Transcript President Berkey's presentation

Class of 2014
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1294 SAT average
3.8 GPA
Top 10% Rank in Class
381 with 4.0 GPAs
55 valedictorians
34 salutatorians
• 34% women
• 10% domestic students of
color
• 35% students from
outside of New England
Freshman to Sophomore Retention: up to 95 percent
33 states represented
Feeder States = MA, CT, NH, NY, RI, CA
60 nations represented: A sampling
Germany ▪ India ▪ Bangladesh ▪ Sri Lanka
▪ Kazakhstan ▪ Turkey ▪ Bulgaria
Mauritius ▪ Korea ▪ Vietnam ▪ Jamaica
China ▪ Nepal ▪ Dominican Republic
Pakistan ▪ Ecuador ▪ Panama ▪
Switzerland ▪ United Kingdom ▪
Venezuela ▪ Albania ▪ Greece ▪ Japan
Romania ▪ Brazil ▪ Israel ▪ Nigeria ▪
United Arab Emirates ▪ Austria
Admissions and Enrollment Trends
2010
6,650
3,930
910
2009
6,285
3,986
925
2008
5,705
3,803
905
2010
Total enrollment
3,537
Female enrollment
1,058
Male enrollment
2,479
Underrepresented minorities 304
2009
3,391
948
2,443
284
2008
3,075
825
2,250
282
Applicants
Admitted students
Matriculated students
2007
5,698
3,739
805
2007
2,981
771
2,210
226
Performing on the Court, in the Classroom
and for the Community
• 18% of all students
compete on a varsity
team
• Only Division III
program in New
England with the
men’s and women’s
basketball teams
winning 20 games in
each of the last two
seasons
• Overall team GPA is
3.24 for 645 student
athletes
• High level of
community service
involvement
Active and Involved Student Life
• 40% of students participate in
intramural sports
• 21% in club activities
• 56% increase in women’s
participation in varsity athletics
since 2007
Achievement that Matters
Aaron Champagne ‘11, a running back on
the WPI football team:
• Named an ESPN The Magazine
“Academic All-American” for second
consecutive season in November 2010
• First football player to earn the
prestigious Academic All-American honor
in the 120 years the sport has been played
at WPI
• One of eight players on the team of 48
with a perfect 4.0 GPA
Broad and Deep Involvement in the Arts
Recent Rankings
• Payscale.com: WPI ranked top 10 in the
nation for graduates with the highest
starting median salary.
•U.S. News & World Report: 2011
“America’s Best Colleges” edition named
WPI to its “Great Schools, Great Prices”
list.
• The Princeton Review: “2011 Best
Colleges” named WPI one of the best
colleges in the Northeast, and ranked WPI
20th among national colleges and
universities for career services.
Great Problems Seminars
Bob Corcoran (center), General Electric Foundation President and Chairman, at a recent
Great Problems Seminars Presentation Day
Feed the World, Power the World
Making Our World, Heal the World
The Eric Hahn ’80 Family Foundation has continuously funded the First Year Seminars
Global Perspective Program
Off-Campus Activity in 2010-2011
26 Project Centers
547 Students
423 IQP
89 MQP
10 HUA
25 other
30 Residential Advisors
22 Center Directors
Corporate and Professional Education
Gateway Park: Making Space for Genius
•Biological imaging
•Molecular sensor technology
•Tissue regeneration and repair
•Stem cell therapeutics
•Biomaterial development
•Neuroprosthetic devices
•Bioprocess engineering
Biomedical engineering professor Marsha Rolle’s lab at WPI’s Life Sciences and
Biomedical Engineering Center at Gateway Park
Passion with Purpose: Paul’s Robotics
Undergraduate Paul Ventimiglia, led his team, Paul’s Robotics, to a first-place,
$500,000 victory at NASA’s 2009 Regolith (moon dust) Excavation Challenge. The
second and third-place teams also featured WPI alumni.
Covered in The Boston Globe and ROBOT Magazine, and on NECN
BusinessWeek ranks WPI’s
part-time MBA program No. 1
in the nation
• "A+" rating for curriculum and
teaching quality
• stated that, “students laud the
technology focus and use of
experienced adjunct professors.”
Mark Rice joins WPI as
inaugural Dean of Business
Leadership and Innovation MBA
In response to requests from our
business students, alumni, and
other professionals in the market
who are looking for a flexible
and comprehensive graduate
business program, we created a
blended learning MBA.
Leadership and Innovation MBA
“Enterprises need leaders at all levels who have the
knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to address the
great challenges of our complex society—leaders who can
deliver both operational excellence and innovation.”
—Mark Rice
Dean, WPI School of Business
Sustainable Solutions
East Hall: Gold LEED Certified
East Hall
Nitsch/Magliozzi Green Roof—Worcester’s first green roof
Construction Milestone: Pool Arches Installed
The George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Atrium
Reimagining Alumni Gymnasium
New Deans
Selçuk I. Güçeri, Bernard M.
Gordon Dean of Engineering
Karen Kashmanian Oates,
Peterson Family Dean of
Arts and Sciences
Mark Rice,
Dean of Business
Exceptional Talent
16 new educators and researchers added
to WPI’s full-time faculty ranks for fall 2010
A record 23 new faculty added fall 2009
more than 70 new full-time faculty members added over the last five years
Achievement that Matters
Diran Apelian, Howmet Professor of
Engineering and director of the WPI
Metal Processing Institute
• First WPI faculty member inducted into
the National Academy of Engineering
• 2010 National Materials Advancement
Award from the Federation of Materials
Societies
• 2010 Robert Earll McConnell Award
from the American Institute of Mining,
Metallurgical, and Petroleum
Engineering, one of the nation’s oldest
engineering societies
Sustainable Solutions
Jeanine Plummer, director
of WPI’s Environmental
Engineering Program, is
the inaugural Alena and
David M. Schwaber ‘65
Professor of Environmental
Engineering
Achievement that Matters
Materials Science &
Engineering
• WPI, with the Colorado School of Mines,
establishes the Center for Resource
Recovery and Recycling—the first center
of its kind in the nation
• New technologies for maximizing the
recovery and recycling of metals used in
manufactured products and structures
• Funded by National Science Foundation
and corporate members, including Alcoa,
and GE Global Research
• University partners include Purdue and
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Achievement that Matters
Educational Technology
Intelligent Tutoring System for
improving mathematics education
• Funded by National Science
Foundation, federal Department of
Education
• Adopted for use in Worcester,
Fitchburg, Leicester, and Shrewsbury
Public School Systems
Achievement that Matters
Healthcare
Neuroprosthetics, integrated with the
body and the brain
• More rapid recovery and rehabilitation for
military personnel who have lost limbs
• WPI Center for Neuroprosthetics hosts
national symposium each year
• Funded by Military Amputee Research
Program of the U.S. Army’s Telemedicine
and Advanced Technology Research
Center
Class of 2009 Proud Goat Statue
Class of 2010 Barbecue Area
1865 Society monument
Endowment: Market Value History
(in millions)
$450
$400
$339 M
as of
10/31/10
$350
$300
$250
$200
$150
FY01
FY02
FY03
FY04
FY05
FY06
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
FY11
Change in Net Assets from Operating Activities
(in millions)
$10
$8
$6
$4
$2
$0
FY01
-$2
-$4
FY02
FY03
FY04
FY05
FY06
FY07
FY08
FY09
FY10
Sponsored Research Proposals
FY2004 – FY2009
Awards through Office of Sponsored Research (OSP) – Includes Federal agencies, appropriations
industry contracts, some foundations.
Corporate & Professional Education (in millions)
Net Revenue
Financial Trends
Capital and Annual Fundraising
FY10
Total Fundraising
$19.6M
Percentage of Alumni Giving 20.6%
FY09
$17.5M
16.1%
FY08
$25.3M
16.5%
FY07
$14.7M
16.9%