The University of San Francisco Fact Book and Almanac 2016 Alan Ziajka Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs University Historian January 31, 2016 Table of Contents Brief History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Basic Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Select Honors and Achievements In 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Student Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Faculty Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Staff Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Alumni Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Academic Programs by School/College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Library Holdings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Financial Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Athletics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Key Events In 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Faculty/Staff Publications and Awards in 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 A Brief Arts Building, the present Kalmanovitz Hall, near the corner of Fulton and Parker Streets . In 1930, at the request of several alumni groups, St . Ignatius College changed its name to the University of San Francisco . History For 160 years, the University of San Francisco has served the citizens of San Francisco and enriched the lives of thousands of people . The institution has graduated students who went on to become leaders in government, education, business, journalism, sports, the sciences, nursing and health care, and the legal The University of San Francisco began and medical professions . Among its alumni, the university in 1855 as a one-room schoolhouse named St. counts three San Francisco mayors, a United States Senator, Ignatius Academy. Its founding is interwoven four California Supreme Court Justices, a California Lieutenant with the establishment of the Jesuit Order Governor, two Pulitzer Prize winners, three Olympic medalists, in California, European immigration to the several professional athletes, and the former president of Peru . western United States, and the population Today the University of San Francisco enrolls more than 10,800 growth of California and San Francisco as a students in its five schools and colleges: The School of Law, result of the California Gold Rush. founded in 1912; the College of Arts and Sciences, organized in 1925; the School of Management, which began in 1925 as On October 15, 1855, the school opened its doors to its first the College of Commerce and Finance and was merged with class . Three students showed up, a number that gradually grew the College of Professional Studies in 2009; the School of to 65 by 1858 . In 1859, Anthony Maraschi, S .J ., the founding Education, which started as the Department of Education in president of St . Ignatius Academy, incorporated the institution 1947 and was upgraded to a school in 1972; and the School of under California state law, obtained a charter to issue college Nursing and Health Professions, which began as the Department degrees, formed a board of trustees, and renamed the institution of Nursing in 1948 and became a school in 1954 . USF is one of St . Ignatius College . Student enrollment, composed largely the most ethnically diverse universities in the nation . Among of first- and second-generation Irish and Italian immigrants, the entire fall 2015 student population, 49 percent were Asian, increased to 457 by 1862 . African-American, Latino, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, or Native American, and 17 percent were international . In 1964, Further growth in the number of students and rising property USF became completely coeducational, though women had been taxes prompted St . Ignatius Church and College to move in 1880 enrolled in the evening programs in law and business since 1927, to the corner of Hayes Street and Van Ness Avenue, the current in education since 1947, and in nursing since 1948 . In the fall of site of the Louise M . Davies Symphony Hall . The college opened 2015, 63 percent of the overall student population was female . its doors to 650 students and rave reviews in the local press . The institution occupied a full city block and was described as Central to the mission of the University of San Francisco is the having “scientific laboratories and departments” as “thoroughly preparation of men and women to shape a multicultural world equipped as money can make them” and a library that contained with generosity, compassion, and justice . The institution’s “the cream of knowledge on all necessary subjects .” The Vision, Mission, and Values Statement, approved by the Board attached church was described as “magnificent” and could hold of Trustees on September 11, 2001, after a year of formulation up to 4,000 people . In 1903, the college added a “splendid new and campus-wide participation, captures the essence of this gymnasium,” described as the best in the city . commitment in its opening paragraph: “The University of San Francisco will be internationally recognized as a premier The history of St . Ignatius Church and College at this location Jesuit Catholic, urban University with a global perspective that came to an abrupt end on April 18, 1906 . On the morning of that educates leaders who will fashion a more humane and just day, an earthquake, followed by several days of fire, brought the world .” This mission permeates all aspects of the institution, church and college, and most of San Francisco, to almost com- including student learning and faculty development, curriculum plete ruin . The city and the institution, however, quickly rebuilt design, program and degree offerings, alumni relations, from the devastation . In September 1906, St . Ignatius Church publications, and a host of other institutional features . and School reopened in temporary quarters, known as the “shirt factory,” on the southwest corner of Hayes and Shrader streets, In 2005, the University of San Francisco celebrated the 150th currently the site of one of the buildings of St Mary’s Medical anniversary of its founding . The main USF campus currently Center . In 1927, St . Ignatius College moved into its new Liberal occupies 55 acres near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco . 1 A Brief History Continued In addition, the university offers classes at four Northern California branch campuses (Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa and Pleasanton), at a Southern California branch campus, and at locations in downtown San Francisco, including the Folger Building at 101 Howard Street and at the Presidio . The schools and colleges comprising the institution also offer students a multitude of international experiences and study-abroad programs that enrich the learning community and fulfill the university’s mission . The institution has grown dramatically since its modest beginning . It continues, however, to fulfill a mission that stretches back in time to the founding of the Society of Jesus in 1540 by St . Ignatius of Loyola, that took root in San Francisco in 1855, and that flourishes today in a premier Jesuit Catholic University . 2 Full Name of Institution: USF Basic University of San Francisco Address: 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080 Information Web Site Address: www .usfca .edu General Information Phone Number: 415-422-5555 President: Paul J . Fitzgerald, S .J . Provost: Donald E . Heller Sponsorship and Control: USF is an independent, private, non-profit institution of higher edu- cation governed by a 43-member Board of Trustees . It is one of the 28 Jesuit Catholic colleges and universities in the United States . Founding and Charter: USF was founded in 1855 and was granted a charter by the State of California to issue college degrees in 1859 . Accreditation: The University of San Francisco is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), an accreditation first granted in 1950 by the Western College Association (WCA), the antecedent of WASC . In 2010, WASC reaffirmed USF’s accredita- tion for 9 years . USF is also accredited by several professional accrediting bodies, including, but not limited to, the American Bar Association (ABA), the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC), AACSB International–The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Adminis- tration (NASPAA), and the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) . Classification by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: USF is classified as a Doctoral/Research and Community Engaged University . Under the Carnegie Foundation classification system, USF is charac- terized as balancing arts, sciences, and the professions at the under- graduate level; as doctoral/professional dominant at the graduate level; with the majority of its students being undergraduates; as selective, with a high level of transfer-in students; and as a medium- sized, four-year, and primarily residential institution . In 2006, USF received the community engagement classification in both possible categories, curriculum engagement and outreach and partnership . This classification was renewed in 2015 for 10 years . 3 Select Firsts, n F orbes Magazine ranked USF 19th on its 2015 list of the nation’s most entrepreneurial universities by calculating each school’s entrepreneurial ratio: the number of students and alumni who started their own company relative to the school’s total student Honors, and body. n I n 2015, the Economist ranked USF 217 out of 1,275 world-wide Achievements universities based on the school’s economic value for students, defined as the gap between how much money its students subsequently earned, and how much they might have earned in 2015 had they attended a university elsewhere. n S tephen A. Privett, S.J., Chancellor, was named to the CEO Hall of Fame by the San Francisco Business Times, for his leadership in growing and guiding USF’s success while serving as the n U SF was listed as a Tier One National University in the 2015 U.S. university’s president from 2000 to 2014. News & World Report, was 8th in undergraduate student ethnic n E lizabeth Davis, Dean of the School of Management, was named diversity, and was tied for 7th in the percentage of international by the San Francisco Business Times to its 2015 list of the most students, among 280 national universities. influential women in the Bay Area. n In 2015, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement n T he USF School of Law was ranked in the top tier of law schools of Teaching renewed USF’s classification for 10 years as a by U.S. News and World Report in 2016. It was tied for 138th community engaged institution in both possible categories: among ABA accredited schools due in part to gains in the curriculum engagement and outreach and partnership. In 2006, employment rates of its graduates. The School also placed 64th USF was one of just 62 institutions that received the initial in a national ranking of scholarly influence among law school community engagement classification in those two categories. faculties by the Social Science Research Network. n F or the eighth consecutive year, USF was named to the n P ayscale ranked USF among the top 10 schools in the nations in President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll terms of salary potential for students who earn a degree in social by the Corporation for National and Community Service. This sciences in its 2014-2015 Payscale Potential Salary Reports. honor highlights USF students’ exemplary service on issues ranging from poverty and homelessness, to environmental n G raduateprograms.com ranked USF’s online graduate programs justice. Honorees are chosen on the basis of the scope and in nursing as 18th in the nation and its public health graduate impact of service projects, percentage of students participating program as 14th in the nation, based on reviews by current in service activities, and the extent to which the school offers students or recent graduates of USF’s School of Nursing and academic service-learning courses. Health Professions. Students at 1,500 schools nationwide were surveyed regarding their quality of education, faculty n G raduateprograms.com ranked USF’s MBA program as 45th accessibility, and career support. among its top 50 Graduate Programs in the spring of 2015, based on rating and reviews from 70,000 current or recent n I n 2015, the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing graduate students participating in over 1,600 graduate unanimously recommended the re-accreditation of USF’s School programs nationwide. of Education credential programs for the maximum period of seven years. n T he Washington Monthly ranked USF as 18th out of 257 national universities on a combined measure of the number of staff n T he School of Management was named a GOLD Net Impact and students supporting community service, and 20th overall Chapter (the highest level) for the last three years, a distinction for its contribution to the public good for academic research, held by only 38 of the nation’s graduate business schools. Net community service, and support for lower-income students. Impact is one of the most prestigious nationally recognized non- profit organizations, as it manages over 300 clubs for students n T he Princeton Review ranked USF 13th on the “College City Gets focused on doing well and doing good. High Marks” list and made the list of the top-four year colleges and universities in the West in 2015, based on surveys of n T he Master of Global Entrepreneurship and Management students who attended the schools. (MGEM) was ranked number 58 in the world by the Financial Times among master’s in management programs in 2015. 4 Select Firsts, Honors, and Achievements in 2015 Continued n U SF’s one-year, intensive Master of Science Analytics program made the “23 Great” list by MastersInDataScience.org., for its connections to Silicon Valley internships and career opportunities. The program was praised for its emphasis on the technical and business sides of the field, with courses in predictive analytics, econometrics, business communications, and management science. n T he Online Masters in Collegiate Athletics was ranked the third best online master sport management program in the nation in 2015 by Bestschools.com. n I n 2015, the USF School of Nursing and Health Professions was selected to partner with Kaiser Permanente to offer USF’s Executive Leadership Doctor of Nursing Program (ELDNP) and its MSN Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) Program. n T he USF undergraduate psychology program was ranked among the top ten up and coming undergraduate psychology programs in the West in 2015 by bestpsychology degrees.com. n I n 2015, USF’s St. Ignatius Institute was ranked 18th on the Best College Review’s list of four-year schools with programs that focus on great books. 5 USF Student Enrollment Student enrollment by college, as of September 11, 2015 (census date): Student College of Arts and Sciences: 4,409 (3,566 undergraduate students, 843 graduate students) School of Management: 3,023 (2,291 undergraduate students, 732 graduate students) Profile School of Nursing and Health Professions: 1,585 (825 undergraduate students, 760 graduate students) School of Education: 1,055 As of September 11, 2015 (Census Date), the (all graduate students) University of San Francisco enrolled 10,828 School of Law: 599 students, including 6,782 undergraduate students, 3,447 graduate students, and 599 law students. Special Students: 157 USF’s coed student body (37 percent male and (100 undergraduate students, 57 graduate students) 63 percent female) represents diverse ethnic, Annual Student Costs (2015-2016) religious, social, and economic backgrounds, 94 Traditional Undergraduate: foreign countries, and 49 states Tuition: $42,180/year Room and Board (average): $14,104/year USF Student Awards and Honors Management Degree Completion: n T hree USF students were awarded Fulbright English Teaching Undergraduate tuition, per unit: $1,020 Assistantships (ETA) to teach abroad for the academic year 2014-2015: Bobbi Arduini (MA International and Multicultural Graduate: Education) went to Bulgaria; Keyaira Lock (Sociology major) Arts and Sciences, per unit: $1,245 Business (MBA), per unit: $1,330 to South Africa; and Keala Pacheco (Psychology major) to Education, on-campus masters, Malaysia. per unit: $1,110 Education, doctoral, per unit: $1,245 n T he International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Nursing, on-campus masters per unit: $1,245 named USF doctoral student and high school English teacher Nursing, on-campus doctoral Diana Neebe ‘17 its outstanding young educator of the year per unit: $1,245 in 2015, for her innovative classroom use of iPads and other School of Law: technology. Full-Time Tuition: $46,780/year Part-Time (evening) Tuition: $1,670/unit n U SF School of Law students scored a national victory in ABA Tax Moot court competition, and won the regional moot court competition for the International Trademarks Association in January 2015. n School of Management undergraduates took second place in the 2015 Manhattan College Business Analytics Competition, where a team of four students had the chance to work with and analyze real business data, and present their findings to a panel of executive judges. n Two MBA students, Arriel Sherman and Vicki Ye, were recipients of scholarships in 2015 from the Financial Women of San Francisco Association, due to their commitment to the organization, their life-long goals pertaining to finance, and their involvement in the community. 6 USF Student Profile Continued Student Ethnicity and Religious Affiliations In fall 2015, the total student population, by ethnicity was: Financial Aid Asian: 2,409 (22 .2%) During the 2015-2016 academic year, 81% of all undergraduates African American: 655 (6 .0%) Latino: 1,986 (18 .3%) were awarded some form of financial aid, averaging $15,911; Native American: 131 (1 .2%) including 40% who were awarded Pell Grants, averaging Native Hawai’ian/Pacific Islander: 100 (0 .9%) $2,340; and 70% who were awarded institutional grants or International: 1,825 (16 .9%) scholarships, averaging $10,298 . Among first-time freshman Unspecified: 435 (4 .0%) during the 2015-2016 academic year, 87% were awarded some White: 3,287 (30 .3%) Total: 10,828 form of financial aid, averaging $16,730; including 39% who were awarded Pell Grants, averaging $2,252; and 87% who were In fall 2015, the traditional undergraduate student awarded institutional grants or scholarships, averaging $11,356 . population, by ethnicity was: Freshman Facts Asian: 1,617 (25 .0%) African American: 285 (4 .4%) The University of San Francisco enrolled 1,596 first-time Latino: 1,262 (19 .5%) freshmen in the fall semester of 2015 . Salient facts about the Native American: 107 (1 .6%) Native Hawai’ian/Pacific Islander: 48 (0 .7%) freshman class include: International: 1,299 (20 .1%) Unspecified: 111 (1 .7%) The class entered with an average GPA of 3 .63 . White: 1,741 (26 .5%) The class had an average combined SAT score of 1161 . Total: 6,470 The first-time freshman class had 1,006 females (63 .0%) and 590 males (37 .0%) In fall 2015, among traditional undergraduate In the fall of 2015, the freshman student students, the religious affiliations were: population, by ethnicity was: Buddhist: 2 .6% Catholic: 29 .1% Asian: 380 (23 .8%) Hindu: 1 .1% African American: 81 (5 .1%) Jewish: 1 .5% Latino: 296 (18 .5%) Muslim: 1 .7% Native American: 30 (1 .9%) No religion: 20 .1% Native Hawai’ian/Pacific Islander: 11 (0 .7%) Other: 7 .4% International: 379 (23 .8%) Protestant: 5 .6% White: 391 (24 .5%) Unspecified: 31 .0% Other/Prefer not to Disclose: 28 (1 .7%) Total: 1,596 Community Service and Service Learning Retention Rates and Graduation Data For the academic year ending in May 2014, 2,167 undergraduate For the freshman class beginning in the fall of 2014, the students participated in service learning courses, representing freshman-to-sophomore retention rate was 83 .2% . 32 .1% of the undergraduate enrollment . The six-year graduation rate for full-time first-time freshmen USF has more than 50 student organizations, and five living- entering in fall 2009 was 71 .3%, and the four-year graduation learning communities dedicated to community service . rate for the same group was 60 .4% . During the 2013-2014 academic year, USF students engaged in First Generation to Attend College and more than 600,000 hours of community service work . Language Other Than English in the Home Among USF’s undergraduates in the fall of 2015, 35 .5% were the first in their families to attend college, and 33 .4% grew up in homes where English was not the first language . 7 USF Student Profile Continued Change in USF Student Enrollment by Ethnicity, 2000-2015 Degrees Awarded Enrollment Enrollment Percentage Category During 2014-2015, USF awarded in 2000 in 2015 Change 3,147 degrees, including: Asian 1,232 2,409 95 .5% bachelor’s degrees 1,605 master’s degrees 1,326 African American 418 655 56 .7% doctoral degrees (including law) 216 Latino/Latina 684 1,986 190 .4% Native American 49 131 167 .3% Student Evaluations Pacific Islander 128 100 -21 .9% On the May 2015 USF graduating student survey, International 657 1,825 177 .8% 97 .9% of the undergraduate students reported that the White 3,284 3,287 0 .1% university prepared them “very well” or “well” with the “knowledge and skills to work effectively with people from Other 914 435 -52 .4% different cultures or from different cultural backgrounds .” Total 7,366 10,828 47 .0% 90 .2% of the undergraduate students reported that USF contributed “very much” or “much” to their “commitment to Headcount Enrollment by scholarly excellence .” Ethnicity 2000-2015 96 .9% of the undergraduate students reported that “overall, I was strongly satisfied or satisfied with my USF education .” 4500 On the Spring 2014 National Survey of 4000 Student Engagement, 3500 87% of the seniors reported that their experience at USF contributed “quite a bit” or “very much” to “thinking critically 3000 and analytically .” 2500 76% of the seniors reported that their experience at USF contributed “quite a bit” or “very much” to “working effectively 2000 with others .” 1500 90% of the seniors evaluated their “entire educational experience” at USF as “good” or “excellent .” 1000 500 Career and Educational Plans 0 In 2015, 24 .6% of USF’s graduating seniors reported that they 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 planned to attend graduate school after graduation . 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 201 201 201 201 201 201 In 2015, 13 .2% of USF’s graduating seniors reported that they planned to start a new job or continue a current job after graduation . Asian Pacific Islander African International From 2001 to 2015, 65 .2% of USF students who went through Latino/Latina White the USF Pre-Professional Health Committee were successful in Native American Other gaining admittance to medical school, whereas nationally the acceptance rate during this period was 43 .7% . 8