2006 USC Womens Leadership Institute

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2006 USC Womens Leadership Institute

• Mark P. Becker
• Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
• Provost

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Outline

• The Modern Research University
• Higher Education Challenges Today
• State of USC Quantitative Summaries
• Phi Beta Kappa Remarks Aspiration
• Where to From Here

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I. The Modern Research University

• Recognized for Excellence in Education
• Recognized for Excellence in Research
• Constructively Partnered
• Globally Oriented
• Locally Engaged

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II. Higher Education Challenges

• Expectations Keep Increasing
• Student and Parent
• Government
• Sponsored Research
• Accreditation
• Sources of Support are Shifting
• Cuts in the First Half of the Decade
• New Support Tends to be Highly Targeted
• Greater Reliance on Competitive Sources

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A Few Examples

• Access and Affordability
• Green Initiatives and Sustainability
• General Education
• Substance e.g., Communication, Analytical and
  Quantitative Analysis/Reasoning
  
• Assessment
• Graduate Education Too Narrow?, Too Long?
• Liberal Arts/Professional Education
• Venture Philanthropy

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III. State of USC

• US News World Report Data
• National Rankings
• Kiplingers Personal Finance
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
  Teaching

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US News USC Student Profile
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Other Characteristics
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USC Programs in the Top 10

• Program Level
  Rank Source Year
  
• International Business Undergraduate 1 US
  News 2006
  
• International Business Graduate 2 US
  News 2005
  
• School Library Media Graduate 2 US
  News 2006
  
• Philosophy of Physics PhD 3-5 Philosophical 2
  004
  
• 
  
  Gourmet
  
• Health Librarianship Graduate 8 US
  News 2006
  
• Health Education PhD 5 Journal of
  2000
  
• 
  
  Health Education
  
• Marine Science Undergraduate 5 Gourman Report
  1998
  
• Library Services for Graduate 8 US News
  1999
  
• Children and Youth
• Exercise Science Department 8 Amer Academy
  2004
  
• 
  
  of Kinesiology
  
• Advertising Undergraduate 8 Advertising Age
  1991
  
• Hotel, Restaurant Department 9 Journal of
  Tourism 2001
  
• Tourism Hospitality and Tourism Ed
• Public Relations Undergraduate 10 NY Times
  1998

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USC Programs 11 - 30

• Programs Level Rank Source
  Year
  
• Entrepreneur Program Undergraduate 1st
  Tier Entrepreneur 2005
  
• Public Relations Graduate 12 US
  News 1996
  
• Social Psychology Graduate 12 US News
  2005
  
• Philosophy of Science PhD 13-30 Philosophical
  2004
  Gourmet
  
• Advertising Graduate 13 US News
  1996
  
• Advertising Undergraduate Top 15 Clio
  Award 2001
  
• Library Science Graduate 15 US News
  1996
  
• Chem Biochem PhD 17 CE News
  2005
  
• Chem Engrng Spent on Chem 17 CE News 2005
• Chem Biochem Fed Spent 27 CE News 2004

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Kiplingers Personal Finance

• Top Values in Public Colleges
• USC Placed 31
• Out of More than 500 Public Four-Year Colleges
  and Universities
  
• When Evaluated On
• Academic Quality, Cost, and Aid

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Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching

• USC Classified as a
• Very High Research Activity Institution
• 62 Public and 32 Private Universities
• In this Classification

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IV. Phi Beta Kappa Aspiration

• One definition of aspiration is the hope or
  ambition of achieving something.
  
• Charles Dickens Minds, like bodies, will often
  fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from
  mere excess of comfort.

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Sir Winston Churchill

• Every day you make progress. Every step may be
  fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you
  an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending,
  ever-improving path. You know you will never get
  to the end of the journey. But this, so far from
  discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of
  the climb.

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Mathematics and Poetry

• Sequential Binary Decisions and Nonlinear Paths
• Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
• I shall be telling this with a sigh
• Somewhere ages and ages hence
• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
• I took the one less traveled by,
• And that has made all the difference.

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Choices and Opportunities

• John W. Gardner (1912 - ), US Secretary of
  Health, Education, and Welfare 1965-1968) We are
  continually faced with a series of great
  opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble
  problems.
• J.K Rowling put it this way It is our choices
  that show what we truly are, far more than our
  abilities.

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Change

• When you are finished changing, you are finished.
  Benjamin Franklin
  
• The art of progress is to preserve order amid
  change and to preserve change amid order. Alfred
  North Whitehead, English philosopher and
  mathematician (1861-1947)

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Risks

• You gain strength, courage and confidence by
  every experience in which you really stop to look
  fear in the face. You are able to say to
  yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I
  can take the next thing that comes along.' You
  must do the thing you think you cannot do.
  Eleanor Roosevelt
• There are risks and costs to a program of action,
  but they are far less than the long-range risks
  and costs of comfortable inaction. John
  Fitzgerald Kennedy

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V. The Journey Where to From Here

• Recognized for Excellence in Education
• Recognized for Excellence in Research
• Constructively Partnered
• Globally Oriented
• Locally Engaged

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Overall Summary

• Your University has Made Tremendous Strides over
  the Past 5 - 10 Years
  
• BUT - The Journey has Just Begun
• InnoVista
• Outstanding Students
• Outstanding Programs
• Outstanding Faculty

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The Journey Will Require

• Change
• Budgeting
• Communications
• Education Programs and Delivery
• Facilities Planning and Operations
• Human Resources Policies and Practices
• Technology Transfer
• Public-Private and Global Partnerships
• Friend and Funds Raising