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23 The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity

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Dear St. Thomas Community,

The 2018-19 academic year closed on a celebratory note, with the energy and excitement of St. Thomas’ commencement celebrations. Father Larry Snyder reminded graduates they have the opportunity to build up a society that respects the dignity of all people and build up the kingdom of justice and peace. I took this commencement invocation to heart, and I feel optimistic for our future, knowing our graduates carry these convictions with them. Your support in all we do can be seen in the power of these new alumni. Thank you!

For me, one of the highlights of the year was welcoming the Rev. Gregory Boyle, S. J., founder and executive director of Homeboy Industries, as our baccalaureate commencement speaker. His inspiring message included these words:

“What Martin Luther King says about church could well be said of your time here at St. Thomas. It’s not the place you’ve come to; it’s the place you go from. You go from here to imagine a circle of compassion, and then imagine nobody standing outside that circle. You go from St. Thomas to dismantle the barriers that exclude, and that lands you at the margins. Because that’s the only way they’ll ever get erased. You do not go to the margins to make a difference; you go to the margins so that the widow, orphan and stranger make you different.”

St. Thomas celebrated another milestone in May 2019, graduating its inaugural Dougherty Family College (DFC) cohort. Two years ago, our students had faith in DFC faculty and staff to provide an excellent learning experience in a brand-new college. Now, they will continue work toward their bachelor’s degrees, and we are delighted that more than 30 DFC graduates have chosen St. Thomas! Thank you, DFC leadership, faculty, staff and others who have supported what was just a dream a few short years ago.

Though pleased with our many successes over the past year, I acknowledge the challenges we faced together. The racial incident on campus last fall caused anger and pain in our community. But we lived our convictions. Students, faculty and staff came together to share feelings, ideas and information. President Julie Sullivan announced an Action Plan to Combat Racism, which includes many short-term and long-term actions. Together, we are moving forward, daily renewing our commitment to the dignity of each and every person in our community.

Again, thank you for the important role you play as we live our mission to “educate students to be morally responsible leaders who think critically, act wisely and work skillfully to advance the common good.” I hope you enjoy reading this installment of the Year in Review. I think you’ll agree there is much good happening at St. Thomas.

Sincerely,

Richard G. Plumb, PhD Executive Vice President and Provost Professor, School of Engineering

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C O L L E G E S A N D S C H O O L SSt. Thomas’ colleges and schools remain uncompromising in academic excellence, and we continue to lay the groundwork for new programs that benefit our students and our community. Highlights of our accomplishments over the past year are summarized here.

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Undergraduate Students Baccalaureate 6,173 6,046 6,035 6,161 Associate of Arts 107 183 Nondegree 67 65 57 51 Total Undergraduates 6,240 6,111 6,199 6,395Graduate Students  Master’s 3,022 2,801 2,778 2,751 Doctoral 197 216 220 189 Juris Doctor 344 366 387 435 Certificate/Licensures 410 452 259 215 Nondegree 32 37 35 50 Total Graduates 4,005 3,872 3,679 3,640Grand Total 10,245 9,983 9,878 10,035Full-Time Faculty 485 467 457 457

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SOLV Initiative The dean launched the SOLV Initiative in fall 2018. This program supports interdisciplinary and collaborative faculty study and research projects that address critical issues with community partners and propose real-world solutions. There are three areas of focus: Arts and Humanities in the Public Interest; Health, Wellness and Sustainability; and Civility and Public Discourse. Four pilot projects included:

• Mindful Movement: An Evidence-Based Resistance Fall-Prevention Program for Older Adults (partner: YWCA St. Paul)

• Bringing Asmat to the Classroom and Beyond: Educating with the Collection of the American Museum of Asmat Art (partners: St. Peter Claver Catholic School, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport)

• Investigating the Impact of Innovative Pedagogies on Sustainability Literacy (partners: Metro Transit and St. Paul artist Sarah Nelson)

• Urban Art, Landscape and St. Paul Community Stories (partner: Midway Murals)

These projects will continue into 2019-20 and a new round of projects will be launched in fall 2020.

West St. Paul and Ready to Run The College of Arts and Sciences organized a panel discussion about how sexism and harassment started a movement in West St. Paul. The panel consisted of Jenny Halverson, former mayor of West St. Paul; Wendy Berry, councilmember in West St. Paul; and Katie Dohman, co-founder of Women of West St. Paul (WoW). This led to a SOLV partnership in 2019-20 with Ready to Run, a nonpartisan organization that provides training programs to help elect more women to public office.

SOLV Global The fall Rome Empower semester at the Bernardi Campus successfully included organic chemistry in its curriculum and had a record 35 students in residence, including 15 taking chemistry. The reflection program focused on the global refugee situation. On their return, an Awakenings Program developed by Rome alumna Maggie Martin saw 25 students volunteer in local organizations providing services and support for refugees. The college is planning to expand the Empower-Awakenings Program to Ireland and Chile.

Teach-In Tuesday In response to incidents on campus, the college launched Teach-in Tuesdays. Spearheaded by the Psychology Department, the sessions explored issues of prejudice and inequality. Attendance was robust throughout the year and included faculty, staff and students who engaged in thoughtful discussion on pressing social issues.

Lower Graduate Tuition The college lowered graduate tuition rates by 27% beginning with the summer session 2019. The move was to make graduate education in the liberal arts more affordable

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and accessible, and a new Dean’s Scholarship provided additional assistance to underrepresented applicants. For summer 2019, CAS saw a 15.5% rise in enrollment.

Convening the College The college held its inaugural Convening the College event on Sept. 10, featuring a keynote address from College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Board member Peter Leyden. Leyden addressed how the chaos and disruption of the 21st century will yield a more digital, global and sustainable world and outlined the mega trends shaping America and the world, including the fading of the baby boomers and rise of the millennial generation. The program also introduced new faculty to the college and hosted a reception for students with the dean.

Making a Permanent Investment in College Leadership The college held an investiture ceremony honoring Dean Yohuru Williams, who holds the Alvin and Mary Agnes McQuinn Distinguished Chair in Arts and Sciences. The McQuinns are longtime benefactors of the college and the annual St. Thomas Christmas Concert.

Reorganization/Academic Program Review Building upon the results of the academic program review that concluded this year, consultations between the dean and faculty began on several proposals for reorganization that would improve student outcomes, curricular synergies and organizational efficiency. Majors in urban studies, social studies and liturgical music were eliminated, as were minors in Japanese and Greek. Majors in classical languages, classical civilizations and Latin are being reconstituted to eliminate redundancies while still allowing students an option to specialize in one of three areas. The Renaissance Program minor is being reimagined in collaboration with Opus College of Business. The international business major offered by our language department is being eliminated while seeking an opportunity to collaborate with the Opus College of Business to infuse more language learning into their international business major. Task forces are discussing the creation of new interdisciplinary programs such as Latin American studies, Irish studies and film studies. Faculty have submitted proposals for new majors in journalism and digital media arts and are developing new curricula for strategic communication and communication studies. Sociology, criminal justice, and justice and peace studies will look for new program development while sharing a single department chair, and a proposal for aligning geology, geography, environmental sciences and environmental studies is on the table. Other potential realignments that emphasize program support within larger administrative units will be discussed in 2019-20.

Titan Series On April 23, the college held its inaugural CAS Titan Series Talk with Advisory Board member Jennifer Kinkead ’88. Kinkead discussed with art history and economics students her journey as a successful entrepreneur, forming in 2011 JELLA World Artist Collections, in which she creates opportunities for artists in developing countries and at home enhances an appreciation of other cultures by describing the meanings and the stories behind the art.

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D O U G H E R T Y F A M I L Y C O L L E G EDougherty Family College (DFC) began offering students an Associate of Arts degree in liberal arts at the University of St. Thomas in 2017. Since its inception, the college has grown to serve 183 students with plans to serve 300 students annually in the coming years. Profile of DFC students:

• 79% first in their families to attend college

• 89% Pell Grant eligible (not including DACA and undocumented students)

• 50 high schools represented in the Twin Cities area

• 95% students of color

Accomplishments and Highlights:

First Graduating Class Dougherty Family College’s inaugural class of students celebrated graduation with family, supporters and friends at its first commencement ceremony on May 26, 2019. Sixty-one students walked across the stage with a crowd of over 600 guests cheering them. Of the 61 graduates, 35 plan to enroll in the four-year program at St. Thomas, with others attending Metro State University, Augsburg, St. Catherine University and the University of Minnesota. The college looks forward to the amazing things its inaugural class of graduates will accomplish in the coming years.

$10M Raised for Continuation Scholarships Through the generous contributions of DFC benefactors, a $10 million endowment was established to create scholarship funding to ensure a seamless path for Dougherty Family College graduates to continue studies toward a bachelor’s degree at St. Thomas. Through this endowment, DFC graduates can apply for full-tuition

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scholarships to attend St. Thomas for up to three additional years toward their bachelor’s degrees. Ten students from the inaugural class were awarded scholarships and will begin studies in the four-year program at St. Thomas this fall with majors ranging from chemistry to international business. The college is most grateful to the Martin Ryan and Richard Sterbenz estate and to Eugene and Mary Frey for their support in establishing this endowment.

Growth of Professional Internship Program The core theme in the second year of Dougherty Family College’s professional internship program was growth. The number of internships doubled as sophomores continued in their roles and first-year students began working in spring semester. More than 130 volunteers from the business community worked with DFC students during mock interviews and networking events. Fifteen new organizations hired students for a total of 39 internship partners. The best growth, however, was that of our students. One DFC U.S. Bank intern shared, “My internship has been thrilling and eye-opening. I enjoyed the corporate setting because it taught me a new form of being a team player and how to manage vast responsibilities.”

$30.4M Raised Toward $43M DFC Endowment Goal Dougherty Family College is committed to ensuring all students graduate from its program with little to no debt. To meet this goal, the college runs on an innovative funding model reliant upon student-paid tuition, state and federal dollars, and philanthropic contributions. To support efforts long term, the college established a $43 million endowment with a goal to fully fund it via philanthropy by 2027. Extraordinarily, the college is ahead of schedule on achieving this goal, having raised $30.4 million since its founding. While there is much work left to do to meet the full goal, the team is inspired by the hard work of DFC students and the outpouring of support from the community in its fundraising efforts.

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O P U S C O L L E G E O F B U S I N E S SUNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMNew Undergraduate Business Curriculum The college developed and launched a new undergraduate business curriculum that includes new freshman courses on Business for the Common Good and Entrepreneurship & Innovation; an accelerated business core offered at the sophomore level that will facilitate an integrated exposure to the core and early internships; and space for students to explore other business disciplines through advanced electives, add a minor or pursue a double major.

In spring 2019 the college offered pilot sections of each of the freshman-level core business courses before the new curriculum officially goes into effect in fall 2019. Roughly 20% of first-year business students enrolled in these courses.

The college, collaborating with the College of Arts and Sciences, also secured university approval for an interdisciplinary minor in data analytics; 78 students already have enrolled in this new minor.

GHR Fellows ProgramHigh school seniors and their families visited St. Thomas in February for the undergraduate program’s first Scholarship Weekend, an opportunity for students to learn more about St. Thomas business programs and compete for scholarship programs.

The highest achieving students were invited to engage in separate selection activities for our GHR Fellows program. These students participated in a series of individual interviews, case analyses, and group projects and presentations to evaluate their candidacy. Ten were selected to join the inaugural GHR Fellows cohort and will receive full-tuition, four-year scholarships, premier leadership development programming and a study-abroad experience.

GRADUATE PROGRAMSProgram Innovation and Enrollment Trends The new MS in Health Care Innovation launched in fall 2019 with a full cohort of 16 students. Those pursuing this new degree offering seek to transform health care through an emphasis on customer value, innovation and lean execution. The Online MBA formally launched in spring 2019 with 27 new students in the college’s first fully online offering.

These innovative new programs, as well as ongoing growth in our business analytics offerings (both MS and graduate certificates), contributed to another strong year for new graduate student enrollments.

EXECUTIVE EDUCATIONThe St. Thomas Executive Program (STEP) was launched in fall 2019. This nine-day, three-module fall leadership program was at capacity. Most of the organizations that sent participants have made a commitment to make the STEP program a formal component of their talent development process. Executive Education also broke attendance records for its signature conferences – the Executive Conference on the Future of Health Care and the Executive Coaching in Organizations Conference. And strong partnerships with APi Group and The Opus Group as well as new partnerships with Xcel Energy, Ceridian and several large medical companies led to increased revenue from custom engagements.

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SCHULZE SCHOOL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIPNew Innovation SpaceThe Schulze School opened its new dedicated space on the first floor of the Facilities and Design Center on the south campus in St. Paul. The new space houses both classroom space as well as collaborative team meeting and workshop areas. The space will be the site of “year-round entrepreneurship,” the Schulze School’s cross-disciplinary cocurricular activities meant to engage all students across the university in entrepreneurship.

Schulze Innovation ScholarsThe Schulze School welcomed its inaugural cohort of 10 Schulze Innovation Scholars, recipients of four-year, full-tuition scholarships for incoming freshmen who have demonstrated exceptional entrepreneurial initiative. In addition to their scholarships, these students received specialized programming meant to accelerate their entrepreneurial leadership.

Two scholars, Amy Helgeson and David Zimmerman, took finalist or semifinalist spots in competitions such as MN Cup, the Global Entrepreneurship Student Award and the Fowler Business Concept Challenge in fall 2018.

In spring 2019, Helgeson and Cole Hennen advanced to the Business Professionals of America (BPA) national leadership competition and conference. Helgeson took two first-place awards home in the entrepreneurship written event for her business plan and the presentation event. Hennen competed and won in the digital publishing track, where he created a variety of marketing materials for a new venture.

PRINCIPLED LEADERSHIPThe Center for Ethics in Practice developed and launched the Business Ethics Resource Center powered by U.S. Bank (BERC). Funded through a grant of $905,000 from U.S. Bank over a three-year period, BERC is an open-access website that supports the mission of St. Thomas by making business ethics resources available freely to the public with the intent to educate business leaders and assist them to build and maintain strong organizational cultures of ethics and compliance. BERC will provide users with the opportunity to view content and access toolkits offering solutions to ethics and compliance challenges commonly experienced by BERC’s target audience – small- and medium-sized businesses in the United States.

EMTECH ST. THOMASAs part of an ongoing Business for the Future strategic initiative, the college developed and delivered EmTech St. Thomas, a series of activities at the intersection of emerging technology (EmTech), business and society. The month of April was filled with opportunities for students, alumni, faculty, staff and the larger community to learn about the business application of emerging technology. The college hosted hackathons, technology pop-ups, company site visits, industry speakers and a digital fitness challenge.

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STRATEGIC OUTREACHNew Opus WebsiteThe college launched its new website in December. The new site features a modern design, improved navigation, a shopping cart feature for Executive Education, an emphasis on key differentiators and better site tracking and analytics.

St. Thomas Alumni Affinity NetworksThe Opus alumni relations team successfully launched corporate affinity groups at 3M, UnitedHealth Group, Best Buy and Target. These groups are designed to grow the value of the Tommie network within firms who have a high number of St. Thomas graduates, enhance the reputation of St. Thomas and support university goals for increased student referrals and engagement in lifelong learning.

AdvancementThe advancement team raised $2.7 million this year, surpassing its $2.25 million goal. The team also secured a second match for the Schulze Innovation Fund, with over $2 million raised for Tommie start-ups since 2018.

SELECT FACULTY AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONSKoch Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics and Leadership Dawn Elm was elected to the International Association for Business and Society (IABS) Fellows. Induction into the IABS Fellows recognizes outstanding contributions to the scholarship and practice of business and society.

Associate Professor of Finance Mufaddal Baxamusa was awarded a three-year University Scholars Grant to support a research study examining the influence of political uncertainty on the formation of strategic alliances.

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Mark Spriggs was chosen for a 2018 Schulze Publication Award for his article, “College Nannies & Tutors: Franchise Business Models,” in Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange.

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Initiatives• In June 2018, the College of Education, Leadership and Counseling was

reorganized to reestablish a freestanding School of Education.

• Dr. Kathlene Holmes Campbell became the new dean of the School of Education in June 2018.

• In November 2018, the School of Education officially launched the Dean’s Forums, which consists of monthly discussions focusing on race and education.

• In January 2019, the School of Education faculty and staff began a monthly book club to discuss diversity, equity and inclusion.

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• K-12 administrative licensure programs received unanimous approval from the Minnesota Board of School Administrators (BOSA) for their five-year reaccreditation.

Accomplishments

• McKnight Foundation Award Recipients The School of Education and Dougherty Family College were awarded funding to pilot the Diverse Teachers Initiative, which seeks to establish a pathway between Dougherty Family College and the School of Education.

• TeachingWorks In May 2019, Dr. Amy Smith and Dr. Debra Monson were accepted into the Minnesota TeachingWorks Fellows program. This fellowship consists of approximately 15 teacher educators from across Minnesota focusing on improving the teaching of English, language arts and mathematics in K-12 schools.

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• Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR) Dr. L. Lynn Stansberry Brusnahan was invited to join a Minnesota consortium of teacher- and leader-preparation programs focusing on special education.

• The 27th Annual Hubbs Children’s Literature Conference The Department of Teacher Education sponsored our annual literature conference in February. The featured speaker was award-winning illustrator Bryan Collier.

• Network for Teaching Excellence (NExT) grants We received the following two grants from NExT: • “Using data systematically for continuous program improvement” – The goal of the grant is to create a systematic data review process to contribute to continuous improvement based on a foundation of evidence.

• Dr. Muffet Trout and Dr. Todd Busch received a grant to analyze data from the Transition to Teaching Survey and the Supervisor Survey for School of Education first-year graduates.

• Best Online College for Special Education SR Education Group named St. Thomas one of the best online colleges for a master’s degree in special education.

• Second Annual Conversations on the Future of Learning: Meaningful Assessment of Student Thinking to Enhance Instruction and Encourage Student Agency In April, Dr. Lucy Payne and Executive Fellow Tom Koch organized a conference focused on student-centered learning in conjunction with local and national K-12 organizations.

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• Leadership in Student Affairs Capstone Research Symposium Students graduating from the Leadership in Student Affairs program in Educational Leadership and Administration conducted extensive original research on an issue or problem facing student affairs or higher education and then proposed innovative solutions. Dr. Jayne Sommers organized the Leadership in Student Affairs Capstone Research Symposium, and students presented the findings from their studies to over 100 members of the university community and invited guests.

• Charter Authorizing Program The authorizing program provided oversight of the academic, financial and organizational health of 12 public charter schools serving nearly 6,000 students. Program staff participated in national and state authorizing organizations, served on the Leadership Council of Minnesota Comeback, and assisted in the launch of a higher education authorizer network.

• The School of Education is committed to diversifying the teaching profession Students of color make up 20.2% of our teacher preparation enrollment (in contrast, at the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State campuses, students of color make up only 14% of enrollment). Through the Collaborative Urban Educators Grant, we awarded $339,000 in scholarships to 42 teacher preparation candidates.

• Preparing our best teachers for difficult times The School of Education received a gift to train student teachers and faculty about the impact of trauma in schools. Additional contributions to the school totaled nearly $400K in the fiscal year.

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S C H O O L O F E N G I N E E R I N GEngineering Senior Design Clinic Engages with IndustryOver the past year, the Engineering Senior Design Clinic engaged in 36 projects with industry and other nonprofit organizations. The projects were driven by 153 engineering seniors who worked with their industry sponsors in establishing design requirements, stage-gate design reviews, and building-testing working prototypes. The Engineering Senior Design Clinic Show on May 10, 2019, which featured the projects on display, was attended by more than 700 people. We are grateful to our industry partners including 3M, Abbott, Target, Horton, Mayo Clinic, Pentair, Polaris, Emerson Process Management, Boston Scientific, Andersen Corp., General Dynamics, Great River Energy, Graco, Medtronic, Cummins, and Minnesota Services for the Blind.

First Civil Engineering Degrees GrantedThe new civil engineering program saw its first graduates complete the program in May 2019. Of the three graduates, two accepted positions in industry and one received a scholarship to the architecture program at the University of Minnesota. The civil engineering program has quickly grown to more than 70 students. The ABET-EAC accreditation review was initiated in the spring with a full on-campus visit scheduled for October 2019.

Top 50 Undergraduate Program Ranking Past Six YearsFor the sixth year in a row, the University of St. Thomas was ranked in the top 50 undergraduate-focused engineering programs by U.S. News & World Report.

New Graduate Programs in AI, IoT and Business AnalyticsThe software engineering faculty launched new certificate programs in artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. In addition to these new programs, the software engineering faculty continued their collaboration with the Opus College of Business in jointly offering the new MS program in business analytics. Paired with the explosive growth in the MS in data science, the MS-Business Analytics program has grown rapidly to over 150 students.

Entrepreneurship in EngineeringThe School of Engineering received a three-year grant from the Kern Family Foundation to extend their work in developing the entrepreneurial mindset in the engineering educational experience. The work is in conjunction with more than 40 other engineering schools from across the nation, including Marquette University, Villanova University, Arizona State University and Georgia Tech, who are collaborating on novel programming inside and outside of the classroom.

Global Summers Senior Design Program Expands to PeruThe Global Summers Senior Design program expanded to include on-site work in both Peru and Jordan. In this program, seniors spend eight weeks living with families, expanding their language skills and working with local nonprofits on the design of equipment to sustainably improve their work and operations. In Amman, Jordan, a senior design team is working with the Nqaireh Women’s Cooperative on the development of a jameed food dehydrator. In Calca, Peru, students are

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developing a small-scale corn stover shredder to improve the organic farming methods in collaboration with the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development.

Renewable Energy Research Center to Launch in Fall 2019Work continued on the construction of the $2.1 million renewable energy Microgrid Research and Testing Center that began last year in the new Facilities and Design Center (FDC). This year the first phase operation of the various components of the microgrid have been tested. The microgrid is expected to be fully operational in fall 2019. With grant funding from the Xcel Energy Renewable Development Fund, the microgrid will support faculty-student research in this critical area of the future of global electricity generation and distribution. The novel facility will support power systems research and industry collaborations with researchers from across the nation and the world.

Engineering Enrollment by the NumbersThis past year, one in six of students at the University of St. Thomas studied in the School of Engineering. Total FY19 credits delivered in the School of Engineering increased by 1% over the previous year. Five-year growth in credit count is more than 50%. The largest gains in enrollment were again in our graduate programs including data science. There were 540 degrees granted in the School of Engineering this year, roughly the same as last year but more than a 300% increase from 10 years ago.

Endowed Machining Lab ReopensThe newly endowed and expanded Hugh K. Schilling Machining and Manufacturing Lab was dedicated with a small ceremony. Over 300 students per year use the lab. The expansion doubled the number of course offerings. St. Thomas is extremely grateful to Hugh K. Schilling and to Horton for their long-standing partnership and support of the School of Engineering, including: the Science and Engineering Center; the Student Excellence Fund; the Engineering Minnesota’s Future Initiative; and the Board of Directors Endowed Scholarship Fund.

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S C H O O L O F L A WEnrollment During the nationwide downturn in law school applications, it was important to resist any temptation to dilute our admissions standards. That strategy is bearing fruit. The fall 2018 entering JD class had a stronger academic profile than our key regional competitors, including Loyola-Chicago, St. Louis, Marquette, Drake, Creighton, DePaul and Mitchell Hamline. Enrollment continues to rise, and the discount rate continues to fall.

Our international recruitment remains strong. Out of nearly 120 law schools that offer LLM degrees for foreign lawyers, St. Thomas is ranked among the top 18 programs for best law school experience by The National Jurist magazine.

Our LLM and MSL degrees in organizational ethics and compliance are seeing slow but steady growth. In 2018-19, we welcomed 19 new on-campus students and 16 new online students. We also celebrated the graduation of our first fully online class of students.

Employment Our whole-building focus on employment continues to pay healthy dividends. In terms of “gold standard” jobs (full-time, long-term, law-related positions) for our JD graduates, our placement rate has improved from 59% for the Class of 2012 to 84% for the Ctlass of 2018 despite only modest growth in the number of legal services jobs nationally.

Innovation Our mission does not change, but our pursuit of the mission must adapt to a rapidly changing market for legal services. Over the past five years, we have created more than 30 new courses, including, for example, Business Basics for Lawyers, Coding for Lawyers, Disruptive Innovation in Law, International Intellectual Property, Private Fund Regulation, Serving Clients Well, and The Legal Entrepreneur. We launched our 13th legal clinic – Criminal and Juvenile Defense. Our Mentor Externship Program remains unparalleled in legal education in terms of both program scope and depth of mentoring. Once again, we are ranked No. 2 in the nation for best practical training, and No. 1 for most externship placements per student.

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Faculty Research One key component of our founding vision was to become a law school that would “undertake to expand knowledge about law and society.” We are committed to faculty research, and we have more evidence that this commitment is having an impact. According to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) – by far the largest online database of scholarly papers in the world – St. Thomas is the No. 1 law school in the country for new downloads per author over the past 12 months.

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Our research success is not limited to SSRN downloads. “Scholarly impact” rankings measure how frequently a law school’s professors are being cited by other scholars by tallying the per capita law journal citations to a school’s tenured faculty over the previous five years. In 2018, St. Thomas ranked No. 23 in the country, ahead of such research powerhouses as University of Notre Dame and Boston University. We are making great progress building a scholarly culture that will help shape the law for generations to come.

Impact It is impossible to capture fully the myriad ways in which St. Thomas Law touches lives in the broader community. As a Catholic law school, we will remain steadfast in our commitment to reflect God’s care and concern for those on the margins of society. The impact of even a single graduating class is immense: The Class of 2019 performed more than 9,600 hours of public service during three years in law school – and this is in addition to all the service students performed for academic credit in our clinics and externships, which is significant. Our students in the spring 2019 semester of our misdemeanor defense externship, for example, helped a total of 1,466 public defender clients. Each of our students has a story of professional growth through service to others, often in collaboration with our faculty, always in furtherance of the common good.

Endowed Scholarships The Law School received $2,744,862 from an estate gift of a longtime contributor. This gift was placed in an endowed scholarship fund to support future law students. In total, the school received $3.3 million in endowed and restricted gifts last year.

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S C H O O L O F S O C I A L W O R K Successful Applications for Candidacy as Independently Accredited Programs Following the announcement in May 2018 that the School of Social Work’s partnership with St. Catherine University would come to an end after the 2018-19 academic year, the University of St. Thomas School of Social Work successfully completed its applications for accreditation candidacy by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) for our independent BSW and MSW programs. We have been approved for a February 2020 accreditation review. The University of St. Thomas is offering its BSW, MSW and DSW programs independently in the 2019-20 academic year. [Note: CSWE does not currently accredit doctoral programs, so the DSW program is unaffected by this change and has transitioned to the St. Thomas DSW as of summer 2019.]

First Doctoral Dissertation Defenses The graduating DSW Class of 2019 was the first to defend its banded dissertations in Zoom sessions open to the public. In collaboration with STELAR, members of DSW cohort 3 were projected into the St. Thomas E-Learning and Research center, where DSW faculty and members of the community joined the sessions, both in-person and online. Graduates shared that it helped to validate the importance of their scholarly work and offered an opportunity to showcase it in a fittingly online, collaborative environment.

Expanding Interdisciplinary Study Opportunities for Undergraduates Our BSW program has worked closely with departments from the College of Arts and Sciences to create clear paths for undergraduates to complete co-majors with social work and its most popular related majors. To date, degree-planning guides have been developed for co-majors with public health, sociology, criminal justice and psychology. Additionally, courses were approved to facilitate interdisciplinary co-majors with family studies and women’s studies. We also have identified opportunities for students to complete major/minors in social work and education (or vice versa). These opportunities open doors for students to further tailor their studies and for an expanded group of undergraduates to benefit from the field education/internships, licensure and “advanced standing” paths to Master of Social Work programs enjoyed by students of an accredited BSW program.

Pilot MSW Program Supports Community Partner Our Master of Social Work began a pilot program in spring 2019 with a cohort of Hennepin County Advanced Standing MSW students using our new hybrid delivery model. The goal is to help this community

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partner meet its growing needs for professionally trained social workers/mental health services providers. We anticipate continuing this pilot in spring 2020 with the launch of a regular standing cohort of Hennepin County employees and will explore expanding the pilot to other counties in our region.

MSW Areas of Emphasis Scholars Programs Impact their Practice Areas

• The MSW Area of Emphasis in Aging Scholars had an extremely active year educating the community about the needs of a rapidly growing older adult population. Their activities culminated in this year’s Minnesota Gerontological Society (MGS) conference, at which scholars presented on the panels “Careers in Aging: Gerontologists Wanted NOW” and, “Challenges and Solutions to Mental Health Services for Older Adults.” AEA scholar Stephanie Larson received the Elva Walker Spillane Scholarship, one of the MGS annual awards for Minnesota students studying in a field related to gerontology or geriatric health.

• The MSW Area of Emphasis in Military Practice (AEMP) Scholars hosted an important conversation in April of almost 100 attendees, “New Developments in Our Understanding of Trauma: The Impact of Moral Injury and Spiritual Distress.” Last September, Associate Professor Kari Fletcher and two AEMP Scholars from the Class of 2018 presented their research at the 2018 Military Social Work Conference in Austin, Texas. This spring, Fletcher served as a conference delegate and gave one of the opening remarks at the International Military Social Work Conference in West Point, New York.

• The MSW Area of Emphasis in Practice with Immigrants and Refugees (AEIR) Scholars partnered with the SSW Mapping Social Justice initiative to increase advocacy and community engagement around critical immigrant rights issues. Incoming AEIR coordinator Dr. Tonya Horn received a St. Thomas Graduate Research Team grant and will work with three Scholars over the summer, interviewing Karen interpreters and providers to develop best practices for working with this population in health settings.

Voter Engagement Associate Professor and BSW Program Director Katharine Hill received Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) funding to host a student fellow and encourage young people to get out the vote. Hill and two student fellows (one a BSW volunteer) worked throughout the fall semester to get students registered to vote, as well as provide sample ballots and guides on candidates and how to vote in line with their values. Hill visited multiple classrooms across the campus to promote voting and voter

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engagement. In addition to the CEEP grant, Hill was the recipient of St. Thomas’ Early Career grant, which she is using to conduct research in nonpartisan voter engagement.

Interprofessional, International Collaboration Assistant Professor Renee Hepperlen visited the Kanyama community in Lusaka, Zambia, in January with Paula Rabaey of occupational therapy at St. Kate’s and graduate research assistant Amanda Ament-Lemke. Hepperlen and Rabaey are completing a photovoice research project to understand the experiences of caregivers of children with disabilities using this participatory action research method.

Cultivating Healthy Communities The School of Social Work’s Healthcare Education and Leadership Scholars (HEALS) and Leadership Council co-hosted a first-of-its-kind National Association of Social Workers-MN Chapter (NASW-MN) preconference policy workshop, “Cultivating Healthy Communities: Policy, Equity and Innovation.” Almost 100 participants attended this June 10 workshop in advance of the NASW-MN annual conference. This workshop continued the conversation from August 2018 at the SSW Field Practice Institute’s Summit on Emerging Issues in Social Work Practice, “Healthy Communities: Broadening the Lens of Healthcare, Equity and Policy,” which was co-hosted by the 2017-18 Social Work HEALS Scholars. Both events highlighted social work’s role in supporting total health and wellness, with emphasis on the social determinants of health (including housing, food, education, sense of belonging, structural racism, etc.), calling for work across systems that mistakenly can be seen as disparate.

IPC Celebrates 15 Years of Service to the Community On April 26, the St. Thomas Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services (IPC) celebrated 15 years of service to the community. The IPC is a unique collaboration among the School of Social Work, the School of Law and the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of St. Thomas, and is an important, free-of-charge resource to clients in our community. The IPC has a dual mission of meeting the needs of the underserved in the community and meeting the educational needs of our students. It provides an exceptional training ground for social work field students interested in interprofessional practice. Since its inception, the IPC has trained 223 social work foundation- and clinical-level field students. Its social work services have served more than 1,000 clients through more than 10,000 appointments.

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G R A D U A T E S C H O O L O F P R O F E S S I O N A L P S Y C H O L O G Y Student and Alumni Awards • Heidi Bausch, MA, received the Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year Award

from the Minnesota Psychological Association (MPA). Bruce Bobbitt, PhD, LP, immediate past president of the MPA, said, “Heidi has provided enormous service to the association at a time when she is in the midst of her training.” Bausch is in her final year as a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology. She will spend the coming year completing a full-time, doctoral internship at Hazelden Betty Ford Center.

• Fiyyaz Karim, PsyD, was awarded the Adjunct Excellence in Teaching and Advising Award by St. Catherine University. Dr. Karim is a full-time faculty member at the University of Minnesota and an adjunct professor for the past five years at St. Catherine University. It was noted that he consistently demonstrates excellence in teaching by creating impactful learning experiences for students. Karim is an alumnus of the Graduate School of Professional Psychology.

Faculty Accomplishments • Dr. Salina Renninger is the co-chair for the Special Interest Group for PsyD

Programs in counseling psychology within the Society of Counseling Psychology, Division 17 of the American Psychological Association. This important group advocates for the professional doctorate within a subfield of psychology that is dominated by PhD versus PsyD programs. Dr. Renninger also serves as a member of the Board of Psychology, a position appointed by the governor to conduct the work of the Board that oversees psychologist licensure in the state of Minnesota.

• Dr. Bryana French remains active in American Psychological Association Division activity at the national level, co-chairing a task force for the Society for the Study of Culture, Ethnicity & Race. She was elected as a council representative for the Society of Counseling Psychology.

• Dr. Len Jennings took a group of students for cultural immersion experience in Singapore during J-Term. This experience proved “transformative” once again for both doctoral and master’s-level GSPP students. Jennings was asked to give two presentations at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

• Dr. Consuelo Cavalieri conducted a service-oriented training series to the Native American Community in Minneapolis during her sabbatical. Cavalieri provided training on health equity models for the leadership team of NACC, an integrated health clinic that services predominantly Native American communities.

• Dr. Nathaniel Nelson served as a support faculty for a joint UMAIE study abroad course (Chiseling God) in Greece for undergraduate students from St. Thomas and other UMAIE institutions. Dr. Nelson serves as the president of the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology, an organization that oversees certification of neuropsychologists in the United States. By serving as the president, Nelson continues heavy national service to the subspecialty of neuropsychology.

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• Dr. Jean Birbilis continues active involvement in Division 29 of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. She served as the domain representative, served on the Task Force on Communications and Member Relations, and on the Nominations Committee.

• Dr. Patricia Stankovitch continues valuable leadership of Psychological Services within the Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services (IPC). As an example of interdisciplinary collaboration, Stankovitch was involved in asylum cases, working with a doctoral student to assess the clients and provide information to the legal team involved with the cases.

• Dr. Kurt Gehlert provides valuable clinical consultation in the Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services, not only of GSPP students but for School of Social Work students in collaboration with Dr. George Baboila, director of social work services in the IPC. Their co-facilitation of a couples counseling consultation group is an excellent example of the interdisciplinary collaboration of the two disciplines.

Faculty and Staff Campus Engagement • Dr. Christopher Vye, chair of the GSPP, serves as search co-chair for the

St. Thomas College of Health. Searches continue for the founding dean of the college and founding director of a School of Nursing. GSPP faculty Dr. Tim Balke and Dr. Tatyana Ramirez also are serving on this important search committee.

• Dr. Bryana French was appointed as a Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by the Center for Faculty Development. Dr. French, along with Dr. Nakeisha Lewis, chair of the Marketing Department, will develop programming related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) during the coming year and work with departments to strengthen work in this area.

• Three GSPP members participated in SEED. Three GSPP members, Cathrine Tejada, Christina Holmgren, and faculty member and doctoral program Director of Training Dr. Salina Renninger, were chosen to participate in Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) cohorts for this academic year.

• Three GSPP faculty contributed to Teaching Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism. Last spring, John Ireland Chair Stephen Brookfield worked with several colleagues to write a book on how university faculty members can better teach and discuss racial issues in their classrooms. The contributors included three GSPP faculty, Dr. Consuelo Cavalieri, Dr. Bryana French, Dr. Salina Renninger, and other colleagues, Dr. Mike Klein, Dr. Lucia Pawlowski and Dr. Buffy Smith. In November, Brookfield and the six other contributors held a panel in the Al and Brenda Iversen Hearth Room to discuss how to implement the techniques included in the book.

Events • Eighth Annual Practicum Fair. In November, Dr. Tim Balke coordinated and

completed the eighth annual Counseling and Counseling Psychology Practicum Fair on the St. Thomas campus. Six other institutions that confer similar degrees also were invited. In addition to providing information regarding practicum sites to GSPP students, the fair also offers an opportunity for cooperation among local training programs facilitated by Balke.

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T H E S A I N T P A U L S E M I N A R Y S C H O O L O F D I V I N I T YLeadership Changes The 2018-19 academic year was one of many significant transitions in the leadership of The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity. Among the more noteworthy changes:

• In July 2018, Father Joseph Taphorn was appointed as the 15th rector and vice president of The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity. He succeeds Monsignor Aloysius Callaghan, who had served as rector and vice president of The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity since 2005. Taphorn began his term as rector on Jan. 1, 2019; Bishop Andrew Cozzens, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, served as interim rector during the fall semester.

• A priest of the Archdiocese of Omaha, Taphorn holds a bachelor’s degree from Benedictine College, a Master of Arts degree in theology and a Master of Divinity degree from the Pontifical College Josephinum, and a licentiate in canon law (JCL) from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He also received certification in Spirituality of the Diocesan Priesthood and Spiritual Direction from the Institute for Priestly Formation. Prior to his appointment as rector of the SPSSOD, Taphorn was founding pastor and director of the St. John Paul II Newman Center at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He also served in several administrative roles in the Archdiocese of Omaha, including moderator of the curia, chancellor and spokesperson, judicial vicar, vicar for the clergy and ecumenical officer.

• On Sept. 18, 2018, Pope Francis appointed Father Juan Miguel Betancourt Torres, SEMV, as auxiliary bishop of Hartford, Connecticut. Bishop Betancourt had been a faculty member teaching in the area of sacred scripture and an administrator at The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity since 2008. His most recent position was vice rector of formation. With Betancourt’s departure from the seminary, Father Scott Carl’s role as vice rector expanded to incorporate many of the duties previously assigned to the new auxiliary of Hartford.

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• After an extensive national search, Dr. Christopher Thompson was appointed as academic dean of The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, effective July 1, 2019. This will be Dr. Thompson’s second term as academic dean, having served in that position from 2006-16. He has been a faculty member of the University of St. Thomas since 1992 and of The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity since 2006. For the past three years, Dr. Thompson has lectured and published widely on the topics of Catholic rural life, integral ecology and green Thomism, including the publication of The Joyful Mystery: Field Notes Toward a Green Thomism. In addition, he founded and directed the Institute for Theological Research and was co-director of the Murphy Institute, a joint venture of the Center for Catholic Studies and the School of Law. Dr. Thompson was promoted to the rank of professor in 2018.

• Dr. Merylann (“Mimi”) Schuttloffel was named the founding director of the Institute for Catholic School Leadership in January 2019. This institute provides holistic and integrated formation for those entrusted with the administration of Catholic schools, equipping them with the knowledge and skills they need to be effective leaders. Dr. Schuttloffel brings a wealth of experience to this task. She is recognized internationally as a leader in Catholic education, having worked for more than 40 years as a teacher and administrator in parochial and public schools, preschool through graduate level, in urban and rural settings. Most recently she has served as professor of educational administration and policy studies in the Department of Education at The Catholic University of America. Schuttloffel’s research explores the intersection of Catholic identity, leadership and culture; her concept of contemplative practice is a leadership model specific to Catholic educational concepts.

• Upon the completion of his doctoral studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, Father Kevin Zilverberg, assistant professor of sacred scripture, assumed the role of director of the Monsignor Quinn Institute for Biblical Studies in summer 2019. The Quinn Institute brings renowned scholars to The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity to teach, mentor faculty, give public lectures and produce scholarly works for the broader academic and Church communities.

• Having served as the associate director of the Archbishop Flynn Catechetical Institute since its inception in 2008, Kelly Wahlquist succeeded Father John Klockeman as director of the Catechetical Institute in summer 2019. Wahlquist is founder of WINE: Women in the New Evangelization, and contributing writer for catholicmom.com and The Integrated Catholic Life – an e-magazine about integrating faith, family and work. Wahlquist also travels the country speaking on the New Evangelization. The Catechetical Institute provides ongoing faith formation for Catholic adults of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and the surrounding region. Over 1,700 lay men and women have completed the institute’s two-year course of study to deepen their Catholic faith and to further their spiritual formation, with several hundred more currently enrolled in the institute’s classes. The institute is expanding its offerings to include a school of discipleship and a school of prayer, further enriching the parishes and communities from which its participants come.

• Two priests from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis joined the staff of The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity this summer. Father Michael Skluzacek succeeded Father Allen Kuss as director of pastoral formation after 13

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years as pastor of St. John the Baptist parish in New Brighton. Skluzacek holds a bachelor’s degree in music from St. John’s University, a Master of Divinity degree from The Saint Paul Seminary, and a Master of Arts degree in applied spirituality from the University of San Francisco. He was ordained for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in 1980. Father Jon Vander Ploeg is the new assistant director of spiritual formation. Vander Ploeg earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville and a Master of Divinity degree from The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity of the University of St. Thomas. He most recently served as pastor at the St. Lawrence Newman Center at the University of Minnesota.

Certificate in Catholic School Leadership Twenty current and aspiring school principals formed the inaugural cohort of the Certificate in Catholic School Leadership program in summer 2019. Built on the premise that Catholic school leadership is a specialized ministry of the Church, this graduate-level certificate provides the theoretical knowledge and the practical skills needed to form effective leaders of Catholic schools. Through its integration of the foundational realities of the Catholic faith and the competencies to run complex, nonprofit institutions in the 21st century, the certificate program prepares individuals to be inspirational leaders in schools tasked with the formation and education of the next generation of faithful disciples.

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• The Certificate in Catholic School Leadership consists of a 14-month program of study that spans two consecutive summers and the intervening school year. Summer courses are delivered in a traditional format, utilizing in-person instruction within a classroom context over two two-week sessions from mid-June to mid-July. Courses during the academic year are delivered online, and accompanied by a supervised mentoring experience to develop and improve the leadership skills of current and future Catholic school leaders.

• The Certificate in Catholic School Leadership is much more than an academic program. Cocurricular components provide opportunities for personal and spiritual growth, and the development of the practical skills needed to realize the vision and mission of Catholic education. An integrated and holistic formation program prepares participants to become the catechetical and spiritual leaders of their local schools. Striving to respond faithfully to the universal call to holiness, Catholic school leaders endeavor to conform their hearts and minds to the will of God, so that they might be more credible witnesses of the faith as they manifest and model the love of Christ for their students, faculty colleagues, and the families and communities they serve.

Public Events • The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, along with the University of St. Thomas’

Center for Catholic Studies and Office for Mission, and the Office for the Mission of Catholic Education at the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, commemorated the 100th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas founder, Archbishop John Ireland, with a special Ireland Memorial Library Lecture by Dr. Russell Hittenger on Nov. 8, 2018. Hittenger, who is the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies and research professor of law at the University of Tulsa, gave a presentation titled “Archbishop Ireland, Education, and the Social Question: Implications for Today.” The spring Ireland Lecture on April 8 featured Dr. William Stevenson, associate professor of dogmatic theology at The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, who spoke on the relationship between cosmology and the way we think about our souls in his talk, “Listening Up: Music and Cosmos in Plato’s Timaeus.”

• The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity also co-sponsored a daylong symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s groundbreaking encyclical Humanae Vitae on Oct. 22, 2018. Titled “Contraception – Why Not? Rethinking Humanae Vitae in 2018,” the symposium featured local and national scholars and experts including: Bishop Andrew Cozzens, Professor Teresa Collett, Dr. Maureen Condic, Mary Eberstadt, Dr. Robert Fatiggi, Dr. Deborah Savage and Dr. Janet Smith.

• The Institute for Theological Research at The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity sponsored a conference, Augustine’s Confessions and Contemporary Culture, on June 17-19. Thirteen scholars from philosophy, theology, history and clinical psychology focused on developing connections between this Christian classic and contemporary cultural issues of the day. The presentations will be collected for a volume to be forthcoming through the William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in their Catholic Theological Formation Series.

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S U P P O R T I N G U N I T SCollaborative and innovative work across supporting units fostered positive and fulfilling St. Thomas experiences for students and the campus community.

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D I V I S I O N O F S T U D E N T A F F A I R STommie Advantage “As a result of students’ cocurricular experiences at the University of St. Thomas, students will become leaders who meaningfully advance the common good.” This educational priority of Tommie Advantage is designed to bring an intentional focus on student learning and assessment to our work and inspire collaboration across cocurricular units on campus. Tommie Advantage is a curricular approach, a shift away from traditional programming approaches in Student Affairs to a more intentional, developmentally sequenced approach that is defined by institutional mission and purpose. A video was created by undergraduate Student Affairs social media interns as an introduction to Tommie Advantage.

Contributions to the Action Plan to Combat Racism The Inclusive Leadership Collaboratory (ILC) was created within the Frank and Judy Sunberg Student Leadership Center. The mission of the ILC is to foster a multicultural environment where students can engage in foundational learning experiences that will help them develop the attitudes, knowledge and skills needed for inclusive leadership in an increasingly diverse world. Campus Life collaborates with faculty and students to use the Inclusive Leadership Collaboratory for collaboration activities and educational events.

The Intercultural Center within Student Diversity and Inclusion Services (SDIS) celebrated its grand opening in March. Programming occurs weekly, including midweek conversations about social identities, quick bites of spoken word and TED talks, and Purple Couch conversations.

Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) The National SEED Project is a peer-led professional development program that creates conversational communities to drive personal, organizational and societal change toward greater equity and diversity. Rachel Harris from the Division of Student Affairs, with Rama Hart, Opus

College of Business, and Michelle Thom, Human Resources, were trained as SEED leaders and facilitated the inaugural SEED seminar for faculty and staff at St. Thomas. The seminars are designed to include personal reflection and testimony, listening to others’ voices, and learning experientially and collectively. Through this methodology, SEED equips us to connect our lives to one another and to society at large by acknowledging systems of oppression, power and privilege.

Career Development Center The Center increased employer outreach and engagement through the following efforts:

• Executed a successful on-campus recruitment program hosting over 700 student interviews

• Conducted national employer visits in San Francisco (Apple, Google, Facebook, Visa) in partnership with Alumni Engagement

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• Initiated first virtual national employer information session with Google

• Offered small/midsized employers an “Internship Planning 101” training workshop

• Hosted 10 employer information sessions, including: Amazon, Google, INROADS, Keyot Consulting, Optum, Target Corporation, TripleTree Investments, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Wright Medical

• Developed new employer tours/site visits for students: Ecolab for STEM majors, WCCO-TV for communication and journalism majors

• Added over 154 new employer accounts to our Tommie Careers CRM system

• Produced all-new employer leave-behind marketing materials.

Club Sports The St. Thomas Club Sports program was widely successful in 2018-19. Multiple programs qualified for and won national championships, and many others had successful seasons regionally. The program reached new levels in fundraising, saw increased participation among students and made strides to expand the program starting in the next academic year. This year the men’s lacrosse team won the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association national championship, giving the program its sixth national title. The women’s lacrosse team placed fifth overall at the Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association national championships. The dance team took home two national titles at the College Dance Team national championship, adding their 12th and 13th titles to the program. St. Thomas Club Sports competed in 15 states this year. Below is a snapshot of where the university was proudly represented through club competition.

The space hosted 108 events in the 2018-19 academic year and more than 20 academic class sessions from different disciplines including:

• Health and Exercise Science • Art History• Theology • Entrepreneurship• Opus College of Business

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Veterans ServicesInaugural PTSD Awareness Conference On Feb. 25 Veterans Services, along with Counseling and Psychological Services, hosted the first annual PTSD Awareness Conference focusing on post-traumatic stress disorder. This is the only conference of its kind in the Twin Cities; 141 professionals from the metro area attended.

Charitable gifts to the Veterans Resource Center totaled more than $922,000 last year with a lead gift from Lee and Penny Anderson and 11 additional gifts from trustees in honor of the couple’s championing the center. Since the center opened in 2018, it has raised $2.3 million.

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Improved four- and six-year graduation rates: As an institution, we have worked hard collaboratively to promote improved outcomes regarding four- and six-year graduation rates. Retention and graduation are interdependent; therefore, to continue to see gains in these areas, we must retain our students at high rates. Our fall 2014 FTFY cohort boasted the highest four-year graduation rate to date at 68.8%, marking a 3.5% annual change. We continue to see an upward trend in six-year grad rates.

Center for Well-Being Fundraising began in support of the new Center for Well-Being. In the first 12 months, nearly $700,000 in commitments were secured. Renovation of the space dedicated to the new center began in late June.

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I N N O VAT I O N A N D T E C H N O LO GY S E R V I C E SPrioritizing Cybersecurity In recent years, the University of St. Thomas has prioritized cybersecurity and made transformational changes in its policies to better protect our campuses. Using industry standards and best practices our information security team has partnered with other campus units to improve the university’s security posture, capabilities and awareness. Many of these developments put St. Thomas at the leading edge of cybersecurity amongst our higher education peers. Some of the programs include:

• The Secure Accounts Initiative established a single university systems account protected by multifactor authentication (MFA) for all users. MFA provides the highest degree of data protection while still providing ease of sign-in. This feature puts us among the security leaders in higher education and, after our multiyear rollout, we are seeing a significant decline in phishing and compromised email accounts.

• ATP Safe Attachments. To help combat malware attachments from scammers, Information Security activated a service called ATP Safe Attachments for Everyone which scans every file received via email or uploaded to Office 365. If it finds malware, the attachment is blocked; if it is safe, the service allows the attachment to go through.

• Email security pilots. Information Security launched two pilot projects that tested additional controls to our email system. The Data Loss Prevention (DLP) pilot searches for patterns in emails to identify when sensitive data – such as a Social Security number – is present and notifies users. The Email Tagging pilot addresses the common tactic of scammers creating email addresses that appear to be from a St. Thomas community member by tagging all emails sent from external sources. Both pilots successfully moved into production at the end of the fiscal year.

• LastPass for Everyone. The average person has 150 online accounts and trying to remember all those passwords is next to impossible and often creates security risks. We partnered with LastPass to help manage St. Thomas passwords in an encrypted space. The LastPass app provides a way to both secure and streamline the login process for our users’ accounts, which mitigates risk and simplifies the user experience.

STELAR/Online Learning The St. Thomas E-Learning and Research (STELAR) center offered innovation grants to faculty during the 2018-19 academic year. Faculty were encouraged to submit proposals that advance teaching and learning in the digital age. Together with Faculty Development, the STELAR leadership team then selected projects that best explored innovative ways to deliver learning experiences to students. To further support these transformations, the second year of the STELAR Technology Showcase highlighted cutting-edge technologies to faculty, providing inspiration for new teaching and learning methods.

Online Learning Updates by the Numbers • 27% increase over last year in summer online course enrollments • 79% increase over last two years in online and blended courses

In addition, STELAR continues to receive significant philanthropic support including that of Trustee Emeritus Al McQuinn.

Fast Security Facts: Suspicious emails reported to phishing@stthomas.edu by St. Thomas community

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Salesforce Development The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) team made significant strides this year to transform experiences for prospective and current undergraduate students and the staff members who work with them. Some of their noteworthy accomplishments include:

• The Office of Undergraduate (UG) Admissions ventured into the SMS space, giving staff members the ability to text message prospective students directly using our CRM systems. This approach has now been used thousands of times which significantly improved engagement metrics.

• The CRM team also developed the St. Thomas Event Management Tool, which is built on the Salesforce platform. This custom solution lets staff members dynamically create events, handle registrations and provide customer directions, all tailored to specific programs and audiences.

These tools continue the evolution of our centralization of event data for reporting and analytics, and give us a 360-degree view of a student’s engagements at St. Thomas.

Continuing and Professional Education This spring, the provost announced the creation of the Continuing and Professional Education (CAPE) initiative at St. Thomas. Led by Ed Clark and the Innovation & Technology Services Department, this initiative will enhance the university’s commitment to educating students through enriched nonacademic, noncredit offerings aimed at the development of both practical workforce skills and personal growth opportunities. These offerings will be distinct from our existing academic colleges and programs yet will complement and augment them in ways that benefit both our students and the university. Expected benefits to St. Thomas include revenue generation, brand recognition, alumni engagement, community building and better lifelong employment outcomes.

Customer Experience Councils In the fall of 2018, ITS established customer experience councils (CXCs) designed to discover unmet customer needs and capture opportunities using design thinking principles. The councils were comprised of students, faculty, ITS employees and staff from across the university. During the meetings, students were asked to walk the group through a given experience (e.g., planning an event on campus, registering for classes, etc.) using journey maps. By engaging in in-depth discussions and looking for process pain points, the councils worked together to make recommendations for potential solutions. Each session revealed how our technology systems and training can be enhanced to support academic and business processes throughout the university.

ORBIE ITS Vice President and Chief Information Officer Ed Clark was awarded the Twin Cities CIO of the Year in the nonprofit category of the ORBIE Awards. The prize, which is organized in major cities around the United States, recognizes CIOs who have demonstrated excellence in technology leadership. In his acceptance speech, Clark gave credit to the entire ITS department and its commitment to the digital transformation of St. Thomas over the past four years. Among the achievements the selection committee highlighted were the cloud migration initiative, the centralization of our data units and the expansion of our online learning programs. Congratulations, Ed!

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E N R O L L M E N T M A N A G E M E N TSt. Thomas was in demand on high school campuses, as the largest incoming class of Tommies ever to march through the Arches began classes in fall 2018. Elevated awareness of St. Thomas, our urban location and our clearly stated mission combined to drive interest and desire to attend St. Thomas.

Enrollment Services partnered with the Alumni Engagement Office to build a more robust alumni referral program. In addition to being one of the most effective promoters of St. Thomas to prospective students through their own networks, alumni now regularly gather at events across the country to sign cards to undecided prospective students, congratulating them on acceptance to St. Thomas and encouraging them to attend.

STUDENT PROFILE fall 2016 fall 2017 fall 2018 New freshmen 1,349 1,391 1,640

Domestic 1,324 1,361 1,615International students 25 30 25 States represented 24 28 31 High schools represented 389 400 442 Avg. GPA (freshmen) 3.6 3.6 3.6ACT middle 50% (freshmen) 24-29 24-29 24-29 Percent female 47.9 47.7 47 Percent male 52.1 52.3 53 Percent students of color 13.5 16.5 16

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A C A D E M I C A F F A I R SThe Office of Academic Affairs supports the educational mission of the university by providing services to faculty, staff and students that promote success in learning and scholarship. Units such as Academic Advising and Counseling, Libraries, Faculty Development, and Accreditation and Assessment, among others, work either directly with students or with faculty in their work with them. Several initiatives elevate these efforts; many of these are collaborative in nature, such as STELAR (working with ITS) or the Center for Student Achievement (working with Student Affairs).

FACULTY ADVANCEMENTCenter for Faculty DevelopmentThe Center for Faculty Development continued to deliver a robust set of faculty workshops, grants, consultation services and online resources to support faculty teaching and scholarship. In addition to delivering a variety of workshops for the yearlong Inclusive Classroom Institute, the Center focused this year on providing resources for incorporating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles in our teaching. The center, led by Dr. Kristine Wammer, sponsored national UDL expert Tom Tobin during October and offered a weeklong summer seminar on the topic, in collaboration with STELAR and staff from the University Libraries. The center continues to support faculty scholarship and teaching with a variety of grants; this year 78 full-time faculty and 24 adjunct faculty received grant funding for research, creative work, travel to conferences and support of sabbatical work.

Office of Sponsored Programs The Office of Sponsored Programs assists faculty and staff as they prepare grant and contract proposals to external agencies. This year the director, Dr. Michael Warnock, worked with allied offices to consolidate and streamline the processes for grant application while strengthening accountability. In addition, we raised visibility and worked to build faculty interest in grant writing, increasing the number of applications to external sources by 20% during 2018-19 while securing several key funding initiatives.

The Selim Center for Lifelong Learning The Selim Center for Lifelong Learning celebrated 45 years of service during the 2018-19 academic year. Since its founding in 1973, the center has served more than 97,000 learners. It served 2,283 students this academic year. The center provides high quality educational experiences that help adult learners grow in mind, body and spirit. During this anniversary year, each recipient of the center’s Distinguished Educator award taught a class or led a lecture series: Father Jan Michael Joncas (“Out of the Depths: The Triune God, Suffering and the Mystery of Evil”), Dr. Joseph Fitzharris (“The Origins of World War II in the ‘Peace’ of Paris”), Dr. George Woytanowitz (“The Cold War: 1917-1975”) and Joan Griffith (“Jazz: Bebop to Fusion”).

In keeping with its anniversary theme, the spring Salon at St. Thomas™ focused on the role of memory. Psychology professor Dr. Greg Robinson-Reigler and art historian Dr. Victoria Young reflected on biological, social and architectural manifestations of human memory processes, with musical reflection provided by

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St. Thomas faculty and staff musicians. In all, 30 St. Thomas faculty and staff provided leadership for Selim Center events this year.

Faculty Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Conversations This year, as part of the St. Thomas Action Plan to Combat Racism, all full-time faculty engaged in department-based conversations organized by Faculty Advancement to explore topics such as implicit bias, cultural diversity and privilege, while developing strategies for ongoing anti-bias work. Faculty established reading groups to further explore relevant problems and provided teach-in opportunities to educate the community. This work will be ongoing, supported in part by a university-wide online diversity training program next year.

Ongoing Special Programs Sponsored by the Office of Faculty Advancement • Hiring and Retaining Diverse Faculty: This year the Office of Faculty

Advancement launched a program of required implicit bias training for faculty search committees and worked with departments to identify strategies for attracting diverse candidates during the hiring process. In addition, we initiated a faculty retention working group to identify strategies for ensuring retention of our diverse faculty. Our office also works with administrators and faculty from neighboring universities, co-sponsoring ongoing activities to build a Twin Cities network for faculty of color.

• Preparing Our New Faculty: Each year we provide an in-depth, weeklong orientation experience for all new full-time faculty, immersing them in our mission and culture and introducing them to key campus leaders. Monthly lunch meetings throughout the academic year provide further support and information. In addition, Faculty Advancement delivers both in-person and online orientation support for new adjunct faculty throughout the year.

• Faculty Leadership Fellows Program: Each year, five mid-career faculty members are selected to engage in a yearlong program of workshops and meetings with key St. Thomas administrators to build leadership skills and explore opportunities for professional growth. Our Faculty Fellows for 2018-19 were: Dr. Monica Hartmann (Economics), Dr. Nakeisha Lewis (Marketing), Dr. Shelley Neilsen Gatti (Special Education and Gifted Education), Dr. Lance Peterson (Social Work), and Dr. Daniel Tight (Modern and Classical Languages).

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESResource Lists The libraries implemented a new platform (Resource Lists) which makes connecting to library-owned content from Canvas courses easier for faculty and students. Resource Lists allows us to reduce the need for, or completely replace, course packs (which students often had to pay for) with access to library-curated content. Implementing this system has helped students avoid over $800,000 in costs and has helped faculty rethink their course readings and encourage the use of library, open access and open educational resources.

Information Literacy in the New Curriculum The libraries were included in the new core curriculum in the information literacy requirement – library staff are working with faculty to describe learning outcomes in this area and discipline specific methods for delivering this instruction. Librarians also will be lead some sections of the First-Year Experience (FYE) and will integrate these same learning objectives throughout the FYE modules.

Senior Engineering Project Library staff worked with School of Engineering students on an Internet of Things project for the Senior Design program. Students developed a low-cost, modular sensor-based system that monitors and collects data on the use of spaces within the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library – the data is then displayed so that students can easily identify available spaces in the library – addressing a known issue for students. The system will also store the data, making usage analysis of library space more effective.

Research on Library Support for Undergraduate Business Education St. Thomas business librarians are working with consulting firm Ithaka S+R (and a number of other academic libraries around the nation) on a project intended to identify the needs of business faculty for library support for their teaching. The project has involved training the librarians on research methods, interviewing faculty who teach “quantitative social science” and analyzing and publishing the results. The team’s findings may be more widely applicable in other disciplines.

Support for Anti-Racism Initiative The University Libraries’ support for the university’s anti-racism initiative included creating reading lists for each of the Tuesday Teach-ins and a research guide linking to scholarly resources. https://libguides.stthomas.edu/TeachInTues

Upgraded Study Room Technology, Video Production Facility Group study rooms in O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library were upgraded with improved technologies, including smartboards. The library also designed and opened a video production facility to be used by students (due to popular demand), who are increasingly creating scholarly products using audio and video resources. The space will be flexible with a height-adjustable smartboard, furniture, lighting, sound, ferns, etc., to give students’ video presentations or group table discussions the right, distraction-free setting.

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UNDERGRADUATE STUDIESThe Center for Student Achievement Opens Its (Physical) DoorsIt’s hard to recognize the space that our campus community used to call the “Blue Lagoon.” After a summer 2018 transformation, the first floor of Murray-Herrick Campus Center is now home to the Center for Student Achievement. This student-centered space has been a big hit not only with our students, but with faculty and staff as well. Equipped with furniture that can easily be rearranged for collaborative or individual work, smartboards, computers and helpful Welcome Desk workers, the CSA has hosted more than 10,000 student visits and 100 programs since October 2018. Some of the favorites for the 2018-19 year included: Registration Rundown, Appy Hour, TommieTransfermations, Meet Your Mentor, and Slice and Advice.

… And the Center for Student Achievement Team Wins the Common Good AwardEach year St. Thomas recognizes a team that fosters cooperation, collaboration and open communication in the spirit of “one university.” This year’s Common Good Award went to the entire CSA team, representing more than 40 staff members.

First-Year Students Take Ownership of Their Degrees from Day One Big changes came to our summer orientation and registration (O&R) program in 2018 when first-year students – with support from academic counselors and faculty – registered for their fall semester classes on their own. This may sound simple, but it was no small task and involved collaborations from colleagues across campus, including the entire academic counseling staff; more than 80 faculty members; staff from ITS,

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the library, and the Student Data and Registrar’s Office; associate deans in the College of Arts and Sciences, Opus College of Business and the School of Engineering; and the O&R team from the Dean of Students Office. Students completed a “Registration Readiness” course on Canvas before attending O&R, they attended advising and registration sessions on O&R days, and they worked with faculty and academic counselors in late summer to make any needed changes to their schedules. The process wasn’t perfect – and the team learned a lot that will contribute to refinements for next year – but we’re convinced that getting students more involved in their academic planning from the very beginning will serve them well as they move through their degrees.

Advising Resources Go Digital Undergraduate Studies continually works to improve the academic advising program at St. Thomas, and this year, the team introduced two important new tools. First, to help ensure that students have the knowledge they need to navigate their degree progress, all new students are required to complete a Canvas course called Degree Planning Essentials. This fall semester course teaches students about the degree evaluation tool and undergraduate degree requirements. To register for spring courses, students must pass a quiz demonstrating they have completed the course. The second tool is aimed at helping faculty be effective in their advising roles. All faculty advisers now have access to a video titled “Faculty Advising: Training, Tips and Tools of the Trade.” This video is available online (stthomas.edu/academiccounseling/faculty/) and is intended to be a resource for both new and veteran advisers.

Salesforce and ScheduleOnce Provide Tools for More Effectively Supporting Students With more than 6,000 undergraduate students on a campus with a university conviction of personal attention, finding ways to effectively support the individual needs of students can be a challenge. However, technology is providing some assistance through Salesforce and ScheduleOnce. These two tools help foster information sharing among Center for Student Achievement partners, provide easy ways to connect students with those partners and, ultimately, better serve our students. Functionality for both of these tools had to be developed from the ground up, and colleagues in both Undergraduate Studies and ITS were crucial to this work.

Academic Counseling Connects with Tommie Advantage Learning GoalsIn August 2018, the Academic Counseling staff participated in a two-day campus retreat that helped reframe the department’s approach to working with students and led to the adoption of four Tommie Advantage learning goals: self-understanding, connecting, embracing our differences and acting wisely. So far, the Academic Counseling team has integrated Tommie Advantage learning goals into their work with current students on major exploration, degree planning, graduation preparation and academic success for probation students. The goals are also integrated into the department’s work with transfer and returning students.

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Undergraduate Studies Welcomes Dougherty Family College (DFC) Students to the Four-year Campus Everyone in Undergraduate Studies is anticipating the arrival of DFC graduates who will begin pursuing their bachelor’s degree on the four-year campus in fall 2019. Disability Resources has worked with DFC students from the beginning, and last year, both the Excel! Research Scholars program and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) had their first DFC participants. This year, new departments got involved. The Aquinas Scholars established a pathway for DFC students to join the honors program upon their transition to the four-year program, and Academic Counseling has begun working closely with DFC transitioning students.

Excel! Scholar Abby Heller Speaks at CommencementFor the second consecutive year, an Excel! Scholar was chosen to deliver the undergraduate commencement address. Neuroscience major Abby Heller spoke to peers about power and change and challenged them to set the world on fire, but to also remember that fire is dangerous; it has to be used in just the right ways.

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G L O B A L L E A R N I N G A N D S T R A T E G YGlobal Learning and Strategy (GLAS) supports the university by increasing intercultural understanding and global connections through international study experiences, recruiting undergraduates from around the world, supporting faculty

in on-campus courses, developing international partnerships, reducing international risk and a host of other opportunities.

We support community learning through events such as the Global Tommies excursion, hosted by the Office of International Student and Scholars (OISS), which provided an overnight retreat focused on intercultural learning for 21 international and 21 domestic students. Office of Study Abroad (OSA) staff facilitated intercultural learning workshops for University Development and Alumni Relations; Innovation and Technology Services; Marketing, Insights and Communications; and Enrollment Services, as well as training five faculty and staff as new facilitators.

Another event OISS hosted was the International Women’s Day, a Global Changemaking event. OISS partnered with Luann Dummer Center for Women to organize the celebration. The event was designed as a

conversation between students, staff and faculty on the topic of womanhood across cultures and how female members of the St. Thomas community balance their identities as international and women. The event was a great success, attracting more than 40 women and men from the St. Thomas community.

Office of Study Abroad (OSA) Once again the University of St. Thomas ranked in the top 10 for comprehensive universities like ours for the number of students studying abroad. We had over 1,000 students study in 45 countries, an increase of 8% from last year. Nearly 50 faculty led credit-bearing programs abroad in the 2018-19 academic year. This year saw the launch of a second School of Engineering Senior Design program in Peru while continuing to offer the program in Jordan. We supported College of Arts and Sciences semester programs: Catholic Studies in Rome and the Rome Empower Program. We also supported SJV in Rome and two Opus College of Business semester programs: the London Business Semester and the development of the Shanghai Business Semester. OSA also began exploring new partnerships in South America and Europe for new locations for international cooperation, including possible new faculty-led semester programs.

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Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS) OISS supports over 550 international students from over 70 countries with immigration and advising issues, provides cultural programming and promotes international student success at St. Thomas. We responded to the many government regulatory changes managing visas for international students. We helped manage employment regulatory responses for newly hired faculty and staff. We increased programing for international students and worked with Dining Services to improve international food availability on campus.

OISS conducts admissions of international students. While most schools are experiencing declines in their international student recruitment, St. Thomas has increased the number of new international students by 20% from last year, with its best year so far. We did this through several initiatives. Recruiting for our new English as a Second Language (ELS) Pathway program and our partnership with ELS in direct recruiting brought us a quarter of our incoming 2019-20 class of international students. We involved current international students as ambassadors to share their St. Thomas stories with prospective students, lead tours and activities, and made presentations. We also involved faculty in international recruiting in Kenya, Colombia and Norway. We also held the first two events ever at St. Thomas for prospective international high school students in Minnesota.

GLAS Support of Faculty We collaborated with the faculty in the development of an initial implementation of the new Global Flag general education requirement in the new core curriculum. We also facilitated two area study international opportunities and five Global Engagement Grants. We continued to work with academic departments to identify program-specific internationalization goals and build our database of approved international classes. We initiated once-a-semester meals for international faculty and staff to help build that community. We also assisted a dozen faculty with specific research or course-related international connections.

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GLAS Global Partners GLAS collaborates with departments, schools and at the university level with international partners. The largest university international partner is the Catholic Church. We worked with four St. Thomas schools on a collaboration in Chile; with Opus College of Business in Peru; the School of Engineering in Peru, Germany and Jordan; and the College of Arts and Sciences in Italy and Ireland. We also worked with several academic departments in program development.

International Risk An increasingly international and diverse university necessarily increases potential exposure to international health and safety issues. To help increase awareness and decrease potential harm, GLAS initiated an international travel registry on the OneStThomas page. We regularly convene the university’s Travel Risk Advisory Committee,

promote global health clinics for travelers, train faculty and other program directors who go abroad with students, assist university faculty, staff and students with international problems as they arise, manage over 50 international contracts, and promote changes in university policy that make international travel easier and safer.

Other GLAS Areas GLAS also works closely with the ELS program on campus. We work with students preparing international Fulbright Scholars applications (eight this year, three finalists). We also work closely with the Athletics Department to support their international travels.

All of this work requires close collaborations and partnerships across campus because internationalization is a collective process. We are grateful for all of the staff expertise and energy from virtually every office on campus working with us in our global connections.

MISSION INSPIRED BY CATHOLIC INTELLECTUAL

TRADITION, THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS EDUCATES STUDENTS TO BE MORALLY RESPONSIBLE LEADERS WHO THINK CRITICALLY, ACT WISELY AND WORK SKILLFULLY TO ADVANCE

THE COMMON GOOD.

MISSION INSPIRED BY CATHOLIC INTELLECTUAL

TRADITION, THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS EDUCATES STUDENTS TO BE MORALLY RESPONSIBLE LEADERS WHO THINK CRITICALLY, ACT WISELY AND WORK SKILLFULLY TO ADVANCE

THE COMMON GOOD.