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Pepperdine is a Christian university committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and Christian values, where students are strengthened for lives of purpose, service, and leadership.
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GROWING UP IN THE HEARTLAND,
life happened around the table. From festive holidays to Sundays after church to an ordinary weeknight, I would break bread with family and friends who gathered together in fellowship to enjoy the company of one another.
Indeed, classic family traditions, historical religious rituals, and contemporary cultural norms all portray the notion of eating together as a method for fostering relationships, creating dialogue, and—perhaps most importantly— building community. As children, we eat dinner with parents and siblings, at school we share our beloved lunch period with classmates, and as professionals in the modern world we engage in friendly conversations around tables in the break room. We are taught that sharing food means sharing life. As a boy I’m not sure that I fully recognized the value of these moments. But I knew even then that they weren’t just functional interactions designed to consume sustenance. No, these seemingly ordinary gatherings were actually something special, part of communal ritual dating back thousands of years. They uniquely connected all who were a part of them, uniting them in the solidarity of a shared experience. For me, the table was the backdrop of the domestic stage, a place where senses were awakened and countless memories were made.
At Pepperdine, this table—and the experiences created around it—comes in many forms, but its role in bringing people together remains the same.
At Pepperdine, this table—and the experiences created around it—comes in many forms, but its role in bringing people together remains the same. In the caf, dozens of round tables are a cornerstone of campus life. In the classroom, rows of desks are a launch pad for academic instruction and inquiry. And in our libraries, study tables encourage collaboration and deep discussion, often well into the night. As we challenge our University community to discover intrepid new ways to learn, love, lead, and live, this year’s President’s Report explores the roots of Pepperdine’s faith mission and what it means to welcome all to the open table. As you read on, you may even find that you are surprised by our mission’s renewed role in today’s culture and the power it has to bring people of all stripes together.
ANDREW K. BENTON President
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TO UNDERSTAND PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY,
one must first understand its identity with Churches of Christ and its rich heritage born out of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement. This frontier movement, which began in the United States during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century, pursues a vision of historic Christianity that is non-denominational in character. The original founders of the Restoration tradition lamented the divisiveness found in denominational loyalties—working to break down walls around often arbitrary differences—and attempted to recapture the unity of the early church through biblical principles they deemed to be at the center of Christian life. With a heritage rooted in this Restoration ideal, Pepperdine affirms several foundational principles born out of this movement that guide our vision for higher education and the journeys of our students. None, however, is more essential than the sacrament of faith found in the Lord’s Supper. Indeed, it is the vision of communion as an open table that perhaps provides our greatest asset for faith-based higher education.
The open table idealizes a steadfast commitment for a welcoming community, and through it, the University remains centered in the gracious gifts of God and the tenets that unite us rather than divide us.
At the open table, everybody is welcome. The open table idealizes a steadfast commitment for a welcoming community, and through it, the University remains centered in the gracious gifts of God and the tenets that unite us rather than divide us. As a Christian university, Pepperdine invites everyone to gather around our open table where guests are treated with the respect and kindness that we have been called to show one another. Every individual has a seat at this table, and as it becomes a space where lives intersect and knowledge is discovered, we use it to fortify the strength found in our differences and uncover the virtues revealed in diversity, unity, and restoration.
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Pictured: School of Law Class of 2016
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MUCH HAS CHANGED IN THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
since George Pepperdine founded his prized college nearly 80 years ago. The population of the United States is around two and a half times the size it was in 1937, enriched in each passing decade with exponential growth in cultural and ethnic diversity.
Today our student body is representative of that diversity, creating a variegated mosaic that reflects the world around us. Our students come from dozens of countries and represent nearly every race, ethnicity, religion, and creed. At Pepperdine, we believe that all people—regardless of who they are or where they come from—are worthy endeavors equipped with limitless potential, unleashed by the shared strength found in our differences. We embrace not only the necessity of diversity, both in thought and the background of our campus and global communities, but also the alacritous celebration of that diversity. True diversity—found in the bodies of our students, alumni, faculty, and staff—fosters a rich environment of open dialogue, dual-minded perspective, empathy, and increased understanding.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
As a community dedicated each day to the integration of faith and learning, we welcome the diversity of opinion that cultivates mutual respect, charity, and humility. We believe we are called to love our neighbor as ourselves and to live peaceably among one another. And as we remember to treat others with dignity and kindness, we seek to maintain a diverse environment where all are accepted and none are left behind.
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Priceonomics ranked Pepperdine number
in racial and ethnic diversity on college campuses.
A PRACTICING SIKH, SUKHSIMRANJIT SINGH grew up in SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LUISA BLANCO has been utilizing data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the economic, cultural, and psychological barriers against financial inclusion facing older minorities, particularly Latinos and African Americans. Funded by the National Institute of Health and the National Institute of Aging, this first-of-its-kind study aims to design and pilot test the educational intervention to promote financial planning and saving for retirement among low and middle income Spanish-speaking Hispanics.
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Punjab, India—a land known for its distinct spiritual and cultural values. A recognized expert in crosscultural dispute resolution, Singh recently joined the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution as its new associate director and serves as assistant professor of law and practice at the School of Law, where he is also director of the LLM program. “Lawyers need to be mindful of their worldviews to be better counsel to others and to be effective leaders,” says Singh, who has trained lawyers and law students in mediation in 17 countries and more than 30 U.S. states. “It is a privilege to have a platform where we can share and expand on our existing ideas. I hope to bring to Pepperdine an international dialogue on what culture is, how culture impacts us, how each one of us views cultures, and how we can contribute to creating cross-cultural understandings. My impact, if any, will be answering the question, “How can we all work together towards creating future leaders that preserve the very essence of human intelligence: harmony, growth, and peace?”
Pepperdine rises to
in 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings as one of the nation’s “Best National Universities.”
In November the
INSTITUTE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, AND CULTURE
EACH YEAR THE PEPPERDINE VOLUNTEER CENTER brings the campus
together in a united call to advocacy, justice, and service by participating in the National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. With panel discussions, film screenings, and group activities throughout the four-day long program, students are encouraged to participate in activities that are designed to educate, inspire continued acts of service, and bring a greater awareness to the social needs of greater Los Angeles and the world around us. Following a day of activities, students are invited to the Hunger Banquet, a world hunger simulation where they are assigned a socioeconomic class and experience a meal typically had by their designated group. Students in the high-income group are served a full meal at a lavishly set table. The middle-income group serves themselves a simple meal of rice, beans, and water while seated at a table and are provided silverware. The low-income group, made up of the majority of students, sits on the floor and receives rice and water in a bowl without silverware.
hosted Diversity Work$, a series of lively and evocative panel discussions about the evolution of the entertainment industry. As diverse perspectives rise within entertainment, new stories and voices are beginning to transform the media landscape. This shift—an increasingly important topic for students seeking degrees in fields of entertainment—is impacting a wide variety of current and popular topics like Black Lives Matter, gender bias, social and political intergenerational gaps, and disability awareness campaigns.
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INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY IS THE BEDROCK OF PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY.
Historically, the Restoration tradition was rooted in methodologies associated with inductive reasoning and empiricism, which today retain their epistemological power to create knowledge and analyze previous insights and discoveries— endeavors central to higher education research and scholarship. The modern academy, even one grounded in a heritage of faith, must be built on the search for truth and cultivated through a breadth of academic programs and faculty perspectives.
“A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel.” PROVERBS 1:5
Our philosophy is simple. By making a vast array of topics accessible to our students, we allow them to become exposed to the original ideas and inventive solutions necessary for improving their lives, communities, and society. Through an uncompromising commitment to scholarship and open discourse, we bring attention to important issues in the lives of students, promote active civic and global engagement, and position ourselves as leaders in the marketplace of ideas. Students who study in this learning environment, under the tutelage of a diverse and distinguished faculty, will not only broaden their personal perceptions of the world, but will also learn that those who initially seemed so different from us often share the same emotional responses, religious beliefs, and scholarly perspectives that we uphold. As they explore deeper questions of meaning and purpose, it leads them to become like-minded with fellow classmates and faculty members in the present, while preparing them with servant hearts to become well-rounded individuals and successful professionals in the future.
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THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY
Number of years that the
Seaver College MFA in Writing for Screen and Television has supported students as they’ve examined the storyteller in conversation with contemporary culture
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES Division of Preservation and Access awarded a $300,000 grant to Pepperdine University Libraries to develop a sustainable preservation storage environment for important humanities materials. Dean of libraries Mark Roosa notes, “As a 21st century library, we bear a responsibility to provide sustained access to rare, valuable, and historically significant materials. A sustainable preservation space for mixed media collections will provide assurance that researchers will have access to primary resources for many years to come.”
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launched in fall 2016 a new master of science degree in behavioral psychology, preparing students for careers in specialized behavior training to support individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities.
Robert deMayo
“The program is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes—including compassion and respect—necessary to be of assistance to people with autism and their families,” says Robert A. deMayo, associate dean, professor, director of the master of arts in psychology program, and winner of the California Psychology Association’s 2016 Silver Psi Award.
DeMayo, along with associate professor and program director Adel Najdowski, leads the two-year program that trains students to become board certified behavior analysts. Through the program, students learn about human development throughout the lifespan; psychopathology; and the process of diagnosis, treatment planning, and intervention to assess and treat children and adults.
THE SCHOOL OF LAW hosted the second annual
Diversity Week, a series of events that celebrates the rich diversity of the student body, faculty, and staff. As part of the program, the School of Law community came together for Global Village Day, which recognizes and celebrates national, regional, and ethnic cultures through food, music, and fashion with presentations by the ethnic student organizations of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and Student Bar Association. Furthering the conversation, faculty members from various spiritual backgrounds participated in a moderated panel titled “Discussing Religious Diversity with Pepperdine Faculty,” while students Ashley Crump and Brittany Hughes led a presentation highlighting inclusion called “My Story: Individualizing Diversity.”
The University’s FY16 endowment funds in 1000s
THEATRE STUDENTS who participated in
DERYCK J. VAN RENSBURG,
the 2016 Pepperdine Scotland summer program received the prestigious Scotsman Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for their work on the play The Interference. Written by Scotland-based playwright Lynda Radley, The Interference is a fast-paced drama about a campus rape victim’s struggle for justice.
former president of global ventures at The Coca-Cola Company, was named dean of the Graziadio School of Business and Management.
In a cross-cultural exchange that annually immerses Pepperdine theatre students in the Scottish theatre community, the production also enabled a collaboration between different resources across the University—the Counseling Center to offer guidance on self-care as actors performing a difficult scenario, the School of Law to provide nuance and clarity about American law surrounding such issues, and the Pepperdine SaVE committee composed of representatives across the University who unite to address issues of sexual assault on campus. Seaver College senior Sarah Barney, who stars in the production as a journalist who takes up the cause of the victim, says, “I appreciated the opportunity to talk about such a hot-button topic in a way that was not condemning or victimizing, but intent on telling the story of travesty experienced by thousands of individuals worldwide.”
Van Rensburg brings to Pepperdine over 30 years of business experience in corporate leadership roles, where he held international positions in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Romania, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
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among Christians of varying denominations, they emphasized, above all else, the unity of believers and the royal priesthood— encouraging personal responsibility for one’s relationship with God. All Christians, the movement’s founders argued, have equal access to God, and all have the divine potential to minister for Him. As the movement grew, it remained focused on the noble idea of restoration, taking steps to abolish more common religious creeds and return to the principles of the early churches as they were described in the New Testament. Followers of the movement, for example, deeply valued congregational self-governance, rejected man-made creeds and confessions, and viewed the Bible as the best source for understanding the will of God.
Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.” 2 CORINTHIANS 13:11
Such a theological vision energizes a faith-based institution of higher education, especially one like Pepperdine that recognizes the importance of its place in a particular time and culture. In our pursuit to nurture cultural healing and encourage spiritual restoration, Pepperdine affirms paths that bring our community together and encourages all to help guide the University’s focus and direction. True to our Restoration DNA, as well as our commitment to academic excellence and service, the University remains steadfast in its mission to equip each person as a role model for capacious faith, gracious welcoming, and sustained dialogue about the world today and the role that humanity plays in it.
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SINCE FALL 2014, THE GLAZER INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH STUDIES
at Pepperdine has partnered with L’Dough V’Dough, a program developed by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust to give students an opportunity to meet and hear the personal narratives of child Holocaust survivors while making Challah, a traditional braided bread generally eaten on the Sabbath and other Jewish holidays. While the challah cooked, students were grouped with Holocaust survivors to converse about issues of faith, identity, and discrimination while discussing how the Holocaust shaped their perspectives on God, life, and evil.
Life Without Limbs founder Nick Vujicic speaks on “Trust in the Midst of Trial” at Wednesday Chapel on October 26, 2016.
WHEN GUS PETERSON took on the role of convocation director at Pepperdine, his goal was to rediscover the meaning of and reprioritize the program, specifically Wednesday morning chapel services, for students, faculty, and staff. “Wednesday Chapel is our biggest opportunity to not only bring our students together, but to bring all of us together,” shares Peterson. “We happen to have a diverse array of Christian speakers who are sharing with us their experiences and God’s calling in their lives, and in that we’re challenged as a community to step forward in different ways of faith.” The fall semester’s Wednesday Chapel theme of “Invitation” was inspired by George Pepperdine’s dedicatory address, which invited students of all faith backgrounds to learn about the Christian faith in addition to their academic pursuits. The theme also encouraged attendees to explore the meaning of being Christ-like as individuals and as a community, where all are invited to worship at an “open table.” Gus Peterson
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RUBY BRIDGES was born in 1954, the same year that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision mandated racial integration in public schools. At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Bridges became the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. In response, the parents of all of her classmates withdrew their children from the school in an effort to avoid contact with an African American child. At the 73rd annual Pepperdine Bible Lectures, Bridges recalled how armed U.S. marshals would escort her each morning through angry mobs in opposition of the desegregation ruling. Bridges was subsequently educated alone by Barbara Henry, a teacher from Boston, Massachusetts, whom she still describes as her best friend. In the midst of racial hatred, Bridges continually prayed for those who threatened to harm her and her family, thus practicing lessons of love and forgiveness she had learned in church. Her steadfast commitment to her faith in times of hatred, injustice, and loss enabled her to love and forgive those who hated her very existence.
AT THE IRVINE GRADUATE CAMPUS, a group of Graduate School of Education and Psychology students part of the Aliento program are learning to respond to the unique mental health needs of Latina/o communities. Aliento, led by founding director Miguel Gallardo, stresses liberation psychology and liberation theology as the foundation for the education, outreach, and research conducted through the training facility and research institute. Through hours of hands-on training, Spanish language immersion courses, and community service projects, students are equipped to help the most vulnerable, marginalized, and stigmatized populations.
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FOR NEARLY 80 YEARS,
Pepperdine University has emphatically demonstrated its mission and vision by embracing diversity and welcoming members of all groups to join its ever-growing community.
It’s an important distinctive in Christian higher education as historic denominational lines have today become increasingly blurred. Young people, including our own incoming classes of undergraduate and graduate students, are in search of clarity, relevance, authenticity, and mentorship. As the religious landscape changes around us, so do the visions of the values and purpose of faith-based higher education. Students are hungry for more in their spiritual lives and in the education communities where they seek to find a sense of belonging. Throughout the decades, and in every single one of the University’s national and international campuses, Pepperdine has opened its doors to students from a variety of religious and spiritual backgrounds, faculty who represent a vast array of traditional and modern cultures, and staff members who have been called to serve here from all over the world. Seizing the opportunity to educate and nurture this unique student body has also allowed the University’s administrative teams to further expand their knowledge of the innovative movements and inspirational concepts that are only present in a truly diverse atmosphere.
Young people, including our own incoming classes of undergraduate and graduate students, are in search of clarity, relevance, authenticity, and mentorship.
Pepperdine is, indeed, a place of inclusion and compassion, reverence and tolerance, and most importantly, diversity and unity—all of which we must continuously and tirelessly pursue in order to bring about healing and achieve restoration throughout our community. As we contemplate this academic year and the many to come, let us always share the love of Christ with one another—and to remember that there is room for everyone around the open table, forever established among Pepperdine classmates, colleagues, alumni, and friends.
EDWIN L. BIGGERS Chair, Board of Regents
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PEPPERDINE IS THE EXCLUSIVE EDUCATION PARTNER OF STAPLES CENTER, L.A. LIVE, AND THE LA KINGS in an innovative new partnership with AEG. With an extraordinary demand for talent in the sports and entertainment space, the two organizations will collaborate to offer postgraduate- and undergraduate-level educational experiences that combine AEG’s expertise and international network of venues, sports properties and franchises, and live entertainment assets with Pepperdine University’s academic excellence. his new partnership will give students T unprecedented access to the business acumen behind the world’s leading sports and entertainment company as those enrolled in the program gain hands-on experience through an AEG “best-in-class” speaker series and are offered first-person experiences in one of the world’s most successful arenas. Additionally, Pepperdine will have the option to collaborate and produce alongside AEG a sports, music, entertainment, and business conference. The conference would be hosted in the heart of Los Angeles’ preeminent downtown sports and entertainment district, L.A. LIVE. AEG will also host Pepperdine alumni at a co-created networking night at one of the 250 events that comes through STAPLES Center each year. The event will focus on connecting the University’s prestigious alumni— including many at a C-suite level—with top AEG executives.
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OVER 100 PEPPERDINE FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, AND FRIENDS gathered on June
3, 2016, to celebrate the unveiling of the newly renovated Moore Haus, the University’s campus in Heidelberg, Germany.
The celebration marked the conclusion of more than two years of construction, though the building’s historic stature and façade were preserved throughout the refurbishment process. The new designs feature redefined and remodeled residential, study, and recreational areas with improved traffic patterns and increased student capacity, as well as improved technologies for academic, residential, and personal use. The living space for the residentfaculty family has also been expanded and relocated to the tower, which provides the family with additional privacy and brings all students into the main house.
“One of the real advantages is that this will allow more students to go to Heidelberg for their international program,” says Charles F. Hall, dean of international programs and associate professor of psychology. “The building could hold only 40 students before, but now it can hold 56. It also allows more common public student areas for studying and relaxing.” Pepperdine purchased Moore Haus in 1965, and the facility serves as the first and oldest of the University’s international properties. Photo: Elya Pinkas
ENVIRONMENTALIST AND CLIMATE ACTIVIST BILL MCKIBBEN, founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, provided the keynote address at the third annual Climate Calling conference in April 2016. Presented by Pepperdine University and the Malibu Public Library Speaker Series, the three-day conference encouraged participants to work toward stopping climate change and to foster a more sustainable future. The event also featured a screening of the film This Changes Everything. Directed by Avi Lewis and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller with the same name, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities facing the vast challenge of climate change, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Rounding out the conference was the sixth annual Earth Day Fair, where guests learned about what Pepperdine and organizations within the local community are doing to further environmental and social causes.
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IN JANUARY MICHELLE KING (MS ’92) WAS NAMED SUPERINTENDENT of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation’s second-largest public school district, after a historically unanimous vote. King is the first African American woman, and the first woman in more than 80 years, to head LAUSD. “I believe that—as is the case for every superintendent—I have a responsibility to serve all students. I also believe that as someone representing multiple minorities, I can serve as a role model and as a source of inspiration for students of all backgrounds,” she says. The Graduate School of Education and Psychology alumna is a firm believer that the road to graduation begins in preschool, and her ultimate goal as superintendent is ensuring that all students are ready for graduation, college, and their career. King has led reforms to increase graduation rates, and her restorative justice program has successfully kept students in school and cultivated good citizenship at the nearly 1,000 schools in the district.
convened for “Election 2.016: Technology and Civic Engagement” to explore how technology has changed the way voters engage in political and election processes at the local and national government levels. The one-day conference was hosted by the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership at the School of Public Policy and examined topics related to the influence of technological advancements on the voting process, including informed voting in the information age, networking for engagement, how social media has changed the American campaign, and Election Day technology.
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“Our goal was to encourage broader engagement in both discussion and action around elections, specifically to drive voter registration and election awareness within the Pepperdine community,” says Ashley Trim (MPP ’09), executive director of the Davenport Institute. “We did this in conjunction with a broader university effort to promote elections and draw connections between the worlds of technology and public policy.”
EMPOWERING WOMEN is key to
solving many of the world’s most challenging problems. While this powerful sentiment is echoed in boardrooms, council chambers, classrooms, and think tanks, there is a disconnect in American businesses, law firms, and courtrooms. According to an NALP study conducted in 2012, women constitute just under 20 percent of law firm partnership ranks, with 2.16 percent being minority women. While many reasons account for this disparity, a body of empirical research points to a significant trend: women negotiate differently for themselves than for others. In response to this staggering statistic, the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the School of Law hosted a two-day interactive workshop, “Women’s Negotiation Academy: Creating Skilled and Sophisticated Negotiators,” designed to equip both the beginner and the most experienced women negotiators in the legal field with techniques to increase their effectiveness in negotiations. This recurring seminar is specifically designed to educate women working in the legal field and offer them insight from leaders in the Los Angeles legal and mediation communities.
SUMMER 2016 MARKED A NEW PHASE OF THE CAMPUS LIFE PROJECT as construction began throughout the
Malibu campus to modernize the campus with new and upgraded facilities. Current construction projects include renovations of Payson Library, upgrades to Caruso Auditorium and the Lon V. Smith Atrium at the School of Law, development of a new residence hall for Seaver College students, and changes to the Marie Canyon debris basin. During the Payson Library remodel, the project will update the physical spaces of the main library, Pendleton Learning Center, and Huntsinger Academic Center. The interior remodel will transform the library into a more open and collaborative environment and reinvigorate the surrounding spaces for academic use. Upgrades to Caruso Auditorium will include state-of-the-art learning technologies and audio-visual equipment to enhance the modernlyappointed gathering and studying space. New furniture and finishes, ADA accessibility upgrades, and expanded facilities will provide additional support for students, faculty, and staff. Responsive to student needs and preferences, the new 458-bed Seaside Residence Hall—to be built on the current site of the Upsilon parking lot and both Upsilon and Tau residence halls—is planned to include a community kitchen and lounge areas, a fitness room, a centralized study room, and ample outdoor gathering spaces. The debris basin currently located in Marie Canyon at the back of Malibu campus will be relocated within the canyon to prepare the area for an updated and improved student recreation field to be built at a later date. In needed and invigorating ways, these projects will help the University to better serve students and they represent important steps in its continued ascent as a preeminent Christian university.
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University Administration
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION ANDREW K. BENTON
President and Chief Executive Officer
MICHAEL F. ADAMS
The University administration works with the Board of Regents to shape policy and direction for the University. The leadership provided by
Chancellor
RICK R. MARRS
Provost and Chief Academic Officer
GARY A. HANSON
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
S. KEITH HINKLE
Senior Vice President for Advancement and Public Affairs and Chief Development Officer
JEFF PIPPIN
Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer
these distinguished and committed men and women is greatly valued.
ACADEMIC DEANS MICHAEL E. FELTNER
Dean, Seaver College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
DEANELL REECE TACHA
Dean, School of Law
DERYCK J. VAN RENSBURG
Dean, Graziadio School of Business and Management
HELEN E. WILLIAMS
Dean, Graduate School of Education and Psychology
PETE N. PETERSON
Dean, School of Public Policy
MARK S. ROOSA
Dean of Libraries
Board of Regents
Michelle Hiepler (JD ’89)
EDWIN L. BIGGERS Chair
Partner Law Offices of Hiepler & Hiepler
President (Retired) Hughes Missile Group
The 40-member Board of Regents is the legal
SUSAN F. RICE (EdD ’86) Secretary
chief policy board of
Senior Consulting Associate Brakeley Briscoe, Inc.
Regents are recognized and honored for their extraordinary service as past regents.
United States Ambassador (Retired) Managing Partner, The Holden Company
Principal Porter Capital Partners
governing body and the University. Life
Glen A. Holden
JAMES R. PORTER Vice Chair
Gail E. Hopkins (’66, MA ’74) Orthopaedic Surgeon Peter James Johnson, Jr. President Leahey & Johnson, PC
FREDERICK L. RICKER Assistant Secretary
John D. Katch (’60)
Vice President and General Manager (Retired) Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems William H. Ahmanson President The Ahmanson Foundation Andrew K. Benton President Pepperdine University Sheila K. Bost Marriage and Family Therapist Private Practice
District Manager (Retired) Southern California Edison Company Dennis Lewis (’65) President and Owner Chesapeake Holding Company, LLC John T. Lewis (’83) President Eugene Lewis & Associates Kimberly J. Lindley Community Leader Faye W. McClure (’78)
Professor of Neurosurgery Wake Forest University Health Center
Senior Vice President Consumer Product and Segment Integration–Americas AIG Insurance Group
Dale Brown (’64)
Michael T. Okabayashi
Principal Moriah Group, Petroleum Strategies
Partner Ernst & Young
Janice R. Brown
Danny Phillips
Circuit Judge United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Investments/Ranching
Jose A. Collazo (MBA ’77)
Chief Executive Officer Phillips and Company
Charles L. Branch, Jr.
Vice Chairman and President Form I-9 Compliance, LLC Shelle Ensio Engineer Terry Giles (JD ’74) President and Owner Giles Enterprises
Timothy C. Phillips (’87)
John L. Plueger President and Chief Operating Officer Air Lease Corporation Carol Richards Community Leader B. Joseph Rokus (’76) Manager, SPP LLC
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Board of Regents continued
Bui Simon (’96) Founder Angels Wings Foundation International
Life Regents*
Harold R. Smethills
William S. Banowsky (MA ’94)
Chair Sterling Ranch Development Company
Joe R. Barnett
Dee Anna Smith (’86) Chief Executive Officer Sarah Cannon Research Institute Rosa Mercado Spivey Physician Medical Director, Employee Health Services Los Angeles Unified School District
Lodwrick M. Cook Jerry S. Cox Jerry E. Hudson Eff W. Martin Russell L. Ray, Jr. Travis E. Reed
William W. Stevens
Thomas J. Trimble
Chair of the Board (Retired) Triad Systems Corporation
J. McDonald Williams
Stephen M. Stewart
Helen M. Young (’39)
Chair Stewart Brothers Drilling Company
*Nonvoting Regents
Augustus Tagliaferri (MBA ’74) Chair and President Financial Structures, Inc. Marta B. Tooma Philanthropic Dentist Robert L. Walker (MA ’66) Senior Partner The Walker Consulting Group Senior Executive for Development (Retired) Texas A&M University Marylyn M. Warren (’58) Vice President (Retired) eHarmony.com, Inc. Jay S. Welker President, The Private Bank and Wealth Management, Wells Fargo Bank
University Board
Pat Boone (Chair)
Seiji Masuda
Michael F. Adams
Takuji Masuda (’93)
Robert Barbera
Gregory R. McClintock
The Pepperdine
Nabil Barsoum
Warren R. Merrill
University Board
William Beazley
John F. Monroe (’79)
Paul F. Bennett
William S. Mortensen
Andrew K. Benton
Kenneth Mosbey
professional, and
A. Ronald Berryman (’62, MBA ’67)
Aaron Norris
civic leaders who
Viggo Butler (MBA ’80)
Stephen E. Olson (MBA ’73)
Rod Campbell
Gregory M. Outcalt (’84)
Nachhattar S. Chandi
Seung H. Pak
Joseph A. Czyzyk
Michael C. Palmer
Nancy De Liban
John Ratzenberger
K. Duane Denney
Kelly Roberts
Robert E. Dudley
Twanna Rogers (MBA ’77)
Maureen Duffy-Lewis
Christopher A. Ruud
Mark W. Dundee (EdD ’00)
Carla Sands
Gregory J. Ellena
Joseph Schirripa
David G. Elmore
Margaret Sheppard
Hank Frazee
Eric Small
John Q. Gong
Lisa Smith Wengler
hear timely reports
G. Louis Graziadio III
Richard L. Stack
from the president,
Bart M. Hackley, Jr.
William Stephens
administrators,
Michael A. Hammer
Dorothy Straus
Seth A. Haye
George Thomas
Bruce Herschensohn
Robert A. Virtue
Robert W. P. Holstrom
Edward W. Wedbush
Katherine Keck
Ellen Weitman
M. Lawrence Lallande (’80, JD ’83)
Larry L. Westfall
Carl J. Lambert (’78)
Jeremy N. White
Dina Leeds
Gary L. Wilcox
Stephen Lehman
Griffith J. Williams
Wes Lucas
Judy Zierick
comprises business,
demonstrate their confidence in the University’s distinctive mission. Quarterly meetings provide an opportunity for members to offer counsel and guidance on important policy matters and to
professors, and students.
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STATEMENT OF AFFIRMATION PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY AFFIRMS That God is That God is revealed uniquely in Christ That the educational process may not, with impunity,
be divorced from the divine process That the student, as a person of infinite dignity,
is the heart of the educational enterprise That the quality of student life is a valid concern
of the University That truth, having nothing to fear from investigation,
should be pursued relentlessly in every discipline That spiritual commitment, tolerating no excuse
for mediocrity, demands the highest standards of academic excellence That freedom, whether spiritual, intellectual,
or economic, is indivisible That knowledge calls, ultimately, for a life of service.
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