Big Ten part:
First Year in the Big Ten
Our first year in the Big Ten Athletic Conference was more positive than many pundits had predicted. Scarlet Knights teams across all sports enjoyed the excitement of joining a storied and competitive conference whose origins began as an aggregation of like-minded, research-oriented comprehensive universities. The year included memorable wins over Michigan in football and Wisconsin in men’s basketball, our first men’s and women’s individual gold medals in Big Ten track championships, NCAA Tournament berths for our women’s basketball and women’s soccer teams, and the 10th wrestling All-American in school history.
We did struggle for victories in several sports, but that was to be expected in year one. Our fellow B1G schools include some of the nation’s top academic institutions and boast some of the nation’s top programs in many sports—in fact, Big Ten teams won national titles last year in football, wrestling, rowing, women’s lacrosse, women’s volleyball, and women’s cross country—and finished runner-up in men’s basketball.
These same institutions claim outstanding faculty who are engaged in some of the nation’s most promising research; through our participation in the Big Ten’s academic consortium, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Rutgers has already begun to participate in collaborative research on Traumatic Brain Injury with our CIC colleagues, pursue professional development through the CIC’s Academic Leadership Program, share resources through the Center for Library Initiatives, and take part in conferences such as a first-ever CIC meeting of Classics graduate students that Rutgers hosted last fall. The CIC is also giving our deans and other administrators invaluable opportunities to share best practices and discuss emerging issues.
It’s hard to measure the full impact of our participation in the Big Ten, but we have seen a number of very positive measures—from a surge in out-of-state applications, particularly in the Midwest, to the approximately $2.4 million worth of media exposure for Rutgers’ academic programs on national television, to the 18% increase in giving to the university for Athletics and athletic scholarships. And with each year of conference membership we come closer to a full share in Big Ten television revenues, critical to moving Athletics toward financial self-sufficiency.
Read the WHOLE thing here: http://president.rutgers.edu/public-remarks/presidents-2015-report-university-senate
First Year in the Big Ten
Our first year in the Big Ten Athletic Conference was more positive than many pundits had predicted. Scarlet Knights teams across all sports enjoyed the excitement of joining a storied and competitive conference whose origins began as an aggregation of like-minded, research-oriented comprehensive universities. The year included memorable wins over Michigan in football and Wisconsin in men’s basketball, our first men’s and women’s individual gold medals in Big Ten track championships, NCAA Tournament berths for our women’s basketball and women’s soccer teams, and the 10th wrestling All-American in school history.
We did struggle for victories in several sports, but that was to be expected in year one. Our fellow B1G schools include some of the nation’s top academic institutions and boast some of the nation’s top programs in many sports—in fact, Big Ten teams won national titles last year in football, wrestling, rowing, women’s lacrosse, women’s volleyball, and women’s cross country—and finished runner-up in men’s basketball.
These same institutions claim outstanding faculty who are engaged in some of the nation’s most promising research; through our participation in the Big Ten’s academic consortium, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Rutgers has already begun to participate in collaborative research on Traumatic Brain Injury with our CIC colleagues, pursue professional development through the CIC’s Academic Leadership Program, share resources through the Center for Library Initiatives, and take part in conferences such as a first-ever CIC meeting of Classics graduate students that Rutgers hosted last fall. The CIC is also giving our deans and other administrators invaluable opportunities to share best practices and discuss emerging issues.
It’s hard to measure the full impact of our participation in the Big Ten, but we have seen a number of very positive measures—from a surge in out-of-state applications, particularly in the Midwest, to the approximately $2.4 million worth of media exposure for Rutgers’ academic programs on national television, to the 18% increase in giving to the university for Athletics and athletic scholarships. And with each year of conference membership we come closer to a full share in Big Ten television revenues, critical to moving Athletics toward financial self-sufficiency.
Read the WHOLE thing here: http://president.rutgers.edu/public-remarks/presidents-2015-report-university-senate
