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Full Text: Waded Cruzado's 2013 State of the University Address - the B Full text: Waded Cruzado's 2013 State of the University Address - The B... http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/montana_state_university/ar... Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 10:00 pm All-day MSU Open House and Conversation 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 Ballroom A (PRESENTATION OF COLORS AND HONOR GUARD IN MEMORY OF 9/11) Welcome to our first Open House & Conversation, a day-long opportunity to share information and seek recommendations from faculty, students, staff, alumni and friends of Montana State University. This year marks the 120th anniversary of our institution. We celebrate this landmark with some notable accomplishments in our university’s history: In a few days, we will announce the fall 2013 enrollment, which we believe will be MSU’s largest enrollment in its history. We have begun construction of a new building for the Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship launched by Jake Jabs' gift of $25 million to his alma mater. We have just opened a beautiful state-of-the art residence hall, Gallatin Hall. There is a tremendous enthusiasm for all things Bobcat, not only on our campus, but in our community and state. I cannot help but think if back in 1893 when the Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts was established, our founders’ envisioned the dynamic and respected institution that Montana State University is today. So let's pay homage to that vision by reviewing our accomplishments and projects in terms of MSU's foundational mission and the goals of our strategic plan to further our land-grant institution. LEARNING History books tells us that for the first three months of the first year there were only two teachers at Montana State College, including the president and a business teacher, and 14 students, all males, who attended classes in a vacant high school building. Shortly after, the university held classes in an old roller-skating rink until founding father Nelson Story donated 40 acres next to the county poor farm that he purchased for $1,500. By the end of the year under newly appointed President A.M. Ryon, the number of faculty had risen to seven. Today, those first 14 students have increased more than 1,000 fold as we expect our enrollment will top 15,000 for the first time in our university’s history. These student numbers create an energy and excitement on campus that is palpable, as we saw last week when we celebrated MSU’s 2013 Freshman Convocation, in which award-winning writer Yann Martel delivered an inspiring talk on the role of choice in our lives. There is a great deal of interest in our current enrollment, which will not be official until our census on Sept. 25. However, let me share some preliminary facts which also tell us about our success in advancing access: As of today, student FTE, or full time equivalent, is up about 500 versus this time last year. This means 1 of 7 9/13/2013 2:03 PM Full text: Waded Cruzado's 2013 State of the University Address - The B... http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/montana_state_university/ar... that, in addition to growing in terms of headcount, more students are enrolling in more credit hours at MSU. At the end of orientation this year, 58 percent of new freshmen enrolled in 15 credits or more. This number is important to us as this will be our second fall promoting one of our key student-success initiatives, the “Freshman 15,” which encourages all students to take 15 credits or more per semester. Since there is no additional tuition charged at MSU for any credit after the first 12, students can save thousands of dollars by taking more credits per semester. We're happy to report that students are listening: In the fall of 2011, nearly 50 percent of new freshman took 15 credits; that number, as I said, has now jumped up to 58 percent. The enrollment of Montana resident students is also up. Non-traditional aged student enrollment is also pointing north. As we look at subcategories, we see that the enrollment of students who identify as American Indian/Alaska Native is slightly down students from a year ago, but that is up from Fall 11 census, so we look forward to a continued upward trend in Native enrollment. As of today, we expect a small increase in veterans enrolled at MSU with 580 veterans enrolled this semester, about 45 more than last year. The Average ACT score of MSU students remains at an-all time high at 25.2. Our graduate student numbers are up nearly 100 students to 1,980. Our freshmen aren’t the only new faces on campus this year. This semester we also welcomed over 150 new employees, including 46 new tenure-track faculty members. Another new development linked to our teaching mission is a request that the Montana Board of Regents will consider next week to upgrade MSU’s award-winning university honors program to MSU’s 11th large academic unit, the Honors College. We are also asking the Board of Regents to elevate the director of honors, Dr. Ilse-Mari Lee, to become dean of the college. We are very proud of the director's many contributions to MSU and eager to call her Dean Lee. Certainly, this has been a banner year in terms of the many MSU students who have received some of the country’s top scholarships. Here are just a few of the top awards and honors received by MSU students during the previous year: Former Student Regent Joe Thiel won a Rhodes Scholarship. Blake Bjornson won a Udall Scholarship. Dani Clark who last year served as the ASMSU lobbyist at the Montana Legislature, was named a Newman Civic Fellow. Elizabeth Browning received a Fulbright Fellowship. Kevin Murray won a Seydel Scholarship. Bryan Vadheim became MSU’s first Marshall Scholar MSU was one of just four universities in the country to have all four of its nominees receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships for excellence in science, math and engineering. MSU’s 2013 Goldwater Scholars were: Alissa Bleem, Natasha Pettinger, Brian Redman, and Matt Sherick. MSU has now received 58 Goldwater Scholarships, which the Goldwater Foundation tells us puts MSU in the top 10 institutions in the country in the number of Goldwaters received. We are tied with Johns 2 of 7 9/13/2013 2:03 PM Full text: Waded Cruzado's 2013 State of the University Address - The B... http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/montana_state_university/ar... Hopkins University. Other universities in the top 10 include Princeton, Harvard, Duke and the University of Chicago. So, we are in good company. Last month, the state of Montana committed to the Complete College America program. President Obama has instituted a national goal to increase the number of students who receive a college degree and improve the nation’s economic competitiveness. Governor Bullock has already urged to increase the percentage of the population with a higher education credential from 40 percent to 60 percent. MSU is already well-positioned to advance this initiative and Commissioner Christian will join us this afternoon to discuss this project in more detail. We are also very proud to announce that $13 million in scholarships were awarded to MSU students in 2012-13. This includes nearly $2.3 million in scholarships from the MSU Alumni Foundation. Just this week we learned that the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation and Montana Rail Link have given $10,000 to the Leadership Institute in support of MSU's Year of Engaged Leadership. The gift will support students in exploring how their leadership potential can drive positive change in our communities. DISCOVERY When the University was founded 120 years ago, the envisioned a university that would teach agriculture and practical education that would benefit the state. Yet, the university’s first president, Augustus M. Ryon, was an engineer, and scientific training of its students was emphasized nearly from the beginning of Montana State’s history. One of the early faculty members who embodied the importance of research on the lives of Montanans was Robert Cooley, one of the first faculty members and an entomologist who came to the state to battle a catastrophic grasshopper infestation, and whose research and work as Extension's first director led to the understanding that ticks were vectors of the devastating Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Today, research scientists at MSU continue work on many fronts MSU is working to advance science and improve the lives of Montanans and people around the globe. This fall MSU welcomed its first cohort of 25 to Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree program. This program is the only doctorate program in nursing in Montana. It offers two areas of specialty: Family Nurse Practitioner; or the Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specialty. We also welcomed an additional 10 students to the WWAMI medical education program, which gives Montana students the opportunity to become physicians and serve their state. It's the first expansion of the WWAMI program from the initial 20 slots in almost 40 years. Montana WWAMI students take their first year of medical school in our campus, expertly taught by MSU faculty. We are glad to have all 30 of these excellent students on our campus this year. We're also currently recruiting for the first class of veterinary medicine students, who will begin coursework on campus next fall. The cooperative program is modeled after WWAMI and is the only veterinary medicine program in the state. We're very grateful to our supportive legislators and the governor for funding these programs during the 2013 Legislature.
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