Fall 2013
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PRESIDENT ’S REPORT O N T H E UNIVERSIT Y O F
CINCINNATI
ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION Trending highlights the array of activities and outcomes at the University of Cincinnati, one of the nation’s top public research universities. Here you will see UC collaborating with business and community, expanding the boundaries of art and ideas, applying technology to society’s needs, and more. UC has made great strides in recent years, and Trending demonstrates how we have accelerated our advancement with focused, ambitious, and achievable goals. ON THE COVER The Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, designed by Frank Gehry, opened as the gateway to the UC Academic Health Center in September 1999. The Vontz Center has been included among the “most amazing examples of college architecture” by the website topcollegesonline.org. Gehry’s first all-brick building, the Vontz Center stands as a 360-degree sculpture, set off by a beautiful green space of sculpted grassy mounds and terraces. To many who work at and visit the Academic Health Center, this building represents the entrepreneurial spirit at the University of Cincinnati—encouraging faculty and staff to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
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American higher education didn’t follow its way to world-envy status.
We blazed a trail. And it’s time to do it again.
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— President Santa J. Ono (Columbus Dispatch)
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“It’s who you become. It’s your
competitive edge.”
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RANKED NO. 1 IN THE NATION for return on investment, UC stands in the top tier of the country’s “Best National Universities” according to U. S. News. In fact, University of Cincinnati jumped 21 places in just four years. U. S. News also ranks UC No. 3 on the list of “Up-andComing” universities. Of the UC programs that are nationally ranked, 34 place in the top 50. UC programs ranked in the top 5 are cooperative education, interior design, criminal justice, interior design, pediatrics and opera/voice. 2013
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“In the physical world, they’re at UC.
In the virtual world, they’re at P&G.” — Don Brett, Procter & Gamble
UC was one of just seven organizations
that earned Procter & Gamble’s Connect+Develop Public/Private Partnership award. The award encourages innovation and collaboration in driving business results, and was given to UC in recognition of its Simulation Center, a collaborative effort since 2008 between P&G and the university. The center’s collaborative teams of engineers and students have worked on dozens of P&G projects, giving P&G access to solutions and talent, while providing students opportunities to work on real-time projects.
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Lindner College of Business — on the fast track As part of a thriving top-25 public research university in the middle of a city with 10 Fortune 500 companies, the Lindner College of Business delivers academic excellence with an emphasis on experiential learning in a crossdisciplinary environment. The college enrolls 3,000 undergraduates and 700 graduate students. All freshmen participate in the Lindner Fast Track – small learning communities paired with executives to perform a strategic analysis of a real-world firm. They also develop an entrepreneurial concept and write
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a business plan for it, then use their business acumen to have an impact by partnering with community organizations. Only 15 percent of the world’s
business schools are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools
LINDNER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS PROGRAM RANKINGS • undergraduate program, 36th among all public universities (Bloomberg Businessweek) • full-time MBA, 56th among the Top 100 programs (U.S. News & World Report) • master’s of science in business analytics, top 20 in North America (InformationWeek)
Alumni Presidents & CEOs • Carl Lindner III, American Financial Group • S. Craig Lindner III, American Financial Group • Myron Ullman III, J.C. Penney Company • Paul Polman, Unilever • Robert Nugent, Jack in the Box • John Barrett, Western & Southern Financial Group • Claire Watts, QVC • Oscar Robertson, Orchem • Chris Downie, SparkPeople.com • Harold Miller, Cooper Tire & Rubber Company • Richard Thornburgh, Credit Suisse, Corsair Capital • Robert Fealy, The Duchossois Group • Robert Buck, Beacon Roofing Supply
of Business (AACSB) – the Lindner
College of Business has been AACSBaccredited since 1919. In just the
past year, the college was named a Best Business School by both U.S.
News & World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek.
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“I taught myself PhD-level material and I worked on
a brand-new project for NASA.” — Engineering Student Victoria Krall
REAL-WORLD LEARNING Annual co-op earnings: $43 million Number of co-op and internship placements: 4,851 Average annual earnings per co-op student: $11,137
UC founded cooperative education more than 100 years
ago and we’ve remained a leader in experiential learning ever since. In addition to co-op, UC provides support for part-time internships through its Academic Internship Program, and support for service learning projects through its Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement.
GLOBAL CO-OP PLACEMENTS Germany Singapore China United Kingdom Japan Austria Italy Belgium Spain Ireland Canada Thailand France
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“...a showpiece of student housing renovation...” — Consulting-Specifying Engineer
The newly renovated Morgens Hall reopened this fall with a glistening new façade. Its 456 occupants will enjoy a unique spacesaving dresser that doubles as a desk. This innovative furnishing was created by UC Housing & Food Services in collaboration with Blockhouse Contract Furniture, which has applied for a patent on the module. The new design will hit the market in a full roll-out next year and has already has been nominated for recognition as Innovation of the Year with the National Association for College Auxiliary Services.
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“…the response from U. Cincinnati was the most impressive.” — International student enrollment blog
UC ranks eighth in the world in the International
Student Barometer survey of 193 universities. The survey asks students about their experiences in categories ranging from student learning to student life and social activities; support services (career advising, counseling, IT support); and experience on arrival (orientation services, registration).
Among U.S. institutions that participated in the survey, UC ranked first in the following categories: • Learning • Living • Support • Arrival
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China Adopts UC Co-op Plan A partnership between UC and Chongqing University in China will lead to the adoption of UC’s world-renowned co-op model in that country. In addition, Chongqing will adopt UC’s engineering curriculum. A Memorandum of Understanding establishes a Joint Co-op Institute, the first between universities in the United States and China. The agreement calls for UC to provide co-op experience and expertise while also establishing UC’s curriculum and faculty instruction in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering
The UC-China Connection • More than 33 percent of UC’s international students are from China • Over the past five years, UC has seen a 200 percent increase in students from China • UC has relationships with 80 companies with China operations • 62 faculty hold degrees from Chinese institutions
at Chongqing.
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“Cincinnati takes our top spot.” — Best College Reviews
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UC took the number-one spot of Best College Review’s top 25 “most amazing” student recreation centers. Along with more than 200,000 square feet dedicated to fitness and recreation, the UC Rec Center was cited for being an impressive example of architectural achievement.
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“Welcome to Cincinnati,
center of the consumer marketing universe.” — Ad Age
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE new private economic development projects were identified by the Cincinnati USA Partnership for Economic Development in 2012. The initiative, supported by the University of Cincinnati, promotes the city’s emerging talent pool—graduates of UC and other local schools—as a primary benefit to businesses adding jobs, making investments, or expanding. Cincinnati’s Minority Business Accelerator (MBA), the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber’s hallmark economic-development initiative focused on growing sizeable minority firms, had many reasons to celebrate in 2012. In addition to a new record of spending by local corporations and community organizations, average revenue of MBA portfolio firms reached $29 million and the total number of firm employees increased to 3,360. Since its inception in 2003, the MBA has created 1,800 jobs in Cincinnati.
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With nearly 39,000 branding-related jobs in the city and 60,000 in the region, Cincinnati boasts the highest per-capita concentration of branding professionals in the world. The city is one of the few municipalities anywhere offering incentives to lure or keep marketing-related companies. Jobs in branding, consumer marketing and retail locally are growing at about 16 percent annually, compared to less than 4 percent nationally. Underscoring that presence, dunnhumbyUSA and the American Advertising Federation Cincinnati held D2 Cincinnati, a major digital marketing conference in September at the Horseshoe Casino.
Cincinnati’s Brandhub • The State of Ohio designated Cincinnati as a Hub of Innovation and Opportunity in Consumer Marketing in 2010. • UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning is consistently ranked in the top tier of American and international design schools. • UC graduates 650 students each year with degrees in arts and media, communication and journalism, design and applied arts, information science, marketing and statistics. • The concept of brand management can be traced to a 1931 memo from P&G President Neil McElroy. • Cincinnati’s array of branding and marketing firms includes Landor Associates, LPK, Possible Worldwide, dunnhumbyUSA, Rockfish Interactive, Nielsen Co., and Burke Inc.
“The Cincinnati USA region is firing on all cylinders. From our urban core to our surrounding communities, business growth is everywhere.” — Cincinnati USA Partnership 13 #HOTTESTCOLLEGEINAMERICA
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“It’s great to see when your sketch on paper becomes a
real, materialized design.” — Reuben Alt, Architecture Student
The future of disaster shelters is flat. Or at least
that’s the vision of faculty and students in the University of Cincinnati’s architecture program. They’ve designed an eight-foot tall, 18-foot-long shelter made of a plywood frame that could be covered in a shrink-wrap vinyl membrane for water proofing. Most importantly, it could be delivered and assembled by an ordinary family using readily available tools.
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Because it can be packed flat, 25 of these shelters could fit on the bed of a standard tractor trailer of 53 feet in length. The design was accepted for exhibit at the prestigious International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), which was held in May 2013 in New York City.
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“University of Cincinnati College of Medicine scientists led the first multicenter t-PA studies in the United States and established a protocol for quick diagnosis and treatment for stroke victims.” — Association of American Medical Colleges
Joseph Broderick, co-founder of what is now the UC Stroke Team, the first regional stroke team in the United States, was among the UC researchers who played a leading role in developing and testing the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, to treat acute ischemic stroke. Intravenous tPA is the only FDA-approved treatment for stroke caused by a blood clot. Broderick has been a member of the UC College of Medicine faculty since 1987 and department chair since 2000. In addition, he serves as research director of the UC Neuroscience Institute and director of UC’s Cerebrovascular Research Program. Broderick was recently honored with the William Howard Taft Medal for Notable Achievement.
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“Beginning in 2015, every fan will benefit from the transformative scope of this project.”
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— Athletics Director Whit Babcock
Called the “Wrigley Field of college football” for
its intimate and dynamic energy, 100-year-old Nippert Stadium will undergo an $86-million renovation over the next 25 months. The renovation and expansion
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project will add new premium seating options while enhancing the gameday experience with significantly improved fan amenities. Nippert Stadium is the secondoldest playing site in college football.
One team One Team
One Team made of 549 student athletes, 148 staff members and 19 sports. That philosophy guides University of Cincinnati athletics and underscores a Bearcat’s commitment to the integrity and enhancement of the student ideal. UC recently increased funding to its Olympic sports scholarship programs, ensuring they are able to compete at the highest level
nationally. This fall, UC implemented an aggressive plan to offer the full NCAA complement of grant-in-aid scholarships to student-athletes in each of its 19 programs.
• UC Athletic Department APR 6-Year Multi-Year Score: 990 • Bearcat Student-Athletes’ Cumulative GPA: 3.02 • Bearcat Student-Athletes Community Service Hours: 6,600 • 2012-2013 Bearcat Student-Athlete Graduates: 70+
2012-13 UC Bearcats Highlights • Football won its fourth conference championship in five seasons • Men’s basketball earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the third straight year • Former National Coach of the Year Tommy Tuberville was hired as head football coach • David Tepe won the BIG EAST men’s golf individual championship • Bearcats boast three track All-Americans • Sheakley Athletics Center opened to host lacrosse games and serve as practice facility for football 17 # H O T T E S T C O L L E G E I N A M E R I C A
@ P R E Z O N O
“One of academia’s most
prolific tweeters
(students love him!), Santa J. Ono is an obvious choice for this list.” — Education Dive
“10 College Presidents on Twitter Who Are Doing it Right”
Transforming the way UC operates, President Ono’s open
and social leadership style is a new model for college administrators and business executives alike. According to Jeff Neff of Ad Age, Ono is “perhaps the best chiefexec Tweeter I’ve seen yet… relevant…sincere, often funny.” Transparent, engaging, authentic and innovative, Ono’s deceptively folksy style belies a very purposeful four-step communication strategy: learning, conversation, support, and innovation.
Twitter: 22,800 followers
Facebook: 9,100
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Klout score: 83
More than one-third of all donations to the Proudly Cincinnati campaign arrived from donors outside Cincinnati. The top three totals outside of Cincinnati are: New York City, $21,040,574; Washington, D.C., $20,367,173; Northern California, $11,483,543.
“Private support has transformed UC into a world-class institution.”
A Billion and Beyond
— Rod Grabowski, President, UC Foundation
The University of Cincinnati has surpassed its most ambitious goal: raise $1 billion by the end of UC’s Proudly Cincinnati campaign and secure more than 100,000 individual donors in the process. UC is now in the company of only two percent of the nation’s public colleges and universities that have done the same in a single campaign. More important, the impact of this private support will be felt on UC’s campus for generations to come. • 10,697 students who graduated since the start of the campaign received scholarships. • 42,529 scholarships have been awarded since the start of the campaign. • More than $36,000,000 has been donated to create new scholarship funds. • Created 23 new endowed chairs.
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PROGRAMS OF STUDY (2012)
First program of cooperative education – Herman Schneider (1906)
Associate: 62
First oral polio vaccine – Albert Sabin
Master’s: 125
First observations leading to the National Weather Service – Cleveland Abbe First antihistamine, Benadryl – George Rieveschl
Baccalaureate: 127
UC’S YEAR IN REVIEW • Raised more than $1 billion in our historic Proudly Cincinnati fundraising campaign
Doctoral: 78
• Twenty-one-point rise in the U.S. News
Professional (MD, JD, PharmD): 3
& World Report college rankings in just four years
First electronic organ – Winston Koch
LIBRARIES
First use of YAG laser to remove brain tumor
11 locations
• Named No. 1 in the nation for return on
First bachelor’s degree program in nursing
Holdings: 4.4 million volumes; 70,000 periodicals.
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First emergency medicine residency program First safe anti-knock gasoline First degree program offered via satellite
Ranked 69th among the Association of Research Libraries Use: 451,815 items circulated; 116,532 reference transactions.
• Selected Public University of the Year by the Washington Center • Listed No. 3 among “Up and Coming” universities by U. S. News & World Report
UC’S COLLEGES McMicken College of Arts and Sciences
STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO 15/1
• Princeton Review’s best college guide for
ENROLLMENT (2013-2014) 42,656
• Earned kudos for the “most amazing”
UC NOTABLES
• Launched a new Mobile Apps Incubator
President and later Chief Justice William Howard Taft; Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine; Nobel Peace Prize winner and U. S. Vice President Charles G. Dawes; Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Walt Handelsman; Doris Twitchell Allen, founder of Children’s International Summer Village; Astronaut Neil Armstrong; soprano Kathleen Battle; Cleveland Abbe, whose work at UC led to the National Weather Service; Eula Bingham, environmental scientist and head of OSHA; Marilyn Gaston, assistant surgeon general; author Thomas Berger; Prima Ballerina Suzanne Farrell; sports greats Sandy Koufax, Oscar Robertson, Jack Twyman and Tony Trabert; architect Michael Graves; artists Tom Wesselmann and Gilbert Young; Tony Award winner Faith Prince; Elwood Jensen, pioneer in breast cancer research
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College of Allied Health Sciences Carl H. Lindner College of Business UC Clermont College College-Conservatory of Music College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services College of Engineering and Applied Science College of Law College of Medicine College of Nursing James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy UC Blue Ash College Graduate School CAMPUS Total acreage: 473 Number of buildings: 117 Campus locations: 7
the sixth consecutive year
Campus Rec Center in the nation
• Technology Commercialization Accelerator opened in the Uptown area • Reached historic high in enrollment • First-ever Veterans One-Stop Center opened on campus • Formalized the structure for the new UC Research Institute
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