2 01 6 -1 7 POINTS OF PRIDE 2 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 TOWSON UNIVERSITY 3 RANKINGS, AWARDS & HONORS U.S. News & World Report 2016 America’s Best Colleges guide ranked Towson University 12 TH IN THE PUBLIC REGIONAL UNIVERSITIES (North) category, placing it among the best of the 48 institutions surveyed. G.I. Jobs magazine named Towson University as a MILITARY FRIENDLY School® for 2016—the sixth year in a row. 4 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 For its delivery of “a quality education at an affordable price,” Towson University was named by Kiplinger's Personal Finance as one of the 100 BEST VALUES IN PUBLIC COLLEGES Washington Monthly TU RANKS 56 (out of 386 public and private schools) on the magazine’s annual Best Bang for the Buck – Northeast list. TU RANKS 84 (out of 634 public and private schools) in the 2016 National Universities – Masters category. The Princeton Review’s 2017 BEST COLLEGES in the Northeast region TOWSON UNIVERSITY 5 CAMPUSWIDE This past spring President Kim Schatzel announced the Baltimore-Towson University (BTU) framework, which brings together all of our university-community partnerships that focus on the cultural, economic, health, and educational success of our region. 6 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 TU’s campus is home to more than 4,000 SOLAR PANELS installed on the roofs of the General Services building, Barton and Douglass Houses, University Union, and on top of the University Union Garage. The panels produce enough energy to power the entire University Union. THE TOWSON UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT IS THE FIRST four-year institution in Maryland to receive accreditation by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies (IACLEA). Less than five percent of the more than 1,000 IACLEA member colleges and universities have received this accreditation. TOWSON UNIVERSITY 7 ATHLETICS During the 2015-16 academic year, 235 STUDENT- ATHLETES earned the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Commissioner's Academic Award. The CAA award gives special recognition to those student- athletes who have distinguished themselves both in the classroom and in the athletic arena. 8 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 Towson University’s men’s and women’s lacrosse teams both captured COLONIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (CAA) CHAMPIONSHIPS IN SPRING 2016. The women’s squad defeated Old Dominion for its first-ever NCAA tournament victory, while the men defeated Hobart and upset heavily favored Denver in their NCAA tourney. TOWSON UNIVERSITY 9 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION U.S. News & World Report has ranked Towson University as one of the TOP 100 BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS IN EDUCATION FOR 2017. 10 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 The Department of Elementary Education initiated the FIRST COHORT OF INTERNS FOCUSING ON THE NEEDS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS. TOWSON UNIVERSITY 11 COLLEGE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS The Department of Nursing received a $1.65 MILLION NURSE SUPPORT PROGRAM II GRANT to increase the number of nurses in Maryland through expansion of educational opportunities. 12 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 The Institute for Well-Being provided services to over 1,200 clients last year or 22,000 TOTAL CLIENT VISITS delivered by 780 CHP students in exercise science, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, audiology, health education and disability studies. TOWSON UNIVERSITY 13 JESS AND MILDRED FISHER COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS The college was recognized as a CENTER OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Education and in Cyber Operations from the National Security Agency—one of only 14 such designations nationwide. 14 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 The number of Fisher College undergraduate degrees has increased from 336 591 TO (a 76 percent increase) over the past seven years. TOWSON UNIVERSITY 15 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS CBE holds the prestigious AACSB INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATION for both its business and accounting programs—a distinction met by less than one percent of institutions worldwide. 16 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 CBE offers several INNOVATIVE ACADEMIC PROGRAMS including the University System of Maryland’s only undergraduate e-business degree, the system’s first M.S. in Supply Chain Management, as well as the new M.S. in Marketing Intelligence. TOWSON UNIVERSITY 17 COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATION Theatre Arts Professor and director of the MFA in Theatre Arts program NAOKO MAESHIBA WON THE BAKER ARTIST BOARD OF GOVERNORS AWARD FOR 2016. Four other COFAC faculty members were finalists. Nine faculty members and three alumni received Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist awards in 2016. 18 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 The Acting Company Residency in the Department of Theatre Arts will be the anchor institution in a Mid-Atlantic consortium of colleges, universities and high schools that will engage in a series of ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES, INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT over a three-year period. TOWSON UNIVERSITY 19 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Towson University was chosen as the HOME OF THE MARYLAND GEOGRAPHIC ALLIANCE. The Alliance, supported by the National Geographic Education Foundation, works to improve teaching, resources, and awareness about the world through geographic education. 20 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 GRUB STREET, the undergraduate literary magazine edited by students in the Department of English, CONTINUED TO WIN NATIONAL AWARDS. The 2016 edition of Grub Street was named the national winner for design by the Association of Writers and Writing. TOWSON UNIVERSITY 21 HONORS COLLEGE The Honors College saw a 54% INCREASE IN FRESHMAN APPLICANTS for fall 2016, exceeding 1,000 applications. 22 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 Nearly all of the unversity’s PRESTIGIOUS AWARD WINNERS and finalists are members of the Honors College. The awards represented include the Fulbright Award, the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship, the Critical Language Scholarship, the Marshall Scholarship, the Governor’s Summer Internship Program, and the Rhodes Scholarship. TOWSON UNIVERSITY 23 STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TU senior DESTINY WATFORD WON THE PRESTIGIOUS GOLDMAN ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE for her work with the Free Your Voice action group to stop plans to develop the nation’s largest incinerator in South Baltimore’s Curtis Bay community. She was also named one of TIME MAGAZINE’S 2016 NEXT GENERATION LEADERS. 24 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 In April 2016 nearly 2,000 STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN THE BIG EVENT, working to clean up more than 200 business and residential sites near campus. It was the largest turnout of students in the seven-year history of The Big Event at TU. TOWSON UNIVERSITY 25 26 POINTS OF PRIDE 2016 TOWSON UNIVERSITY 27 8000 York Road | Towson, MD 21252