ANNUAL REPORT 2009 table of contents The President’s Report 1 Special Giving 6 The Campaign 6 President’s Circle 14 Covenant Society 16 Bequests 17 Lifetime Giving Society 18 Tribute Gifts 19 Arcadia Annual Fund 20 Undergraduate 20 Graduate 33 Friends 34 Alumni Annual Report 40 Arcadia University Board of Trustees 44 Alumni Association Board of Directors 45 Office of University Advancement 450 S. Easton Road | Glenside, PA 19038 | 215-572-2945 | www.arcadia.edu the president’s report the president’s report By Jerry M. Greiner, President fiscal year 2009-10 in the midst of the recession, it was apparent that Arcadia had the strength to FiScAl StAbility weather the initial impact of the economic downturn While we all are conscious of the current economic — and an entrepreneurial spirit determined to reality, I am pleased to report that Arcadia University strengthen the foundation of the University. entered the nation’s recession on a sound fiscal footing. We have tightened our belt just like families Quality StUdEntS across the country, and we have remained stable on More and more students want to attend Arcadia. PRESIDENT’S the strength of our programs as we entered 2009-10. The Fall 2009 undergraduate class was the third largest ever. Graduate applications and enrollment REPORT Arcadia is a tuition-driven University, dependent in full-time programs set an all-time high. Graduate on graduate and undergraduate enrollments at our part-time enrollment was strengthened by our 2009 Glenside campus and in programs around the world. burgeoning online course offerings, particularly in Our ability to continue to enhance our academic education, counseling, psychology, and business. For quality, our student services and the beauty of our the first time in our history, our total enrollment campus depends upon both our ability to attract and topped 4,000 students this fall. retain quality students and the continuing generosity of our alumni, trustees, faculty, staff, and friends. With more and more high school students applying This report reflects the breadth of the contributions to Arcadia each year, the University can continue to Arcadia, and we are grateful for each gift and to admit students of high academic quality and each donor. continue to serve our broad mission. Our average SAT score for the newest class is 1116 (old) and Arcadia has been fueled by steady growth over the 1665 (new), and about 60 percent of our students past decade, growth that has fueled our increasing were in the top 25 percent of their high school prestige, our leadership role in international classes. Our graduate health-related programs are education, new program development, and the experiencing record growth and selectivity. At both hiring of additional faculty members. As we entered the undergraduate and graduate levels, Arcadia is “With more than 100 programs around the world — and faculty commitment to bringing global perspectives into all facets of the curriculum, Arcadia turns the world into a classroom for all our students.” Arcadia President Jerry M. Greiner ANNUAL REPORT | 1 #1 in Nation for Study Abroad Arcadia University ranks #1 in 100 Programs around the World the nation for our undergraduate With more than 100 programs around the world in 15 study abroad rate among master’s countries, The College of Global Studies offers study abroad universities in the 2009 Open programs, certificate programs, co-curricular learning Doors, the authoritative annual initiatives, academic research opportunities, internship census conducted by the Institute of programs, faculty and student programs, and service International Education learning projects NatioNal RecogNitioN foR RemaRkable InternatioNalizatioN attracting high-ability students who want to study in our a comprehensive university with quality innovative and NAFSA’s prestigious Senator Paul Simon distinctively global educational environment. integrative programming and a unique focus on global and Award for Campus Internationalization local interconnections. “Many significant changes mark recognizes Arcadia’s creation of an Over the past year, Arcadia has increased its commitment the evolution of Beaver College into Arcadia University,” integrative learning environment to meeting the many different needs of students. The noted the accreditation report, citing Arcadia’s “potential infused with international and honors program, study abroad at some of the finest to become a true educational leader in re-conceptualizing multicultural experiences universities around the world, and accelerated degree liberal and professional education in a new, global idiom.” programs where seniors take master-level classes in the Twice in the past several years, our faculty have undertaken a leadeR iN BriNgiNg the fourth year offer opportunities for academically well- huge, university-wide tasks and produced incredibly WoRld to the classRoom rounded students. Simultaneously, a redesigned Gateway innovative results in an amazingly short time, earning Arcadia is a founding member of the to Success program gives promising students the additional nearly unanimous approval of the faculty as a whole. American Council on Education’s (ACE) support they need to fulfill their dreams of being the first The first was the approval of the new Undergraduate Internationalization Collaborative and in their families to attend college or to pursue life-changing Curriculum, the second was the agreement to create a new is one of a handful of universities career paths. An expanding menu of online programs academic structure of three innovative colleges. This fall, chosen to take part in a national provides access for adults and working professionals. faculty also approved a new Academic Affairs Strategic initiative of the Association of American Plan. These actions underlie the promise of what Arcadia is Colleges and Universities An AcAdEmic REvOlUtiOn becoming, a top tier University. Last year, Arcadia very successfully completed a multi- a PioNeeR iN Innovative study year reaccreditation process, earning accolades for its The first students to take advantage of Arcadia’s trend- abRoad PRogRams global focus and its strength in the marketplace of higher setting Undergraduate Curriculum are now sophomores, ACE recognized Arcadia’s College for education as defined through the Arcadia Promise of a having completed their First-Year Seminars, perhaps Global Studies and London Preview as global, integrative and personal learning experience. One of the main recommendations from the Commission on best practices Other innovations are Higher Education of the Middle States Association of the First Year Study Abroad Experience Colleges was that Arcadia recognize that it has grown from “Over the past year, Arcadia (FYSAE) and the Majors Abroad a college into a university and restructure accordingly. Even Program (MAP) before this, our academic revolution was well under way. has increased its commitment Over the past decade, Arcadia University intentionally to meeting the many different has focused on its transition from a small college into needs of students.” 2 | ANNUAL REPORT the president’s report traveling to New York City to analyze and innovative campus populated by pull off a field hockey upset. If you visited a Broadway play or to a nature preserve globally minded students and scholars. after dark, you might have seen an intense to study forest evolution. They are now game of “manhunt” or other new Late taking University Seminars in a wide- StUdEntS Engaged At HOmE Knight programming. If you watched the ranging variety of cross-discipline topics & in the World women’s soccer team, you would have seen and planning their Global Connections Seventy-nine freshman trips, 200 organized an incredible group of women whose only Experiences, where they will immerse events, more than 50 clubs, thousands of losses this year were to the eventual NCAA themselves in other cultures, either abroad community service hours, 30 first-year Division III championship team. or in the United States. Soon, they will learning communities, 100 home athletic begin planning for the storied Arcadia competitions, hundreds of research projects If you traveled with graduate and tradition shared by generations of alumni— with faculty, dozens of cross-disciplinary undergraduate students to Guatemala, the Senior Capstone Experience, a right of seminars. Arcadia has made student you would have seen that some of the PRESIDENT’S passage that puts each student’s scholarly engagement an institutional priority to most important lessons don’t take place and creative work on campus-wide display. enhance the Arcadia Promise through a in the classroom, but happen when the REPORT culture of engagement where students, world becomes a catalyst for learning. If 2009 Arcadia’s academic team is now fully faculty, staff and alumni actively participate you visited the Homelessness course, you engaged in implementing an Academic in and make meaningful contributions to would have seen students going well beyond Affairs strategic direction that will the academic, co-curricular, social and civic their comfort zones to a place where they propel the University fully toward that life on campus, in the region, and around deepened their sociological imaginations. international leadership position in higher the world. If you were on campus last summer, you education. We are committed to the highest would have seen students deeply engrossed level of academic excellence. Arcadia already If you visited campus