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President’s Report on the University of Cincinnati / Fall 2016
“
Cincinnati students show up every day ready to change how they think, what they know, and how they will
change the world.
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— Beverly J. Davenport, Interim President August 2016 Commencement Address
R E C O R D - B R E A K I N G
“UC is not only known for its great academics, but for incredible
opportunities,
including cooperative education.” UC student in Princeton Review
FOUR STRAIGHT YEARS OF RECORD ENROLLMENT generated some other historic highs as the University of Cincinnati opened the 2016-17 academic year:
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• The largest first-year class at 6,913 – also among the smartest with an average ACT score of 25.7, average SAT score of 1148 and average high school GPA of 3.63. • More students than ever living in UC housing (6,500). • The first-year retention rate of 87.9 percent, UC’s highest ever. • 55 National Merit scholars in the first-year class, the most ever.
250% Increase in
National Merit/ National Hispanic Scholars
53 2016
2003
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Textbook Affordability Initiative
UC’S RECORD-SETTING ENROLLMENT
Saved students $1.9 million (2015-16) / Championed by UC Interim President Beverly J. Davenport while she served as provost / Leverages faculty adoption of digital formats, alternative resources and collective buying power / Provided a model shared with other Ohio universities.
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“It was real, and we could actually see
the impact
of what we did.”
Chelsie Hickey, graphic community design graduate, about co-op and studio courses EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM is a hallmark of a University of Cincinnati education. As the world founder of cooperative education, UC expects 100 percent of its undergraduates to participate in at least one experience-based program prior to graduation. These hands-on experiences – ranging from co-op and internships to study abroad and service learning – develop professional maturity and give a competitive edge in the job market. Marketing student Nicholas Bauer, for example, interned in TV broadcasting at Corus Entertainment in Toronto, Canada, and found it helped him land interviews with top employers. Interior design student Amanda Crane co-ops this semester at Walt Disney Imagineering, where she is developing skills in creative thinking and deliverable process. Sophomore Lucy Ferut co-ops at Heron Agency, writing news releases, radio spots and print ads. Experience-based learning also helps the students’ bottom line as UC co-op students in 2015-16 earned more than $65 million collectively at an average of $15 per hour.
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ANNUAL EARNINGS FOR UC CO-OP STUDENTS
$65M SAMPLING OF 1,500 UC CO-OP COMPANIES: Abercrombie & Fitch Apple AstraZeneca Boeing Black and Decker BP BMW Disney Dow Chemical Fifth Third Bank General Electric HBO Hasbro JC Penney Macy’s Nike Procter & Gamble Turner Construction Under Armour
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W O R K F O R C E
“If it wasn’t for
Leadership 2.0
I would have dropped out freshman year.”
Trevor Holtz, Leadership 2.0 nursing student DIVERSIFYING THE NEXT GENERATION of health professionals sits at the core of several initiatives at UC’s College of Nursing. Dean Greer Glazer, Associate Dean Karen Bankston and Leadership 2.0 program director Kim McGinnis lead these efforts, funded by more than $1.1 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration and $2.5 million from the Office of Minority Health. Three years ago, the first award built a program called “Leadership 2.0” to encourage underrepresented students in six high schools in Cincinnati’s urban core to pursue nursing. New funds will expand it to earlier grades. “It’s about getting a diverse pool of students with leadership potential into the field in order to positively impact patient and community care,” said Glazer.
COLLEGE OF NURSING RANKED
No. 28 (U.S. News & World Report) U N I V E R S I T Y O F C I N C I N N AT I
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95%
RETENTION IN LEADERSHIP 2.0
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“The co-op program is very new in China. It opens
new doors
for us in experiential learning.” Zhiqing Zhang, Chongqing University CHINA’S FIRST MANDATORY CO-OP program pairs the University of Cincinnati with Chongqing University (CQU) in a unique partnership that will graduate its first class in April 2018. Graduates of the UC-CQU Joint Co-op Institute will receive degrees from both institutions. As the founder of cooperative education, UC and its College of Engineering and Applied Science team with CQU to offer the first four years in the program at Chongqing with the fifth and final year at UC. Students are taught in English and follow UC’s engineering curriculum in mechanical and electrical engineering. As a part of the Chinese students’ orientation, UC faculty and administrators share UC’s Red and Black Book with them, make banners similar to UC’s orientation and teach them the Bearcats’ signature “Down the Drive” cheer. Cincinnati students, in turn, travel to CQU to immerse themselves in another culture and serve as teaching assistants.
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STUDENTS IN UC-CQU JOINT CO-OP INSTITUTE
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OTHER KEY GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS: EUROPE: Université de Bordeaux ASIA: Chiba University INDIA: Manipal University LATIN AMERICA: Universidad de Concepción MIDDLE EAST/N. AFRICA: Future University in Egypt SUB-SAHARA AFRICA: Botswana Institute of Science and Technology
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4 STRAIGHT YEARS OF RECORD-BREAKING ENROLLMENT
44,338 $398M IN RESEARCH FUNDING
88%
30 PUBLIC RESEARCH UNIVERSITY
UP-AND-COMING CITY FOR COLLEGE GRADS (FORBES)
51
RETENTION RATE
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PROGRAMS
PROGRAMS
IN THE
IN THE
TOP 50 TOP 10
$5
BILLION ECONOMIC IMPACT
SIX STRAIGHT
NCAA TOURNAMENTS (1 OF ONLY 8 SCHOOLS)
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300,000 $65M CINCINNATI: FASTEST- GROWING ECONOMY IN THE MIDWEST
AMONG THE WORLD'S
MOST BEAUTIFUL CAMPUSES (FORBES)
GRADE POINT AVERAGE for
NATIONS REPRESENTED BY UC STUDENTS
CINCINNATI: MORE
FORTUNE
500 COMPANIES PER CAPITA THAN NEW YORK OR L.A.
(U.S. BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS)
3.21
IN 10 YEARS
114
LIVING ALUMNI
IN ANNUAL CO-OP EARNINGS
BOWL GAMES
UC ACCELERATOR 7 STARTUPS SINCE 2014
16 CONSECUTIVE SEMESTERS WITH A GPA ABOVE 3.0
$7M IN INVESTMENTS / 17 JOBS CREATED UC.EDU
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“The question of which patients may benefit from proton therapy is largely unanswered. Our new center will help find the answers.” John Breneman, Medical Director, Proton Therapy Center TWO-THIRDS THE SPEED OF LIGHT – that’s how fast the protons accelerate toward cancerous tumors with the powerful magnetic and electrical fields available in the new Proton Therapy Center. Opened by UC Health and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, proton treatment zeroes in on cancer with greater precision than X-rays, resulting in lesser damage to surrounding healthy tissue and fewer long-term side effects. The new center, directed by John Breneman of Cincinnati Children’s and UC Health, is one of only 23 in the nation. It became the first one to include a dedicated gantry for cancer research. It also houses separate gantries for treating children and adults, with room to add a third treatment bay. A 90-ton cyclotron sits at its core.
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PROTON THERAPY CENTERS IN THE NATION
X-rays damage other tissue, left. Protons stop at the tumor, right.
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“We are proud to be another jewel in the crown of the Queen City. Our partnership has put FCC, Cincinnati and University of Cincinnati on an international stage.” Jeff Berding, President and General Manager, Futbol Club Cincinnati
ORANGE AND BLUE instead of UC red and black can be an unusual sight in Nippert Stadium, the home field for Bearcat football. But not during the United Soccer League (USL) season, thanks to a new community partnership between FC Cincinnati (FCC) soccer and the University of Cincinnati. Supported by the UC administration, FCC has made its home at historic Nippert, and the club’s popularity has captured the soccer world’s attention. The new club has also garnered international notice for breaking the league’s attendance records and out-drawing several Major League Soccer venues. The games are a natural draw for UC’s growing international population as well as for a demographic for whom soccer is a Top 2 favorite sport. The team’s success generates a big boost to businesses near campus in Uptown and even downtown, as fans flock to stores and restaurants. Families with children who attend the games get an opportunity to visit campus while the club brings new attention to UC as a top public research university.
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300K
FANS OF FCC SOCCER AT UC’S NIPPERT STADIUM THIS YEAR
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“We are pumped about it and we’re working day in and day out to make
this dream a reality.” UC Hyperloop Team A NEW MODE OF TRANSPORTATION as fast as a plane but cheaper and greener – that’s the challenge laid out by entrepreneur Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, to the world’s brightest minds. In a competition to create a highspeed ground transportation system that is sustainably selfpowering, SpaceX chose only 30 teams to advance to the finals. The University Cincinnati was the only university team from Ohio among them. Called Hyperloop, the project intends to develop a pod-based transportation system that allows passenger travel from Cincinnati to Chicago in 30 minutes. Aerospace engineering graduate student Dhaval Shiyani led the effort to form UC’s 60-member, multidisciplinary Hyperloop team. The next round in the contest will take place Jan. 27-29, 2017 on a SpaceX test track in Hawthorne, California.
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760MPH
HYPERLOOP’S THEORETICAL FULL SPEED
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“My UC MBA has
prepared me
to be successful both in life and in the business world.” Mike Czinege, Senior VP & Chief Information Officer, AMC Entertainment STUDENT QUALITY metrics, job placement numbers and average starting salaries are driving the rise of the University of Cincinnati’s Lindner College of Business MBA program in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. UC’s MBA program earned the biggest three-year rankings jump of any MBA program in the country. The Lindner MBA earned this honor on both the full-time MBA and the part-time MBA rankings charts. In fact, the most recent entering Lindner MBA class enjoys one of the nation’s highest undergraduate GPAs and one of the country’s largest average GMAT increases. In addition to students’ soaring academic attributes, the Lindner College of Business enjoys significant enrollment growth. To accommodate the expanding number of students, UC plans a new $120 million building designed by world-renowned Henning Larsen Architects, shown at right.
RANKINGS RISE: • MBA earned the biggest three-year rankings leap of any MBA in the country (U.S. News & World Report) • Top 10 programs in Accounting, Applied Economics, Business Analytics, Finance and Taxation • Among Top 15 online MBA programs in North America (CEO Magazine) • Among Top 25 public part-time MBA programs in the nation (Bloomberg Businessweek) U N I V E R S I T Y O F C I N C I N N AT I
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UC BREAKTHROUGHS
UC’S COLLEGES
POINTS OF PRIDE
First regional stroke team
College of Arts and Sciences
Identified protein vital for lungs to operate, leading to routine treatments for premature babies
College of Allied Health Sciences
Largest gift to any Innocence Project in the nation − $15 million from Richard “Dick” Rosenthal to the Ohio Innocence Project in the UC College of Law. Also largest gift in history to the College of Law.
One of the first four centers to use gene therapy in treatment of recurring brain tumors Discovered new markers to identify prostate cancer risk
Carl H. Lindner College of Business UC Blue Ash College UC Clermont College College-Conservatory of Music
Discovered a biomarker for pancreatic cancer
College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
Identification of a rare leukemia-causing protein
College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services
First program of cooperative education (1906) – Herman Schneider
College of Engineering and Applied Science
First oral polio vaccine – Albert Sabin
College of Medicine
First observations leading to the National Weather Service – Cleveland Abbe
College of Nursing
First antihistamine – George Rieveschl First functional heart-lung machine – Samuel Kaplan, Leland Clark and James Helmsworth First use of YAG laser to remove brain tumor – John Tew STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO: 17/1 ENROLLMENT (2015-2016): 44,338 CAMPUS Total acreage: 473 Number of buildings: 117 Campus locations: 7 PROGRAMS OF STUDY (2015) Associate: 74 Baccalaureate: 112 Master’s: 111 Doctoral: 79 Professional (MD, JD, PharmD): 3 Total: 379
College of Law
Fourth straight year of record-setting enrollment at 44,338. Largest first-year class ever at 6,913. Recorded $258.9 million during FY 2016 in total giving to the UC Foundation, including software gifts. Named among the “Best National Universities” in the United States – U.S. News & World Report, 2017 guide.
The Graduate School
Among the nation’s best colleges, 10 consecutive years – The Princeton Review.
UC NOTABLES
No. 1 for Return on Educational Investment – PolicyMic.
James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy
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; Benadryl inventor and UC Foundation founder George Rieveschl; 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; and Elwood Jensen, pioneer in breast cancer research.
Among the best 22 colleges for co-op and internships – U.S. News & World Report. Among national universities with substantial economic diversity – U.S. News & World Report. No. 2 in the nation in industrial design (undergraduate); No. 4 in interior design (undergraduate and graduate); and No. 17 in graduate architecture – survey of employers by DesignIntelligence. Ranked No. 14 in the nation and No. 28 in the world for online MBA program – CEO Magazine. Professor Jay Lee of the College of Engineering and Applied Science named one of 30 visionaries leading the world into a fourth industrial revolution by a new magazine in manufacturing engineering.
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