Excellence Model

Multicultural Discovery Enterprise

• A top producer of faculty and student Fulbright scholars
• Combines a traditional campus with a widening menu of online and hybrid courses

Urban Serving

• Focused on student access through significant enrollment growth over the last two decades
• Guarantees admission to local community college graduates - more students enter every fall as transfers than as freshmen

Institutional Excellence

• Pursued new financial model in the face of dwindling state support

Ranking and Recognitions

• #171 (tie) in National Universities (U.S. News)
• #25 in Most Innovative Schools (U.S. News)
• Carnegie Community Engaged University
• Member of the University Innovation Alliance

In the News

• This President Tripled the Size of His University. Here's How.
  The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 15, 2018

 
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