2008 ANNUAL REPORT CELEBRATING Excellence IN EDUCATION & SERVICE BOWIESTATE.EDU MISSION STATEMENT Bowie State University, a regional comprehensive university of the University System of Maryland, embraces cultural diversity, including its African American heritage; emphasizes its foundational heritage in teacher education; facilitates interdisciplinary learning; fosters research; and produces graduates who think critically, are competent in their disciplines, and demonstrate technological astuteness. 2 EXCELLENCE | CIVILITY | INTEGRITY | DIVERSITY | AccOUNTABILITY TABLE OF CONTENTS PRESident’S MESSAGE .....................................pg. 4 ACHIEVEMENTS .................................................pg. 8 FINANCIAL INFORMATION .............................pg. 20 DONORS AND SUPPORTERS ...........................pg. 22 3 President’s MESSAGE MICKEY L. BURNIM “I WAS DEEPLY HUMBLED WHEN THE VARIOUS UNIVERSITY CONSTITUENTS EXPRESSED THEIR SUPPORT AND EXPECTATIONS FOR MY LEADERSHIP DURING THE INauGURATION CEREMONY ON OCTOBER 5, 2007.” – Mickey L. BURNIM, PRESIDENT 4 EXCELLENCE | CIVILITY | INTEGRITY | DIVERSITY | AccOUNTABILITY 1865: THE BALTIMORE ASSOCIATION FOR THE MORAL AND EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE OPENED A SCHOOL AT THE AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH IN BALTIMORE. I was deeply humbled when address was that of increasing Center for Business and Graduate the various University the University’s enrollment. I am Studies, the fifth major classroom constituents expressed their pleased to report that 2007–2008 building on the BSU campus. support and expectations for was a banner year for enrollment The three-story $21 million my leadership during the growth. In fall 2007, entering facility houses the offices for inauguration ceremony on full-time freshman numbered 831, October 5, 2007. During that the largest freshman class in the academic year, we continued University’s history. Eight hundred our efforts to build a stronger twenty of these students were full- sense of community and time. Likewise, the total number focused on implementation of of undergraduate students (4,226) our newly updated strategic and full-time undergraduates plan and improving campus (3,897) marked new enrollment communications. records for the University. One of the major goals that At the start of the 2007–2008 I outlined in my inaugural academic year, we opened the 5 the School of Business and the wireless Internet and audiovisual Commitment Coordinating Graduate Studies unit, plus state- and videoconferencing equipment. Committee (C4). Composed of of-the-art lecture halls, classrooms, We’re proud to have such a BSU faculty, students, and staff, and computer laboratories with splendid facility. the committee will prepare a comprehensive inventory of all Our growth plans include greenhouse gas emissions from a commitment to the campus utilities, air travel, gasoline planet’s ecological health and usage, commuter miles, and other sustainability. On December information required to identify 21, 2007, I signed the American ways to reduce those emissions. College and University Presidents Climate Commitment agreement. Thanks to its many supporters, As a result, we now have the BSU is better able to help students Bowie State University Climate pay for their education. 6 EXCELLENCE | CIVILITY | INTEGRITY | DIVERSITY | AccOUNTABILITY Mr. Edward St. John, CEO of alumni. Their hard work and the Baltimore-based development financial support made the firm St. John’s Properties, pledged 2007–2008 academic year one $125,000 for an endowed of real accomplishment and great scholarship, the largest in the promise. All of our dedicated University’s history. In addition, constituents make me excited the Maryland Higher Education about the future of Bowie State Commission is matching this University and our continued donation through its Private pursuit of excellence. Donation Incentive Program. I am thankful for the University’s supporters and proud of our students, faculty, staff, and 7 Achievements BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY AChievements for 2007–2008 “I AM EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY AND OUR CONTINUED PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE.” – Mickey L. BURNIM, PRESIDENT 8 EXCELLENCE | CIVILITY | INTEGRITY | DIVERSITY | AccOUNTABILITY 1868: THE SCHOOL puRCHasED ITS OWN buILDING IN BALTIMORE WITH THE AID OF A GRANT FROM THE FREEDMen’S BUREau. ADMINISTRATIVE scholarships to high-achieving The Office of Admissions reported freshmen and transfer students, and that in 2007–2008 open houses $1.8 million in institutional aid to attracted a record 2,564 attendees. students in ROTC, fine arts, and The Office of Admissions also other special categories. implemented the CollegeNet The University expanded its automated admissions application, Counseling Services staff from which feeds directly into the two to four counselors. The admissions information system additional staff allows the Campus FACILITIES and leads to a timely and more University to provide support and effective admissions process. encouragement to students to retain During the 2007–2008 academic them through graduation. year, Bowie State University The University added two full-time completed plans for a $72 million, undergraduate recruiters, a graduate In December 2007, the University 114,000-square-foot Fine and admissions counselor, a financial graduated 222 students (130 Performing Arts Center, which awaits aid counselor, and a front-desk undergraduate and 92 graduate), state approvals and funding. This receptionist for the admissions area. its first winter commencement facility will include a 400-seat main Students received $4.9 million since 2000. At the spring 2008 theater, a 200-seat black box theatre, through the federal Pell Grants commencement, 633 students a recital hall, and an art gallery, as well program, a University record. (462 undergraduate, 167 graduate, as classrooms and laboratories. The University also awarded $1.5 and 4 doctoral) received degrees. million in institutional academic 9 1870: THE SCHOOL RECEIVED ITS FIRST FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. THE DEpaRTMENT OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGuaGES GRADuaTED ITS FIRST STUDENT FROM THE AFRICANA LITERATURE PROGRAM. ACADEMIC human resource development, RN to BSN curriculum. For the answering the demand in the The Department of Management, first time, 100 percent of senior Marketing, and Public Administration professional labor market. nursing students passed the Comprehensive Exit Exam. offered a new bachelor’s degree in The Department of Nursing sport management. This program developed two online courses The Department of Natural Sciences prepares students to work for sports that are part of the RN to BSN invited Francis Collins, one of the teams, college athletics, and sports- curriculum to create convenient nation’s leading scientists, to speak at oriented organizations. access for distance learners. Offered its Biotechnology Symposium, The Behavioral Sciences and Human for the first time in fall 2008, the “The Human Genome Project: Services Department now offers a courses are an initial step toward a Healthcare Implications.” certificate in project management complete online program for the Collins, director of the National 10 EXCELLENCE | CIVILITY | INTEGRITY | DIVERSITY | AccOUNTABILITY Genome Research Institute of the The Department of English and FACULTY AND STAFF National Institutes of Health, led Modern languages graduated its President Burnim was selected the efforts to complete the Human first student from the africana chair of the executive Membership Genome Project, a complex scientific literature program. Development Committee of the enterprise directed at mapping and Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan sequencing human DNA. Professor Kala Richardson of the Department of English and Modern Universities. The coalition brings The Department of Social Languages continues to provide together universities that strive Work, in collaboration with opportunities for students to study for national excellence while the Department of English and abroad. During summer 2008, six simultaneously promoting Modern Languages, created a Bowie State University students economic development, social Spanish language program for studied in Ecuador. health, and cultural vitality in the social work students. In addition, urban or metropolitan centers the Department began planning The Department of Mathematics where they are located. an exchange program with restructured its developmental Gallaudet University to broaden mathematics program, which students’ knowledge of deaf issues. helps developmental students This collaboration is the first of reduce their time to attain a degree its kind in the state. by one semester, tripling the completion success rate of students taking remedial mathematics. 11 Professor James Gil de Lamadrid of Professor Otis Thomas, chair of the and the Maryland Governor’s the Department of Computer Science Department of Communications, Office of Minority Affairs. received the “Best Technical Paper” delivered a paper, “Interpersonal Professor Granville Sawyer of the award at OPNETWORK 2007, an Communication Conflict: Movies, Department of Accounting, Finance, international conference focusing on Violence, Context, and the and Economics won a Technology networks, applications, and systems. Connection to Urban America,” Innovation Award from the at the Eastern Communication American Marketing Association for Association. Judges ranked it the Bowie State University Virtual among the top