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I’d like to thank the Board of Trustees for joining in our very joyful Commencement ceremonies on June 9. Over 2,400 grads participated in both ceremonies. The morning ceremony and the afternoon ceremony were completed in 2 hours. We were standing room only for the afternoon ceremony. One significant item of note about our Class of 2007 is that it has more international experience than ever before.
I am pleased to announce, as an outgrowth of our UC|21 commitment to have great and effective teachers, that we have named the inaugural “class” for our brand new Academy of Fellows for Teaching & Learning. For many years, we have had Fellows of the Graduate School honoring graduate school mentors, scholars and researchers, but this month we established our first teaching fellows. I’d like to thank the Selection Committee (chaired by Dean Andrea Lindell of the College of Nursing) for their work on this effort. We envision that these fellows will play a key leadership role toward improving the quality and depth of the UC learning experience, and they will be honored at an event this fall. And I'd like to congratulate Ann Welsh, sitting at the table, who is among our inaugural fellows.
Our UC Mobile project continues to gain national attention. The project was not only featured in the cover story in the June issue of Business Officer magazine, but also will receive an honorable mention award for Institutional Excellence in Communications Technology from a national communications technology association in August.
DAAP's John Hancock and his "Virtual Heritage" work are also garnering national attention and have been featured by media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, CBS News and many other international publications. Professor Hancock’s project has electronically recreated almost 40 of the Midwest's historic Native American mounds. Other Virtual Heritage work by DAAP is currently on exhibit at the Children's Museum of Manhattan in New York City.
On June 6th, our UC College of Pharmacy was officially renamed the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy. The college is only the second in UC’s history to be named after a donor.
On the Athletics front, UC has two new BIG EAST Champions in Renee Hein (for the high jump) and Tara Meier (for the pole vault). Athletics Director Mike Thomas has been named to the NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet as a representative of the BIG EAST Conference. And earlier this month, the athletics department held our first-ever All-Sports Banquet, where the Bearcats men's soccer team came away as the big winners. The squad, UC's inaugural BIG EAST Champions, won three of the four major awards handed out at the event. Men's soccer head coach Hylton Dayes was named by his peers as the Coach of the Year, while his charges were selected as the Team of the Year. Omar Cummings, now playing professionally for the Colorado Rapids, got the nod for Male Athlete of the Year. The only recognition not taken by the men's soccer team was the Female Athlete of the Year, which went to track and field star Ashley Wilhelm.
And I would be mentioning our great news on enrollment and this fall’s entering class, but I am saving it for our next report, which comes from Caroline Miller, our associate vice president for Enrollment Management. Caroline….
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