LEADERS IN ACTION AnnuAl RepoRt 2009 – 2010 Contents LETTER FROM THE CHANCELLOR 2 YEAR IN REVIEW 4 ACTION LEADERS 10 INSTRUCTION, SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH 16 WORLD-WISE DU 24 THE GREATER GOOD 29 PIONEER SPIRIT 32 FINANCIAL INFORMATION 37 BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ADMINISTRATION INSIDE BACK COVER Learn more at www.du.edu/annualreport. Letter from the chanceLLor Dear Friends, he past year was a good one for the University of Denver, as we gained momentum in our movement along a number of strategic paths. We continued to enroll exceptional students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. e class of first-year undergraduates that entered the University this past fall was once again our finest ever, having been selected from among a record number of applicants. TWe hired a number of great new faculty members. Together, our faculty and students produced a level of intellectual excitement on campus that was truly extraordinary. is excitement was channeled in ways that had a significant impact on the public good, including a host of projects and activities large and small. A particularly important such activity was an analysis of immigration in the United States done by our Strategic Issues Program. e report from this analysis, “Architecture for Immigration Reform,” was very broadly disseminate d— both at the regional and national level s— and has had a significant impact on public discourse surrounding this important issue. The campus itself continued to evolve and is surely among the most beautiful and effective in America. A number of new structures opened during the year, including the SIÉ CHÉOU-KANG Center in our Josef Korbel School of International Studies, the University of Denver Soccer Stadium and the Pat Bowlen Training Center for our varsity athletes. DU Athletics continued its pattern of success, both on the field with its third consecutive Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup for NCAA Division I-AAA and in the classroom, where our athletes posted an exceptional performance and graduation rate. Excellence and integrity: at is simply the DU way. Financially, the sacrifices made in fiscal year 2009 paved the way for a solid performance in fiscal year 2010. As is shown by the data presented in this report, the University finished the year with a substantial operating margin, our fundraising improved, and our endowment recovered to a market value near the peak it reached before the onset of the recession in summer 2008. Our positive momentum continues unabated as we strive to be a great private university dedicated to the public good. Sincerely, Robert D. Coombe 2 3 DU—a Year in review from plant emissions and asks the court 6,500 college athletics administrators at to force Xcel to comply with monitoring more than 1,600 institutions throughout regulations. In another case, the Environ - North America. Bradley-Doppes is also mental Law Clinic reaches a settlement a member of the NCAA Division I with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Leadership Council. July 2009 and the Department of the Interior • Students and faculty with the to revisit an earlier decision to deny Frederick S. Pardee Center for Interna - endangered species protections for two tional Futures move into a new annex rare plants in the U.S. Virgin Islands. attached to Cherrington Hall, home of • Dignitaries gather for the dedication the Josef Korbel School of International he University of Denver of the SIÉ CHÉOU-KANG Center for Studies. The center analyzes global begins its 146th year. International Security and Diplomacy at trends and predicts what the world will • Four portraits of Holocaust the Josef Korbel School of International look like in the coming decades. With survivors by Deborah Howard, associate Studies. Both the center and the annex the help of Korbel School graduate professor of art and art history, are that houses it were developed through a students, the center has published two accepted into the permanent collection $5 million commitment from the Anna books: Reducing Global Poverty and at Jerusalem’s New Holocaust Art and John J. Sie Foundation, which also Advancing Global Education . Three TMuseum, which houses the world’s endowed a chair to lead the program. e more volumes are in the works. largest collection of Holocaust art. center bears the name of John Sie’s father, • The School of Engineering and Sié Chéou-Kang. e center will provide Computer Science (SECS) and the leadership training for SIÉ Fellows, a September 2009 Division of Natural Sciences and Mathe - program consisting of 10 international matics introduce master’s and PhD security specialists and diplomats to • More than 1,200 first-year students, programs in nanoscale science and begin in fall 2010. culled from a pool of 10,000 applicants, engineering, making DU the first • In U.S.News & World Report ’s arrive for DU’s annual Discoveries university in the Rocky Mountain region undergraduate college rankings, DU orientation week. Minority students to offer such graduate degrees. SECS ranks No. 8— tied with University of account for 19 percent of the first-year also announces a five-year dual-degree Southern California and University of class, and international students make program that allows students to obtain Vermon t— in the “Up and Coming up 6 percent of the class. Total fall a bachelor’s and master’s degree within National Universities” category spot - enrollmen t— including undergraduate the school, meaning students can lighting schools “making promising and and graduate students, the Women’s sequentially pursue, say, a BS in innovative changes.” DU ranks 84th College and University Colleg e— reaches electrical engineering and an MS overal l— up five positions from the 11,644. For the third consecutive year, in bioengineering. previous year . DU enrolls 13 Boettcher Scholar s— more • DU’s Penrose Library crosses a • e Josef Korbel School of Interna - than any other Colorado universit y— digital milestone by adding the millionth tional Studies introduces a master’s bringing its total of enrolled Boettcher URL to its catalog. degree in development practice, which scholars to 53. e prestigious Boettcher is designed to integrate international Foundation Scholarship Program, which studies with other disciplines such as awards 40 scholarships annually, is a August 2009 environmental science and law. While merit-based competition for Colorado the Korbel School coordinates the high school students. • e Women’s College announces new degree, it calls upon the faculty and • e University’s Board of Trustees certificate programs in entrepreneurial research expertise of graduate programs elects prominent Denver business leader studies and philanthropic studies. in biology, geography, law, business and Trygve Myhren to serve as chairman. Another certificate program, in psychology. “It’s a degree for students Myhren, a DU trustee since 1995 and community-based research, will begin with a clear vocational interest in sustain - president of Myhren Media Inc., succeeds in January. e philanthropic studies able development,” says program Joy Burns. certificate is a first in the Rocky Director Daniel Wessner. • James Fallows, national correspon - Mountain region. • Peg Bradley-Doppes, DU’s vice dent for e Atlantic Monthly , discusses • On behalf of WildEarth Guardians, chancellor for athletics and recreation, “China’s Way Forward” before a capacity the Sturm College of Law Environmental is appointed to the National Association crowd of 1,000 gathered at the Newman Law Clinic files suit in federal court of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Center for the first Bridges to the Future against Xcel Energy over the operation (NACDA) executive committee. She will event of the academic year. e event of Denver’s Cherokee Station coal-fired serve as the at-large representative for kicks off a three-program series, hosted power plant. e suit contends Xcel has Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, by the University in the interest of repeatedly violated federal standards for Utah and Wyoming. NACDA is the stimulating community dialogue about limiting and monitoring opacity levels professional association for more than important issues. 4 • At Convocation ceremonies in mental and ethical issues in its MBA Magness Arena, Chancellor Robert program.” is year, 149 business schools Coombe tells about 640 faculty and staff from 24 countries participate in the members that DU is on solid financial alterative rankings program. footing. Annual faculty awards are • DU marks the National Day on bestowed on mathematics Professor Writing with myriad language arts Rick Ball, who is named University activities and its own site within the Lecturer for his scholarly work; National Gallery of Writing, where chemistry and biochemistry Professor poems, papers, letters, essays and even Andrei Kutateladze, who receives the recipes are posted. In addition, the John Evans Professorship, the University’s executive director of DU’s celebrated highest faculty honor; Graduate School Writing Program, Doug Hesse, is of Professional Psychology Associate featured in a national webcast from a Professor Shelly Smith-Acuña, who television studio at the New York Institute receives the Distinguished Teaching of Technology. Recognized for his Award; psychology Professor Stephen expertise in writing pedagogy, Hesse Shirk, whose achievements in professional goes on to present the Norman Mailer scholarship earn him the Distinguished College Writing Award at an event in Scholar Award; biology Professor John New York. Participants include Toni Kinnamon, who is named the United Morrison, Calvin Trillin, Gay Talese and Methodist Church University Scholar/ Doris Kearns Goodwin. Teacher of the Year; international studies • To commemorate the 11th anniver - adjunct faculty member Margaret “Peg” sary of Matthew Shepard’s death, the Sanders, who receives the Ruth Murray Newman Center for the Performing Underhill Teaching Award; and Daniels Arts hosts a production of e Laramie • e Daniels College of Business College of Business Professor Gordon Project: 10 Years Later , an epilogue to the unveils its “Daniels Tomorrow” strategic Von Stroh, who receives the Faculty original production, which chronicled the plan, structured to guide the college Service Award.