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The Pacific Experience President’s Report 2015
Pacific’s Vision:
We will be a leading California university preparing
graduates for meaningful lives and successful careers
Pacific’s Mission:
Our mission is to provide a superior, student-centered
learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities
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Three cities, one university Committed to student success Building reputation through academic excellence Facts and figures
President’s Letter Becoming a three-city university is a bold vision — one that cannot be achieved without crossing boundaries to embrace new student populations, new opportunities and our communities.
Since its founding more than 160 years ago, University of the Pacific has been transforming the lives of students, enhancing the vitality of our three regions and bringing a pioneering spirit to how we educate and serve. In 2015, we made great strides in crossing boundaries to expand Pacific’s presence in our three cities — movement that is necessary for us to meet the pioneering future laid out for the university in our strategic plan, Pacific 2020. In the following pages, I am pleased to be able to share with you highlights of our year and the steps we took toward meeting our ambitious goals. You’ll read about our new academic programs in Sacramento and San Francisco that span disciplines and strengthen our unique three-city identity and position. You’ll see tremendous examples of our students’ achievements, underscoring the commitment we make to their success in both their careers and lives. You’ll also learn how we are building our reputation in our communities through academic excellence. A milestone in reaching this initiative was achieved last year with the adoption of the university’s academic plan, Crossing Boundaries for Academic Excellence. This important and collaborative plan recognizes the need to cross boundaries to reach our goals of enhancing the relevance, excellence and value of a Pacific education. Please enjoy this look at Pacific in 2015. Sincerely,
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Three cities, one university Pacific is a multi-campus university shaping the future of higher education in Northern California
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Pursue new student markets that capitalize on the strengths of Pacific’s academic programs and multiple locations — Pacific 2020
Stockton Pacific’s Stockton Campus is renowned for its idyllic beauty, breadth of outstanding academic programs and vibrant and supportive campus life. Built in 1924, the campus is home to College of the Pacific, the liberal arts and sciences school, and five other schools. Serving more than 5,000 students, the campus is closely connected to the Stockton community, drawing area students who are seeking a superior university education.
San Francisco Home to one of the premier dental schools in the nation, the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, Pacific’s new high-tech campus in the heart of one of the world’s most exciting cities is building its reputation as a place for high-quality and relevant programs in health, technology and arts and culture.
Sacramento For more than 90 years, Pacific has been a force in one of the nation’s most influential capital cities. Complementing the legal studies offered at the McGeorge School of Law, new academic offerings will help address critical issues at the intersection of law, policy, business and health.
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Pacific has been offering academic programs in three cities for more than 50 years, so what is different now? A lot. Specifically, the launch of six new academic programs, with many more set to begin in the near future, at Pacific’s Sacramento and San Francisco campuses. There is a clear intention behind those new offerings: • To give students in each of Pacific’s cities diverse academic programs and learning experiences that are important to them • To create robust campuses in each city that offer programs from a breadth of Pacific’s schools and the college that reflect the university’s strengths And they’re a crucial part of Pacific’s bold vision for its future: to be recognized as a leading Northern California university with vibrant campuses and a strong reputation in these three important cities.
A historic day Pacific welcomed more than 65 students eager to become data scientists, food studies experts, audiologists and music therapists this summer at its San Francisco Campus. The inaugural students of Pacific’s San Francisco programs joined the new class of dental students on the university’s campus in the prime South of Market district.
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Pacific’s academic breadth is reflected on each of its campuses with new programs that span disciplines: business, law, policy, health, engineering and education. New programs designed to provide the kind of professionals our regions need for a changing 21st century workforce:
Sacramento Campus Started fall 2015 Master of Business Administration (general and health care tracks) Doctor of Education in Educational and Organizational Leadership Starting fall 2016 Master of Public Policy Master of Public Administration Master of Arts, Education (concentration in Organizational Learning and Effectiveness) Starting spring 2017 Master of Physician Assistant Studies Master of Science, Analytics
William J. Ellerbee
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Deputy Superintendent, California Department of Education ’02 EdD, ’16 MSL
Started fall 2015 Doctor of Audiology Master of Science, Analytics Master of Arts, Food Studies Equivalency Program, Music Therapy
See more @ Pacific.edu/Sacramento and Pacific.edu/SF
William J. Ellerbee (at podium) was one of the featured speakers at Pacific’s June 26 event celebrating the expansion of its Sacramento Campus. Joining him were (from l to r) Bill Mueller, CEO of Valley Vision, Pacific’s Board of Regents Chair Kathleen Lagorio Janssen, President Pamela Eibeck, Provost Maria Pallavicini and Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento).
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Voices Two degrees, two Pacific campuses, and one Pacific experience
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n June, Pacific announced its ambitious plans to expand in the Sacramento region. Joining community, business and political leaders at a celebration was William J. Ellerbee ’02, ’16, a deputy superintendent for the California Department of Education. On his way to completing a Master of Science in Law degree from McGeorge in Sacramento, Ellerbee previously earned an EdD from the Gladys L. Benerd School of Education in Stockton. And he is a champion of what he has found at both campuses. “It would be fair to say that the faculty at both campuses significantly stretched my thinking, never to return to its original dimension,” he said. “This is what I find so exciting about the expansion of the Sacramento Campus programs. There is now a bigger opportunity for more students, especially working adults, to interact with great faculty in learning that will make a difference in their lives.”
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Committed to student success Pacific is preparing students for success in their careers and lives
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Prepare students for tomorrow’s careers and for lifelong success — Pacific 2020
Pacific’s commitment to its students allows them to soar to new heights.
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his photo of Earth was captured at about 100,000 feet from a tiny satellite carrying a payload designed by Pacific’s Society of Women Engineers Team Tech (of course, a Pacific tiger was on board). The satellite, called a “CubeSat” because of its size and shape, was attached to a high-altitude balloon and took photos of Earth before returning safely to firm soil. One day it could be used to monitor volcanic activity in Mexico or fly to the International Space Station.
The CubeSat was launched on a chilly November morning in Lovelock, Nevada, by Pacific engineering students and faculty, students from Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla in Mexico, Tierra Luna Engineering and JP Aerospace. Tierra Luna is a Stockton-based engineering firm founded by Pacific Regent José Hernández ’85, a former NASA astronaut. For Delia Davila ’16, a bioengineering major, and the other members of Pacific’s SWE Team Tech, results from the project have already
See more @ go.Pacific.edu/WeAreSOECS
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hit home. The team won second place for its CubeSat research at the Society for Women Engineers conference in Nashville in October. “My passion is helping and mentoring others, and especially encouraging girls to go into STEM careers,” Davila said. “I’m so lucky that I’ve had strong role models and that I’ve been able to meet women who have done this career, and I’d like to show my community how amazing science is.”
“With a research project like this, students learn how to work with people in industry, how to work with a team, and how to create a functioning product. These are all skills that employers and graduate schools are looking for when our students finish at Pacific.” —Louise Stark, professor emerita of engineering who was one of two faculty advisers to the project
Keeping the Pacific tiger company on its ride into space are items from other project partners — Stockton-based Tierra Luna Engineering (left) and the Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla in Mexico (right)
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High scorers New data in the White House College Scorecard shows that Pacific ranks No. 8 among California’s 119 public and private nonprofit universities in alumni salaries.
debt at graduation, and the percentage of students whose annual family incomes are below $40,000 and receive federal Pell grants, among other information.
“The scorecard confirms that Pacific offers its students an excellent return Pacific alumni earn a median on investment,” said President Eibeck. salary of $66,400 ten years after starting classes, more than “It also underscores the importance of their peers from USC, UC Berkeley Pacific as an engine for social mobility in California.” or UCLA, the data show. The scorecard also shows that Eibeck has made improving Pacific’s student body is among graduation rates a top priority of the nation’s most sociothe university. economically diverse. The College Scorecard provides data on cost, graduation rate,
The White House College Scorecard can be found at collegescorecard.ed.gov
Off to a great start Career Resource Center
Eberhardt School of Business
•S pring Career Fair - 105 companies - nearly 450 students
• Fall Meet the Firms -4 0 employers, professional organizations and nonprofits - 232 students
Pacific students explored career opportunities, set up interviews and had the chance for face-toface networking at this day-long event designed to open doors to a successful future. • Meet Your Future Mock Interviews More than 210 students tested and flexed their interview skills with real employers and got career and job search advice from employer panels.
Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences • Employer Showcases - More than 30 employers - 350 students Pharmacy, physical therapy, and speech language pathology students had the opportunity to explore different career paths and settings, while employers had a valuable recruiting opportunity.
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This meet-and-greet with prospective employers resulted in 83 interviews that led to 30 job and internship offers to Pacific students. • A future of success Students in the new bachelor’s of accounting and Master of Accounting programs have plenty to smile about. With two graduating classes under their belts, the programs boast a 100 percent job placement rate, with some graduates going on to the “Big 4” (the top four international accounting firms) and large regional accounting firms.
Boosting student SUCCESS
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ome 200 first-generation, low-income or disabled students will have help attending Pacific thanks to a $1.4 million, five-year grant recently awarded to the university by the U.S. Department of Education. The grant will help fund Pacific’s SUCCESS program, which works to increase retention and graduation rates of eligible students and helps them to pursue advanced degrees. Of students who
enter the SUCCESS program as freshmen, 92 percent make it to graduation and 97 percent maintain a C average or better. The overall GPA for SUCCESS students is 3.04. Pacific is one of only five private universities statewide to receive one of the Department of Education’s TRiO Student Support Services grants in 2015. Since it was established in 1979, Pacific’s SUCCESS program has served nearly 7,000 students.
An example of SUCCESS: Cheyanne Harris ’17, a civil engineering major, has won two prestigious awards to study in Japan: the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship, a summer language immersion program, and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Boren Scholarship, which supported four months of study at a Japanese university. It was the first time a Pacific student received the Critical Language Scholarship.
“Because of the program’s support I have At Pacific, we are adjusting to meet the needs of today’s employers and assembling new programs and initiatives to provide our students with exceptional job readiness across all disciplines.
been able to develop a strong foundation in difficult courses, while also gaining the confidence to consider a career in academia. As a first-generation college student, SUCCESS has encouraged me to pursue my dreams.” —Cheyanne Harris ’17
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The inaugural William K. Chase Memorial Community Involvement Program Scholars
Jimmy Suliman ’16 is a biology major with a goal of attending dental school. The son of Syrian immigrants, he is the youngest of four children and the first in his family born in the United States.
A wise investment Students in Pacific’s Community Involvement Program (CIP) will get additional support through a new scholarship established in memory of a Stockton business leader, William K. Chase. The William K. Chase Memorial Endowed Scholarship was established by Chase Chevrolet in Stockton to honor the local business owner, leader and patriarch. The family-owned auto dealership’s gift of $250,000 was matched dollar-for-dollar by the university’s Powell Match opportunity, bringing the
Illiana Abarca ’18
is an exploratory major with interests ranging from art and dance to mathematics and social justice. A Stockton native, Abarca works several jobs and is striving to improve the reputation of and conditions in her hometown.
total value of the endowed scholarship to $500,000. The Chase Scholarship will be awarded each year in perpetuity to two CIP students who exhibit a strong work ethic and noteworthy achievements despite socioeconomic challenges. Pacific’s CIP is a comprehensive, need-based scholarship program for first-generation college students from the Stockton area who have demonstrated the potential for sustainable leadership, community awareness and involvement.
“One of the most distinctive things about Pacific is the deep sense of community. Year after year, CIP students — many of whom never thought a Pacific education was within reach — have their lives forever changed by this experience.” —Allison Dumas, CIP director
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Courtney Bye Says Hello to Washington, D.C.
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ourtney Bye ’16, an applied economics major with a minor in Chinese studies, knows that following her passion to become successful in the fast-paced field of global economic development requires more than just textbook smarts.
Thanks to the newly established Nathan Scholars program, Bye gained real-world experience last summer through an internship at a top international economics consulting firm, Nathan Associates Inc. She is one of the first students to be named a Nathan Scholar, a distinction made possible by the support of the firm’s chairman John C. Beyer ’62. His generous gift funded the scholars program, in addition to creating an endowed chair and fellowship in economics at Pacific.
“This summer has been a fantastic opportunity for me not only to get real experience in the world of consulting, but also to expand my career horizons and gain exposure to different industries and business practices. Internships are a critical way for a student to apply the knowledge and skills taught at school in a hands-on environment.”
—Courtney Bye ’16
Verdict: McGeorge law students McGeorge students proved their legal skills couldn’t be argued with as they collected a bevy of individual awards in moot competitions this fall and advanced to the final rounds in the National Moot Court Competition. Ian McGlone ’16 captured the Best Speaker Award in the Thomas Tang Moot Western Regional held in October. Jenifer Gee ’16 and Kimberly Van Spronsen ’16 headed to the finals of the New York City Bar Association’s National Moot Court Competition after a victory at the Northern California regional competition. Gee was also named the top oralist in the regional competition, and Van Spronsen and Gee were recognized for second-best brief. Karly McCrory ’16 and Chris Maloney ’16 were recognized for second-best brief and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Chicago Bar Association’s competition. Jessica Melgar ’16 and James Ward ’16 made the octofinals. Lauren Ngo, Hasan Shaik and Amanda Ryan, all class of 2016, received the best respondent brief at Pepperdine’s 18th Annual National Entertainment Law Moot Court Competition.
Student scholars Nahid Kadirzada ’16, an economics major who is fluent in English, Farsi, Pashto and Spanish, received the 2015 Thomas R. Pickering Undergraduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship. This prestigious award is given to just 10 undergraduate students nationally who aspire to careers in the United States Foreign Service. Pickering Fellowships include funds for two years of school, two 10-week internships with the U.S. Department of State, and a commitment to work in the Foreign Service for five years after graduation.
Marcos Beltran-Sanchez ’16, a chemistry major, received the Department of State-funded Gilman Scholarship to support intensive language study in Japan. He aspires to work in government or private research on drug development for neurological diseases and disorders. Alea Freeman ’15, an English and philosophy double major, received a summer research scholarship from Leadership Alliance, a national consortium of colleges, universities and private industry. She researched
American literature under the guidance of a faculty mentor at Princeton during the summer. Freeman is the first Pacific student to win the Leadership Alliance award. Jesse Herche ’16, a violin performance and biology double major, received the Amgen Scholarship to conduct biochemistry research at MIT during the summer. After graduation, Herche plans to pursue an MD-PhD dual degree in neurophysiology with a goal of becoming a physician-researcher who studies the processing of music in the brain.
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Healing hands Former Pacific Men’s Volleyball player Dan Hammer ’07, ’11 is continuing to use his hands for good, currently helping America’s wounded warriors. Hammer, a graduate of the College of the Pacific and the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, is winding down a four-year stint with the U.S. Navy that has seen him work with the Wounded Warrior Project. Based at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, he is specializing in oral surgery and facial reconstruction for soldiers who have been injured while serving. In working with the Wounded Warrior Project, Hammer appears to have found his calling. The former student body president at the Dugoni School of Dentistry has just become the president of the Resident Organization of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, a nonprofit association serving the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery, which governs 1,100 residents throughout the country. “It really makes you take a second to be thankful for what you have and not take things for granted,” he said. “You might get angry or frustrated during the day for something as small as not having your cell phone charged, but you think about what these people are going through and you realize your small problems are not really that significant.”
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Tiger strong Teeing off to a bright future Men’s golfer Byron Meth ’15 finished his masterful career at Pacific with his eyes still on the fairway. With an impressive list of team wins and individual titles — including a secondround finish in the 2015 Master’s competition — Meth is realizing his plans to pursue professional golf. By 2014, his junior year, Meth solidified his above-par athletic status by becoming the 2014 West Coast Conference champion and competing in the NCAA regional tournament. That summer he won the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, which effectively secured his spot in the Master’s competition. On the famed greens of Augusta in April, Meth, a business administration major with a minor in economics, eventually relaxed into the game like a pro. “I’m just out here having fun,” he told CBS Sports News.
Pacific’s Rugby Club used its tiger tenacity to become national champions last spring when the team scored a comeback victory against Northern Colorado. After fighting as underdogs through the ranks of sectional and divisional battles and triumphing over schools with long-established teams, the Pacific team earned its first match on the national stage. The game got off to a slow start for both teams, but by halftime, Northern Colorado pulled ahead with what looked like a plan for victory. In the end, Pacific’s players fought harder and seized the 39–32 win, an impressive feat considering the team has only been practicing since 2008. Celebrations and media coverage ensued. On CBS’s Good Day Sacramento, President Pamela Eibeck shared her pride: “They represent the very best of University of the Pacific. They’re committed, ready to pull together to do their best and reach success against all odds.”
“To have four Pacific-trained artists recognized in four different districts as winners so early in their careers is phenomenal. This is the most prestigious voice competition in the world, and this competition has been the defining step in the careers of some of the greatest opera stars.” —Daniel Ebbers, interim dean of the Conservatory of Music and a professor of voice
Hannah Ludwig ’14 (right) and Yelena Dyachek ’13 (left), appearing in the award-winning 2013 Pacific Opera Theatre production of Merry Wives of Windsor.
The stage is set
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annah Ludwig ’14 and Yelena Dyachek ’13 are vying for a place in opera history as they advance in the 2015 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Andrew Dwan ’13 and Ted Pickell ’14 were also winners in their districts and advanced to the regionals, where they each were recognized with honorable mention distinction. Dyachek, as a regional winner, has already secured one of only 20 spots in the national semifinals. Ludwig, as winner of the Puerto
Rico District, will be competing to determine if she will join Dyachek on the Metropolitan Opera stage as a national semifinalist in March. These four Pacific opera alumni are used to hitting high notes. All were in the cast of the 2013 Pacific Opera Theatre production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, which received a first place award in that year’s Opera Production Competition sponsored by the National Opera Association.
Hear them sing @ go.Pacific.edu/MetOpera
Embrace our students and alumni as lifelong Pacificans — Pacific 2020
Creating a billion – dollar brand
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GGs. If you haven’t worn them, you’ve certainly seen them— the shearling boots that come in trend-setting colors and styles. And that’s because of Connie Rishwain ’79, who catapulted the UGG boot into a global brand with more than $1.5 billion in revenues. Serving as president of UGG Australia from 2002 through 2015, she led the brand’s growth from a niche surfer boot to an award-winning, must-have lifestyle footwear brand sported by celebrities and featured several times on “Oprah’s Favorite Things.” She took her story of success to the stage in October, when she was a featured speaker at the second Advancing Women’s Leadership Forum at Pacific. The sold-out event was designed to inspire and empower future leaders, especially disadvantaged youth and youth from the San Joaquin region.
Connie Rishwain ’79
former UGG president and newly elected member of Pacific’s Board of Regents
Hall of Fame CIO It’s been quite a run of success for Rebecca Jacoby ’83. Within the last year, she assumed one of the top posts at Cisco — the worldwide leader in IT — when she was named the new senior vice president of operations. She also received Hall of Fame status (one of only five CIOs in the country to be named so by CIO magazine) for her previous role as Cisco’s chief information officer. Yet Jacoby still remembers being a high school student from the East Bay visiting Pacific for the first time. She had come with a friend from their hometown of Hayward where, as she remembers, not a lot of people had the opportunity to go away to college. She also remembers it was springtime in April. “I just fell in love with the campus,” she said. “I loved the brick and rose gardens, and this whole sense of a small community. You felt like you were coming home.” 18 | THE PACIFIC EXPERIENCE
At Pacific’s San Francisco Campus on March 26, George R. Moscone’s contributions to California, San Francisco and his alma mater were celebrated. The event included a panel discussion moderated by California State Librarian Greg Lucas, and included four people who knew him well: * Willie L. Brown Jr., former speaker of the California Assembly and former mayor of San Francisco * John L. Burton, chairman of the California Democratic Party and a former California assemblyman and U.S. congressman * Belva Davis, journalist and longtime host of This Week in Northern California on KQED, San Francisco’s PBS affiliate * Jonathan Moscone, artistic director for the California Shakespeare Theater and son of the late mayor From l to r: Greg Lucas, Willie L. Brown Jr., John L. Burton, Belva Davis, Jonathan Moscone.
A tribute to a pioneering public servant
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eorge R. Moscone ’53 is best remembered as a state senator and San Francisco mayor who spurred landmark legislation and fought for the rights of the LGBT community and other minorities.
For more than 35 years after his assassination in 1978, however, Moscone’s legacy went largely unexamined. His papers — a wealth of materials that give a firsthand account of one of the most transformational eras in California politics — had spent decades tucked away in a San Francisco storage facility. The collection was recently unearthed by his family, who decided to donate this historical treasure trove to Pacific.
Today his papers have a new purpose at Pacific, which will proudly house Moscone’s papers, together with a vast compilation of video interviews, in the HoltAtherton Special Collections on the Stockton Campus. Now in the process of being catalogued, the Moscone Collection will be open to scholars and the general public, and Moscone’s legacy will be preserved for generations to come.
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Building reputation through academic excellence Build the strength, relevance and reputation of Pacific’s academic programs — Pacific 2020
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New Academic Plan: Crossing Boundaries for Academic Excellence guides the university over the next five years as it works toward a critical end goal: to prepare students for success in a complex world. It’s a world where we must cross the boundaries of disciplines, professions, cultures and nations to find solutions to our most pressing challenges.
Liberal Arts and Innovation The combination for success
Analyzing the data
Mixing food, history, society and business
Students with a strong liberal arts education — gained from a combination of arts, humanities, and natural and social sciences — possess skills that are indispensable for personal and professional success in our rapidly changing world. That’s why Pacific is committed to championing the liberal arts, which have been a foundation of the university and our graduates’ success for nearly 165 years.
Rising from the School of Engineering and Computer Science based in Stockton, Pacific’s new graduate program in analytics will help provide this high-demand skill set to employers in San Francisco and Sacramento.
Pacific’s new food studies master’s degree program — the first on the West Coast — serves up a variety of topics for students to explore.
Pacific’s program is custom-built by both experienced program faculty and industry professionals and offers students the best of both worlds, including instructors from industry leaders such as Google. This program is currently being taught at Pacific’s campus in San Francisco to help fill the growing need for data scientists with deep knowledge of analytics. Pacific will soon be offering this program in Sacramento to meet demand in that region.
Public Policy
And with classes held at Pacific’s San Francisco Campus, they are studying food in one of the world’s greatest food cities.
A perfect place for public policy: a law school in Sacramento
Offering new public administration and public policy degrees within the McGeorge School of Law will allow the program and its students to take full advantage of our proximity to the nation’s most important state capital. The new Public Policy Programs build on the strengths of Pacific’s Center for Business and Policy Research and the Capital Center for Public Law and Policy. The Center for Business and Policy Research, which has informed public policy through its 22 | THE PACIFIC EXPERIENCE
Students learn about the ways people have grown, prepared and profited from food through history and across cultures, from professors who combine a range of disciplines (including business, history, sociology, anthropology and English).
economic forecasts and other studies since 2004, recently opened an office on the Sacramento Campus. In the Legislative and Public Policy Clinic taught by faculty affiliated with the Capital Center for Public Law and Policy, students gain practical experience in researching, drafting and pursuing adoption of California legislative and regulatory changes. In 2015, four student-authored bills that had been passed into law took effect. Both centers will provide opportunities for students to participate in rich multidisciplinary research and collaboration.
John J. Kirlin Founding director of Public Policy Programs and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy John Kirlin is renowned for four decades of experience in policy analysis, administration and financing. His expertise includes state-local fiscal relationships, regional governance, land use and environmental and species protection policies. As an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Kirlin has served as an environmental policy advisor to the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Water and Environment The water and environmental concerns of California, a major supplier of the world’s food, stretch beyond state and national borders. As the premier university located in the SacramentoSan Joaquin Delta region, Pacific is compelled to build on the growing interdisciplinary expertise of its faculty to educate leaders and partner with communities to develop innovative solutions to water-related and other environmental challenges.
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Visiting assistant professor of environmental sciences and visiting assistant professor of law Karrigan Börk, who holds joint appointments in Pacific’s liberal arts college and its law school, is crossing boundaries of disciplines. His new position allows for the integration of law students into some of his science courses.
Assistant professor of lawyering skills Jennifer Harder is a lead faculty member for water law and practice at McGeorge. She brings to the classroom a decade of experience as a water attorney and partner with Downey Brand LLP, one of the region’s largest law firms, representing public agencies on water and environmental matters.
Health With expanded access to health care (think the Affordable Care Act), an aging population and other economic factors, the demand for health care professionals will only continue to grow. Pacific is poised to leverage its strength in health to prepare the next generation of leading health care practitioners and other health-related professionals to be successful in this critical and dynamic industry.
Helping to hear Pacific’s Doctor of Audiology Program in San Francisco welcomed its inaugural class last fall. The university’s AuD program is the first in Northern California, and has clinics in San Francisco and Stockton, where Pacific’s nationally recognized programs in speech-language pathology are well respected.
Emily Whelan Parento Associate professor of law and the Gordon D. Schaber Health Law Scholar Emily Whelan Parento was the principal health policy adviser to Kentucky Governor Steven L. Beshear as the state successfully implemented the Affordable Care Act. Parento has written on both national and global health law and policy, examining issues such as the impact of the Affordable Care Act on health disparities, legal strategies to strengthen health equity, and global trends in obesity-related regulations.
Tapping into Pacific’s resources and reputation Pacific’s new Physician Assistant Program* will be located on the Sacramento Campus and administered by the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco. As such, the program will tap into the resources in the Sacramento region and the reputation of Pacific’s highly regarded health-related schools: the Dugoni School and the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. It will be the first physician assistant program in the nation administered by a dental school. Students pursing this fast-growing field of health care at Pacific will have a variety of inter-professional opportunities through the university’s programs in dentistry, pharmacy, physical therapy, audiology and other health sciences areas. *Pending accreditation
Mark Christiansen Founding program director of the Master of Physician Assistant Studies Program and associate professor Mark Christiansen previously served on the faculty at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center in Sacramento. Most recently, he was the program director of the Physician Assistant Master’s Degree Program in the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. Christiansen has been a practicing physician assistant in family medicine and emergency medicine for more than 35 years.
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Paul Glassman,
professor of dentistry and director of the Pacific Center for Special Care, during the first training of dental hygiene educators in the state in teledentistry
Pioneers in teledentistry
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hanks to innovations in oral health developed by the Pacific Center for Special Care at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, the poor, the elderly and uninsured children in California will have greater access to dental care.
The training was made possible by a new teledentistry law, AB 1174, which was informed by the work of Paul Glassman, a professor of dentistry and director of the Pacific Center for Special Care, and the efforts of center staff.
Pacific’s model to improve access, called “virtual dental home,” made major strides forward last year in reaching the state’s neediest populations by bringing dental care directly to them. With the advancements, California continues as a national leader in teledentistry.
The law took effect last January and authorizes hygienists to become certified to decide which dental X-rays to take before a new patient sees a dentist. It also empowers hygienists to apply ITRs after being directed to do so by a dentist using cloud-based electronic health records.
Last summer, Pacific began training dental hygiene educators from dental hygiene schools around the state to place interim therapeutic restorations, or ITRs in patients. These educators — the first to be trained in California — are then able to teach the technique to their students. ITRs require no drilling or anesthesia and can delay tooth decay and the need for a traditional filling for several years or more.
In another initiative of the virtual dental home project, senior housing residents of Kingsley Manor in Southern California who face financial or other barriers to traditional care began receiving routine diagnostic and preventive dental services, including ITRs, right where they live. The initiative will expand to underserved residents at other senior housing communities and centers in Southern California in the months ahead. The care is made possible by a three-year, $275,000 grant from the California Wellness Foundation to Pacific.
“Today is ground zero, where dental hygiene educators are trained to do ITRs [temporary fillings] on live patients. From there, they will take that back to their classrooms and their respective colleges to train their students... with the ability of hygienists to do these ITRs, after being directed to do so by a dentist, countless Californians will have access to this care.” — Nabeel Cajee ’11, ’15, a College of the Pacific and Dugoni School graduate who participated in the training with Glassman
For more information about the virtual dental home project, visit www.VirtualDentalHome.org 24 | THE PACIFIC EXPERIENCE
Helping Pacific become a leader in audiology A partnership between Pacific and a worldwide leader in hearing aid solutions, ReSound US, is allowing the new Doctor of Audiology program in San Francisco to hit the ground running. A gift from ReSound is equipping the onsite clinic with state-of-the-art instruments and providing experiential learning opportunities for students. The only audiology doctoral program in Northern California enrolled its first class in August 2015. The program is expected to educate nearly half of the estimated 55 new audiologists needed each year to keep pace with anticipated statewide
Teacher-scholars A roadmap to safer energy production William T. Stringfellow, professor of engineering Stringfellow was part of a team of distinguished scientists commissioned by the state Natural Resources Agency to chart a road map for sustainable energy production in California. Stringfellow holds a dual appointment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he directs the Environmental Measurements Laboratory. The report focuses on oil well stimulation treatments, or fracking, offshore and onshore. Looking at foster youth success in school Ronald Hallett, associate professor of education Only 3 in 100 students who have lived in foster care graduate from college, among the lowest rates of any demographic group in the country. In a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Hallett predicted that this rate is unlikely to improve without formal programs to assist foster youth both financially and academically. Dinosaur Discovery Desmond Maxwell, associate professor of biological sciences Maxwell was part of a team of scientists who discovered a new dinosaur. And not just any dinosaur — the
demand. The program’s patient clinics will offer diagnostic and rehabilitation services to both adults and children. In the coming year, ReSound’s gift will also provide scholarships to attract and support talented students and establish a leadership academy led by the company’s president, Kim Lody. ReSound’s support in educating welltrained audiologists and increasing patient care is vitally important not only to Pacific but to the profession and our communities.
oldest horned dinosaur species in North America. This one was about the size of a large crow and lived in Western North America. The finding, published in the prestigious journal PLOS One, made headlines around the world. Maxwell and his fellow scientists named the dinosaur Aquilops americanus, or “American eagle face.” Digitizing Coptic texts Caroline Schroeder, associate professor of religious and classical studies Schroeder won a $192,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which will support creation of new technologies to study and publish online texts that are important in understanding the Bible and the history of Christianity. The texts also offer a window into the cultural heritage of an important religious community in the Middle East, Coptic Christians. Schroeder is collaborating with colleagues at Georgetown University and two German institutions: the University of Göttingen and the University of Münster. The latest grant builds on $100,000 in NEH funding Schroeder received in 2014 for her groundbreaking digital Coptic studies work. Fulbright grant will aid field research in Mexico Analiese Richard, associate professor of anthropology Richard was awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to conduct ethnographic field research in Mexico. Richard, who is fluent in Spanish, will examine how Mexican scientists participate in public life, with a goal of gaining new insights
into the role of experts in democratic society. Richard is the author of book chapters on Mexico’s food sovereignty movement and democratic change in Mexico, and has published papers on agriculture and rural development in Mexico. Quadcopter to the rescue Elizabeth Basha ’03, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering Disasters such as bridge collapses may happen, but Basha wants to make sure they don’t happen because of a dead battery. Basha is completing research funded by a $100,000 National Science Foundation grant that examines how unmanned aerial vehicles could be used to recharge batteries on wireless sensor networks, such as those that track potentially devastating structural changes on bridges. Basha began working with wireless sensor networks while a PhD student at MIT, impressed by their potential to solve human problems. Giving peptides a longer life Mamoun Alhamadsheh, assistant professor of pharmacy Alhamadsheh led a team of faculty and graduate students from the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and the Department of Chemistry in developing a biochemical trick that can significantly extend the lifespan of peptides, smaller cousins of proteins. The finding opens up new possibilities for creating peptides to treat cancer, infertility and other conditions. The discovery was published in the scientific journal Nature Chemical Biology and hailed in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. PRESIDENT’S REPORT | 25
Serve our communities and visibly engage each city through our educational, research and outreach activities— Pacific 2020
Engaging our Communities Stockton: Advancing Women’s Leadership U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor shared her rise to success from a challenging childhood and touted the value of a liberal arts education before a sold-out crowd at the Advancing Women’s Leadership Forum in October. Sotomayor spoke from the stage for just a few moments before venturing onto the floor of Pacific’s Alex G. Spanos Center to shake hands with audience members. She then climbed the stadium stairs to answer questions from among the 2,000 or so middle school, high school and college students whose attendance at the event was made possible through generous donations.
“College,” Sotomayor responded when one of the public school students in the audience asked the secret to achieving dreams. “It’s called a liberal arts education.”
Sacramento: Region Rising Pacific lent its voice to a regional conversation about the future of California’s capital region during an innovative new conference in November. Representatives from schools and departments across the university were part of the dialogue. The “Region Rising” event at the Sacramento Convention Center drew more than 1,000 community and business leaders from throughout Sacramento and northern San Joaquin County to network, collaborate and brainstorm ideas to help shape the region’s present and future.
“To see Pacific so well represented among our region’s institutions of higher education and to hear what the university is doing to help us meet the needs of our communities in the decades to come was a crucial part of our conversation.” – Bill Mueller, CEO of Valley Vision A leading voice for regional growth and development The Center for Business and Policy Research in the Eberhardt School of Business is a primary go-to resource for media across the region and the state. The center produces economic, planning and policy studies, and research and analysis on current issues, and provides triannual economic forecasts for California and 10 metropolitan areas in Northern and Central California. With the center’s expansion in 2015, which included adding two new research analysts and opening a second office in Sacramento, the center has further broadened its scope and influence, including launching a new annual North San Joaquin Valley index. 26 | THE PACIFIC EXPERIENCE
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (above), Connie Rishwain ’79, the former president of UGG Australia, and Amy Purdy, a 2014 Paralympic bronze medalist and motivational speaker, were speakers at the event that seeks to inspire and empower future leaders.
San Francisco: ForecastSF Pacific was front and center at the 2015 ForecastSF event, which brought together political, community and business leaders last summer in the City by the Bay. Rick Hutley, the program director for Pacific’s new graduate program in analytics, gave an engaging presentation about “Building the Talent Pool for The Data Era.” He joined John E. Silvia, a chief economist at Wells Fargo, and Kim Majerus, area vice president, U.S. Public Sector, Cisco, in presenting at the event.
Pacific’s total economic impact by region (FY 2015, in millions)*:
Stockton: $374 Sacramento: $51.1 San Francisco: $153.3 * the effect of university-related spending in the communities
For more information, go.Pacific.edu/CBPR
Serving our Communities
Health care and community service (2014-15 academic year)
Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry • P rovided $10 million in uncompensated dental care to 14,000 patients in Northern California • Provided health services to more than 4,000 people at community events • M ore than 150 students, faculty, staff and alumni helped bring dental care to more than 2,000 underserved patients at the California Dental Association’s CDA Cares event in Sacramento
Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences • S tudents volunteered an estimated 30,000 hours in efforts ranging from children’s health to evaluating elderly prescription drug costs • Provided more than 3,600 hours of free services to approximately 150 children with speech and language difficulties at the Stockton Scottish Rite Language Center • Provided free hearing screenings to more than 500 children and seniors during the San Francisco Audiology Clinic’s first semester
McGeorge School of Law
Going Beyond Our Gates Pacific is working strategically and collaboratively to improve the social and economic vitality of Stockton and San Joaquin County. That’s at the heart of the Beyond Our Gates initiative President Pamela Eibeck launched in 2010. The Beyond Our Gates initiative unites some 50 community partners — including school districts, the public library, businesses, nonprofits and faith-based groups — in an effort to improve early literacy.
• P rovided more than 140 clients with legal services and information through its immigration clinic
Stockton Campus • M ore than 7,600 hours of community service contributed by students
• T he fourth annual San Joaquin Literacy Report Card showed that nearly three in four San Joaquin County students left third grade last year without having mastered the reading skills they need for future academic success. • M ore than 3,600 San Joaquin Valley youth in grades 3–12 participated in Tomorrow Project academies and educational enrichment programs of the Beyond Our Gates initiative • T he BizEd Summit held on the Stockton Campus in June brought local and national business leaders to Stockton to make the case for investment in early childhood education. Investing in literacy and learning benefits not just young children, but the local economy as well.
Find out more @ BeyondOurGates.org
Rajul Patel ’01, ’06, associate professor of pharmacy practice, received a "hero" award from the American Red Cross in recognition of his student-run Mobile Medicare Clinics program, which has helped more than 3,665 Medicare beneficiaries throughout Northern California save more than $3.3 million in out-of-pocket drug costs. PRESIDENT’S REPORT | 27
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The Power of the Powell Match
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Funded from late Regents Bob and Jeannette Powell’s historic $125 million gift to Pacific, the Powell Match provides an extremely rare opportunity to double new endowment gifts of $50,000 or more at the university’s three campuses in Stockton, Sacramento and San Francisco. Donors can create or build upon inspiring philanthropic legacies while directly influencing scholarship and academic programs students want, need and deserve. This is a premier opportunity for visionary philanthropists to leverage their giving and change lives — more dramatically than ever before.
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Fast Facts (2015–2016)
The Pacific Difference
Student Body 6,281 students
• F our-year graduation guarantee: If students do their part, Pacific ensures they graduate on time
Professional 1,596
Undergraduate 3,735
Graduate 950
• C alifornia’s first chartered university, founded in 1851 • O ne of the 50 most beautiful college campuses in the country The Best Colleges
• Stockton 5,151 | Sacramento 554 | San Francisco 576 • Female 52% | Male 48% (undergraduates) • Freshman applications 14,449 | Acceptance rate 65% • Average SAT 1150 | Average high school GPA 3.45 • Degrees conferred (2014–2015): Bachelor’s 864 Master’s 367 | Doctoral 60 | Professional 591
Best in the West Princeton Review • # 108 Top National Universities, #6 among California privates U.S. News & World Report
Undergraduate Demographics Ethnicity • 35.6% Asian/Pacific Islander • 27.3% White, non-Hispanic • 17.9% Hispanic • 2.7% Black, non-Hispanic • 0.5% Am. Ind./Alaskan Native • 5.6% Multi-ethnic • 6.7% International • 3.7% Unknown
• A “Cool School” Sierra Club
• Best 380 Colleges Princeton Review
Region • 29% San Joaquin County • 6 8% Northern California (including S.J. County) • 17% Southern California • 7% Out of state • 7% International • 1% Unknown
Top 15 Nationally For Campus Ethnic Diversity U.S. News & World Report
• #20 Nationally in international law U.S. News & World Report
• # 8 Best undergraduate business schools in California Bloomberg Businessweek (2014)
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Student To Faculty Ratio
2014–2015 FACULTY 768 total faculty 436 full time
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125+ Pacific offers more than 80 undergraduate majors including a broad range of minors and a number of accelerated programs and nearly 45 graduate and professional programs and degrees
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Beyond Expectation Top 10 schools that exceed expected earnings
Earnings Comparison
Best Value in California
Institutions
—The Economist and the Brookings Institution
Source: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, 2015. *Based on the composition of undergraduates’ majors at the institution.
Expected Earnings*
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Difference $29,200
Harvard University
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Georgetown University University of Colorado-Denver MIT Stanford University Bentley University University of Pennsylvania Duke University
$54,400 $47,200 $65,800 $55,400 $49,900 $53,600 $52,400
$83,300 $28,900 $73,800 $26,600 $91,600 $25,800 $80,900 $25,500 $74,900 $25,000 $78,200 $24,600 $76,700 $24,300
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Tuition and Financial Highlights Tuition Comparison (undergraduate)
Endowment Comparison (in millions)
Comparable Privates
Comparable Institutions
FY 2015
FY 2014
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Pepperdine University Chapman University Santa Clara University University of Redlands University of San Diego St. Mary’s College of CA University of the Pacific University of San Francisco Loyola Marymount
$48,090 $46,440 $46,500 $44,710 $45,300 $43,812 $44,550 $42,836 $44,000 $42,330 $42,780 $41,230 $42,414 $40,822 $42,180 $40,996 $41,876 $40,680
Santa Clara University
Pepperdine University University of San Diego Loyola Marymount University of the Pacific University of San Francisco Chapman University St. Mary’s College of CA University of Redlands
805.2 788.6 470.0 468.8 437.8 454.2 385.0 386.4 314.3 237.3 301.3 273.8 170.1 166.5 125.7 127.5
Source: National Association of College and University Business Officers endowment survey 2015
Annual Budget
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Unrestricted (includes financial aid and auxiliaries)
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$61 million University and donor-sponsored financial aid for academic year 2014 – 2015 awarded university-wide
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Average annual financial aid award per student * Undergraduate students
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Schools of University of the Pacific College of the Pacific (1851) Conservatory of Music (1878) Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry (1896) Pacific McGeorge School of Law (1924) Gladys L. Benerd School of Education (1924) Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (1955) School of Engineering and Computer Science (1957) Eberhardt School of Business (1977) School of International Studies (1987) CPCE — Center for Professional and Continuing Education
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University Leadership 2015–2016 Officers of the Board of Regents Kathleen Lagorio Janssen Chair Kevin P. Huber Vice Chair Susanne Stirling Secretary Richard H. Fleming Treasurer
Members Norman E. Allen Fawzi M. Al-Saleh Ronald A. Berberian Charles P. Berolzheimer D. Kirkwood (Kirk) Bowman Virginia Chan Evan Dreyfuss Pamela A. Eibeck Noël M. Ferris Armando B. Flores Clark Gustafson Randall T. Hayashi
José M. Hernández Andrea Lynn Hoch Eve M. Kurtin James D. Mair Kathleen T. McShane Diane D. Miller Gary M. Mitchell Fredric C. Nelson Dianne L. Philibosian Barry L. Ruhl Donald H. Shalvey Janet Y. Spears
Executive Team Pamela A. Eibeck President Maria G. Pallavicini Provost Ken Mullen Vice President for Business and Finance Patrick Day Vice President for Student Life G. Burnham “Burnie” Atterbury Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Arthur M. Sprecher Vice President for Technology and Chief Information Officer Mary Lou Lackey Vice President and Secretary to the Board of Regents
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