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P O R T O F R E C 4 H 0 0 A 2 N C E E H L T L O R U M N A I R V E K R A S . I T N Y O O R F D E P N I B T E T R S B G U R G H GRADUATES WHOSE PIONEERING WORK HAS IMPROVED THE HUMAN CONDITION … Paul Lauterbur PhD, Chemistry, 1962 2003 Laureate, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine STUDENTS WHOSE HIGH ACHIEVEMENTS ARE A SOURCE OF GREAT HOPE FOR THE FUTURE … Clare Sierawski 2004 Truman Scholarship Recipient 2004 Udall Scholarship Recipient FACULTY MEMBERS WHOSE SCHOLARLY INSIGHTS HAVE ADVANCED THEIR DISCIPLINES … Robert Brandom Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy 2003 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award Winner STUDENT-ATHLETES WHO HAVE BEEN ALL-STAR PERFORMERS ON AND OFF THE FIELD … Larry Fitzgerald 2003 Panthers Scholar-Athlete Award Honoree 2003 Biletnikoff Award Winner 2003 Walter Camp Award Winner THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH This is the printed version of a report first delivered by Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg at the June 25, 2004, meeting of the University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees. The Victorian writer and artist John Ruskin once advised, T“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become.” From the very beginning of our partnership, we have dreamed of building an even stronger University of Pittsburgh. And, inspired by the possibilities, we have worked—tirelessly, collectively, and with real determination—to make those Cathedral of Learning, Oakland Campus, shared dreams come true. Pittsburgh Mark A. Nordenberg Chancellor 3 PURSUING EXCELLENCE IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION FRESHMAN APPLICATIONS 143% Now, we are nearing the end of a year of historically First, our position in our principal “marketplace” never As you would expect, then, the admissions process 20,000 INCREASE 18,977 high achievement for Pitt. Many of its highlights involve has been stronger, with the number of students seeking has become far more competitive, and the academic 18,000 ✹ inspiring examples of individual attainment and admission to Pitt’s programs continuing to soar. In our credentials of each entering class have become 16,000 recognition, and I want to deal with them at some benchmark year of 1995, we received just over successively more impressive. We will not be able to length. But it also was another very good year for 7,800 applications for admission to the undergraduate make final comparisons involving this year’s entering 14,000 Pitt in terms of the benchmarks that we have programs offered on the Oakland campus. In 2003, we class until the fall term has begun, students have 12,000 customarily used to measure our collective progress. received more than 17,400 applications for those same enrolled, and the withdrawal period has ended. But let 10,000 Let me reference just three of them today. programs. And, for this fall’s entering class, we received me offer some quick comparisons based upon the 8,000 nearly 19,000 applications. That is an increase of more freshman class as it currently is defined—those who 7,825 6,000 than 140 percent from 1995 to 2004 and an increase have declared an intention to be here and have of more than 8 percent just in the last year—a clear tendered the deposit required to reserve a place. 4,000 sign that we are maintaining our momentum. 2,000 ✴ In 1995, 19 percent of our incoming Oakland 0 SOURCE: OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID freshmen ranked in the top 10 percent of their 1995 2004 high school graduating classes. For this year’s class, that number currently stands at 46 percent. ✴ In 1995, 39 percent of our incoming Oakland freshmen ranked in the top 20 percent of their pursuinghigh school graduating classes. For thisexcellence year’s class, IN UNDERGRADUATEthat number currently stands at 75 percent. EDUCATION ✴ And, in 1995, the average SAT score for our incoming Oakland freshmen was 1110. For this year’s class, that number currently stands at 1232. THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 4 AVERAGE SAT SCORE 1400 1300 1232 1200 MAINTAINING EXCELLENCE 1100 1110 IN RESEARCH 1000 900 We continue to experience the same kind of outstanding In February 2000, we adopted a statement of ambition, growth in our research funding. In 1995, we attracted publicly declaring, “By aggressively supporting the 800 more than $230 million in total research support. By advancement of Pitt’s academic mission, we will clearly 700 2003, that number had skyrocketed to $513 million— and consistently demonstrate that this is one of the 600 an increase of more than 123 percent. And though finest and most productive universities in the world.” 500 our books for the current fiscal year are not yet closed, In the weeks leading up to that action, we spent time we are conservatively projecting that we will reach considering and discussing the National Science 400 SOURCE: OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID 1995 2004 the $555 million mark. That would be an increase of Foundation’s (NSF) rankings for federal obligations for more than 140 percent since 1995 and an increase science and engineering research and development. of more than 8 percent during the past year alone. Because of a chronic time lag in the release of those comparative numbers, we were focused on fiscal year FRESHMEN IN TOP 10% FRESHMEN IN TOP 20% OF HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF HIGH SCHOOL CLASS Those dollars, as we know, support important work— (FY) 1997, the most recent year for which the NSF’s designed, in a broad range of ways, to enhance the comparative report was then available. 50% 80% maintaininghuman condition. The expenditure of those dollars has excellence 75% 46% 70% permitted us to increase our own employment base by IN RESEARCHIn FY 1997, we ranked 20th nationally, placing us in 40% some 25 percent since 1995 and today supports, very good company. In our February 2000 discussions, 60% directly and indirectly, more than 16,000 local jobs— though, we expressed the hope that, in the next five 50% while also providing a principal hope for future years, we might be able to rise to at least 16th in that 30% economic growth in Western Pennsylvania. The particular ranking. That, we recognized, would be a 40% 39% dramatic increase in those dollars also provides one difficult undertaking, requiring us to pass Penn State, 20% telling measure of the progress we are making in our Duke, Washington, and Wisconsin (the universities 19% 30% determined efforts to climb even higher within the then ranked 19th, 18th, 17th, and 16th on the NSF list) 20% ranks of this country’s top research universities. and also to make sure that we were not overtaken by 10% such strong institutions as North Carolina, Southern 10% California, and Berkeley—universities then ranked not 0% SOURCE: OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID 0% SOURCE: OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID far below us. 1995 2004 1995 2004 THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH RESEARCH FUNDING 141% 7 $600 INCREASE $550 $555 MILLION ✹ $500 ENDOWMENT $450 SECURING AN ADEQUATE 198% $1500 INCREASE $400 RESOURCE BASE $1400 $1.38 BILLION ✹ $350 $1300 Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation $300 Our ability to forge such progress, on this and other released its comparative rankings for federal research $230 fronts, is the product of many factors. None is more $1200 DOLLARS IN MILLIONS $250 MILLION and development obligations for fiscal year 2002. Over important than the talent, commitment, and ambition of $1100 $200 the course of our five-year target period, Pitt streaked the wonderful people who make up the University of $150 $1000 from its number 20 ranking, past our aspirational 16th Pittsburgh. But an enhanced capacity to support those $100 $900 position, to claim the 10th spot on that list. By doing people also has been critical to our success. DOLLARS IN MILLIONS so, we pushed even further into some very exclusive $50 $800 company. Johns Hopkins, Washington, Penn, Michigan, $0 SOURCE: OFFICE OF BUDGET AND CONTROLLER Here, let me focus on just one set of numbers. In $700 1995 2004 UCLA, Stanford, UC-San Diego, UC-San Francisco, 1995, our endowment stood at $463.2 million—then $600 and Washington University in St. Louis are the other an impressive total for a public university. We saw that $463.2 $500 universities in the top 10. And in this ranking we are number rise to just under $1.2 billion in 2003. And, MILLION ahead of Columbia, Wisconsin, Duke, Harvard, by the end of the third quarter of this fiscal year, it $400 Colorado, Yale, North Carolina, Minnesota, Penn State, was close to $1.4 billion. That increase, of nearly $300 and Cornell—the very fine universities comprising the 200 percent since 1995, is a product both of the $200 second 10 on that list. sound management of our investments and of our $100 ability, even in less-than-robust economic times, to keep our billion dollar capital campaign on pace. $0 SOURCE: OFFICE OF BUDGET AND CONTROLLER 1995 2004 Embedded in that very large endowment total are the absolutely essential forms of support—scholarships and fellowships and professorships, for example—that permit us to nurture high achievement.securing ✴ AN ADEQUATE RESOURCE BASE THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AN EXTRAORDINARY YEAR OF ACHIEVEMENT, IMPACT, AND RECOGNITION UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Expressed most basically, after all, our mission is to further high Eachievement within the context of our academic community.

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