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M a k i ng a n Impact i n Ch a ngi ng T i mes
We’re on It Creating an annual report like this one is, in many ways, an exercise in discovery. It helps to put things in perspective. This year at IUP, we launched several initiatives that will help us thrive in what I’ve dubbed our new reality. By new reality, I mean a whole new set of circumstances. At colleges across the country—but especially here in Pennsylvania—there are fewer college-bound high school seniors than at any other time in modern history. Public universities, IUP included, are receiving less support from state governments than ever before, although we are pleased that Pennsylvania’s legislature has begun to increase its investment over the last few years. And, finally, while we have very bright students in our classrooms— our latest freshman class had an average high school GPA of 3.31—Generation Z is seeking a different experience than any other group we’ve welcomed before. With the changing nature of traditional students, we also must account for the shifting sands of workplaces— twists and turns in technology, organizational structure, management best practices, and a greater need than ever for cross-disciplinary hard skills and knowledge. At the same time, as a public doctoral research university, IUP is discovering and extending knowledge and then applying it to improve our communities and our world. What’s very special is that our faculty engages our students at all levels in their work, enhancing their learning in and out of the classroom. I’m glad to be able to say in both cases that we’re on it. And we’ll stay on it. After all, the students and communities we serve are worth it.
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IUP’s latest class average high school GPA
Our work is far from done, however. As I’ve learned from our university while conducting a listening tour with student, faculty, and staff groups, we have so much more talent to tap and ideas to execute. Reports like this one also give me the opportunity to thank all who work to make IUP the special place that it is—our faculty and staff members, of course, but also our loyal alumni and generous donors and volunteers. Michael Driscoll President
2 The Continuous Cycle of Community 6 Guiding Students through Exploration 10 When Free Speech Intersects with Diversity and Inclusion 16 Reaching for Extraordinary 20 The IUP Story in Words and Numbers
The Continuous Cycle of Community It wasn’t so long ago that Aaron Douthit was looking forward to graduation. A member of the Class of 2015, he worked hard as a student, and he grew— in knowledge base and perspective. He took full advantage of every opportunity in front of him— scholarships, hands-on experiences, and student leadership positions, including serving as the student member of the IUP Council of Trustees—and he’d reached out and helped other students as a peer mentor. All of this added up to a fulfilling experience that inspired him to reach further than he’d originally planned. An aspiring nurse, he’d already accepted a position at the hospital back home, but he knew before he graduated that he wanted to make an even bigger impact. Today, with a passion for critical care and making a positive difference in the lives of his patients, he has nearly completed his graduate education to become a nurse anesthetist.
Meaningful Credentials
To provide even more access to meaningful credentials, the Office of Housing and Residence Life developed curricula for certification programs in global scholarship and scientific communication that will be delivered through living-learning communities beginning in fall 2020. 2
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Aaron Douthit, as a student
That’s not the end of his IUP story. Douthit and thousands of IUP students and alumni are stretching their focus and raising their own bars to improve the world’s condition—and they remember where it all started for them. In Douthit’s case, that means joining fellow alumni and donors on an advisory council that assists with broadening the university’s reach and knitting closer alumni relationships. The IUP journey isn’t confined to four walls or to four years. It takes place in the field, in extracurricular activities, in social settings as well as in the classroom. In a continuous circle, students grow, graduate, and go on to create the momentum of change that we see in our workplaces and communities—and then they give back to ensure IUP’s impact continues on and on. As they move through their lives, alumni like Douthit refuel the IUP machine through volunteering, advocacy, and philanthropy.
GENESIS OF THE CIRCLE IUP’s first priority is to prepare the next generation, but while doing so, the university makes a profound difference in the region it serves and beyond. IUP challenges students to do more, by providing a variety of campus leadership opportunities, community service projects, and opportunities to work with professors who are called upon to consult or are active in funded research projects. Service and research become teaching tools—students serve as a workforce and actively learn while doing. As they forge relationships of a lifetime in and out of the classroom, they also lend a hand in forging discoveries, solving problems, and making life better. A few examples follow.
130,000+ Customers of the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County who depend on IUP professors and students to ensure the water they drink and the air they breathe are safe
Identifying Ticks in Unexpected Places
Ensuring Water and Air Quality
More than 130,000 customers of the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County each year depend on IUP professors and students to ensure the water they drink and the air they breathe are safe. Nine years ago, after Consol Energy drilled several nonconventional gas wells near Beaver Run Reservoir, the authority engaged experts in IUP’s Chemistry and Geography and Regional Planning departments and about 60 students to regularly test the reservoir and its surrounding watershed. A few years later, the Physics Department jumped in to begin air quality testing.
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Through intricate field research, Professor Tom Simmons and a team of students determined that ticks infected with Lyme disease are as prevalent in urban locations as they are in rural. Their study, published in the Journal of Medical Entomology, prompted Pittsburgh area park authorities to implement an awareness campaign about the dangers of ticks and Lyme disease.
Combating Sexual Assault
Around a thousand students continued their stand against sexual assault by taking the It’s On Us pledge, an indication they agree to identify and intervene when they see sexual violence occurring. The national It’s On Us campaign strives to create a world in which sexual violence is unacceptable. 3
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WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND
Percentage of alumni survey responders who rated their IUP experience between good and great
The direct impact students make while they work on service and research projects or in other engaged experiences has a profound effect on their perspectives of the world—the kind that compelled 94 percent of alumni who responded to a survey to rate their IUP experience between good and great. It’s the kind of impact that also compels them to continue giving back to IUP.
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In the last year, approximately 280 alumni volunteered to serve on various councils to provide IUP’s academic areas with valuable information about workplace needs and outreach efforts. Many returned to campus to share their knowledge directly with students or offered to extend a hand by placing students in internships and other practicum experiences. In 2019, more than 7,200 households philanthropically invested in the IUP experience.
Combating the Teacher Shortage
IUP received a $200,000 Expansion Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Education to continue work to reverse the decline in new-teacher graduation rates and to retain new teachers in the field. The funding builds upon a $740,250 grant issued in 2018. 4
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Households that philanthropically invested in the IUP experience
Thanks to the philanthropic investment of alumnus Larry Sobotka, the region’s children have access to a refreshed Science Discovery and Outdoor Learning Center that now carries his name. When young learners visit, aspiring teachers guide them through the center.
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Visiting Scholars Share Our High-End Equipment
Through the efforts of geoscience professor Nick Deardorff and a $425,829 grant from the National Science Foundation, IUP has acquired a scanning electron microscope. The device, one of the few in the region, is available to visiting paleontologists, anthropologists, entomologists, nanotechnologists, and igneous petrologists—whether they are active researchers or students. 5
Guiding Students through Exploration Identifying problems is usually easy. Finding solutions—not always. Several years ago, as the regional population—particularly Pennsylvania’s— began dropping and affecting enrollment, the university’s leadership took action by bringing a cross section of the IUP community together to tackle the issue of student retention.
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“It makes financial sense. After all, it’s less expensive to keep a student than to recruit a new one. More important, it is the right thing to do,” President Michael Driscoll told the university community during a campus-wide address. “I want everyone to work more efficiently and collaboratively to focus our efforts on this problem, using techniques that have been proven by data to make a real difference. I expect everyone—from president to professor, from coach to custodian—to take a leading role in getting students to IUP, ensuring they have a good experience, and celebrating with them as they depart with a diploma in hand and join our alumni community.”
Percentage of students who declare a major and are still unsure of it
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Discoveries in Honduras
Four IUP biology students accompanied professor Josiah Townsend of the Biology Department to Honduras to present research at an international biodiversity symposium. Townsend received a Fulbright Research Award in the spring and remained in Honduras through the fall to conduct further study on amphibians and reptiles. 6
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Semesters that can be spent exploring while still graduating on time
One of IUP’s signature solutions has been the establishment of the University College, located in Stabley Library, that both supports students and raises the bar for those most likely to stop short of a degree. The college, in particular, serves students who have not chosen a major, but rather than dubbing them as undecided, the IUP community calls them explorers to remove the stigma of not having all that comes with having declared a course of study. Explorers begin their postsecondary careers with the same amount of direction and attention as those who have selected a major. “Let’s face it—if you’re a dietetics major, everybody in your introductory class is a dietetics major,” Michele Norwood, associate vice provost for undergraduate student success, said. “But if you’re undecided, you’re taking a bunch of different things to explore,
so you don’t have people in the same situation as you. It’s important for explorers to have that sense of community and that sense of, ‘Oh, look. There are other people who are doing this.’”
At the University College’s grand opening in August, Driscoll declared the term “undecided” wiped from IUP’s lexicon.
When University College students express interest in a field, they follow an exploratory theme, such as arts, business, or STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). Each IUP academic college has one to three professors who serve as college mentors, and those mentors advise the students on what classes to take to keep them moving toward a degree, even if their interests change. With that kind of extra support, students are able to challenge themselves in ways that enable them to reach further.
undecided explorer “This new facility symbolizes all that IUP stands for. Helping students realize their strengths and talents. Ensuring that they can identify the right path and then journey to the end in a timeframe that is efficient for them and that will enable them to get the best possible start to the rest of their lives. Removing barriers that impede their success.”
“All too many of those students end up changing majors down the road,” Moerland said. “They end up backtracking, and that means the clock is ticking. Students take longer, and it costs them more when they change majors late in the game.” As a result, students who explore for one to three semesters can actually graduate sooner, he said. “You have students who feel committed to the topic, committed to the discipline, and that helps us go deeper, explore more, and really help those students make the connections that result in true mastery of a topic. That’s how we become an academic destination of choice.” Driscoll cites a longstanding adage in higher education that encourages high expectation. “You set a high bar for students, but you also provide them with the support they need to get over that bar,” he said.
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While exploring majors is often associated with adding time and expense to a college education, Provost Timothy Moerland said the opposite is more often true. He said some research suggests that as many as 80 percent of students who declare a major are unsure of it.
Early Cybersecurity Training
For the fourth consecutive year, IUP was awarded funding from the National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation to offer a free weeklong GenCyber summer camp for middle and high school students. IUP is the only school in western Pennsylvania that is part of this project. 7
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Students Caring for Students The student group Each One Reach One continued to tackle the issue of campus food insecurity by managing a food pantry, with help from Terry Serafini ’61, who directly supported the effort by matching gifts made to the pantry. “What I like about Each One Reach One is we’re teaching students how to be visionaries, and then we’re teaching them how to put their vision into action,” Malaika Turner, assistant vice president for Student Affairs, said.
When Free Speech Intersects with Diversity and Inclusion In recent years, university campuses—particularly those of public schools—have become battlegrounds in the right to free speech, a right protected under the First Amendment. Protests have raged against campus speakers, and complete shutdowns of their speeches have resulted. Derogatory, racist images and posts have flashed across social media, and offended students have demanded punishment of the sender. Students have petitioned university administrators to withhold recognition of campus organizations they deem offensive. IUP saw its very own uptick during the spring of 2018. When a professor tried to bar a student from her class for what she said was disruptive behavior, the student countered that his free-speech rights had been abridged. Shortly after that, some protested the campus appearance of the head of the national conservative student organization Turning Point USA.
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Hannah Colen was among the 26 students who traveled to Washington, DC, in 2019 to complete an internship at the Washington Center. The program places students in government agencies for summer employment experiences. A marketing major, Colen served as a social media intern at the Smithsonian Institution.
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In the wake of that controversial semester, IUP staked two important claims by establishing the IUP Free Speech Project, which hosted a yearlong discussion on the tenets of the First Amendment, and by charging the President’s Commission on Diversity and Inclusion to create an action plan for the future.
A FOCUS ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT
What was occurring on the national scene and what had just happened locally prompted Provost Timothy Moerland to approach Political Science Department faculty members Gwen Torges and David Chambers to spearhead the IUP Free Speech Project to help educate the IUP community on the First Amendment. Balanced with programming that demonstrated the impact and power words can have when used with the best or the worst of intentions, the project educated students as well as faculty members, who, he said, would appreciate more guidance on the issues. Torges filmed seven videos about the tenets of the First Amendment. “To the surprise of many, hate speech is protected by the First Amendment, especially on a college campus, where our mission is to engage in the exchange of ideas, to talk about tough ideas, to challenge us to our very core,” she said.
“To the surprise of many, hate speech is protected by the First Amendment, especially on a college campus, where our mission is to engage in the exchange of ideas, to talk about tough ideas, to challenge us to our very core.”
She noted that IUP is a public university and therefore a government agency bound by the First Amendment. If an administration decided to limit hate speech, she said, the population might agree. “But administrations change. The idea is, you don’t want to give governments that power.” The right to protest also is protected under the First Amendment—that is, unless it infringes on the rights of others. “Peaceful protest is great. That is part of the dialogue,” Torges said. “Disinviting or creating such a scene that people can’t enter to speak at all, that’s illegal.” In addition to Torges’s video series, the campus community had access to a variety of thoughtful invited speakers. Greg Lukianoff, bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure and founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, were among them.
VIEW THE YEAR OF FREE SPEECH
You can see professor Gwen Torges’s series on the First Amendment and interviews with a variety of people, including guest speakers, on the Free Speech Project website:
IUP.edu/freespeech
The Year of Free Speech formally ended at the conclusion of the spring 2019 semester, but the work continues. The faculty members who organized the programming are presenting their work at universities around the country. The need to educate each new student on issues surrounding the First Amendment as well as common decency and sensitivity goes on as each new class of students joins the IUP community.
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“Our job is to set higher expectations, even in times when many seem to disagree about what it means to be an American. We cannot prevent people from stretching the truth. What we can do is teach our students how to navigate life’s challenges with civility and within our nation’s laws, and that should be the measure of our courage and our worth.”
INSTILLING APPRECIATION FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVITY
Just because offensive language is protected doesn’t mean that it’s welcome on campus. The Diversity Action Plan that the President’s Commission on Diversity and Inclusion authored includes recommendations for protocol and reporting incidents of concern and for creating a healthy culture for people from all walks of life. Headed by Yaw Asamoah, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and, before her retirement in May, Kate Linder, associate vice president for Student Affairs, the commission’s membership comprises student, staff, faculty, and community representatives and subcommittees who focus on professional development, support for a diverse student population, and resources for promoting diversity and inclusion. Biology professor Megan Knoch replaced Linder upon her retirement.
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As IUP continues to tackle the action plan’s recommendations, President Michael Driscoll appointed a new chief diversity and inclusion officer, Elise Glenn, who works to coordinate action and promote a positive atmosphere. Meanwhile, Student Affairs Division personnel planned an array of educational programming to facilitate respectful engagement, and the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Women’s and Gender Studies program hosted workshops called the Elephant in the Room, a series that focused on providing faculty members information on promoting an inclusive culture and preparing for unexpected incidents that might occur in the classroom. Addressing members of the faculty who participated in the Elephant in the Room series, Driscoll said, “Collaboration. Innovation. Inclusiveness. Transparency. Integrity. And accountability— attributes like these must seep into our everyday work lives and become part of our DNA—our culture. Practicing them in all that we do will seal the deal on how we educate the whole student.”
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Biden Courage Award
Adrianna Branin, a political science and religious studies major, was chosen for a 2019 Biden Courage Award. The program celebrates student heroes who work to mitigate sexual assault. Branin was recognized for stopping a sexual assault by confronting six to eight men and removing the potential victim from the situation.
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Understanding and Preserving Cultural Treasures
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It’s not unusual for agencies like the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to call upon IUP Archaeological Services to excavate a new construction site. IUP is known for trusted expert service, largely because of the high-quality education archaeology majors experience, including Archaeology Field School. Last summer’s field school took place at Newport Village, near Blairsville, where Blacklick Creek meets the Conemaugh River. The professor and student team knew the village thrived from 1790 to 1820, but while digging and mapping the area, they discovered artifacts that indicate the area was populated 8,000 years ago.
16th Student Fulbright
Philosophy and Asian Studies major Daniel Wethli was selected for a Fulbright Research Grant in 2019. The grant enabled him to study and conduct research in China. Wethli also earned a Critical Language Enhancement Award from the Fulbright program.
Reaching for Extraordinary Ensuring the children of Pennsylvania and beyond are prepared to lead the next generation requires two basic items—first, that they know they have a great educational option tucked into the safe community of Indiana, Pennsylvania, and, second, that what they access is both affordable and extraordinary. Two key facets to IUP’s operations during 2019 are setting the university apart and moving it forward.
TELLING THE IUP STORY WITH ONE VOICE
HOW WE NOW TALK ABOUT IUP
At IUP, you’ll find yourself at the heart of a community as unique as you are. Where professors are as passionate about uncovering potential within every student as they are about teaching and research. Here, our students are encouraged to find their footing well beyond their comfort zone and are supported every step of the way. And no matter where you’ve come from or what brought you here, we all share an enthusiasm for hard work and accomplishment. 16
As IUP’s president, Michael Driscoll may hear more about the university than anyone else does. Attending hundreds of events each year, he has listened to scores of stories from alumni about how IUP changed their lives and made them who they are today. But when he talked with those less familiar with the university, he found they weren’t hearing the same great things. Stories like that weren’t rising “above the noise” of everything else. Because of unprecedented competition in higher education, communicating IUP’s good news is more critical now than ever, Driscoll said. College enrollment has been on a downward slide the last eight years, according to national reports, and the Mid-Atlantic is among the hardest-hit regions. In Pennsylvania, the population of high school students—the traditional market—has declined steadily since 2012, and experts predict college enrollment could drop another 15 percent after 2026. The impact is clear at IUP, where enrollment has dipped 26 percent since a record high in 2012–13. “We need to tell the IUP story in this competitive marketplace, as we’re trying to take what we do so well out to new generations of people and attract them to this institution,” Driscoll said. “We can’t do a good job of serving students and creating leaders for tomorrow if we can’t get them here. And, we can’t do
IUP embarked on a reaffirmation of its brand and an overhaul of the communications strategy to help audiences hear the real IUP story. The creation of the strategy relied on extensive research and polling of prospective students, current students, and alumni. The findings showed that audiences recognized IUP as a good value and often associated it with a personalized education, a strong sense of community or belonging, and being representative of all that is good about western Pennsylvania’s personality. Some of the challenges centered on name and location, academic reputation, and overall lack of familiarity. Correspondingly, IUP’s new marketing and communications strategy uses the strong association with western Pennsylvania culture to the university’s advantage, helping to address longstanding confusion over the Indiana, Pennsylvania, name and location. It emphasizes qualities that alumni and current students said made their IUP experience a positive one. The strategy encourages genuine, friendly storytelling that highlights IUP’s essence of changing lives by challenging students with hard work but also being a guiding partner in the educational journey. The plan provides direction for all units within the university to speak with the same voice in their own communications. Driscoll believes the rebrand is what IUP needs to rise above the other noise, attract more great students from different backgrounds, and make the university stronger. “Since I’m an IUP believer, I think the real question is not, ‘What will this do for IUP?’ but, ‘What will this do for the world?’” he said. “The more students who are convinced to come here and who have that great IUP experience and walk out ready to hit the ground running as great leaders and doers will have an amplified effect on the world. Their lives will be better, but also it will be better for all of us that they came to IUP, because they heard about us as a result of this work.”
“The more students who are convinced to come here and who have that great IUP experience and walk out ready to hit the ground running as great leaders and doers will have an amplified effect on the world. Their lives will be better, but also it will be better for all of us that they came to IUP, because they heard about us as a result of this work.” M A K I N G A N I M PACT
a good job of reinventing key parts of the university to meet the needs of today and tomorrow unless we communicate effectively internally as well.”
Champions on the Court
For the first time ever, both men’s and women’s basketball teams won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship in the same season. And then, for the second consecutive year— and the third time in program history—the women’s team won the NCAA Division II Atlantic Region championship. 17
GENERATING SUPPORT THAT PROPELS POTENTIAL
$23M
The university’s Imagine Unlimited campaign progressed in a quiet mode for the better part of four years before it went public in 2018. That part—and a goal of $40 million—was expected.
Largest gift in IUP history
What most who knew of the campaign’s existence did not expect was a change in goal on announcement day—$75 million, made realistic by a $23-million commitment by John Kopchick ’72, M’75 and Char Labay Kopchick ’73. It was the largest gift in IUP history and was designated to enhance IUP’s science programs in numerous ways.
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Reinvesting in Culinary Excellence
The youngest and the first female chef to run a Forbes Five-Star Restaurant, Kristin Butterworth, a 2002 graduate of the IUP Academy of Culinary Arts, is executive chef of Lautrec at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, which is also a AAA Five-Diamond restaurant. Her work is so valued by Nemacolin’s owners, the Hardy family, that both their family trust and the resort have supported the Imagine Unlimited campaign with a gift that will name the demonstration kitchen in the new Academy of Culinary Arts facility in Butterworth’s honor. 18
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Percent to IUP’s $75M Imagine Unlimited campaign goal
In 2019, the campaign’s momentum rolled on to reach a total of $67.2 million and 90 percent to goal. With two years to deadline, the campaign’s leadership and volunteers are optimistic. As public higher education across the nation is under fire to do more with less government support, that optimism and the confidence alumni and friends have in IUP’s ability to change the world through its students mean a great deal. “The Imagine Unlimited campaign is ensuring our students have access to outstanding, intentional experiences. We want them to reach beyond the comfortable norms of the typical college education and to tackle challenges that occur in the classroom, in the residence hall, and in the community,” said President Michael Driscoll. “Every new experience creates and polishes a patina that proves our students are critical thinkers who can solve problems, who don’t shrink at the moment of conflict, and who are prepared to lead.”
The campaign is reaching all quarters of the university, inspiring support for academic excellence, student support, and diversity and inclusion. One of the campaign’s signature goals has been the augmentation of the new science building that will replace the aging Weyandt Hall. That building is now scheduled to be completed in 2023, and IUP has celebrated the Kopchicks’ gift by naming the building and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in their honor. However, the campaign has garnered gifts of many sizes. In addition to the Kopchicks’ gift, several others have exceeded $1 million. Together, they will enhance a variety of facilities, boost programs, and fund scholarships for students. Just as important, the number of donors has increased in each year of the campaign, demonstrating a belief in IUP. The new building that will house Kopchick College will be completed in 2023. Its design, a collaboration between faculty members, expert alumni, and architects, will be one of the top research facilities in the state and a launch pad for discovery and innovation.
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Bill Madia ’69, M’71, who, with his wife, Audrey DeLaquil Madia ’70, cochairs the campaign, said, “Our campaign theme is Imagine Unlimited. IUP is poised for greatness. Our potential has no limits. This university can be whatever we envision it to be. We’ll enable our students to pursue their passions and to reach their full potential. This campaign is, indeed, about preparing our students to be great thinkers, great decision makers, and great people.”
IUP named the Chemistry Department for campaign cochairs Bill and Audrey Madia, in honor of their commitment and generosity to the campaign. This marked the first time a department at IUP has been named in recognition of a philanthropic gift.
Ninth Goldwater Scholar
Anna Manges, a biology major who is minoring in geology, earned a national Goldwater Scholarship. She is IUP’s ninth Goldwater Scholar. Since her freshman year, Manges has worked with Professor Thomas Simmons on research examining blacklegged ticks, which are known to carry Lyme disease. 19
The IUP Story in Words and Numbers, Abridged Edition Our students come from places far and wide. Out-of-State Students:
International Students:
Pennsylvania Students:
718
582
9,336
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Master’s:
Vocational:
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The number of high school students in the country is declining, but by honoring our tradition of fostering growth through hard work, the caliber of IUP students has continued to rise.
FRESHMAN CLASS PROFILE
2019
2018
2017
TOTAL
1,754
1,960
2,308
AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL GPA
3.31
3.27
3.24
BUSINESS
194
270
382
EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
154
195
229
FINE ARTS
79
106
115
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
455
622
877
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
106
166
193
NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
370
384
504
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE*
391
208
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We challenge students to work hard, but we support them at the same time—
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS†
Financially… A total of
$14M+
In 2018-19, separate from state and federal aid awards, IUP eased the financial burden for students.
Entailing
$10.3M+
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in scholarship awards from the Foundation for IUP, reflecting generosity from alumni and friends.
When they succeed, we cheer their accomplishments... Total Graduates 2018-19:
3,058
PhD and Other Doctoral Degrees:
109
Master’s:
Associate:
Bachelor’s:
Certificates:
637
2,055
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…and academically, on our campuses and in the field. 2,959 Internships completed in 2018-19
$11M expended in research and innovation—and students assisted with much of it.
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The university expects this amount, in combination with the number of research doctoral degrees awarded, to lead to the Research 2 University classification after the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education conducts its next survey.
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Are employed in field of choice
Are productive, meaning they are working, serving in the military, attending graduate or professional school, etc.
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C o u n ci l o f Trus t ees Samuel Smith, Chair Mark Holman ’79, Vice Chair Joyce Fairman ’76, M’74, Treasurer Glenn Cannon ’71, Secretary (deceased, January 20, 2020) Jennifer Baker ’05 (term began in 2020) Timothy Cejka ’73 Susan Delaney ’64 Caleb King (student trustee, 2017-2019) Laurie Kuzneski ’93 James Miller (term expired in 2019) David Osikowicz Nathan Spade ’01 Abigaelle Vertil (student trustee, 2019-2021)
Pre si de n t ’ s C abin et Michael Driscoll, President Timothy Moerland, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Susanna Sink ’84, Interim Vice President for Administration and Finance Debra Fitzsimons, Vice President for Administration and Finance (began December 2019) Thomas Segar, Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia McCarthy ’89, D’15, Vice President for Enrollment Management Khatmeh Osseiran-Hanna, Vice President for University Advancement Barbara Moore ’84, Executive Director of Institutional Planning and Assessment Chris Noah, Chief Marketing Officer Elise Glenn, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Title IX Coordinator
A ca de mi c D e a n s Yaw Asamoah, College of Humanities and Social Sciences Robert Camp, Eberly College of Business and Information Technology Sylvia Gaiko, College of Health and Human Services Lara Luetkehans, College of Education and Communications Randy Martin, School of Graduate Studies and Research Curtis Scheib ’77, M’78, College of Fine Arts Deanne Snavely, Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics