MARIAN UNIVERSITY Indianapolis ®
PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2017-18
WHAT’S INSIDE: Message from the President Forging Leaders: The Legacy We’re Made For Growing the Endowment Celebrating Athletics Honor Roll of Donors Alumni Giving by Year Faculty and Staff Giving Heritage of Saint Francis Society MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Greetings Marian University community,
We have been blessed with another tremendous year at Marian University. This fall, we welcomed more than 1,000 new undergraduate and graduate students to campus, including a record-breaking (first-time, full-time) freshman class from 18 states and seven nations (up 25 percent over last year).
Most importantly, this is the most academically prepared class we’ve ever welcomed, as measured by community and high school honors, average GPAs, and SAT scores. This diverse group of students (26 percent minority status) are sure to be transformational leaders in businesses, healthcare, our schools, non-profits, the Church, and our communities at-large.
Over the last year, we acquired more than $24 million in new financial commitments from alumni, parents, friends, trustees, foundations, and corporations, allowing us to support our students through scholarships, expand our academic programs, and enhance facilities. Students now Marian University’s next great venture—our dynamic two- fill the state-of-the-art classrooms and collaborative spaces year college—which will be named Saint Joseph’s College in the Paul J. Norman Center, home of the Byrum School of of Marian University—Indianapolis through a mission Business; fuel their bodies in the new Dining Commons; and collaboration with our friends at Saint Joseph’s College. train in our new Drew Family Health and Fitness Center. Perhaps the most innovative feature of the two-year college We want to continue on an upward trajectory that stays is the employer partnerships that are being established true to our mission and vision. Building on our incredible to help students make connections between learning and success over the last year, this fall we embarked on earning. Marian University faculty will work closely with
ENDOWMENT COMPARISON GROSS TUITION, FEES, AND HOUSING
$70M $120M † $60M $100M
$50M $80M $40M $60M $63,740,039 $113,565,995 $30M $114,381,354
$40M $98,526,540 $20M $84,181,559 $47,113,830
$20M $75,773,075 $10M $40,140,223 $39,260,588
$0 $36,013,451 $0 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 †Projected specific central Indiana employers to ensure that students of the two-year college will be able to recognize connections between what they are learning in the classroom and their future jobs. This two-year college, along with our continuing march toward making the Fred S. Klipsch Educators College a nationally prominent program, the Latin@ Initiative, and more, make for remarkably exciting times on our beautiful campus and in the communities we serve.
Our announcement of the Forging Leaders initiative last year called for an ambitious agenda for the next decade, and we are making tremendous strides in the investments that will be required to meet those goals. Thank you in advance for your support in the next leg of this vision-, mission-, and values-driven journey of building a great Catholic university in this great American city. It is by forging ahead in our vision of shaping transformational leaders for service to the world that we create and honor the legacy we are made for!
Sincerely,
Daniel J. Elsener President
ENROLLMENT Opposite: President Daniel J. Elsener speaks at the 81st annual commencement ceremony on May 6, 2018, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Top: President Daniel J. Elsener announces Saint Joseph’s College of Marian University—Indianapolis, the university’s innovative two-year college, at a press conference in 2