2012: Watershed year for higher education

2. 2012: Watershed year for higher education • Higher education financial model under pressure • Declining reputation and public support • Governance issues at University of Virginia • Ethics and compliance at Penn State • Online education gains elite momentum • New overseas campuses for American universities • Yale, NYU and Duke

3. The last decade of our first century • Growth in research funding and profile • Academic enrichment: New majors, minors, programs, centers and graduate degrees • 30 percent growth in undergraduate population, with increased quality and diversity • 37 percent growth in graduate enrollment • Growth in international students, relationships and programs • Substantial expansion, renewal of physical plant and campus • Improving shared governance through Faculty Senate • Growth in philanthropy through two campaigns • Greater visibility and reputation • Leading rankings in student and alumni satisfaction • Increasing engagement with Houston

4. Undergraduate admissions:Fall 2002 and 2012

5. Undergraduate student body: Ethnicity, geography, Pell Grants 2002-2005 Matriculants 699+715+726+722 = 2862 2009-2012 Matriculants 894+949+998+935 = 3776 +32% 935 Fall 2012 Freshmen 2009-2012 2002-2005 49% Texas 45% 43% 47% Other States 43% 46% 3% International 11% 10% 11% Pell Grant recipients 15% 19%

6. Meeting competition and economic need: Tuition discount

7. Graduate student enrollment +37%

8. Coursera enrollments: 90,000 and growing By comparison: 6,402 degree-seeking students Fall 2012 Undergraduate: 3,861 Graduate: 2,541 Continuing Studies: Annual Enrollment: ~14,000

9. Faculty growth: Full-time TTT*

10. Faculty growth: Instructional NTT FTE

11. Research revenues by funding source FY 2012 = $107,267,000 FY 2007 = $77,177,000 FY 2002 = $52,303,000 +48% +39% Other includes industry and state and local government sponsors

12. Investing in the campus • Increase in square feet: 2002-2012 • 18% classrooms • 33% research and instructional lab space • 36% dynamic campus (Pavilion, Rec Center) • 46% housing and dining (colleges, serveries, grad apts.) • 12 pieces of public art added • Projects in the pipeline • Glasscock School of Continuing Studies • Klein Hall for Social Sciences • Tennis facility • Projects subject to fundraising • Art building • Football end-zone facility • Opera theater

13. Operating revenues +84% $300M $551M Source: Rice Financial Statements for FY 2002 and preliminary FY 2012 Financial Statements

14. Endowment returns:Unaudited as of June 30, 2012 35% Russell 3000 / 35% ACWI ex US / 30% Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index

15. Endowment market value FY 12 Endowment spending rate: 5.66% of moving 3-year average MV Estimated Source: Investments

16. Campaign commitments: $888 million As of Sept. 27, 2012 -- dollars in millions

17. Shared governance: Faculty Senate • Since its creation in 2005: • Participation in BCM merger discussion • Procedure for regular review of deans • Process for creating and changing undergraduate and graduate programs • Program in Writing and Communication • Phased faculty retirement program • Creation of minors and process for approval • Procedure for approving dual degree programs • Guidance on online education

18. The Second Century:The decade ahead • Improve teaching, learning and mentoring in the digital age • Expand our impact through online education • Enhance our research capability: strengthen faculty and research support • Foster more collaboration with the TMC, museums and industry • Build deeper international partnerships • Invest in infrastructure and maintenance • Support the entrepreneurial spirit: lead, innovate, create, build • Develop interdisciplinary, inter-institutional arts initiative

19. Addressing big challenges • Emerging themes and potential areas of Rice impact requiring broad campus engagement: • Mind and brain • Food, energy, water • Global health • Technology and understanding: Big data and better decisions

20. Mission and values • Our mission: • As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to pathbreaking research, unsurpassed teaching and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this mission by cultivating a diverse community of learning and discovery that produces leaders across the spectrum of human endeavor. • Our values: • Responsibility, Integrity, Community and Excellence • Values that define our culture and guide our behavior

21. Wednesday, Oct. 10 • Centennial Lecture: J. Craig Venter (3 p.m.) • Faculty and Staff Reception (4:30 p.m.) • Shorts: Esther Dyson, Shirley Ann Jackson, Rem Koolhaas, Craig Venter (8 p.m.) • Thursday, Oct. 11 • Centennial Lectures: Rem Koolhaas, Esther Dyson, Shirley Ann Jackson (10 a.m.) • Friday, Oct. 12 • Academic Procession & Centennial Address (9:30 a.m.) • Centennial Picnic (11:30 a.m.) • Presidential Panel: (2 p.m.) • Universitàdi Bologna; Tianjin University; Koç University; Princeton University; Jacobs University Bremen; Rice University • Faculty Mini-Lectures: The Power of Ideas (4 p.m.) • Three Decades of Rice University Leadership (4:30 p.m.) • Saturday, Oct.13 • Edgar Odell Lovett Statue Dedication (10:30 a.m.) • Centennial Football Game (2:30 p.m.) • Centennial Celebration Spectacle (8:45, 9:45, 10:45 p.m.) • Sunday, Oct.14 • Faculty Recital by the Fischer Duo (2 p.m.) • World Premiere Concert (7:30 p.m.) • For more information: centennial.rice.edu