Loyolaat a glance

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANSPRESIDENT’S REPORT 2011

What’s past is prologue. —William Shakespeare, The Tempest

As Loyola University New Orleans concludes the final year of its first century,Shakespeare’s words seem appropriate for the occasion. The prologue oftensets the scene for the play. For Loyola, our past is a prologue that helps us tounderstand where we are today and envision possibilities for the future.

During the past 100 years, Loyola has provided Jesuit education rooted in theliberal arts and sciences with the aim of freeing the individual person andallowing him or her to examine the world critically. As the achievements bothpast and present in this report illustrate, Loyola’s mission today is the same inmany ways as it has always been.

As we work toward the end of our first century, we also work to finalize thegoals of Loyola 2012, the strategic plan meant to guide Loyola to itscentennial. The plan focuses on enhancing Loyola’s Jesuit values andimproving the overall collegiate experience for Loyola’s students. We havemade great progress on both fronts in the past year. Last fall, we welcomed1,002 new students and maintained a 77-percent retention rate, well abovethe national average. A Loyola education remains in high demand, thanks inlarge part to the substantial support of our alumni and friends, our excellentfaculty, and our stalwart commitment to our mission.

Once complete, Loyola 2012 will provide both a strong foundation and greatmomentum to begin our next century. I am excited to begin a new era atLoyola, and grateful for the opportunity to help continue its noble legacy.

With prayers and best wishes,

Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., President

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Cover and Inside Cover Photos Then and Now: Marquette Hall, the centerpiece of

Loyola University New Orleans’ campus, was completed in 1911. The first classes were held

September 11, 1911.

Though much has changed since Loyola was chartered in 1912, many things have not:

• OUR STUDENTS’ CURIOSITY AND DEDICATION TO LEARNINGAND SERVICE

• OUR FACULTY’S SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH AND ATTENTIVECLASSROOM INSTRUCTION

• OUR JESUIT IDEALS AND THE WAY IN WHICH THEY DEFINEOUR MISSION AND PURPOSE

• OUR SPECIAL PROGRAMS’ CONTRIBUTIONS TO OURSTUDENTS’ HOLISTIC EDUCATION

• OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND THE STRONGRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LOYOLA AND NEW ORLEANS

• OUR ALUMNI’S CONTINUED SUCCESS AND EMBODIMENTOF VALUES THEY LEARNED AT LOYOLA

Loyola University New Orleans’accomplishments in 2011 might appearexceptional, but in fact they reflect thevalues and strengths the university has

demonstrated for 100 years. As wereflect upon the final year of our first

century, we also look to the past tounderstand that our recent achievementsare not isolated, but instead are part of a

long tradition and a larger mission.

THE FINAL YEAR OF OUR FIRST CENTURY

The combined classes of 1912 and 1913.

The Princeton Review ranked LoyolaNo. 1 nationwide for “Lots of Race/Class

Interaction” in its 2012 Best 377Colleges list. Our student body includes

39 percent ethnic minorities, and wehost students from 24 countries.

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Leah Michelle Birch, a computational mathematics senior, won ascholarship as part of the 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship andExcellence in Education Program. She also studied over the summer atthe Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles.

Holly Marisa Gardner, a physics senior, was awarded the prestigiouspresidential scholarship from George Mason University, where she willpursue a doctoral degree in computational science and informatics.Gardner also participated in the 2011 Program for Women inMathematics at Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Studies inits School of Mathematics.

Adam Mayon, a piano junior, won first place in the piano division of thehighly competitive 2011 Music Teacher’s National Association’s YoungArtist Competition. The prestigious award included a $25,000 Steinway upright piano and invitations to play concerts in Chicago andNew York.

Loyola MBA students worked with local microbrewery NOLA Brewingto streamline the three-year-old company’s bottling process in acollaboration that was part of the Idea Village’s 2011 New OrleansEntrepreneur Week Competition.

History major Keaton Postler received a prestigious SHEAR/MellonFellowship to work on his thesis over the summer at the McNeil Centerfor Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Loyola’s diversity today is the result ofchallenging the status quo early on. In 1952,

three years before the Montgomery bus boycott,Loyola’s School of Law admitted its first African-

American student, Norman Francis, J.D’55,H’82, Ph.D. Francis went on to become presidentof Xavier University of Louisiana—the nation’sonly historically black, Catholic university—aposition he has held for more than 40 years.

OUR STUDENTS REMAIN

CURIOUS AND DEDICATED TO LEARNING AND SERVICE

Norman Francis with Fr. Joseph H. Fichter.

Carl H. Brans, Ph.D., emeritus professorof physics, was elected this year bythe American Physical Society (APS)for his outstanding contribution to

physics, in particular for developing agravitational theory alternative to

Einstein’s theory of relativity. Fewerthan half a percent of APS members

are honored with this award.

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Two Loyola law professors accepted positions in federal courts this year:Stephen Higginson, J.D., was voted unanimously by the U.S. Senateto a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit;and Nannette Jolivette-Brown, LL.M., was nominated by PresidentObama for a federal judgeship in the eastern district of Louisiana.

Thanks in part to biology professor Frank Jordan, Ph.D., and Loyolastudent researchers, the Okaloosa darter, a freshwater fish indigenousto the bayous of northwestern Florida, was downgraded fromendangered to threatened on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’sendangered species list.

Law professor Robert Verchick, J.D., contributed to a report to PresidentObama as well as an inter-agency working group for the “America’sGreat Outdoors” campaign, a federal conservation initiative. Verchick isa former administrator within the Environmental Protection Agency.The American Library Association listed his book, Facing Catastrophe:Environmental Action in a Post-Katrina World, as a ChoiceOutstanding Academic Title this year.

Josefa Salmón, Ph.D., professor of languages and cultures, conductedresearch in Bolivia for the 2010 – 2011 academic year on a Fulbrightscholarship.

Luis Mirón, Ph.D., dean of the College of Social Sciences, was afeatured speaker at the Sixth International Conference onInterdisciplinary Social Sciences in New Orleans.

Alice V. Clark, Ph.D., professor of music history, was awarded a positionin a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar, “Art,History, and Culture in Rome, 1527 – 1798,” held at the AmericanAcademy in Rome.

Brans’ achievement comes in a long line ofaccomplishments by Loyola’s physics faculty.

Fr. Karl Maring, Ph.D., established thephysics program in the early 1930s, and in1938, took charge of Loyola’s seismographicstation. The station is still in operation and isthe only seismographic station in Louisiana,

and one of only a few in the South.

OUR FACULTY CONTINUES

TO CONDUCT SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH

Fr. Maring was assigned to Loyola University New Orleans in 1932.

We welcomed two newmembers to the Loyola

Jesuit Community: Fr. Gregg Grovenburg,associate chaplain forsacraments and faith

formation in the Office ofMission and Ministry;

and Sylvester Tan,visiting assistant

professor of English andlanguages and cultures.

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The Rev. Fred Kammer, S.J., J.D., director of Loyola’s Jesuit SocialResearch Institute, served as moderator for the week-long 2011General Assembly in Rome of Caritas Internationalis. Caritas hasmember organizations in 165 countries that directly help 24 millionpeople in 200 countries each year. It has 440,000 paid staff, 625,000volunteers, and its member organizations have a combined estimatedworth of U.S. $5.5 billion. This year’s assembly theme was “One HumanFamily, Zero Poverty.”

The 2011 Ignatian Medal for Outstanding Campus Program went toLoyola’s iLIVE program, which provides all Loyola undergraduatestudents co-curricular experiences to discover, develop, and applyprinciples based on Jesuit values to build ethical and meaningful lives.The Jesuit Association of Professional Administrators, which works topromote excellence in Jesuit higher education, awarded the medal to Loyola.

Sixteen Loyola students, faculty, and staff traveled to Belize to take partin the Ignacio Volunteer Program, founded 20 years ago by Fr. TedDziak, vice president for Mission and Ministry at Loyola. The volunteersrun a summer camp Dziak founded that has graduated teachers, policeofficers, and even one Belizean senator. Loyola also operates anIgnacio Volunteer Program in Kingston, Jamaica.

Eleven Jesuits signed the charter on April 15, 1912, that formally inducted Loyola as a university. These 11 Jesuitsconstituted Loyola’s original governingcorporation and established a robust

physical Jesuit presence on campus, which isan integral part of a Loyola education today.

Fr. Albert H. Biever, S.J., first president of Loyola University New Orleans, on the steps of Marquette Hall.

OUR JESUIT IDEALS

DEFINE OUR MISSION AND PURPOSE

The Lindy Boggs National Center forCommunity Literacy addresses newchallenges and works to infuse literacypromotion into every institution in the city.In 2011, it expanded its outreach intocomputer literacy labs throughout the cityand continued work with the New OrleansFatherhood Consortium. Petrice Sams-Abiodun, Ph.D., the center’s director, wasappointed to the Orleans Parish WorkforceInvestment Board, which allocates federalfunding to workforce development programs.

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan led a Department ofEducation TEACH town hall meeting at Loyola, which also includedLoyola President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., New Orleans MayorMitch Landrieu, J.D.’85, H’05, and New Orleans Saints cornerbackLeigh Torrence. The event honored excellent New Orleans teachers inhopes of inspiring the next generation of teachers.

The Loyola School of Nursing, recognized by U.S.News & World Report as one of the nation’s best, was awarded a $985,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and HumanServices to support student loans for nursing doctoral students.

Loyola hosted “Debating Across Borders,” for which eight of theworld’s best college debate students debated the topic of “securingliberty.” The Open Society Institute-funded program brought topstudents to Loyola from Turkey, Australia, Slovenia, the United States,Colombia, South Africa, Canada, and France.

Former Louisiana death row inmate John Thompson, founder anddirector of Resurrection after Exoneration, shared his powerful storyabout injustice at the hands of the judicial system during a talk,“Prosecutorial Immunity: Deconstructing Connick v. Thompson.”

Andre Perry, Ph.D., associate director for educational initiatives forLoyola’s Institute for Quality and Equity in Education, was a featuredkeynote speaker at the 39th Annual Conference of the NationalAlliance of Black School Educators.

Republican political consultant Mary Matalin accepted an appointmentas a visiting distinguished lecturer in political science at Loyola. She willdevelop public programming with national speakers on current events.

The Lindy Boggs National Center forCommunity Literacy was dedicated to Loyola

in 1999 to enrich the lives of people byhelping them achieve their full potentialthrough literacy. At that time, literacy was

more narrowly defined, primarily as reading,writing, and basic problem solving.

Congresswoman Lindy Boggs and Fr. James C. Carter, S.J.,announcing plans for the literacy center.

OUR SPECIAL PROGRAMS

CONTRIBUTE TO OUR STUDENTS’ HOLISTIC EDUCATION

Loyola’s students and facultytake part in numerousactivities that involve themintimately with the city thatthe Jesuits helped shape.Our law clinics, servicelearning program, and othersocial justice initiativesengage Loyola students inways that enable them tohelp build a better world.

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The Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice receivedtwo grants to expand itsWorkforce Justice Project, which educates,advocates, and litigates for low-wage workers in the greater NewOrleans area. The law clinic and center also moved into a newlyrenovated facility, which provides better facilities for its clients.

The Loyola program that teaches computer literacy to homeless menat Ozanam Inn received a grant to continue its efforts. Loyola students,faculty, and staff are involved in the program in a variety of ways, fromacquiring equipment to teaching classes to conducting research on thepsychological benefits of heightened computer literacy in homeless men.

The Small Business Development Center (SBDC), hosted by Loyola’sCollege of Business, provided aid to small businesses in Louisianaaffected by floods from the Mississippi River in April and May of 2011.The SBDC acts as a first-responder for businesses after disasters,working on the ground immediately after to devise solutions to keepbusinesses afloat.

Loyola President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., was appointed to andelected as chair of the New Orleans Civil Service Commission, whichoversees the city’s Civil Service Department.

Loyola English professor Jarret Lofstead partnered with the LouisianaHumanities Center to create an event series that brings togetherprominent New Orleanians to discuss the intersection between moneyand culture.

Loyola’s Jesuit heritage is part of a long historyof Jesuit activity in New Orleans. In 1725,

Fr. Nicholas-Ignace de Beaubois established aJesuit House in New Orleans from which the

Jesuits conducted outreach and ministry. It also included a school for males and females

as well as a clinic that would eventuallybecome Charity Hospital.

Fr. Nicholas-Ignace de Beaubois welcoming the Ursulines to NewOrleans in 1727 as depicted in “Landing of the Ursulines” by PaulPoincy, 1892. Courtesy of Jesuit Archives, New Orleans Provence,Society of Jesus, Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans.

OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

BINDS LOYOLA TO THE BROADER NEW ORLEANS COMMUNITY

Loyola continues its forays intomass media, in part through itsillustrious alumni. This year, Emmy-winning journalist andLoyola alumnus Tom Llamas ’01became anchor of WNBC’s 5 p.m. newscast in New York City,the nation’s largest news market.

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Loyola sculpture alumna Nancy Hairston ’90 and her company,MedCAD, developed a groundbreaking technique to use 3Dtechnology to digitally develop custom cranio-facial implants andsurgical planning devices for reconstructive surgeries. Through thiswork, Hairston is changing the lives of disfigured soldiers, accidentvictims, and cancer patients around the world.

The South Coast Angel Fund, a venture capital enterprise launched byLoyola alumnus Clayton White ’76, M.B.A. ’93, J.D. ’07, and his partner Chastian Taurman began investing in south Louisiana’sburgeoning entrepreneurial community to provide capital to supporthigh-growth businesses.

Two Loyola law graduates, Ameca Reali, J.D. ’11 and AdrienneWheeler, J.D. ’11, founders of Cooperative Advocacy for the People,were chosen as 2011 Fellows by Echoing Green, an organization thatsupports bold social visionaries.

POISE, a nonprofit foundation launched by Dawson McCall ’04,continued to provide financial assistance to Project Uplift and two othereducational organizations that help marginalized students in the United States and Africa.

Loyola business alumnus Carlos Ayala ’57 passed away this year.During his life, he achieved remarkable success as an investor. Througha substantial planned gift to Loyola, he made one final investment: a$1.5 million gift to Loyola to support the College of Business’ financeprogram.

In 1922, WWL (World Wide Loyola) radiowas founded as a licensed station on Loyola’scampus. WWL broadcasted the first radio

program in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,and went on to become a local media empire.Loyola sold WWL, which then included a

television station, in 1989.

The “Dawnbusters,” featuring (left to right) Margie O’Dair, Pinky Vidacovich, and Henry Dupre.

OUR ALUMNI CONTINUE

TO SUCCEED AND EMBODY THE VALUES THEY LEARNED AT LOYOLA

2010 – 2011 UNIVERSITY

CABINET MEMBERS

The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D.President

Edward J. Kvet, D.M.E. 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

Salvadore A. LibertoVice President for Enrollment Management

and Associate Provost

M.L. “Cissy” Petty, Ph.D.Vice President for Student Affairs

and Associate Provost

Tommy ScreenDirector of Government Relations

Gita BoltGeneral Counsel

2010 – 2011 REVENUES AND EXPENSES

REVENUESTuition and fees,

net of aid $71,869,062Gifts, grants, and

contracts 1,541,900 Investment income 9,493,000 Auxiliary enterprises 11,022,550 Other sources 415,557

$94,342,069

EXPENSESInstructional $42,530,537 Research 172,267 Public service 1,346,882 Academic support 13,890,633 Student services 7,856,989 Institutional support 24,581,163 Auxiliary enterprises 6,421,592

$96,800,063

Net before Transfer ($2,457,994)

Transfer from Plant Fund $2,557,994

Net after Transfer $100,000

Loyola University New Orleans has fully supported and fostered inits educational programs, admissions, employment practices, andin the activities it operates the policy of not discriminating on thebasis of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion,sex/gender, or sexual orientation. This policy is in compliancewith all applicable federal regulations and guidelines.

© Loyola at a Glance 2011

11:1 Student to Faculty Ratio

4,982 Total Students

879 First-Year Students

39% Minorities

4% International Students

84% Undergraduates Receive Financial Aid

23% First Generation

5 Colleges

63 Undergraduate Programs

12 Graduate Programs

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS 2010 – 2011 PROFILE

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, theexploration of values, and thefostering of personal initiative

and critical thinking.

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