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We come from many identities and backgrounds
to create one SDSU community.
Our shared aspirations to reach higher and
strive for excellence make this university special.
This past year, we were named one of the nation's top
undergraduate universities by Princeton Review,
Kiplinger's and Money Magazine, who praised our
quality education at a reasonable cost,
and three more graduate programs moved into the top
50 - our education, aerospace engineering and
sports MBA. We ranked No. 11 for awarding
bachelor's degrees to Hispanics.
Our commitment to diversity was recognized by
INSIGHT into Diversity magazine,
the Campus Pride Index and the Military Times.
Once again, we received more than 83,000 applications,
including a record number for our
Susan and Stephen Weber Honors College.
Our students are taught and mentored by experts like
Rob Edwards, Phil Greiner, Nick Shikuma
and Bonnie Harris - her documentary is winning
international awards.
Honored with lifetime achievement awards were
Elva Arredondo, Mary Ann Lyman-Hager
and Tanis King Starck.
Students also benefit from innovative teaching
and from student support initiatives.
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Teaching brought
together arts and non-arts classes to
explore subjects like the literature and
music of psychedelic rock.
We piloted a program that used peer-led study
sessions to improve grades.
Participation in learning communities for commuter
students increased 25 percent and included
those in new programs at the Pride Center
and the Women's Resource Center.
We increased the number of summer school students
by nearly 20 percent,
the number of students matched with mentors by
57 percent and internship placements by 64 percent.
New graduate Courtney Dickson is interning at the
State Department before attending law school
at George Washington University,
and Ana Morino - who interned at NASA's
Jet Propulsion Lab - has taken her first job
as an engineer at JPL.
Our high-impact programs broaden horizons
and increase graduation rates.
The university is No. 9 in the nation
for students studying abroad.
We were named the National Model Undergraduate
Entrepreneurship Program, and we hosted our first
Women in Entrepreneurship Lecture.
Students Kristian Krugman and Reyanne Mustafa
earned an international award for SoulFULL -
a startup from the ZIP Launchpad that uses food waste
to create protein bars and powders.
Our Baja SAE racecar won a national competition.
Our athletics teams celebrated four conference titles,
eight teams played in the postseason
and three finished in the top 25.
On-campus events complemented classroom learning.
Costco co-founder Jim Sinegal and Newbery Medal
winner Matt de la Pena, both alumni, spoke at
Provost's Distinguished Lectures.
The Charles W. Hostler Institute on
World Affairs celebrated its 75th anniversary.
Skateboarding icon Tony Hawk met with
students at the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center.
In research, external funding increased to $134.3
million dollars, and Sandy Bernstein received an
NIH MERIT award.
Other notable awards:
a $28-million-dollar federal grant to a
consortium studying car and pedestrian safety,
$6.2 million dollars to improve the
training of school principals,
a $1.6-million-dollar NSF grant to Luke Wood,
Frank Harris and a group finding the best way
to teach introductory calculus in community college,
a $1.4-million-dollar NIH award to Nada Kassem
to study waterpipe tobacco smoke,
and $750,000 dollars to develop a program to
credential teachers in four years.
Our researchers work on some of society's
most-pressing problems:
Ralph-Axel Müller and Ruth Carper made an
important discovery about brain function
in children with autism,
Aaron Elkins' robotic kiosk used artificial intelligence
to spot people who are lying
and Chris Glembotski identified a protein that helps
cardiac cells combat heart disease and
recover from heart attacks.
Nearly 500 students presented original research and
creative activities at our Student Research Symposium.
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley received a Fulbright award
to research China's famine history,
and three recent graduates also earned Fulbrights.
Paul Ganster was awarded an honorary doctorate by
the University Council of the
Autonomous University of Baja California.
Among others receiving recognition were doctoral
students Amanda Alker, Robert Dunn, Crystal English
and Dara Seidl and sociology major Nancy Nguyen.
In creative activities, 133,000 people attended
arts events, and attendance at our Downtown Gallery
increased 21 percent.
Nearly 200 students participated in
"Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert"
- a four-night sellout!
Community service remained an important mission -
19 faculty members and 700 students in our Sage
Project worked with Lemon Grove on city sustainability.
Students raised 448,000 pounds of food for hungry
San Diegans and $144,000 dollars
for Rady Children's Hospital.
We continued to enhance our physical campus.
The university approved a Climate Action Plan
with a road map to carbon neutrality,
and we made Princeton Review's list
of most sustainable universities.
Our generous donors helped us wrap up our first
university-wide fundraising campaign.
Ron and Alexis Fowler made a $25-million-dollar
challenge gift - the largest single gift in university
history - and we renamed the Fowler College of
Business in their honor.
The Campaign for SDSU raised a total of
$815 million dollars.
Our university's dedication to excellence was
on display at Commencement -
a four-day celebration of our 10,000 graduates.
The Class of 2017 donated $55,000 dollars to
establish a scholarship endowment.
Nearly half of all graduates at SDSU-Imperial Valley
made gifts!
Shortly after Commencement we said good-bye to
President Elliot Hirshman and
welcomed Sally Roush back - this time as
San Diego State University president in our 120th year.
These highlights represent a small fraction of our
efforts to move our society forward.
Together, we are building on excellence.
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