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In this report, the Loyola University New Orleans community celebrates some of our accomplishments and provide a glimpse into the spirit of learning and community engagement that define our university. From cutting-edge environmental research to award-winning students’ projects to updated state-of-the-art facilities, these milestones from the past year highlight Loyola’s rich Jesuit tradition of academic excellence and commitment to the service of others.
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VALUES
THE FUTUREdetermine
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“Lord, teach me to be generous;Teach me to serve you as you deserve;To give and not to count the cost;To fight and not to heed the wounds;To toil and not to seek for rest;To labor and not to ask for reward— except to know that I am doing your will.”
—IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
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Dear colleagues,
As Loyola continues into its second century, our future
remains bright. Through our nationally recognized
academic achievements and the ongoing support of
our valued alumni and donors, we have confidence that
Loyola will transform to fit the needs of our students and
the demands of the modern world.
Our students, faculty, staff, and alumni are all vital
contributors to Loyola’s success. In this report, we
celebrate some of our accomplishments and provide
a glimpse into the spirit of learning and community
engagement that define our university. From cutting-
edge environmental research to award-winning students’
projects to updated state-of-the-art facilities, these
milestones from the past year highlight Loyola’s rich
Jesuit tradition of academic excellence and commitment
to the service of others.
Two years ago, Loyola celebrated its centennial year
and embraced our past. Now, we focus our efforts on
transforming Loyola and making our university stronger
for generations of students to come.
Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D.President
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENTLINKING FAITH WITH JUSTICELoyola celebrated the College of Law centennial and embraced a new plan and fundraising campaign.
A CONTEMPLATIVE VISION FORMED BY HOPEMonroe Hall, Loyola’s largest facility, gets a deserving upgrade fit for the future.
CRITICAL THINKINGAND EFFECTIVECOMMUNICATION New programs and a historic distinction prepare students for careers in education and the arts.
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCEStudents won awards, changed lives, and gave a small business a chance to flourish.
PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCEFaculty members put their faith into action through their work with students, the community, and the environment.
COMMITMENT TO SERVICEOur alumni continue to shine by hunting viruses, giving back, and telling the true story of American history.
REVENUE AND EXPENSES
RANKINGS
In August 2014, Loyola’s Ignacio Volunteers went to Belize to conduct a two-week summer camp for local youth.
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LINKING
WITH
Loyola University New Orleans is poised for an era rooted in transformation in our Jesuit tradition. Through a solid and strong awareness of our future, we are dedicated to enhancing our academic programs and bringing greater opportunities to our talented students. This past year, we continued to celebrate our past and looked ahead with crucial new initiatives.
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In October, Loyola launched its most ambitious fundraising campaign to date, FAITH IN THE FUTURE: THE CAMPAIGN FOR LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS. This comprehensive campaign’s goal is to raise $100 million to support a wide range of projects and programs. The Faith in the Future campaign aims to enhance our academic programs, enrich campus life, ensure financial aid for deserving students, transform our physical campus, and strengthen our Jesuit identity.
Honorary campaign co-chairs Anne Milling and Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, U.S. Army (Ret.), celebrate the launch of Faith in the Future: The Campaign for Loyola University New Orleans.
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As we continue to plan for the future, Loyola announced its new strategic plan, TRANSFORMING LOYOLA 2020, a six-year initiative that calls for building stronger learning connections with the cultures and traditions of New Orleans, as well as expanding on students’ post-graduate success. The plan also emphasizes the importance of experiential, hands-on learning—a hallmark of the Jesuit approach to higher education.
As part of the strategic plan, the College of Law will focus specifically on increasing resources for students preparing for the bar exam and on the new Center for Law Practice Readiness, which will help prepare students for the rigors of life as a working attorney.
The COLLEGE OF LAW celebrated its centennial in 2014, with tributes to many of its exemplary alumni, including Maurice “Moon” Landrieu ’52 (right), J.D. ’54, H’79, H’05, former mayor of New Orleans and recipient of the St. Ives Award. The college admitted its first class of 42 students in 1914 and has since served as a training ground for leaders and other legal professionals in the political, business, arts, and academic arenas.
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The educational experience at Loyola is not only shaped by the faculty and students but by the campus
environment, as well. In 2013 – 14, Monroe Hall, Loyola’s largest and most diverse facility, underwent a major
makeover in order to provide a much-needed physical upgrade and a state-of-the-art facility for our students.
A CONTEMPLATIVE
FORMED
BY
MONROE HALL, home to approximately 40 percent of courses, now includes
media and teaching computer labs, additional biology research labs, and
design and art studios with upgraded equipment and technologies. Nunemaker
Auditorium in Monroe Hall (top right), which has
hosted some of the most prestigious lecturers and
performers to appear at Loyola, received an update with a sleek wood-paneled
interior, new sound engineering, and 100
percent LED lights. The new Monroe Hall also includes a rooftop greenhouse that
will serve as a resource for teaching and research in the
biological, botanical, and environmental sciences.
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With the first of many upgrades to our historic campus, students are able to create, learn, and experience a traditional Loyola education in a cutting-edge environment. Full completion of the project is expected in summer 2015, and our generous donors continue to help us fully fund this state-of-the-art facility.
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The College of Music and Fine Arts boasts a new
BACHELOR OF DESIGN degree program, the only
four-year program of its kind in the city. This
program aims to prepare our students for the growing
and diverse field of design.
The College of Business launched a new one-
year FAST-TRACK M.B.A. PROGRAM—also the only program of its kind in the
city—and a REVAMPED PART-TIME PROFESSIONAL
M.B.A. PROGRAM to create distinctive opportunities for
students to gain valuable experience while developing
skills in entrepreneurship, leadership, and ethics—
all at their own pace.
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Our commitment to academic excellence is the cornerstone of Loyola’s mission to educate the whole person. This year, Loyola introduced new academic programs and celebrated new honors that will help our students distinguish themselves in the job market.
Loyola now offers students the chance to earn a TEACHING CERTIFICATE IN SECONDARY EDUCATION while pursuing an undergraduate degree. The state-approved program offers students the latest course options, which are designed to prepare them as teachers in Louisiana and elsewhere.
The SCHOOL OF MASS COMMUNICATION became the first Jesuit university program in the U.S. and the only program in the state of Louisiana to hold national accreditations from the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the Public Relations Society of America’s Certification in Education for Public Relations. These distinctions ensure that our students are prepared with a well-rounded liberal arts and sciences foundation.
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LEARNING FROM
Our students set the bar high for the
future of Loyola. Their successes
and achievements contribute to the
growing foundation of the future of the
university. With every award won,
grant received, and community service
activity performed, our students are paving the
way for generations of students to come
to continue their inspiring work.
DIANNA SANCHEZ, a visual arts senior and avid gamer, was chosen as one of the winners of a national Nintendo fan art competition. Her artwork for “The Legend of Zelda” game was created by using only a drawing tablet and Adobe Photoshop and is displayed on the main screen at the tour of “The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses” concert series.
Students from LOYOLA’S SPANISH/ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING CERTIFICATE PROGRAM joined a local immigration law firm and helped break the language barrier for child immigrants from Central America through a project called “PB&J.” Through their growing translation and interpreting skills, our students connected these vulnerable children with vital legal assistance.
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An elite team of six M.B.A. STUDENTS— Ryan Murphy; recent graduate Melissa Gurdian, M.B.A. ’14; Kevin Gordon (team leader); recent graduate Nicholas Hanson, M.B.A. ’14; Michael Barerra; and Billy Mather—won big during the 2014 New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. They helped their client, local brewer Cajun Fire Brewing Co., win the highest award, a check for $50,000. The team worked with Cajun Fire to evaluate its business plan and prioritize tasks to help the company expand its business. Loyola’s team defeated other top business schools, including Tulane University, Cornell University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Student journalist and senior LUCY DIECKHAUS won a national journalism award for her service to the First Amendment from the Society of Professional Journalists. The national organization recognized her with the Robert D.G. Lewis First Amendment Award based on articles she wrote addressing open meeting laws while reporting for The Lens’ Charter School Reporting Corps, which provides regular coverage of charter school boards in Orleans Parish.
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PURSUIT OF
PAUL BARNES, PH.D., biology professor, shown here measuring the level of a plant’s ultraviolet protection, served on the United Nations Environment Programme’s
Environmental Effects Assessment Panel as a member of an elite team of scientists from around the world. The panel helped to uncover surprising good news about
ozone depletion and the effects of ultraviolet rays on plants and ecosystems.
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Our prestigious faculty hails from all over the world. They bring their expertise into the classroom, creating a learning experience that allows our current and future students to become more aware of their social environment and the needs of that environment. Our faculty members truly embrace the Jesuit, Catholic tradition at Loyola through their collaborative research, programs designed with students in mind, and passion for educating the whole person.
Philosophy professor JON ALTSCHUL, PH.D., and six undergraduate students developed “Big Ideas for Little Kids,” a philosophy education program aimed at elementary students at Good Shepherd School in New Orleans. With the help of their professor, students meet with the third graders and use children’s stories to explain philosophical theories such as thinking critically and generosity.
LAURA MURPHY, PH.D., assistant English professor and director of African and African American Studies, and other researchers produced the first-ever report on human trafficking in the New Orleans metro area. The report, released by Loyola, sheds light on the problem, highlighting indicators that suggest sex trafficking and forced labor are significant issues for the area.
Biologists AIMÉE K. THOMAS, PH.D., (above right, assisting students with a termite hunt) and JAMES WEE, PH.D., helped Loyola students teach local children the wonders of nature right in their own backyard through an iPad app they are creating for the popular New Orleans urban park, Audubon Park.
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COMMITMENT TO
MARIA RIBANDO BURMASTER ‘88, D.D.S., and 200 LOYOLA
STUDENTS AND ALUMNI turned Mardi Gras World into a pop-up dental clinic that saw nearly 1,000 patients with the
American Dental Association’s Mission of Mercy during
Loyola’s annual day of service, Wolves on the Prowl. Burmaster
was also the 2014 recipient of Loyola’s 1912 Society Integritas
Vitae award, which is given to an outstanding leader who demonstrates the values of a
Jesuit education.
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St. Ignatius of Loyola said, “Go forth and set the world on fire.” Loyola sparks the fire in our students, and upon graduation, they use that same fire to inspire, impact, and transform the world around them. Our alumni contribute to the legacy Loyola has created by their continued successes and commitment to service.
School of Mass Communication graduate and ESPN JOURNALIST MICHAEL SMITH ’01 (above, center) returned to Loyola for a panel discussion during the 37th annual Tom Bell Silver Scribe Competition for local high school journalists. Smith and other sports journalists discussed multimedia storytelling and producing news for all platforms.
To fill the void in the story of slavery in the South, JOHN CUMMINGS ’58, J.D. ’61, a retired trial lawyer, opened America’s first and only museum of slavery, The Whitney Plantation, in Wallace, La. He transformed an 18th-century plantation into several exhibits and memorials about slaves in Louisiana with the help of artists, scholars, and researchers from around the world.
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AND REVENUE
Tuition and fees, net of aid .................................................. $80,593,963
Unrestricted gifts, grants, and contracts ................................ $1,934,673
Investment income ................................................................ $8,748,000
Auxiliary enterprises .............................................................. $12,083,421
Other sources .............................................................................. $280,711
TOTAL: ...............................................................................$103,640,768
THE REV. KEVIN WM. WILDES, S.J., PH.D.
President
MARC K. MANGANARO, PH.D.Provost and Vice President
for Academic Affairs
JAY CALAMIAVice President for Finance
and Administration
THE REV. TED DZIAK, S.J.Vice President for Mission and Ministry and Director
of the Jesuit Center
BILL BISHOPVice President for
Institutional Advancement
ROBERTA E. KASKELVice President for
Enrollment Management
M.L. “CISSY” PETTY, PH.D.Vice President for Student Affairs
and Associate Provost
TOMMY SCREENDirector of Government Relations
GITA BOLT, J.D.General Counsel
AND
EXPENSES Instructional .........................................................................$46,006,467
Research ...................................................................................... $375,450
Public service ........................................................................... $1,910,305
Academic support .................................................................... $13,211,552
Student services .......................................................................$9,446,811
Institutional support ..............................................................$26,831,091
Auxiliary enterprises ................................................................$6,833,726
TOTAL: ................................................................................$104,615,402
Net before Transfer.................................................................. [$974,634]
Transfer from Reserves ......................................................... $1,000,000
Net after Transfer .........................................................................$25,366
2013-2014 UNIVERSITY CABINET MEMBERS
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620 Enrolled students
3.51 Average GPA 52.3% above 3.5 82.5% above 3.0
577 Average critical reading SAT score
546 Average math SAT score
25 Average ACT score
60% Female40% Male
39% Ethnic minorities17% African-American15% Hispanic 4% Asian 3% Other
Our students come from:36 States/Territories10 Countries56.8% Out of state39.7% From Louisiana3.6% International
CLASS OF 2018 PROFILE
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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS
THE PRINCETON REVIEW 2015: 2015 BEST 379 COLLEGES LIST
#2 in the nation for “Lots of Race/Class Interaction”
#6 for best “Town-Gown Relations,” indicating how well students get along with members of the local community
#5 for “Best College Newspaper”
OTHER RANKINGS
Ranked #11 in BEST REGIONAL UNIVERSITIES by U.S. News & World Report.
2013-2014 COLLEGE OF DISTINCTION by the online guide for college-bound students, counselors, and parents
College of Law’s moot court program was ranked as one of the TOP 10 ADVOCACY PROGRAMS IN THE COUNTRY by The National Jurist
Loyola’s Wolf Pack Athletics Program has been named a prestigious NAIA CHAMPIONS OF CHARACTER FIVE STAR INSTITUTION, recognized for excellence in integrity, respect, sportsmanship, and leadership.
Criminal Justice Administration ONLINE DEGREE PROGRAM: #11 IN THE COUNTRY by TheBestSchools.org, a leading higher education/career website, in 2013
ONLINE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING DEGREE PROGRAM among the nation’s best by BestCollege.org
Rated A for safety and listed as ONE OF THE SAFEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE COUNTRY by Reader’s Digest in 2013
Named a 2012 BEST VALUE PRIVATE COLLEGE by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.
Named a BEST BUY in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2012
#15 NATIONWIDE among master’s universities for the number of graduates who go on to successfully receive doctoral degrees
# 35 NATIONWIDE for the number of alumni who join the Peace Corps by Washington Monthly
#34 FOR UNDERGRADUATE PARTICIPATION IN STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS for those universities ranked as a Top 40 Master’s Institution by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education by the Institute for International Education and the U.S. Department of State
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Loyola students and alumni from all over the country gathered together for Loyola’s national day of service, Wolves on the Prowl. This past year in New Orleans, students and alumni helped a local elementary school beautify the playground by painting a basketball court and decorating the walls with designs and art.
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OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT6363 ST. CHARLES AVENUE
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118
WWW.LOYNO.EDU
Chartered in 1912, Loyola University New Orleans, one of the
28 Jesuit institutions of higher learning in the U.S., offers a
welcoming campus atmosphere and a liberal arts and sciences
education emphasizing self-discovery, the exploration of values,
and the fostering of personal initiative and critical thinking.
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