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Spider CensusDON’T BELIEVE THE MAPS. THE IS MUCH MORE THAN A PLACE. LIKEWISE, THE SPIDER IS MUCH MORE THAN JUST A MASCOT.

By Matthew Dewald and Aggrey Sam

Photography by Jamie Betts Infographics by Katie McBride

EING A SPIDER IS A WAY OF THINKING about the world, a camaraderie in a remark- able community, and an outlook about what B matters and what’s possible. What it means to be a Spider hasn’t changed over the last 125 years, but the ways to be a Spider have grown. Today’s Spiders come from, study, and live around the world. They’re still immersed in a challeng- ing liberal arts education, but the ways they can use it to explore keep growing. In 1970, students had about two dozen majors to choose among. Today’s students have 62. The pages that follow offer a comprehensive survey that covers the generational spans, geographic range, and aca- demic interests of Spiders today. We also highlight some Spiders’ stories of legacy and love, of academic accomplish- ment, friendships, and leadership. You’ll recognize yourself in some of the specific data and be able to situate yourself in all of it. Spiders may be diverse in interest, but we are united by a common bond that develops at this place and then tran- scends it.

20 MAGAZINE.RICHMOND.EDU 2019 WINTER 21 UNIVERSITY of RICHMOND SPIDERS FOR LIFE Alumni Total living alumni: 49,834

WHEN SPIDERS GRADUATED %

ONE-HALF GRADUATED IN 1995 or later ONE-THIRD GRADUATED IN 2004 or later ONE-FIFTH GRADUATED IN 2010 or later 4 of alumni are the child of one 1300 Living alumni 1200 or more Spiders. 1100 BY YEAR OF GRADUATION 1000 900 More than 800 700 1,000 THE HILLS: TOM, R’64, 600 ALUMNI BRAD, ’94, AND GRACE, ’22 500 graduated in 1956 Tom Hill came to Richmond in the fall 400 or earlier. of 1960. Son Brad followed in the fall 300 of 1990. Grace followed them both in August. 200 She saw something new in her dad’s 100 gait when he dropped her off for orien- tation. 0 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 “I call it his Richmond posture,” Grace said. “He gets so comfortable on this campus. He feels so confident. SPIDER SUPPORT I can’t wait for it to be me.”

Data courtesy of advancement data ser- 285,250 vices and office of insti- 1,000 Percentage of... tutional effectiveness; GIFTS FROM ALUMNI reflects current records alumni who made a gift in the 2018 fiscal year 2,000 in the last 30 years 19% for living alumni and alumni who have made a gift in the past five years 38% 3,000 current students when alumni who have made at least one gift 68% compiled in fall 2018. 4,000

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12,000 States with more than 1,000 Spiders California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pen nsylvania, UNIVERSITY of RICHMOND SPIDERS FOR LIFE Texas, State with the least number of Spiders: North Dakota, 6 Spiders in Puerto Rico: 18 WHERE SPIDERS LIVE In the United States: 49,113 STATE WITH THE FEWEST SPIDERS 6 ON RECORD: NORTH DAKOTA

47% of alumni live in Virginia. 28% of alumni live in the greater Richmond area. 11% 23% of non-Virginia alumni live west of the Mississippi River. of alumni said “I do” STATES WITH MORE THAN 1,000 Spiders to a fellow Spider. California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia SPIDERS IN PUERTO RICO: 18 SHANNON KELLEY, B’87, AND MIKE MENDELSON, B’88 Abroad: 721 When Shannon was a student, “there was a lot of folklore around the gazebo,” she said. She was skeptical. That’s why she laughs — because EUROPE: there’s no avoiding the fact that, 249 during the commencement candle- light ceremony in 1988, the gazebo is NORTH AMERICA: MOST SPIDERS: UNITED KINGDOM where the casual hellos she and Mike 120 68 had exchanged in the b-school’s hall- MOST SPIDERS: CANADA ASIA: ways started to become romance. 55 “The romantic connection that 259 spring evening led to a wedding,” she MOST SPIDERS: said. “We joined the happy club of CHINA Spiders marrying Spiders, keeping the AFRICA: 108 folklore alive.” 38 COUNTRIES WITH MOST SPIDERS: NIGERIA SOUTH AMERICA: 10 or more 32 7 Spiders: MOST SPIDERS: BRAZIL Australia, Bahamas, Bulgaria, AUSTRALIA Canada, China, France, Germany, 9 AND OCEANIA: India, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, 23 United Kingdom MOST SPIDERS: COUNTRIES WITH AUSTRALIA one Spider: 18 Botswana, Cameroon, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Federated States of Micronesia, Georgia, Iceland, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Monaco, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Niger, Paraguay, Philippines, Qatar, Swaziland, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Zambia

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WHAT THEY STUDIED Richmond College 14% Westhampton College 13% College/school Arts & Sciences 24% 10 most common undergraduate majors SINCE 1940 Undergraduate business 19% Graduate business 4% OF LIVING ALUMNI SINCE 1940 Law 12% SPCS 11% 1. Business administration 6,051 6. Accounting 2,282 Jepson school of 2%

2. Political science 2,751 7. Economics (A&S and RSB) 2,083

3. Biology 2,392 8. History 1,982 College/school degrees AS A PERCENT OF TOTAL BY YEAR 4. Psychology 2,373 9. Sociology 1,655 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 5. English 2,300 10. Leadership studies 1,161 1940 1940 1942 1942 1944 1944 1946 1946 1948 1948 1950 1950 1949 School of Most popular majors 1952 1952 Business founded 1954 1954 FOR THIS YEAR’S REUNION CLASSES 1956 1956 1958 1958 1960 1960 1969 HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, CHEMISTRY 1962 1962 1974 ENGLISH, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 1964 1964 1962 SPCS founded 1966 1966 1979 ECONOMICS, BIOLOGY, ACCOUNTING 1968 1968 1984 ECONOMICS, MARKETING, FINANCE 1970 1970 1972 1972 1989 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, ECONOMICS, ENGLISH 1974 1974 1976 1976 1994 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, BIOLOGY, ACCOUNTING 1978 1978 1999 1980 1980 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, BIOLOGY, ACCOUNTING 1992 Arts and 1982 1982 2004 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, POLITICAL SCIENCE, ACCOUNTING Sciences replaces 1984 1984 2009 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, POLITICAL SCIENCE, HISTORY 1986 1986 Westhampton and 1988 1988 Richmond College 2014 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, LEADERSHIP STUDIES, ACCOUNTING 1990 1990 degree designations 1992 1992 1994 1994 1994 Jepson School 1996 1996 1998 1998 of Leadership Stud- 2000 2000 ies first graduating 2002 2002 class 2004 2004 2006 2006 TIM MAY, ’05 2008 2008 2010 2010 2012 2012 Tim’s volunteerism eased his adjustment to college. 2014 2014 “It’s a different world from Richmond Public Schools,” 2016 2016 he said. “The Bonner scholarship was one of the reasons I 2018 2018 stayed at the university.” Tim mentored children from Richmond’s historic Jackson Ward neighborhood, often bringing them back to campus DANIELLE STOKES, ’13 with him. Now the owner of a travel agency, Tim remains committed “This is a challenging place to go to school,” said Danielle, an associate at to his hometown. He coaches a basketball team for Church prominent Richmond law firm McGuireWoods. Hill Activities and Tutoring, a community organization that That isn’t is a criticism — she’s grateful for the academic rigor she faced as named him its 2018 volunteer of the year. an undergrad. The native of rural Martinsville, Virginia, believes the univer- sity’s small classes and exacting faculty gave her an advantage in law school. “In terms of providing a quality education,” Danielle said, “I couldn’t have made a better choice.”

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Total students: 4,002 Current Students UNDERGRADUATE: 3,227 GRADUATE: 775

AYAKA HASEGAWA, ’19, Undergraduate Graduate HANNAH WOLFE, ’19, AND PAL PATIL, ’19 Full-time Full-time For the record, Pal’s the one who 94% 55% By school asked the photographer, “Should we carry her?” Part-time Part-time Jepson School of Leadership Studies 2% Because, you know, friends. 6% 45% T.C. Williams School of Law 8% There’s no bond like the School of Professional and Continuing Studies 11% Spider bond. Since these three Robins School of Business 37% met at Richmond, they’ve Arts & Sciences 61% been roommates, classmates, sorority sisters, study pals — partners in crime carrying one another through gradua- Hispanic/Latino 31.7% Traditional Race/ tion this spring and beyond. White/unknown 61.2% Asian 29.7% undergraduate ethnicity Domestic studentsWhere theyof color come from: 29.4% Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize,among domestic Black or African-American 23.1% Bermuda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria,enrollment Canada, China, Costa by Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic,students of Ecuador,International Egypt, El Salvador, 9.4% Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Two or more races Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel,race/ethnicity Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mauritius, Mexico, color 15.2% Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands,(2017-18) New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Ro mania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, American Indian or Alaskan Native 0.4% Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam

WHERE THEY COME FROM

Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Hungary, India, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ireland, Arabia, Serbia, South Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Africa, South Korea, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Kenya, Lebanon, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Lithuania, Mauritius, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Students’ Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, United States, Venezuela, countries Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Vietnam Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Romania, of origin

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WHAT THEY STUDY

Traditional undergraduates Declared majors

Humanities 44% Major declared A&S 61% Social sciences 32% 47% A&S majors RSB 33% Sciences 21% Major undeclared Jepson 6% Arts 3% 53%

Business administration 71% RSB majors Nearly Accounting 22% 10 most popular A&S majors Economics 7%

1. Biology 6. Computer science

2. PPEL (Philosophy, politics, economics, and law) 7. Chemistry

3. Biochemistry & molecular biology 8. Health care studies

4. Political science 9. Mathematics 19% 5. Psychology 10. Journalism of the class of 2018 graduated with MONICA STACK, ’19, SARA HYMAN, ’19, TYLER YORK, ’19, more than AND GARDNER NASH, ’19

The current leadership of the Westhampton and Richmond College student government one major. associations have a shared appreciation for their involvement at Richmond. Sara, WCGA’s chair of senate, describes student government as “a great exposure to all the wonderful, dif- ferent, diverse types of people on this campus.” They view their advocacy for fellow students and interactions with university administra- tors and trustees as essential to their personal development — and that of their soon-to-be alma mater. “I want to see a university that has grown because of the impact that I’ve had on it,” said Tyler, RCSGA’s president.

of the majors declared by today’s students didn’t exist at 30%UR before 2000.

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