State of the School 2020-2021 Dan Brenner, Ph.D Executive Director

We will begin shortly…. UNIS

The Sky’s the Limit

● We know our children are our treasure

● We know how fortunate we are to be a part of this community

● We know there is much hope for a better world

● We know the future of UNIS is like a shining star in the sky UNIS Mission Statement

Under the auspices of the UN and guided by its ideals, UNIS provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence, innovation, creativity and cross cultural communication to educate and inspire its students to become an active force in shaping a better world: peaceful, compassionate and sustainable. Board of Trustees

Catherine Pollard Alex de Looz Alla Liberman Board Chair Chair Building, Grounds & Security Treasurer, Chair Finance & Audit

Joan McDonald Lena Dissin Stephen Margetts SRSG Secretary, Co-Chair Health & Safety Roberto Pagan Ambassador Al Hassan Felipe Dorregaray Vice-Chair Carol Sirou Agnes Bamuwamye Ambassador Burhan Gafoor Udai Tambar Anita Batisti Vice-Chair Chair Academic Policy Caryn Groce Vice-Chair, Chair of Advancement Yvonne Tsang Maaike de Langen Co-Chair Health & Safety Chair Strategic Planning Fernando Gutierrez-Eddy Honorary Trustees

H.E. Mr. Mitchell Peter Fifield H.E. Mr. Sven Alkalaj H.E. Mr. Jukka Salovaara Australia Bosnia and Herzegovina Finland

H.E. Mr. Zhang Jun H.E. Mr. Martin Bille Hermann H.E. Mr. Jörundur Valtýsson China Denmark Iceland

H.E. Mr. Nicolas de Riviere H.E. Mr. Christoph Heusgen H.E. Mr. Ishikane Kimihiro France Germany Japan

H.E. Mrs. Maria Angela Zappia H.E. Mr. Courtenay Rattray H.E. Mr. Juan Ramón de la Fuente Italy Jamaica Ramirez Mexico H.E. Mr. Andrejs Pildegovičs H.E. Mrs. Vanessa Frazier Latvia Malta H.E. Ms. Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani Qatar H.E. Ms. Mona Juul H.E. Mr. Francisco Duarte Lopes Norway Portugal H.E. Mr. Agustín Santos Maraver Spain H.E. Mr. Cho Hyun H.E. Mr. Vassily A. Nebenzia Korea Russia Mr. Stéphane Dujarric Spokesperson for S.G. Guterres, UNIS H.E. Ms. Anna-Karin Eneström H.E. Mr. Ronaldo Costa Filho Alumnus Sweden Brazil Mr. Peter N. Greenwald Former Vice-Chair, Board of Trustees Leadership Team

Dan Brenner, PhD Antoine Delaitre Judith King-Calnek, PhD Carlos Mojica Executive Director TH Principal Director of Diversity, Equity, and Director of Information Inclusion Technology Jennifer Amos, PhD Elaine Kelly Chief Academic Officer MS Principal Paco Barba Morán Ernie Lentini Director of MLD Director of Security Debora Belfield Pascal Vallet Director of Human JS Principal Kim Bruno Ed Peppe Resources Director of Arts Director of Buildings and Barbara Kennedy Grounds Michael Feeney Queens Principal Sochenda Samreth Chief Financial Officer Director of Curriculum and Vera Tatel Instruction Acting Executive Assistant Admissions, Advancement, and Co-Curricular Programs

John Nichols Zakaria Baha Michelle Bertrand Vera Tatel Director of Director of Student Director of School Alumni Relations Admissions Activities Events Associate Estela Van Aken Lidana Jalilvand Sean Collins Jacqueline Callan Registrar Director of Special Director of the UNIS Communications Programs Fund Strategist

Guy Evans Marisa Rivera Athletic Director Director of Nursing Thank You ● Board ● Faculty & Staff ● Administration ● Parents ● Students Agenda

01 Connection to the UN 04 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

02 COVID-19 05 Teaching & Learning

Construction, Tuition, 5 Year Strategic Plan 03 06 & Budget UNIS by the Numbers

1579 1458 121 Total Number of Students Enrolled in Students Enrolled in Students Manhattan Queens

104 96 Number of countries Number of languages represented spoken Connections to the UN

45th Annual UNIS-UN “A Global Catastrophe: The Impact of COVID-19” Over 1,000 students from 5 continents will participate virtually on March 18-19, 2021

Curriculum SDGs UN Day Align with work of the Activate within the curriculum, Division-led UN Day UN where possible where appropriate celebrations, including student-led workshops COVID-19 A Year Like No Other

➢ Beginning in August

○ Spared no expense to keep our community safe ○ Always following mandates from the Governor’s Office, State Education Department

■ Final arbiter is NYC Department of Health

➢ What does the next year look like?

○ A moving target ○ The hope ■ masks only, everyone on-site ■ In person after school activities return New 5 year Strategic Plan

Goal 1 Goal 2 Goal 3 UNIS offers a rigorous and UNIS places its connection UNIS attracts and retains a innovative curriculum that with the United Nations at diverse team of highly combines the academic the heart of the school’s motivated, committed excellence of the IB program identity and champions its and, qualified faculty and with unique programming aims and principles. It staff to provide world-class that reflects the UNIS maintains close relationships teaching that fosters the identity and prepares our with the UN and its best possible learning students to become global diplomatic community and outcomes for students leaders. supports the UN’s efforts to build a better world. Goal 4 Goal 5 At UNIS, our physical and UNIS achieves financial social spaces advance our sustainability, for itself and mission. They are dedicated its community, through to learning, promote the prudent and informed comprehensive well-being of operational and financial the person, prioritize the management, diversified environment, and are true to revenue streams and a strong the culture of the UN; endowment. sustainable, inclusive, and compassionate. https://www.unis.org/about-unis/governance/strategic-plan Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

● Created new position and hired Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) ● Creating systems to address DEI issues: ○ partnership with PA, established DEI Committee ○ partnership with alumni, established Black At UNIS scholarship ○ partnership with students, established Equity & Inclusion Board; Black Student Union ● Building competency to address DEI issues: ○ professional development - anti-bias/anti-racism training for all faculty, staff, administration ○ diversifying the curriculum Teaching and Learning

Diversity, Equity, Classroom Concept-based and Inclusion Libraries JA-J4 PD

Revisiting text selection, Our Tut House students invested Math and MLD teachers instructional materials, weeks of their time after school recently received and project design to to help prepare books for their additional training and ensure strong Junior School peers. These new support in designing units representation of all resources will be a great that follow the people and themes. addition to our JS classrooms concept-based approach to Continued PD for faculty and will give students in JA-J2 learning. This alignment and staff to support our an opportunity to practice with with IB practices builds ongoing learning as a what they’re learning from their continuity for students. community. new phonics curriculum. International Baccalaureate: Results 2016-2020

2020 2019 2018 2017 2016

No. of T4 students @ UNIS 124 116 121 118 102

No. of Diploma Candidates 112 113 110 101 74

No. of Candidates who successfully obtained a diploma 107 107 107 96 70

World Pass Rate % 85.18 77.4 78 78 79

UNIS Pass Rate % 96 96 97 95 95

Average grade obtained at school by candidates who 5.23 5.04 5.2 5.07 5.08 obtained a diploma (out of 7)

Average points obtained by candidates who passed the 33 32 33 32 32 diploma

Highest diploma points awarded to candidate (maximum 42 45 45 43 39 of 45 points) College Results (Class of 2020 Enrollment)

American Univ. of Paris (France) Drexel University Military Duty/New York University Tulane University American University EHL - Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne New York University Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Amherst College (Switzerland) Northeastern University Rome (Italy) Amherst University Emory University University (UK) University College Utrecht () Bard College Emory University - Oxford College Oberlin College University of (Netherlands) Baruch College (CUNY) Fashion Institute of Technology Pace University (UK) Bentley University Fordham University Pennsylvania State University University of California, Berkeley Binghamton University (SUNY) George Washington University Princeton University University of California, Santa Barbara Boston University Gettysburg College Queen's University (Canada) University of Chicago Brandeis University Goldsmiths, University of (UK) Rhode Island School of Design (UK) Brown University Hampton University Royal Holloway, University of Miami Bryn Mawr College Hofstra University (UK) University of Michigan Canisius College Howard University San Diego State University (UK) Case Western Reserve University Hunter College (CUNY) Sarah Lawrence College (UK) Chapman University Ithaca College Sciences-Po and Columbia Univ, Dual University of the Arts/London (UK) Charles University Law School - Kenyon College Degree (France) University of Toronto (Canada) Prague (Czech Rep.) King's College London (UK) Scripps College University of Washington Clark University Leiden University (Netherlands) Skidmore College University of Wisconsin Colgate University London School of Economics (UK) SOAS-School of Oriental and Asian Vassar College Concordia University (Canada) Lynn University Studies (UK) Villanova University Cornell University Maastricht University (Netherlands) Stanford University (Gap Year) Wagner College Dickinson College Macalester College Suffolk University Washington University in St. Louis Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) Temple University Wesleyan University McGill University (Canada) The New School Tufts University College Results (Class of 2021 Admits)

Babson College Instituto Europeo di Design, Queen Mary University of London Bard College Eckerd College Milan Queen's University Bates College Elon University Ithaca College Quinnipiac University Bennington College Emerson College Johns Hopkins University Reed College Bishop's University Escuela Superior de King's College London Regent's University London Boston College Administracion y Direccion de Kyoto University of Advanced Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Boston University Empresas ESADE Science Rice University Bowdoin College ESSEC Business School Richmond, The American International Case Western Reserve (Cergy-Pontoise) Leiden University University in London University Fordham University Loyola Marymount University Royal Holloway, University of London Chapman University Goucher College Lynn University Rutgers University - New Brunswick City University of London Hamilton College Marist College Ryerson University Clark University Haverford College Michigan State University Santa Clara University Clemson University Heriot-Watt University Sarah Lawrence College College of William & Mary Hofstra University NEOMA Business School School of Visual Arts Colorado College Howard University New York University Scripps College Concordia University - Hult International Business Skidmore College Montreal School-Boston Northeastern University Stony Brook University (SUNY) Cornell University IE University Suffolk University Ohio State University SUNY at Albany Dalhousie University Indiana University Bloomington Pennsylvania State University Drexel University (Penn State) Purdue University cont. College Results (Class of 2021 Admits)

SUNY Binghamton Union College University University College Fryslân University of London - University of Tampa SUNY Buffalo State University College London Birkbeck University of Texas, Austin SUNY College at Brockport University of the West of England SUNY Oneonta University of Amsterdam University of Maryland, University of Toronto SUNY University at Buffalo College Park University of Twente University of British Columbia University of Massachusetts, University of Vermont Swarthmore College University of British Columbia Amherst University of Western Ontario Temple University - Okanagan Campus University of Miami University of Wisconsin, Madison Texas A&M University University of Chicago University of Michigan Utrecht University The American University University of Colorado Boulder University of North Carolina, Vancouver Film School of Paris Chapel Hill Vassar College The New School University of East Anglia University of Oregon Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam The University of University of Ottawa Washington University in St. Louis Nottingham University of Exeter University of Richmond Worcester Polytechnic Institute The University of Rochester Yale University Trinity Saint David University of Guelph University of San Francisco York University Tufts University University of Southampton University of St. Andrews Accreditations

● Council of International Schools (CIS)

● New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS)

● International Baccalaureate (IB) Construction Update

The Multi-Purpose Room ● Target Completion: 9/2021 ● Current Status ● Delays ● On Budget Future Construction

● Plan includes: ○ Updating the Manhattan building, constructed in 1974

○ Adding additional classrooms through efficiency of space

○ Gut Rehab of the 4th floor ■ Renovation of existing science labs + four new labs

○ Partial Rehab of the 3rd Floor ■ Library becomes Global Learning Center

○ Creating a logical flow of traffic through the campus

○ Sustainable products, natural light, system efficiencies

○ Lessons learned from COVID-19 ■ The need to learn beyond our walls

Future Construction Sources of Funding

Costs

● 35 Million Budget: ● 12 million on hand A change due to the pandemic ○ 10 mil from Country of Oman ○ 5 million: Multipurpose Room ○ 2 mil contributions and interest ○ 20 million: 4th floor renovation ● Member States ○ 10 million: 3rd floor renovation ● Foundations ● UNIS Community

The Budget 2021-22

$72,896,529

Increase of $85k or .12% over Fiscal Year 2020-21

Tuition Increase, 2021-2022 2.79%

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 4.01% 3.90% 2.45% 2.79% Expenditures 2021-22 Personnel and Health equals 77% of the Budget Non Salary Expenses account for 23% of the Budget

Non-Salary Expenses 23%

Benefits 22% Salaries 55%

Revenues 2021-22 Revenue from Tuition down by 1.5 Million (38 less students)

FY 2019-20 FY 2020-21 FY 2021-22 Students = 1608 Students= 1576 Students= 1570

Loss of -38 Students Loss of Revenue $1.5million from 2019-20 2.36% drop in enrollment 2019-20 to (2% loss in revenue) 2021-22 projection UNIS Annual Fund ● What is it? ● Why is it important? ● How does it fit into our budget?

Annual Raise This Year $400,000 projection: $500,000 Revenues 2021-22

Tuition represents 90% of Revenues Non Tuition represents 10% of Revenues

Non Tuition Income 10%

Tuition 90% Revenues 2021-22

Decrease in Non-Tuition Income

A projected decrease associated with the following:

● Planning conservatively for The IB and enrollment for after-school activities ● Revenue from building rentals, private music lessons as well as the Gala ● Revenue from NYC resulting from merging our Basic Education Data system between Queens and Manhattan Budget Summary

Budget Tuition Increase Increase of $85k or 2.79% increase .12% over Fiscal Year 2020-21

Revenue Decrease Other Income 2.36% drop in enrollment Covid has impacted non from 2019-20 actual to tuition income - rentals, 2021-22 projection afterschool activities etc. Questions