TREMENDOUS20 GROWTH | RENEWED PURPOSE J. Bradley Creed TREMENDOUS GROWTH. President RENEWED PURPOSE. Dennis N. Bazemore Vice President for Student Life A historic decade at Campbell University Faithe C. Beam Associate Vice President for ends with great anticipation for the future. Spiritual Life & Campus Minister t’s exhilarating to look back at the This publication not only features 20 Britt J. Davis last 10 years of Campbell history events that shaped the past decade, but Vice President for Institutional Advancement and make note of the important also looks forward and shares how each of 20 & Senior Advisor to the President additions, milestones and events these successes will benefit the Campbell that have had a huge impact on this community for the next 10 years. And as Mark L. Hammond University’s growth. members, alumni or friends of our growing Vice President for Campbell community, we invite you to share Academic Affairs & Provost We have done our very best to wrap up our successes, our mission and our vision with Ian historic decade in 48 pages for this John T. Roberson others. publication — the 2020 University Report. Executive Vice President From the launch of North Carolina’s first new At Campbell University, we believe an medical school in 35 years to the inauguration education changes the life of not only the Sherri Yerk-Zwickl Associate Vice President for of a new president and complete makeover of person receiving it, but of the many people Information Technology & CIO the main campus in Buies Creek, the “teens” he or she will influence over a lifetime. When will go down as one of the most important that education is delivered with a purpose 10-year stretches in Campbell’s 133-year — to graduate students with exemplary Haven Hottel history, because of the impact many of these academic and professional skills who are Assistant Vice President milestones and additions will have on future prepared for purposeful lives and meaningful for Communications, Marketing generations to come. service — it can change the world. Billy Liggett Director of News & Publications EE/AA/Minorities/Females/ 2 Campbell University Disabled/Protected Veterans INSIDE The past decade at Campbell University provided us with several memorable events J. Bradley Creed and milestones, making it one of most President important 10-year stretches in our school’s 133-year history. We chose 20 of these events Dennis N. Bazemore to highlight in our 2020 University Report. Vice President for Student Life Medical school Honoring history Faithe C. Beam 4-5 22-23 Associate Vice President for Spiritual Life & Campus Minister Our fifth president First-gen students 6-7 24-25 Britt J. Davis Vice President for Campus additions ROTC & Homeland Institutional Advancement 8-9 26-27 & Senior Advisor to the President The Big South Home for athletes Mark L. Hammond 10-11 28-29 Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost Engineering Trust milestones 12-13 30 John T. Roberson Executive Vice President Rural health Lead with purpose 14-15 31 Sherri Yerk-Zwickl Associate Vice President for Adult & Online Health sciences Information Technology & CIO 16 32-33 Chris Clemons Marching and music 17 34-35 Haven Hottel Assistant Vice President Raleigh campus The student union for Communications, Marketing 18-19 36-37 Billy Liggett Service abroad The campaign Director of News & Publications 20-21 38-39 EE/AA/Minorities/Females/ University2020 Report Annual numbers/facts Report Disabled/Protected Veterans 40-47 3 BOLD MOVE: THE LAUNCH OF A MEDICAL SCHOOL North Carolina’s first new medical school in 35 years aims to serve the underserved erry Wallace got the idea while in Mississippi — part of a committee tasked to determine if the small Baptist school 20William Carey University could shoulder the costs and expectations of an osteopathic medical school. Wallace Jconcluded that they could ... and so could Campbell University. Four years later in 2013, the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine was a reality, housed in a state-of-the-art facility on the school’s new Health Sciences Campus. Built at a time when North Carolina and the nation were facing a drastic shortage of physicians, Campbell’s medical school vowed to train doctors who would treat the patient and not the sickness and would have a desire to practice in medically underserved areas (in 2013, one out of every five counties in the state had zero surgeons). The school graduated its first class in 2018 — all of whom went on to become residents in hospitals across the country (the majority closer to home). The medical school has helped launch Campbell as a national leader in health sciences education. When the School of Medicine’s Class of 2030 walks the stage 10 years from now, Campbell will have trained nearly 2,000 4 Campbellosteopathic University physicians, many of them practicing in North Carolina. 2020 Annual Report 5 6 Campbell University THE FIFTH: CAMPBELL INAUGURATES A PRESIDENT J. Bradley Creed brings renewed energy, hails Campbell as ‘Place of Opportunities’ hough he had been in office for approximately 10 months before the big event, J. Bradley Creed took his 20oath and “officially” became president of Campbell University on April 8, 2016. He is only the fifth Tpresident in Campbell’s rich 133-year history. “We have the opportunity to change the world — one course, one program, one project, one student at a time,” Creed told a crowd of about 1,300 Camels during his swearing-in ceremony. “Through Campbell, we all have an opportunity to make a difference. And we make a difference by following a sense of calling to serve others. “A Campbell education is not a transaction. It is a transformational learning experience that changes lives.” One of Creed’s first acts as president was announcing the planning and construction of a student union, to be completed in spring 2020. He has also overseen the creation of several new academic programs and the football program’s jump to Division I scholarship status. J. Bradley Creed’s “Campbell Leads” campaign will soon achieve its goal of $75 million —$35 of which will fund the student union and $40 for student scholarships and additional2020 Annual programs. Report 7 A COMPLETE CAMPUS TRANSFORMATION From new buildings to beautification, Campbell’s main campus has evolved he transformation of Campbell University’s main campus began, arguably, with the construction of the 20John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center in 2008 and Butler Chapel, which opened a year later. But the Tadditions and beautification that followed over the next 10 years have been dramatic and impressive. Over the last decade, Campbell has opened two new residence halls (and completely renovated another), built a new admissions and financial aid center, renovated the large auditorium at the heart of the D. Rich Building and enhanced the entrance of that building, improved the brick walkways in Academic Circle, upgraded the overall landscaping on campus, added a walking tunnel to Barker-Lane Stadium and much more. The biggest change was the addition of a Health Sciences campus, home to the Leon Levine Hall of Medical Sciences and the Tracey F. Smith Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences — an area that was little more than a goat pasture 10 years ago. The land picked for the Health Sciences campus was chosen because of growth potential. The medical and nursing school 8 Campbellbuildings areUniversity but the first to inhabit this space along U.S. 421. 2020 Annual Report 9 10 Campbell University THE BIG TIME: ATHLETICS JOINS THE BIG SOUTH Football’s big leap, creation of lacrosse and multiple titles defined the decade ampbell Athletics rejoined the Big South after a lengthy hiatus in 2011, and by decade’s end, the Camels were 20the official kings and queens of the conference. Campbell won its first Sasser Cup, given to the top Csports program in the Big South, in 2019 after earning eight conference titles over seven sports. The prior year, Campbell Football joined the ranks of FCS scholarship programs and became an official member of the conference. The team has posted back-to-back winning seasons since the move. The past decade has seen national tournament appearances by the baseball, women’s golf, men’s basketball, women’s basketball and volleyball programs. Track has sent individual athletes to NCAA Championship meets, and wrestling —though not a member of Big South (which doesn’t have the sport) — has become a nationally ranked program under legendary coach Cary Kolat. In addition, Campbell added women’s lacrosse in 2013, and the new program has posted two 10-win seasons since its inception. Campbell Football has a few high-profile games planned in the 2020s, including games at FBS programs Liberty (2021), East Carolina (2022) and UNC Chapel Hill (2023)2020 Annualin the coming Report years. 11 AN INCLUSIVE, HANDS-ON ENGINEERING PROGRAM New School of Engineering earning national recognition in first four years rom Day 1, Jenna Carpenter, the founding dean of Campbell’s School of Engineering, said her school would 20be two things —hands on and inclusive. Not only has Carpenter kept her promise, but the school Fhas been recognized nationally by its peers for not only being, but excelling at these very things. The School of Engineering launched in the fall of 2016 and this spring will graduate its first cohort of students. In its first three-plus years as a program, Campbell Engineering has competed in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, hosted high school and collegiate robotics students from around the state, attended the Grand Challenges Scholars Program in Washington, D.C., and became the nation’s 45th Kern Engineering Entrepreneurial school. Most impressively, Campbell was named one of the nation’s most inclusive engineering schools by the American Society for Engineering Education in 2019, championing diversity and an even playing field for all.