THE GILLINGS SCHOOL OF GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH
FACULTY AND STAFF MEETINGOctober 17, 2019
Topics TodayCarolina Next: Innovation for the Public GoodUpdates re goalsSome SPH-wide appointments, promotions and awardsBudget Initiatives and accomplishmentsEnrollment trendsEfforts to create the newSPH-wide MPH in different formatsExport controls and related issues
University Day
Serve NC: Be local and global
Carolina Next: Innovation for the Public Good
This document serves as the guide
for University strategic investment and decision-making during a three-year
horizon.
Carolina Next
The Blueprint for Next identified two principles to guide our future: Of the Public, For the Public
and Innovation Made
Fundamental.
These two principles recommit Carolina to its historic role of service
to North Carolinaand its people,
and…unwavering commitment to reinvent
itself continually, building on strengths, while acknowledging
and addressing shortcomings.
The strategic plan aims to turn the University’s vision and aspirational goals into readily understood, significant, implementable, measurable, strategic initiatives and opportunities.
Carolina Next is focused on the important challenges and areas where we believe the University has the greatest chance to create change and shape the future.
Targeted investments that enable our community to: (1) Build our community together (2) Facilitate student success (3) Promote career development (4) Discover (5) Renew democracy (6) Benefit society (7) Globalize (8) Optimize operations.
1. Retain rankings.2. Increase enrollment--recruiting,
enrolling, supporting and retaining a strong, diverse student body.
3. Recruit, support and retain diverse, outstanding faculty and staff, including leaders for key roles:
• Vice Dean• Assistant Dean for Academic
Affairs4. Develop sound, sustainable financial
models.
Keeping Gillings strong and headed right direction
5. Achieve inclusive excellence.6. Deliver excellence in 21st century
academic programs; evaluate, adaptand evolve.
7. Maintain a portfolio of outstanding, interdisciplinary, innovative research aimed at solving the world’s greatest health threats and problems.
8. Strengthen Gillings' communications.9. Increase philanthropy.10.Invest in innovation for impact.11.Be global and local, e.g., new
concentrations and hubs.
Keep Gillings Strong
HEED AWARDGillings received 2019 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED)
Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine for outstanding
commitment to and ongoing promotion of inclusive excellence.
We’re one of only two schools of public health to have received
this recognition. Kauline Cipriani, PhD. assistant dean for inclusive
excellence
Ralph S. Baric, PhD, named William R.
Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of
Epidemiology
Kurt Ribisl, PhD, named inaugural
Jo Anne Earp Distinguished
Professor in Health Behavior
Jane Weintraub, DDS, MPH,Alumni Distinguished
Professor of Dental Ecology and adjunct professor of
Health Policy and Management,
selected first recipient of the R. Gary Rozier and Chester W.
Douglass Distinguished Professorship in Dental Public
Health
“Change the waythe world
works on water.”
An international leader in global water policy,
peace and security, Aaron Salzberg, PhD, is Don and Jennifer
Holzworth Distinguished
Professor and director of The Water Institute
at UNC.
Katie Thornsvard, MAC, CPA,
promoted to Associate Dean for
Finance and Business
Deytia Lima Rojas, PhD, promoted to
Director of Strategic Analysis and
Business Intelligence
Douglas W. Urland, MPA,
becomes director of the North
Carolina Institute for Public Health, (NCIPH) Nov. 1.
HPM’s Executive Master’s Program Turns 50
Biostatistics Turns 70
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
April 10, 2021
Celebrating 100 years!
77.683.4 86.3 86.2 87.0
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Endowment Market Value (Aug 2019)
Key SPH Financial Indicators(all currency figures in millions)
HeadcountFTE
Enrollment Trends
1431 1348 1299 1323 1387 14591674 1596 1545 1548 1620 1698
Fall 2014 Fall 2015 Fall 2016 Fall 2017 Fall 2018 Fall 2019
FTE Headcount
Key SPH Financial Indicators(all currency figures in millions)
Research Awards(9/2019)
209.6 193.7171.9
57.481.7 75.0
96.8
34.957.2 58.3 62.8
18.4FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20Total Awards Admin Awards Direct Expenditures in Gillings
Student Funding-FY19(preliminary analysis)
45% funded on grants
By degree levelUndergraduate 372,910Masters 5,824,874Doctoral 14,844,636
Total 21,042,420
By award typeScholarships, fellowships and traineeships
4,454,098
Research and teaching assistants 7,483,810Tuition and fees (incl. remissions) 9,104,513Total 21,042,420
$21M!
Figures do not include loans.
Showcases research across Gillings
Thanks to Penny Gordon-Larsen, guest
editor, Matthew Chamberlin,
Amy Fulk and many of you.
Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD,
associate dean for research and
professor, nutrition
New print brochure for student recruitment
Changes to website, new videos, ads and
other strategies
Sustainability
Support for UNC Water Institute First unit on campus with bike loan
program -- since joined campus program, Tar Heel Bikes
May 2019 Commencement celebration at the School: Zero waste!
9 water bottle filling stations across school, more to come
Actively seek products made with recycled materials
Environmental sustainability is fundamental to public health, and we can and should do more. We must model the behaviors we want to encourage.
What we are doing: What we are planning: No more water in plastic bottles at our
events after December 1, 2019 Contract with composting contractor;
compost receptacles around school Renovations throughout school
include LED lighting and occupancy sensors
Creating schoolwide committee to recommend what we can do to make a greater difference!
Fall 2018 Launched MPH@UNC, in
partnership with 2U New distance MPH with
UNC Asheville and MAHEC Integrated core courses
Implementation 2019
Student Affairs Ecosystem
12 New MPH Concentrations
Assessment first year integrated core
Recruitment and Admissions:
Enrollment Mgt.
Academic Advising
FundingCareer
ServicesStudent Affairs
Ecosystem aims to ensure consistent, high-
quality services to students across
Gillings.
MPH Enrollment
At the last meeting, I told you enrollment was down.
MPH enrollment has recovered.
Enrollment for someother degrees still down.
Fall Enrollment
16741596 1545 1548
16201698
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2014 2016 2018
Fall 2019 MPH Enrollment Trends
341 361327 301 298
339 334399
160 155 140108 113 93
63 3366
149
12 280
100
200
300
400
500
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019Residential MPH Legacy Online MPHMPH@UNC MPH Asheville
Fall Enrollment (Masters and Doctoral)
599 579 571 559 572 544
779731
659 689748
872
400
600
800
1000
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019Doctoral Master
Fall 2019 MPH Enrollment by ConcentrationsMPH MPH@UNC Asheville Total
Applied Epidemiology 13 13Environmental Health Solutions 5 5Global Health 25 25Health Behavior 33 33Health Equity, Social Justice, and Human Rights 15 15Health Policy 7 14 21Leadership in Practice 14 112 28 154Maternal, Child, and Family Health 24 24Nutrition 6 12 18Nutrition-RD 43 11 54Population Health for Clinicians 34 34Public Health Data Science 9 9Total 228 149 28 405
2019 Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity and Degree TypeDegree type White Race/
ethnicityunknown
Twoor moreraces
Asian AmericanIndian/AlaskaNative
Black/AfrAm
Hisp/Latino
Total
BSPH 103 16 7 84 1 20 14 245MPH 382 24 25 68 0 61 49 609MHA 72 6 8 20 0 11 5 122MSPH 21 3 2 7 0 7 2 42MS 26 2 1 41 0 0 2 72MSCR 14 2 2 2 0 0 1 21MSEE 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 6DrPH 45 4 3 6 0 8 7 73PhD 228 15 26 133 0 39 30 471Grand Total 894 72 74 364 1 146 110 1661
% Non Minority % Minority63 42
% Non URM % URM85 15
2019 Enrollment Minority and URM by Degree Type(in percentages)
51
33 3643
61
24
50
33
48
14 1813
21
3 5 0
2115
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% Minority % URM
2019 EnrollmentURM MPH, MPH@UNC, MPH Asheville
31
40
36
52
47
33
34
29
28
24
29
89
31
0
24
33
40
24
19
29
11
11
18
0
Applied EpidemiologyEnvironmental Health…
Global HealthHealth Behavior
Health Equity, Social…Health Policy*
Leadership in Practice**Maternal, Child, and Family…
Nutrition*Nutrition-RD*
Population Health for…Public Health Data Science
% Minority % URM
*Includes MPH@UNC**Includes MPH@UNC and MPH Asheville
Underrepresented Minority by Degree Type
2532 31
23 1916 27
35
17 1915 16 13 16 16 15
82
87
85 82
87 88 88
110
2827
23 20 1923
28
16
6 1113 10
6 9 5 312 11
7 611 15 9 9
89
80
88 89
8274 79 69
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
BSPH DrPH MPH MHA MS MSPH PhD
It’s time to commit to improve URM enrollment.
It’s not just a question of increasing applications.It’s not only about enrolling more underrepresented students but also how they experience Gillings.What happens during admissions that may reduce numbers?What barriers to admission could be reduced?
78% of ASPPH members showed declines in total applications.
-60%
-10%
40%
Percent change in applications from Cycle 12 to Cycle 13 by member (as of July 16)
Source: SOPHAS Data via ASPPH
6.6% Decline in ASPPH Applications Driven by MPH
Source: SOPHAS Data
1. Continue current goals for inclusive excellence, academic programs, research and other goals highlighted earlier.
2. Finalize research strengths and promote.
3. Build out research hubs in NC and Zambia.
4. Conduct focused strategic planning effort as a follow-on to SPH2020.
Keep Gillings Strong
“American higher education has become what, in the business world, would be called a mature enterprise,
increasingly risk-averse, at times self-satisfied and unduly expensive. It has yet to successfully confront the impact of globalization, rapidly evolving technologies, an increasingly diverse and aging population, and an evolving marketplace characterized by new needs and paradigms.”
Clayton Christensen and Henry EyringThe Innovative University
Be inquisitive about pedagogy and research about academics
“The large lecture class, astonishingly, still exists. In a different environment, lecture halls would have gone the way of record albums, print newspapers, landline phones and network television. The typical first-year students of today rely on their cell phones as their primary information appliance, backed up by a laptop for serious research and writing.”
Holden Thorp, Buck Goldstein, Our Higher Calling: Rebuilding the Partnership between America and Its Colleges and Universities
Thank you!