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45942 Baylornews.Indd Volume 15 Number 6 September/October 2005 NEWS FOR THE BAYLOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY Keeping them BY RANDY FIEDLER at A Q&ABaylor WITH DIANA RAMEY What’s Inside... ABOUT STUDENT RETENTION Cover Story | 1 Baylor is increasing retention efforts On Campus | 2 Regents extend presidential search Bear Briefs | 3 A roundup of recent news of interest In Memoriam | 6 Daniel Wivagg, Justin Longenecker and Carl Vaught NEWS FOR THE BAYLOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY Family Circle | 7 News of the Baylor University family Academia | 8 “How I spent my summer vacation” Office of Public Relations Baylor University One Bear Place #97024 Waco, TX 76798-7024 Spotlight | 14 Recent publications, presentations and honors Volume 15 Number 6 September/October 2005 NEWS FOR THE BAYLOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY Keeping them BY RANDY FIEDLER A Q&A WITH DIANA RAMEY ABOUT STUDENT RETENTION atBaylor he latest numbers show that 2,520 full-time sophomores returned to classes at Baylor this fall, and this means the University gained an 83.2 percent retention rate for the 2004 freshmen class. It’s an improvement T compared with last fall when the 2003 freshmen class recorded an 82.2 percent retention rate. Diana Ramey, Baylor’s assistant vice president for enrollment management, discussed ongoing plans to continue improving retention and why every Baylor employee should assist with those efforts. BAYLORNEWS: Let’s look at the big picture first. How does Baylor compare with peer institutions when it comes to student retention? DIANA RAMEY: Baylor is considered a selective institution according to ACT’s classification. Our first-year retention rate of 83 percent is slightly above the average of comparable institutions, which is 80 percent. In addition, our six-year graduation rate of 70 percent is higher than the average of 68 percent for comparable schools. To move into the highly selective areas as planned in Vision 2012, we need to improve our first-year retention rate to 93 percent and our six-year graduation rate to 80 percent. And we believe these goals can be achieved. BN: Is there an immediate goal for this school year? DR: Yes. Retention experts indicate that most institutions that engage in a systematic and comprehensive retention effort should expect to improve annual retention rates by 2-5 percentage points. After a review of Baylor’s potential enrollment picture, we set a one-year goal to retain 85 percent of the freshmen that enter this fall, which is an increase of 2 percentage points over last year. BN: Why should all Baylor faculty and staff care about student retention? DR: Improving the quality of student life and learning is a continuing and important priority for all colleges and universities. No institution can stand still, no matter how good things are at the moment. Always uppermost in our minds must be the question: “Are our policies, procedures and programs centered on student life and learning?” After all, student learning is the reason for our existence and the basis for our mission — educating men and women to go out into the world prepared to lead and serve. If we believe in that mission, then we naturally care about seeing that our students receive an excellent education and experience personal growth with the fewest possible barriers. In short, we must continued on page 4 Regents Extend NEWS FOR THE BAYLOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas, Baylor University is the state’s oldest continually operating Presidential Search institution of higher learning. With approximately 14,000 students and 850 full-time faculty, Baylor UNDERWOOD TELLS BOARD HE’S NOT IN THE RUNNING offers undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees through its 11 academic divisions and is he Baylor Board of Regents took no action at necessary to identify a strong leader for Baylor,” Davis said. consistently ranked among the top college values in its Sept. 9 meeting relative to the search for a Underwood said his decision came after weighing a the country by such publications as Fiske Guide to new president after Interim President William D. number of factors. Colleges and The Princeton Review. T Underwood informed the search committee that he did not “I had concluded over the last several months that to William D. Underwood wish to be considered for the position. Following a report the extent I was a candidate for the long-term position as Interim President from the Presidential Search Committee to the full board, president, it would impair my ability to get some of the Regents Chairman Will Davis announced the search process things done I needed to get done as interim. It caused people R. Kimberly Gaynor for a president will continue. to question my motives on some things that I was doing,” Interim Vice President for University Relations Davis appointed the 11-Regent Presidential Search Underwood said. “I also believe that because of some of the J. Randall O’Brien Committee last February, as well as a 10-member advisory controversial decisions I had to make at the very outset of my Interim Provost committee composed of faculty, staff, students, alumni and term as interim president that my being a candidate for the Baptist representatives. The two groups have spent the last few permanent job would be unnecessarily divisive, so I informed Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver months identifying, screening and interviewing presidential the search committee that I did not wish to be considered. Interim Vice President for Student Life candidates. I do appreciate the many people who have written me and Reagan M. Ramsower “I have said from the outset of this search that is it more written letters suggesting that I would be a good candidate … Acting Vice President for Finance and important that we find the right person to lead Baylor than but I did not think that was the right thing for Baylor.” Administration to adhere to a particular timetable. We will take as long as The Board of Regents meets again Oct. 27-28. Richard C. Scott Vice President for University Development BaylorNews Bush Library BaylorNews is published five times a year by the Office of Public Relations. The submission of suggestions for stories is encouraged. The newsletter works two months in advance. Proposal Submitted Deadline is the first of each month. Comments or questions should be directed to: PRESIDENTIAL CENTER WOULD BOOST CAMPUS ACADEMICS BY PAUL CARR BaylorNews One Bear Place #97024 aylor submitted its formal proposal to secure the speeches and exhibits a national destination like the Bush Waco, TX 76798-7024 George W. Bush Presidential Library to the White Library would attract. Tel: (254) 710-4343 House ahead of the Sept. 15 deadline. The proposal Presidential libraries also make resources available to Fax: (254) 710-7816 B [email protected] represents years of work and input from campus and visiting scholars and serve as hosts for academic conferences. www.baylor.edu/bn community leaders interested in having the third presidential Davis said a look at some recent events at the Lyndon Baines library in Texas located in Waco, just miles from the Bush Johnson Library and Museum in Austin provides an idea of Larry D. Brumley family ranch in Crawford. the kinds of academic events the Bush Library might attract Senior Associate Vice President for External The Bush Library would draw world attention to the to Waco: Relations campus and provide positive benefits for Baylor. National • A public symposium titled “Whose Faith? Which Morals?: and international dignitaries and researchers would come to Religion, Politics and Values”; Paul H. Carr the University, as would the best and brightest students, said • A Smithsonian traveling exhibit on the burdens of the Director of Marketing Communications one member of the committee working to secure the Bush American presidency; Brenda S. Tacker Presidential Library Center. • Appearances by: General Anthony Zinni, former U.S. University Editor “What an infusion of intellectual excitement (the library) Central Command commander-in-chief; Jack Valenti, will bring to our campus,” said Tommye Lou Davis, chief former special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson; Randy Fiedler of staff to Chancellor Robert Sloan and director of the Bush Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison; author Max Holland, who Managing Editor Library Project. “We will have both national leaders and used the LBJ archives as part of a new book titled The Dana Wallace leaders from around the globe coming here — people who Kennedy Assassination Tapes; and W. Marvin Watson, Writer/Editor would not be on our campus if it were not for a presidential former chief of staff to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Lori Scott Fogleman library.” Having a presidential library at Baylor would not only Director of Media Relations Davis said there would be a direct benefit to many enhance academics, Davis said, but it would bring hundreds academic areas, including political science, history, museum of thousands of members of the general public to campus Writers studies, oral history, communication studies and education. each year as well. For example, in the first nine months after Julie Carlson, Alan Hunt, Cynthia Jackson, Baylor programs would enjoy access to historical records, President Clinton’s library opened late last year in Little Rock, Vickie Marsh Kabat, Judy Long, Haley Wright interviews with members of the Bush administration Ark., it recorded 410,000 visitors. Waco, like Little Rock, sits Art Director and speeches by visiting leaders, and could take part in on a major interstate highway, prompting travelers to stop for Randy Morrison community outreach programs. And Davis said the entire spontaneous visits. Baylor campus would benefit from the symposia, conferences, Photographers Robert Rogers and Clifford Cheney Baylor University is an equal educational and BEAR HEAVEN: Baylor’s $1 million employment opportunity institution.
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