Carolina law schools, Campbell Law is one of only two to make the cut.

Bigger incoming class Campbell Law ushered in 186 new students with the beginning of its first-year orientation activities, marking the second-largest incoming class in the history of the law school. The students — 168 traditional students and 18 studying as a part of the Campbell Flex program — represented 73 different undergraduate institutions and 43 majors. The number of incoming students is a sharp incline from last year, which saw 121 new students on the first day of orientation.

Raising the Bar Over the course of the past 25 years, 90.89 percent of Campbell Law graduates have passed the summer North Carolina Bar Exam on their first try. That remarkable statistic, tops among the seven N.C. law schools, comes on the heels of a second-place showing by the institution’s graduates on the 2014 examination, in which 85.61 percent (119 of 139) of Campbell Law’s firsttime test-takers passed.

Campbell Law is the only law school in the state of North Carolina to place in the top two for first-time test takers on the summer bar exam in each of the past four years. This year, Campbell Law and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were the only two law schools in N.C. to crack 80-percent or better overall.

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NATALI JUAREZ ROTC Senior CADET South Central Los Angeles is a long way from Buies Creek. And Natali Juarez has come a long way since growing up there.

The 27-year-old Campbell University gradauate earned her degree in May and plans to enter the Army’s physician assistant program to pursue a career in the medical field. It’s a far cry from where she was 10 year ago — a teen searching for her identity, working full-time in a donut shop to support her family while going to school, and dealing with a brother involved in drugs and gangs while doing everything she could to avoid that lifestyle.

She entered Campbell’s ROTC program in the fall of 2013 after joining the Army and serving a short stint in Iraq.

After Campbell, she plans to apply for the Army’s physician assistant program.

As a commissioned second lieutenant, she’ll be able to attend PA school and still be paid as an active duty officer.

After that, she’s ready to go wherever the Army takes her.

“I want to retire in the military. I’ll work until they kick me out,” she says. “There’s security here. There’s structure. There’s discipline. And most important, it’s a challenge for me. Not long ago, I saw myself working at a donut shop for the rest of my life. Now I can do whatever I want — the Army is giving me the opportunity to challenge myself.”

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Campbell ranks among nation’s top private schools for military vets Campbell was the only four-year private college or university in North Carolina ranked in The Military Times’ “Best for Vets: Colleges 2015,” a list of the 100 best schools in the U.S. for veterans.

Nationally, Campbell ranked No. 88 among both public and private schools in the U.S. and No. 15 among private universities.

A TOP 10 CADET In his early 30s, Matthew Gooch thought he was too old and too qualified to go back to school and enter a university ROTC program. He’s been a salvage diver, a military freefall instructor, a Ranger, a Sapper and a medical sergeant. He’s also been deployed three times to Iraq, the last two as a Green Beret.

Not only was he a student and a cadet in Campbell University’s ROTC program this year, Gooch, now 34, was one of the top cadets in the nation. He ranked sixth in the nation among 5,617 Army ROTC seniors in the national Order of Merit List, which takes into account grade point average, performance in the Army physical fitness test, leadership roles in the cadet’s program and his or her performance at the Leader Development and Assessment Course.

A native of Oklahoma, Gooch was commissioned as a second lieutenant and graduated in May with a degree in biological sciences, and he is now looking to pursue graduate studies and a career in medicine. In his military career, Gooch has served in Iraq three times, the final two with the Army’s Special Forces, known widely as the Green Berets, a group tasked with unconventional warfare and counter-terrorism, among other duties. In this role, Gooch helped train Iraqi nationals to fight and took part in several missions, including enemy searches, cache recovery and improving and rebuilding the infrastructure of areas hit hard by the war.

“I am proud to be part of Campbell University, which supports veterans and their family members and helps them attain their college education,” said Joy Cox, director of veteran’s affairs at Campbell.

“We also alleviate some anxiety of funding, because we participate in the Yellow Ribbon Program. I am especially proud that our Veterans Club members now have a specific place to meet to study, talk and relax with each other.”

The Military Times, which Gannett Government Media publishes, evaluated the schools considered for “Best for Vets” list on five criteria: university culture, academic quality, student support, academic policies and financial aid. The most weight was given to university culture and student support.

Based on the 2014 enrollment data submitted to The Military Times, Campbell enrolls 1,327 students who receive benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.

MILITARY FRIENDLY For the second year in a row, Victory Media has named Campbell University to its coveted Military Friendly Schools® list, which honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in the United States that are doing the most to embrace U.S. military service members, veterans and spouses and ensure their success on campus.

Now in its sixth year, the list of Military Friendly Schools® was compiled through extensive research and a datadriven survey of more than 8,000 schools nationwide that are approved for Post-9/11 GI Bill funding. The 1,600 schools named to the list, including Campbell, will be featured in the 2015 “G.I. Jobs Guide to Military Friendly Schools” and other Victory Media publications.

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‘A Sense of Place’ After Campbell University completed constructing the Anna Gardner and Robert B. Butler Chapel in 2009, the university challenged planners and landscape architects to re-imagine the look of the Academic Circle. Five years later, during a brief ceremony on Homecoming weekend, the university formally dedicated the results of that challenge: D. Rich Commons.

This new campus landmark provides Campbell “with a memorable sense of place,” said Jim Roberts, the university’s vice president for business and treasurer. “It’s a place that provides us with a sense of pride and with an opportunity to continue new Campbell traditions.”

Over the summer, the university transformed the Academic Circle near the entrances to Taylor Hall and D. Rich Memorial Hall — one of the most trafficked areas on campus. New sitting walls were installed; areas were leveled and smoothed; new shrubs were planted; bricks were replaced; the entrance to D. Rich Memorial Hall was extended; and a blue stone area was added to serve as host for a new bronzed university seal.

Measuring eight feet across, the seal is the largest medallion that Gemini, Inc. has casted since its founding in 1947, Roberts said. It features Campbell’s motto “Ad Astra Per Aspera,” or “to the stars through difficulties,” which “expresses the dreams and determination that Campbell friends hold for all those who pass their way,” Roberts said. It also includes an open Bible with a cross rising above it. This symbolizes “the source of all truth” and “the great sacrifice of Jesus who saves us and a way of life that we hope attracts all students,” Roberts said.

In all, 67,000 pavers were used to rebuild the 16,750-square-foot area that’s home to the seal and that’s named for D. Rich. A former secretary and director of the J.R. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Rich was one of the earliest benefactors to Campbell. He gave the school $60,000 to construct its original library, Carrie Rich Memorial Hall, which was named for his first wife, who died in 1916.

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Attack of the Drones Travis and Megan Boyd Jack (‘03) of Flyboy Aerial Photography of Raleigh flew their drones over the Buies Creek campus and Barker-Lane Stadium on Homecoming Saturday to capture the festivities from a birds-eye view. The resulting photos and videos were among the most-shared images on Campbell’s social media platforms this fall.

More than 700 students took part in TAG Day during Homecoming Week, honoring Campbell’s many donors by posting photos of themselves on social media with “tagged” items throughout campus — buildings, offices, musical instruments, lab equipment, stadiums and campus landmarks such as the camel statue. The photos, in addition to hand-written notes and studentproduced videos, were the University’s ways to ‘Thank-A-Giver’ for contributing to make Campbell what it is today.

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Jesse Lockamy The Perfect Match Jesse Lockamy was 11 when his grandmother died from leukemia in 2006.

The two were very close — she lived just down the road from Jesse’s home in Willow Springs and made time for lunch every Sunday with her grandson.

In the final years of his grandmother’s life, many of those Sundays were spent in the hospital. Her leukemia diagnosis came just three years after a lengthy and successful battle with breast cancer. The second fight lasted just a few months.

“Cancer is a terrible thing,” says Jesse, a sophomore at Campbell University. “But I remember a lot from the experience — the doctors were not only there for her, they were there for me and my family.

They talked us through everything, and I was always grateful for that. I decided back then that I wanted to be able to do something like that for someone else one day. I wanted to give back.”

As a freshman, Jesse signed up to become a bone marrow or a peripheral blood stem cell donor. Bone marrow or cord blood transplants are considered the best treatment option (or the only potential cure) for people with leukemia, lymphoma and several other diseases. He knew going in his chances of actually donating were low — only 8 percent of those who are called back for being a potential match are actually called on to donate.

Not long after, he was chosen as the donor for an anonymous leukemia patient a few states away. While Jesse would like to meet the person one day, he says it’s not something he’ll think a lot about unless it happens. Regardless, he’s happy he was chosen, and the experience has been a positive one for both him and his family.

“It’s one of the best experiences I’ve ever had,” he says. “Knowing that I potentially saved someone’s life and was able to give to someone something that wasn’t available to my grandmother — it’s a really good feeling.”

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Dr. John Kauffman Medical School Dean

Educator of the Year Dr. John Kauffman, dean of Campbell University’s Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine, is honored as the American Osteopathic Foundation’s Educator of the Year at the Osteopathic Medical Education Conference in Seattle.

Divinity School reaches out to Ebola victims Oju Menjay and his family left Liberia for the United States to do God’s work for the Liberian Baptist Missionary and Education Convention. He soon found himself at the forefront of relief efforts for his home country’s fight to stop the deadly Ebola virus, which had killed thousands in West Africa by October.

Menjay spoke to Campbell Divinity School’s Student Advisory Leadership Team and advised them on the appropriate steps to send aid to Liberia. He also shared his experiences, having seen firsthand his friends and fellow pastors contract the virus from those they were ministering or providing medical care for.

“Just last week, we lost four pastors,” Menjay told members of SALT during a lunch meeting following the sermon he delivered in Butler Chapel for that week’s Thursday service. “Just this morning, I received news that two members of another pastor’s household were sick as well. This is something I don’t think anybody can prepare for. It’s even worse in Liberia, a nation with a very poor health care system that’s been through 40 years of civil war and rebuilding. It’s been very devastating.”

Through mid-October, the Ebola virus had killed more than 2,300 people in Liberia and roughly 4,500 people worldwide.

Marvin Ownley, a Campbell graduate and second-year Master of Divinity student, said SALT chose to work with Menjay because the group wanted its foreign mission project this year to have an immediate impact during a time of crisis.

Given annually, the award “honors and recognizes osteopathic educators who inspire greatness and change lives — they shape the future of the osteopathic profession.”

It’s awarded to an individual who not only emulates the osteopathic profession’s highest standards of excellence in teaching, but one who is passionate about osteopathic medicine, has made a significant impact on the academic advancement of osteopathic students, and has made long-standing contributions to the profession in the academic arena.

Occupational Therapy program Moves Forward Campbell’s Board of Trustees’ Executive Committee approved a proposal to establish a Doctor of Occupational Therapy program — adding to the University’s efforts to offer comprehensive health care education programs.

The proposed program will be housed in Campbell’s College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences. Currently, there are only six fullyaccredited doctoral occupational programs and eight programs progressing through the accreditation process in the United States.

The program is proposed to begin fall 2016 pending approval by SACSCOC and ACOTE. It’ll be the sixth doctoral degree offered by Campbell University.

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Elaine Marshall N.C. Secretary of State

Distinguished Alumna (’81 Law) Marshall was the first woman elected to a state-wide executive branch office in North Carolina. She has been the North Carolina Secretary of State since 1997, and was recently named president of the National Association of Secretaries of State.

Before being elected to the position, she was a state senator, representing N.C. District 15 (1993-94); chair of the Harnett County Democratic Party; and president of the Democratic Women of Harnett County. In the 1970s, she was the national secretary of the Young Democrats of America.

Charles Ayscue Mission Health system

Ranked 4TH IN NATION IN ADMISSIONS APPLICATIONS GROWTH According to an independent analysis conducted by Mic, a news site geared toward the Millennial Generation, Campbell University ranks No. 4 in the United States based on growth in admissions applications from 2003 to 2013.

Over that period, Campbell had a 289-percent increase in applications. No other private college or university in North Carolina was ranked on Mic’s list of the Top 25 universities based on gains in applications.

“The nearly 300 percent increase in applications to Campbell University over the past decade is a strong indicator that Campbell is offering what the young people of North Carolina and the region are looking for,” says Britt Davis, vice president for university advancement and assistant to the president.

Distinguished Alumnus (’73) Ayscue has served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of the Mission Health System since 2007. MHS is the sixth-largest health system in North Carolina. Before that, he was the CFO of the UNC Health Care System for 20 years.

For the past several years, Becker’s Hospital Review has named Ayscue to its list of the nation’s top “125 Hospital and Health System CFOs to Know.” He has served on several boards, volunteered with many charitable organizations, and received numerous honors, including North Carolina’s coveted “Order of the Long Leaf Pine” in 2013.

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Mic reported that it set out to determine the “most popular colleges in the country” by looking at the growth in admissions applications since 2003 based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Liberty University, St. John’s University, Case Western Reserve University, Campbell and Chapman University were the five universities to see the largest growth, in that order. Western Carolina University, a public university part of the UNC System, was the only other university in North Carolina on Mic’s list (ranked at No. 7, with a 270 percent growth in applications between 2003 and 2013).

Coffee, anyone?

Homecoming Saturday began at 7 a.m. sharp with the opening of Campbell’s first full-service Starbucks Cafe. The cafe is located on the first floor of Wiggins Memorial Library and is open seven days a week.

Record-setting win Dakota Wolf throws for 240 yards in his final home game, Akile Jones runs for 118, and Campbell defeats Missouri Baptist 66-7 at Barker-Lane Stadium in a game full of school records.

Campbell sets school Division I era (since 2008) team and Barker-Lane Stadium records with 788 yards of total offense, 521 yards rushing and 40 total first downs. The Camels score on all eight of its red zone chances, including seven touchdowns.

Campbell would go on to finish the season with a 5-7 record, the second consecutive improvement in terms of wins since head coach Mike Minter took over the program for the 2013 season. The Camels would finish with 4-4 mark in the Pioneer Football League.

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SUE ANN FORREST SGA President Sue Ann Forrest was working the Student Government Association’s booth during an orientation this summer when an incoming student approached her.

“Are you interested in student government?” Forrest asked her.

“No, not really,” the student answered.

“But aren’t you in Greek life?”

“Yes,” Forrest said. “I’m in Delta Phi Epsilon.”

“Oh my goodness! That’s the sorority I want to join.”

The incoming student went on to tell Forrest that she almost didn’t come to Campbell because when she started looking at the university, it didn’t have Greek life. But when a family member told her Campbell was adding social sororities and fraternities, “I sent in my deposit that same day,” the student said.

The conversation warmed Forrest’s heart, she said. She, too, had thought about not coming to Campbell because it didn’t have social sororities and fraternities. But she chose to attend Campbell anyway because of its family atmosphere, and she entered with the goal to help start the conversation of adding Greek life to campus.

Her sophomore year she served as secretary of Campbell’s SGA. During an executive council meeting with Vice President for Student Life Dennis Bazemore, she mentioned she thought Greek life could help improve Campbell. “You want to increase more students being involved on campus. You want to increase student participation in coming to games. You want to increase school spirit. Greek life can help.”

In its second year, Campbell’s Greek life is up to five social organizations. “I can’t believe it has grown the way it has,” said Forrest, a double major in English and communication studies on a prelaw track and executive president of the Student Government Association. “I didn’t think it would happen while I was here; I just thought I would help start the conversation. I’m still jumping up and down for joy that Greek life is here.”

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Cary Kolat

Head Wrestling Coach

Olympian joins Coaching Staff In a 10-year span from 1990 to 2000, Cary Kolat went from being the biggest name in American wrestling to the most cursed.

Christmas Store proves important for families in need Campbell University held its fourth Community Christmas Store in Carter Gym, where low-income residents in Harnett County could shop for free Christmas presents for their children or grandchildren.

Each year, the Office of Community Engagement, part of Campus Ministry, works jointly with organizations it has partnerships with to identify and connect with families who need assistance during the Christmas season. Families in need then register during the week before Thanksgiving. Once on campus, parents or grandparents make their way through a makeshift store in Carter Gym to select up to three toys for each child or grandchild they have. After that, volunteers gift wrap the toys as parents or grandparents wait in an area with refreshments.

The toys — free to the families — are donated by the campus community or purchased by the Office of Community Engagement with monetary contributions.

In its first year, the Community Christmas Store served 70 families and between 150 and 180 children. That number has gone up to nearly 100 families.

A 1992 feature on a then 18-year-old Kolat in Sports Illustrated deemed him “The Best There Ever Was” after he tore through Pennsylvania high school wrestling with a perfect 137-0 record. He won two national titles for Lock Haven University after going a combined 50-1 in 1996-97 and won silver and bronze medals at the 1997 and 1998 world championships in Russia and Iran and three gold medals in the World Cup from ’98 to 2000.

But Kolat’s goal from the beginning was an Olympic gold medal. That dream died in his first match in Sydney, Australia, in 2000, after his victory was protested and overturned, and Kolat lost the subsequent rematch. It was the third time in four years that one of his wins in a world-level championship was stripped by a protest from his opponent.

The string of bad luck led U.S. coach Bruce Barnett to tell reporters in Sydney, “When I get to Heaven, one of the first things I’m going to ask is: Why does this keep happening to Cary Kolat?”

It takes more than 300 volunteers to operate the Community Christmas Store. Those volunteers include student-athletes, student club members, sorority and fraternity pledges, Student Government Association representatives, student call team workers, CUFS classes and faculty and staff from across the campus, among others.

Kolat finished ninth in his only Olympics at the age of 27. But while it may have felt like it at the time, his journey didn’t end in Australia.

After leaving wrestling entirely to try his hand at event marketing and public relations, Kolat returned to the sport as a coach in 2010.

“When you come to Campbell, we expect you to be a good player — it’s part of the Campbell pride and PGA pride.”

Today, he is the head coach of Campbell University’s wrestling program, a program that reminds him a lot of his days at Lock Haven, a small, rural school where wrestling tops football and basketball as the “high profile sport.” He’s been tasked with turning around a struggling program and making Buies Creek a destination for wrestlers who want to learn from the best.

— Ken Jones, director of Campbell’s PGA Golf Management University Program, which became the first program to capture four PGA Jones Cup titles in 2014, beating Mississippi State (which was also vying for a fourth title)

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INNOVATIVE COURSE SPAWNS 3D PROTEIN MODELS Seeing a cell and its protein structure on a flat page in a textbook just isn’t the same anymore for students in Karen Guzman’s Biology 460 and Honors 350 course — not after a semester spent building their own computer-generated protein structures and printing out 3D models of their research.

The students — comprised mostly of sophomores and juniors, many of whom are eyeing careers as physicians or in medical research — presented their work during finals week and explained their models and the work that went into them to department professors and their fellow students. According to Guzman, the projects will be used as teaching tools for future biology classes at Campbell.

MED SCHOOL ESTABLISHES 72 NEW RESIDENCY POSITIONS The Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine works with partner hospitals in North Carolina to establish 72 residency positions in the following programs and locations:

“The biggest goal and outcome was to develop materials we can use in other classes,” said Guzman, who got the idea while working with the Center for BioMolecular Modeling, an instructional materials development lab at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. “Nuclear protein transport is new to these students, and even for them, it can be hard to understand. We had to go about a different way of teaching this material.”

“The Affordable Care Act has brought millions of additional patients into an already burdened system. I’m confident that PAs can help address the shortage of trained physicians. We are trained as generalists and can adapt to specialties as needed.”

— Marc S. Katz, president elect of the N.C. Pharmacy Academy of Physician Assistants, at the commencement for Campbell’s PA program’s second graduating class.

• Southeastern Health: Traditional rotating internship (13 positions) • Sampson Regional Medical Center: Traditional rotating internship (10 positions) and family medicine (18 positions) • Harnett Health: Traditional rotating internship (13 positions) • Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center: Family medicine (18 positions) “These programs add to our current lineup of programs to total 144 newly created residency positions in North Carolina since the school first opened in 2013,” says Dr. Robert Hasty, Associate Dean of Postgraduate Affairs for the school of medicine. “We are thrilled for their approval.”

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Campbell recognized 488 students with associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, Juris Doctor and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees earned in August and December during the main winter commencement ceremony.

Campbell’s founding pharmacy dean retires after 29 years “It is really important to me for our students, graduates and health care professionals in general to take a more active role in educating patients and help them take better care of themselves. If we can better educate individuals about disease prevention and management, we can change their lives.”

— Ronald Maddox, founding dean, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

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CAMPBELL’S 5TH PRESIDENT Campbell University named only its fifth president in the school’s 128-year history.

J. Bradley Creed was recommended after a months-long search to the Board of Trustees by a committee composed of trustees, faculty, staff and students. The Board unanimously elected Creed on Jan. 2.

Meet Dr. Creed J. Bradley Creed is an accomplished leader and is no stranger to mission-driven institutions like Campbell.

A nationally-recognized historian of religion, Creed was most recently provost and executive vice president at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., before accepting the job at Campbell. Before Samford, he served as dean of The George W. Truett Seminary at Baylor University.

During his 12 years in Alabama, Creed led multiple transformational initiatives, including the launch of Samford’s College of Health Sciences in 2013 and the addition of more than two-dozen new or upgraded undergraduate and graduate programs. He also played a key role in strategic enrollment efforts designed to increase the size, retention, and academic quality of the undergraduate student body. Samford achieved the highest graduation rate of any college or university in Alabama and saw the average ACT score of its incoming students increase by a full point.

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THE RIGHT FIT “Just from his resume and our initial investigation of him, it was clear he was a strong candidate before we ever met him. We talked to a number of outstanding candidates, but Dr. Creed rose to the top initially. Just in those first five minutes during his first interview, he made everyone feel at ease. I had the sense in my heart, and I think many others on the committee did as well, that God led us to the right candidate.� — Ben Thompson, chairman of the Board of Trustees and director of the search committee

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Jonathan Bridges Social Entrepreneur Just when Jonathan Bridges thought he would be able to make a contribution to the Campbell University football team on the field as a wide receiver, he suffered another concussion. Doctors told him he could play and become a vegetable, or he could stop playing and think for himself.

He quit the team.

“There’s no question of what you are going to do,” said the senior psychology major who played on the team in 2011 and 2013. “It’s a question of how you accept it and deal with it.”

How is he dealing with it? He’s founding Goal: Striving for a Better Tomorrow, a social entrepreneurship venture that will use the arts, academics, and athletics to encourage children to develop healthy habits and teach them skills such as discipline, leadership, and teamwork while also fostering community and expanding opportunities.

Bridges had worked with other Campbell students to start the Social Entrepreneurship Club, which held its first meeting in spring 2014.

In addition, he participated in three of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation’s Serve & Social Entrepreneurship Program retreats, which teach young men and women social entrepreneurial skills. He also worked an internship with Help One Now, a sponsorship program based in Raleigh that supports local leaders in developing countries helping orphans and children at risk for human trafficking or who live in extreme poverty.

“I chose to be part of the Campbell family,” he added. “That decision is paying off. Every opportunity I have spurs from being here. I’m pushing myself to show off the place that has helped me become who I am.”

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Michael Adams

Dean, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

Leading his alma Mater

Hanging up the Hat Campbell’s 2-time Big South Fan of the Year Jonathan Boggs will be attending many sporting events after he leaves Campbell. He’ll just be much harder to find in the crowd.

For the second time, Boggs was named the Big South Conference Fan of the Year in 2015. A fixture at Camel sporting events as the loud one in the front row wearing a reflective vest and orange soda drinking helmet, Boggs graduated in May with a degree in sports management.

For the past three years, Boggs has worked in the promotions department for the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, and for the past two summers, he’s worked with the North American Soccer League’s Carolina RailHawks in the team’s marketing department. His career path is taking him from the arena’s student section to the business office.

“I will blend in more,” says the Holly Springs native. “I’m going to hang up the hat and vest. They have earned it and are ready to be retired. I wouldn’t tarnish my Campbell get-up at any other sporting event. It’s for Campbell only.”

Boggs’ favorite memory as a Camel Crazy was Senior Night, the final men’s home basketball game where he was recognized by Campbell’s Athletics program with a framed picture, similar to the ones received by the team’s seniors that night. The gesture brought a tear to his eye.

Michael L. Adams, formerly the assistant dean and an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Campbell, became the second dean of the Campbell’s College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences on Jan. 1, succeeding founding dean Ronald Maddox. He was also named acting vice president of health programs.

A 1996 Doctor of Pharmacy summa cum laude graduate of Campbell, Adams returned to the pharmacy school as an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences in 2005.

In 2009, he became the school’s director of Science Education Outreach and served in that position through 2012, when he was named assistant dean for graduate and interprofessional education.

As dean, Adams is responsible for the oversight and administration of Campbell’s pharmacy, physician assistant, doctor of physical therapy, nursing, clinical research and pharmaceutical sciences programs.

“I remember making the decision to apply to Campbell when I was a senior in high school, and I knew that decision would have a significant impact on my life,” said Adams.

“Now I have been given the opportunity to give back and make an impact on the future of my alma mater. It’s truly a humbling experience.”

An All-Steinway School A generous gift from Ester Howard (’44) pushed the university’s Music Department over the $10,000 mark it needed to meet the Steinway Grant Challenge. As an All-Steinway School, Campbell’s music students would have access to Steinway pianos in all the university’s practice rooms and concert halls. Campbell’s Music Department offers courses of study leading to degrees in performance, pedagogy, teaching, composition and church music. All courses of study require extensive work with the piano.

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Nick Wilder

Senior economics major

$67.7

$341.4

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Alumni Spending

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Presidential Heritage Award Nick Wilder was presented with the university’s first Presidential Heritage Award during the Connections’ Founders Week service during Founders Week. The award honors an undergraduate student who embodies Campbell pride and who carries on the vision of Founding President J.A. Campbell through leadership and service.

Wilder is involved with SGA, Fellowship for Christian Athletes, and Campus Outreach, a campus ministry organization. He also is a School of Business mentor, voluntarily tutors other business and economics students, and is the founding president of the newly-formed Financial and Investing Club.

Lt. John Arroyo

U.S. Army, Fort Hood 2013 Campbell ROTC graduate

Survivor shares his testimony Lt. John Arroyo (’13), one of 16 wounded in a mass shooting that killed three at Fort Hood Army base in Texas in 2014, returned to Campbell University 10 months after his injury to share his story and his testimony at the Founders Week Campus Connections assembly in Turner Auditorium. Shot in the front of the neck and left for dead on April 2, 2014, Arroyo survived the incident with limited use of his right arm. He says the tragedy strengthened his relationship with his family and with God.

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$23.8

MILLION Student Spending

MILLION

$452.4

MILLION TOTAL IMPACT

$10.7

MILLION

Construction Spending

$8.7

MILLION Visitor Spending

Our Economic Impact Campbell University significantly increases the employability and lifetime income of its students and alumni, as well as adds income, opportunities and social savings that greatly benefit the region and North Carolina, according to a comprehensive analysis of the economic impact of higher education in North Carolina released in February.

During the 2012-13 fiscal year, Campbell had an impact of $452.4 million in the seven counties in central North Carolina it most directly serves: Harnett, Wake, Johnston, Cumberland, Lee, Durham and Chatham. That impact includes payroll, operations, the purchase of goods and services, start-up companies, and spending generated by students and alumni. Campbell’s total impact is the equivalent of creating 7,055 new jobs.

“Campbell University is one of the largest private employers in Harnett County,” said Campbell President Jerry Wallace. “With more than 700 fulltime employees, 6,000 students on our campuses, and nearly 30,000 alumni in North Carolina, we knew we had an impact, but this study validates our value locally and across the state.”

Kendra Erickson A Passion for history The picturesque setting for a lazy late spring day — college friends running through the fields, listening to music, lying in the shade without a care in the world — Kivett’s Mill was where Kendra Erickson (’06) first decided she wanted to dive in to the history of Campbell University and learn more about the school she called home.

Erickson, an English major who started her college career at 16, decided to make the mill her senior project. Her 40-page report told the story of Hendricks Kivett, son of Kivett Hall architect Z.T. Kivett, and the mill he built in the early 1900s to provide lumber for the ever-growing Buies Creek Academy. Nine years after her project and graduation, Erickson, now coordinator of Campbell’s Study Abroad program, was asked to help plan an event to honor perhaps the most historical of all events in the University’s history — the school’s founding in 1887.

For Campbell’s first Founders Week, Erickson served as historical advisor and led the creation of the history room — a temporary museum of early-day Campbell artifacts including founder J.A. Campbell’s diary, his wife Cornelia Pearson Campbell’s bell used to signal the beginning and end of classes and several rarely seen photos from the late 1800s. Erickson’s dream for Campbell is to see the creation of a university archivist or historian position, someone dedicated to centralizing historical documents, photos and videos for future generations.

“Campbell is growing so fast and producing so much material, it should probably be archived in some manner in a central location, like a museum,” Erickson said. “The founding of the medical school, the upcoming engineering program, the law school moving to Raleigh — it’s all so huge. If we’re not careful, we’ll lose an opportunity to create a foundation for future Campbell history.”

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Founders WEEK

Feb. 2-6 marked Campbell University’s first Founders Week, celebrating the people who made tiny Buies Creek Academy into the school it is today. Those people include, most notably, founding President James Archibald Campbell.

Throughout the week, Campbell honored its heritage with the Campbell history museum, a J.A. Campbell look-alike contest for the students, a gathering of family and descendants of Dr. Campbell and the unveiling of the new bronze statue of the founder in the Academic Circle.

JIM ARCH IN BRONZE Campbell University capped off its inaugural Founders Week with the unveiling of a 7-foot, 500-pound bronze statue of James Archibald “J.A.” Campbell, who founded the school in 1887 and served as its president until his death in 1934.

The 15-minute ceremony drew nearly 500 students, faculty, staff and alumni, as well as at least a dozen members of the Campbell family. Tom Campbell, the great-grandson of J.A. Campbell, spoke on behalf of the family during the ceremony.

“Thank you for honoring our family,” said Tom Campbell, executive producer and moderator of NC Spin. “More than that, you honor also those who have taught here and who have given their time and talents and resources to make this a great university.”

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George Braswell World religions When George Braswell Jr., senior professor of world religions at the Campbell Divinity School, returned to the United States in 1974 after serving as the first Baptist missionary in Iran with his wife, Joan, he was struck by the changing demographics.

There were more and more immigrants from around the world arriving to the United States, and there were burgeoning movements by religious and ethnic minority groups, says Braswell, who grew up in Emporia, Virginia, and joined the faculty at the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Wake Forest, North Carolina, after spending parts of the 1960s and 1970s teaching English and world religions to Muslim clergy and students in Iran. “The U.S. was drastically changing because of religion pluralism.”

But Braswell also saw many Christian leaders who weren’t acknowledging the shifting dynamics. He began pondering: “What are we as Christian leaders going to encounter? How can we better prepare for it? And how can we better serve our congregations and neighbors?”

A theological accrediting agency began “to perk up” in the late 1970s, he says, and awarded him a grant to develop a practicum in world religions that would help Christian leaders better understand religion pluralism. Since 1980, several thousand seminary and divinity students have joined Braswell as he has visited various houses of worships and met with people of other religions, including Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Today, this intensive, one-week, 3-credithour course, Practicum in World Religions, is organized through the World Religions and Global Cultures Center, which Braswell founded at Campbell University in 2007. More than 100 students have graduated from Campbell Divinity with a certificate in a world religion over the past eight years.

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National mock trial Champions South Texas Challenge Campbell Law student advocates collected the national championship at the prestigious South Texas Mock Trial Challenge for the second time in three years on March 29. Third-year students Terry Brown Jr., Lauren Fussell, and Kaitlin Rothecker won every single trial in all seven rounds of the competition, an unprecedented 22 of 23 ballots, on their way to taking home the winning Treece-O’Quinn Championship Trophy.

Business School begins construction on learning center Lundy-Fetterman School of Business received a $250,000 gift from First Citizens Bank to support the establishment of a wealth management center that will expand experiential learning and research opportunities for students, faculty, and the community.

The Campbell Board of Trustees’ Executive Committee approved the construction and naming of the First Citizens Wealth Management Center on March 25. First Citizens Bank provided the lead gift for the $1 million project.

The new, state-of-the-art center will serve as a learning lab that simulates an investment firm environment, a trading room and a trust center. It will be equipped with the latest tools, technology and data that business leaders, commercial banks and financial advisors around the world use.

Finance becomes newest major The School of Business will offer an undergraduate major in finance beginning with the 2015-16 academic year. The new major will provide students an opportunity to learn how to analyze and successfully navigate financial markets. Campbell Business Dean Keith Faulkner says students who complete the 124-hour course of study will be positioned to succeed as leaders in financial planning, banks, real estate, insurance, credit and financial analysis, investments and other leading financial fields.

MBA Student wins ‘business battle’ Campbell Business MBA student Steven Walther won the inaugural EO Veterans Business Battle at Rice University in Houston. One of 15 national participants, Walther’s reimagined toothbrush project took the top prize. An inventor and entrepreneur, Walther is also a combat veteran and Green Beret.

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SCHOOL OF NURSING March saw the birth of the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing — Campbell’s ninth school — and the groundbreaking ceremony for the Tracey F. Smith Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences.

Campbell’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing students will share the new state-of-the-art facility with its Doctor of Physical Therapy and occupational therapy programs, as well as its new medical research program. The building is expected to open in fall of 2016.

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New facility motivates future nurses With only 50 seats open when Campbell University’s new Bachelor of Science in Nursing program goes into effect in fall of 2016, the stakes are high for the approximately 114 freshmen and sophomores who have declared pre-nursing as their major.

For the sizeable group of those nursing hopefuls, the formal dedication ceremony of the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing and groundbreaking ceremony for the Tracey F. Smith Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences offered a glimpse of what those students can expect should they make the cut.

And undoubtedly, they liked what they saw.

“Being here motivates me even more to work harder,” said freshman and pre-nursing major Meghan Brady of Robbins, North Carolina. “I know the competition is tough, and that’s why I’ve gotten as involved as possible. But being out here today, it’s exciting. Hearing the speakers has only confirmed that this is what I want to do.

I’m in the right spot.”

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Jenna Carpenter

Dean, School of Engineering

Leader in STEM education Jenna P. Carpenter, a highly-regarded national figure in STEM education, will be the founding dean of Campbell University’s proposed School of Engineering launching in 2016.

Carpenter is a professor, associate dean for undergraduate studies and director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering at Louisiana Tech University’s College of Engineering and Science. She also holds key leadership positions in several prestigious national engineering organizations, including serving as chair of the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program. She is a 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Fellow and a national evaluator for the ABET accreditation program.

“I am looking forward to working together to build an outstanding engineering school in the Campbell tradition of excellence,” Carpenter said. “I have been truly impressed by the clear vision, wise leadership and solid planning behind this endeavor. This foundation, along with Campbell’s values, dedicated faculty and staff, and strong students, are really what attracted me to the campus.”

A Corsicana, Texas, native, Carpenter earned her bachelor’s in mathematics from Louisiana Tech and her master’s and Ph.D. in mathematics from Louisiana State University, where she was an Alumni Federation Fellow. She joined the Louisiana Tech faculty in 1989 and quickly rose to hold critical leadership positions.

Carpenter’s research focuses on integrated STEM curricula and improving the number and success of women in engineering. Projects supported by National Science Foundation grants she has worked on as the principal or co-principal investigator include “Creating a Culture of Success for Women in Engineering and Science” and “A Women in Engineering Knowledge Center: Informing Research, Practice, and Institutional Change.”

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BigSURS symposium comes to campbell Campbell University’s first foray into hosting the Big South Undergraduate Research Symposium was an indisputable success with 16 students or teams receiving first-place honors and one Camel taking home the top honor for best overall presentation.

Megan Lenaghan, a junior mathematics major from Norwell, Mass., and her oral presentation on the historic chain of events that led to what we know today as modern statistics was named the top overall presentation for the 7th annual BigSURS event, a two-day event showcasing the best and brightest student researchers from the Big South and other regional schools.

More than 260 students from 19 schools took part in this year’s symposium, showcasing their work through oral and poster presentations, as well as an intercollegiate juried art exhibit held in the Fine Arts Building during the Friday evening dessert reception.

Campbell history professor and BigSURS Undergraduate Research Committee Co-Chairman Salvatore Mercogliano said Campbell’s efforts to host its first large-scale symposium was two years in the making after the 2013 event at High Point University. He said the University’s goal, aside from making it a success, was to promote the “scope and scale of undergraduate research” at Campbell.

“BigSURS promotes an interdisciplinary and intercollegiate approach to promoting undergraduate research,” Mercogliano said. “As we continue to grow and develop, research is an area that we will need to promote and facilitate in the years to come as our graduate programs continue to grow and develop.”

BigSURS was also Campbell’s time to shine for many first-time visitors from rival schools. Oral sessions were held in both D. Rich and the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business, poster presentations took place in the Pope Convocation Center and Taylor Bott Rogers Fine Arts Center hosted the art show, forcing guests to see entire campus during their two-day stay.

Paige Phillips Fighting for the bees Over the past 20 years, the world’s honeybees have declined both suddenly and mysteriously.

Their loss, should the trend continue, would be catastrophic — a third of the food we eat relies on pollinating insects, and a world without bees would also mean a world without flowers and honey.

Health sciences junior Paige Phillips joined the fight to save bee-kind years ago when she and her husband raised their own hives containing more than 300,000 bees. Phillips, along with Campbell biology professors Sharon Mason and John Bartlett, are heading Campbell’s BEE (Back it, Educate it, Enrich it) Project and are taking the fight to Buies Creek. In researching honeybees and the effects of pesticides, the trio have secured the purchase of three hives that will find a home on Kivett Road just north of campus.

Phillips presented her research at this year’s BigSURS event. Her oral presentation, “A frightening world without bees; what will we do?” focused on pesticides and how scientists believe they’re leading to the decline in population and pollen production. Her research was born from a lifelong interest in bees, which became a passion when she and her husband purchased a hive and beekeeping equipment from a farmer who had lost all but one of his hives to Colony Collapse Disorder.

"That hive survived and did very well, with many bees to follow,” Phillips said. "That made me very curious about CCD, so my research began from there. If you’ve ever watched bees work, you’d see what amazing creatures they are.

They are really fascinating to watch.” CCD is the most important potential environmental disaster that nobody’s talking about, Phillips said. There has been a 40-percent decline in commercial honeybees in the United States since 2006, according to Greenpeace.

“When the bees start dying, it is clearly an alarm that our environment is not stable,” Phillips said.

“Sure, we can eat food that is not pollinated, but I prefer to have a variety of fruits, vegetables and nuts in my diet, as well as food with color. One day, these may not be available. Or if they are, they may be created in a lab or sold through a window, with some unknown ingredients. No thank you ... not for me and my family."

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AN ELITE PROGRAM For the second consecutive year, Campbell’s women’s golf team earned a spot in the elite 24-team NCAA Championship held this year in Bradenton, Fla. Seniors Lisbeth Brooks and Brooke Bellomy joined underclassmen Louise Latorre, Tahnia Ravnjak and Nadine White to compete against the top programs in the nation. Coached by John Crooks and Ryan Ashburn, the group was one of only 15 schools to make it to the finals two consecutive years.

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Among giants Of the 24 teams that qualified for nationals, Campbell was the smallest school, with an enrollment of about 6,400 students. Campbell’s team was also one of just four from a non-Power 5 conference at nationals.

The 23 other teams in this year’s tournament had an average total enrollment of 33,300 students, more than five times that of Campbell’s.

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Stellar run on ‘500 questions’ It was billed as one of the most difficult game shows in television history — one for the “hardcore” trivia buffs — but Campbell librarian Steve Bahnaman made the primetime ABC game show “500 Questions” look easy for four consecutive nights. Bahnaman had the most impressive run of the seven-night event, reaching Question No. 168 and winning a total of $110,000 in the process.

Edward Fubara

Associate Professor of Business

Reaching out to Haiti “This kind of work is very consistent with our vision of developing students who have a commitment to service, strong ethical standards and a global mindset. It also has the potential to provide students with valuable learning, service learning and research experiences. Of course this is also consistent with Campbell’s vision of graduating students who are the salt of the earth and the light of the world.”

— Edward Fubara, associate professor of business and MBA program director, on a recent trip to Haiti with the Hope for Haiti Foundation.

Fubara explored new opportunities for business students to travel abroad and learn while serving others in the process.

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Lawrence Kipkoech became Campbell’s first qualifier to reach the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships since 2010 with a seventh-place finish in the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA East Regional in Jacksonville, Fla. Kipkoech, the 2015 Big South Outdoor Male Freshman of the Year, outperformed his pre-race seeding of 17th and fell within the Top 12 spots needed to advance to the Championships in Eugene, Ore. Kipkoech finished 10th in Oregon, becoming the first Campbell second-team track All-American in over 30 years.

Juli Osborne

Big South Woman of the Year

Big honors for senior athlete Campbell University senior basketball standout Juli Osborne was named the Big South Conference Woman of the Year for 2015, and at her commencement ceremony in May, she was one of two students to earn the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for her “spirit of love for and helpfulness to other men and women.”

Osborne was active in the community during her time at Campbell, which culminated in her service as president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee in 2014-15. She also served on the Big South’s SAAC board and as the conference’s national SAAC representative this year.

Sal Mercogliano 2015 Professor of the Year

another top Faculty honor

GRAD SEASON Campbell University conferred nearly 1,000 degrees over five spring commencement ceremonies in early may. The main campus graduation ceremony was the last presided by President Jerry Wallace, who served as commencement speaker. In his final thoughts, Wallace told the graduates, “I’m going to be watching you … so put your [orange and black] on. Don’t walk on the beach without your Campbell hat. When I’m out there, I’ll see you. And I’ll be so proud of you. I love you.”

For the second time in four years, history professor Salvatore Mercogliano was named Campbell’s Professor of the Year at the Senior & Faculty Awards Banquet this spring. He was also the D.P. Russ Jr. and Walter Jones Sr. Alumni Award winner for Research Excellence in 2014, and won the Dean’s Award in the College of Arts & Sciences for teaching this year.

Mercogliano, who teaches courses in U.S. history and western civilization, is also author of “Sealift: The Evolution of American Military Sea Transportation.”

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THANK YOU, DR. WALLACE Jerry M. Wallace led Campbell University to unprecedented growth and transformed the university into a destination for leading health education and other key programs during his 12 years as president. He officially stepped down on June 30, leaving behind a legacy that includes the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine, North Carolina’s first medical school in 35 years when it launched in 2013. Wallace, whose career at Campbell spans 45 years, will return to the honorary role and title of university chancellor in July 2016.

“There are some things I personally want to do with the hope the Lord will give me more bonus years to enjoy. But more than all of that, the university is at a stage where it needs new and enthusiastic leadership. It’s very unlikely the university will select a 68-year-old person to become president again. But I hope we will look back on my years as president and say it was right for the university. It certainly has been right for me.”

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our Mission

The mission of Campbell University is to graduate students with exemplary academic and professional skills who are prepared for purposeful lives and meaningful service.

our Motto Ad astra per aspera (To the stars through difficulty)

Jan. 5, 1887 Founding Date

128th

Academic Year

6,435

ENROLLMENT Undergraduate: 3,008 Graduate: 1,855 Extended Campus: 1,572

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Giving REPORT

Campbell received more than $17.3 million in total gifts and pledges in the 2014-15 fiscal year.

$124,957

Religious Groups

Construction on the Tracey F. Smith Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences began in May on Campbell University’s Health Sciences Campus. The facility, which will house the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing and three other programs, is expected to open in the fall of 2016.

General Information • Founded on Jan. 5, 1887, as Buies Creek Academy by the Reverend James Archibald Campbell.

• Campbell University is a private university with strong Baptist roots.

• Campbell is home to seven schools — College of Arts & Sciences, LundyFetterman School of Business, Norman A. Wiggins School of Law, Divinity School, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, School of Education and the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine. The University announced the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing and the School of Engineering, both to launch in 2016.

• Both in and out of the classroom, the University endeavors to present Christian principles to students and to foster their application to daily life.

• Students hail from 94 N.C. counties, 46 states and approximately 40 countries.

• Enrolls more in-state undergraduate students than any other private school in North Carolina.

• Undergraduate tuition for 2014-15: $25,300 per year • Provides generous merit scholarship and grant programs.

• Hosts a nationally recognized and award-winning Army ROTC program.

• Offers extended campus programs in Research Triangle Park (RTP), Raleigh, Fort Bragg/Pope and Camp Lejeune and a degree program in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Participates in NCAA Div. I athletics: 11 male sports (baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field, wrestling); and 12 female sports (basketball, cheerleading, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field, volleyball).

• Athletic affiliations: Big South Conference, Pioneer Football League, Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association and Southern Conference (Wrestling)

$6,853,322 Parents & Friends

$2,376,074 Corporations

$293,161 Organizations

$2,050,832 Foundations

$4,799,965 Alumni

$3,613,031

Trustees & Presidential Advisors

$227,523

University Employees

$510,899 Estates & Trust

• Athletic nickname: The Fighting Camels

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endowment Accreditation • Campbell University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award Associate, Baccalaureate, Masters, Education Specialist, and Doctorate degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call (404) 679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Campbell University. The Commission should be contacted only if there is evidence that appears to support the University’s significant non-compliance with an accreditation requirement or standard. Normal inquiries about Campbell University, such as admission requirements, financial aid, educational programs,

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• Campbell‘s Professional Education programs are accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and approved by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI).

• The Social Work program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

• The School of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association.

• The College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences is accredited by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education.

• The Physician Assistant Program is accredited by the Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA).

• The School of Osteopathic Medicine is accredited by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA).

• The Divinity School is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS).

• The business programs offered by the LundyFetterman School of Business are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs.

• The Professional Golf Management program is accredited by the Professional Golf Association of America.

• The Athletic Training program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE), the Athletic Training Education Program (ATEP).

• The Master of Public Health program is an applicant for accreditation by the Council on Education for Public Health.

• Campbell University was granted Candidate for Accreditation status in 2013 by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education.

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Student/faculty ratio • The Bachelor of Science in Nursing program received Initial Approval Status from the North Carolina Board of Nursing (NCBON) in January 2014. The NCBON will return for a second site survey and determine whether the program is in compliance with all rules for nursing programs. We anticipate that the Campbell University Department of Nursing will be receiving “Full Approval Status” in the spring of 2018.

Memberships/ Affiliations • North Carolina Association of Colleges and Universities • North Carolina Association of Independent Colleges and Universities • National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities • Association of Baptist Colleges and Schools • Council for Christian Colleges and Universities • American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education

Academic Information • In addition to a range of bachelor’s and master’s degrees, the University offers five professional doctorates: Law (JD), Pharmacy (PharmD), Divinity (D.Min), Medical (DO) and Physical Therapy (DPT).

• Main Campus full-time faculty: 216 • Percent of full-time faculty with terminal credentials: 88% • Ratio of students to faculty: 16:1 • Joint degree partnerships with North Carolina State University: JD (Campbell with Master of Public Administration or Master of Business Administration (N.C. State).

Accolades • Recognized by US News & World Report as one of “America’s Best Colleges.”

• Consistently named one of the “Best Colleges in the Southeast” by Princeton Review.

• Named “One of America’s 100 Best College Buys” by Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc. • Named among the Top 20 percent of “Military Friendly” universities by Victory Media and one of the “best universities for veterans” by the Military Times from 2013-15.

• Ranked top Christian university in North Carolina (19th in nation) by CollegeChoice.com in 2015.

Executive Officers J. Bradly Creed President (as of July 1, 2015)

Jerry M. Wallace President (through June 30, 2015)

Michael L. Adams Acting Vice President for Health Programs and Dean, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

Mark L. Hammond Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost

Dennis N. Bazemore Vice President for Student Life Britt J. Davis Vice President for Institutional Advancement & Assistant to the President

Student Life

Deans

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Michael L. Adams Acting Vice President for Health Programs and Dean, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

Number of residence halls: 17 Residence facilities capacity: 2,148 Number of clubs: 36 Honor societies: 17 Social fraternities, sororities: 5

Alumni • More than 48,850 living alumni

University Assets • • • •

Endowment: $210,101,498 Acreage: 850 Number of buildings: 134 Square footage of buildings: 1,653,726

Advancement • Gifts, Pledges and Payments from alumni and other donors Year Total Gifts Total Amount 2014-15: 8,971 $17,351,638 2013-14: 7,764 $17,476,742 2012-13: 6,920 $17,253,464 2011-12: 7,111 $23,193,976 2010-11: 6,979 $16,591,829 • Alumni Donations Year Total Gifts 2014-15: 2,302 2013-14: 2,141 2012-13: 1,779 2011-12: 1,725 2010-11: 1,716

James O. Roberts Vice President for Business & Treasurer

Jenna P. Carpenter School of Engineering B. Keith Faulkner Lundy-Fetterman School of Business John M. Kauffman, Jr. Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine

Borree Kwok Wiggins Memorial Library J. Rich Leonard Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law Karen P. Nery School of Education John T. Roberson Adult & Online Education Andrew H. Wakefield Divinity School

Trustees J. Charles Allard Joann Anderson Robert J. Barker, Sr. Guilford W. Bass William E. Byrd R. Henry Capps, Jr. Rogers Clark Allison C. Cobb Suzanne Cook James H. Crossingham Michael Cummings Helen Currin Leah Devlin Donald C. Evans Annabelle L. Fetterman Dexter Floyd Corey D. Furman

Gregory S. Gore David J. Hailey Oscar N. Harris Ester Howard Glenn Infinger Jimmy Jackson Thomas J. Keith Anna Drew Kirk Hugh Gordon Maxwell III Carlie C. McLamb Bernard F. McLeod, Jr. Karen McNeil-Miller John A. (Sandy) McNeill, Jr. Vance Neal Sadie Neel Sandy Greene

Patterson William Pully Robert Ransdell Willard D. Small Henry L. Smith Luther D. Starling, Jr. L. Stuart Surles Frederick H. Taylor Frederick L. Taylor II Benjamin Thompson Lisa Vaughn Barbara Walker William Irvin Warren Robert P. Wellons Fred Whitfield Melba L. Williams Luby E. Wood

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