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Keeping Momentum Towards Excellence

Keeping Momentum Towards Excellence. Paula Myrick Short, Ph.D. Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UH System Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, UH September 18, 2013. Freshmen Graduating in Top 10% of High School Class. Average SAT of Entering Freshmen.

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Keeping Momentum Towards Excellence

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  1. Keeping Momentum Towards Excellence Paula Myrick Short, Ph.D. Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UH System Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, UH September 18, 2013

  2. Freshmen Graduating in Top 10% of High School Class

  3. Average SAT of Entering Freshmen

  4. Growth in National Academy Members

  5. Increase in Doctoral Engineering Students

  6. New Undergraduate Program Fast-Tracks Future Medical Students

  7. The Honors College: Cultivating Excellence

  8. Bauer MBA Students

  9. National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping Dr. William Carter Dr. Craig Glennie

  10. 2013 NSF CAREER Award Recipients Dr. Timothy Cooper Dr. Haleh Ardebili

  11. Dr. Ognjen Miljanic

  12. Anadeli Bencomo

  13. $2.5 Million Grant from NIH/NIDA Ezemenari M. Obasi, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Education& Director of the Hwemudua Addictions and Health Disparities Laboratory (HAHDL)

  14. OlafsDaugulis 2013 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from American Chemical Society 2013 Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 2007 National Science Foundation CAREER Award

  15. Our Prestigious Library Marilyn Myers Rachel Vacek

  16. Oak Forest Neighborhood Library

  17. But… Much to Do

  18. Graduation Rates Gradute

  19. Estimated Cost to Student for Delaying Graduation ONE Semester Data from FY2013 THECB University of Houston Institutional Resume unless otherwise noted.

  20. Average Credit Hours per Semester

  21. First Year Student Retention

  22. Low Retention after Freshman Year

  23. Comparison of UH Graduate Average Student Credit Hours with Texas Peer Universities

  24. Percentage of UH Graduates with 30+ Excess SCH

  25. Doctoral Degrees Awarded

  26. COACHE Benchmark Results • pTop 30% • qBottom 30%

  27. Game Changer Strategies To…… • Decrease Time Graduation • Increase Doctoral Graduates • Increase National Competitiveness • Recruit and Retain World-Class Faculty

  28. Foundations of Excellence First Year Experience • Organization • Learning • All Students • Improvement

  29. UH in 4 Full-time Every Year

  30. UH Graduate School Perfect for strategic investment Grants, Gifts, Income, Investments • Graduate School Driven by faculty, executed by students Help recruit top-notch faculty

  31. Top Tier Faculty Development Teaching Excellence Faculty Support Faculty Success

  32. Energy Initiative

  33. Much to Celebrate Much to Do Keep the Momentum

  34. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves” William Shakespeare

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