Louisiana Tech UniversityTech Report 2011 / Giving Back, Moving Forward

Giving Back, Moving ForwardNo. 1 in Service04.05 A Tech Family Affair

06.07 It's Sort of a Big Deal

08.09 President's Award, Again

10.11 Hi Neighbor!

12.13 Carrying the Torch

No. 1 in Vision14.15 Do You See What We See?

16.17 EDA Awards Grant for LA-i6

18.19 More than Meets the Eye

20.21 Believing is Seeing

22.23 Building the Future Today

24.25 Educational Double Vision

26.27 'Little' Things Mean a Lot

No. 1 in Purpose28.29 Moving Forward

30.31 National Rankings

32.33 Good Sports

34.35 No. 1 Hits

36.37 Tech 2020

38.39 In Their Honor

40.41 Enrollment

42.43 We've Got Your Number

No. 1 in Foundation44.45 No. 1 Priority: Students

46.47 Reason Number One

Figures used in this issue are from the following sources:Louisiana Board of Regents; Louisiana Tech Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization (OIPC); ULS Economic Impact Study, 2009; NCAA Federal Graduation Rate Report, 2009; NCAA Academic Progress Report, 2010; National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) report, 2010.

The Tech Report is made possible through the support of the Louisiana Tech University Foundation. Louisiana Tech, a member of the University of Louisiana System, is an equal opportunity educator and employer.

There is strength in numbers.

For more than 120 years, with teamwork and pride, Louisiana Tech University has established itself as a premier institution of learning, of service, vision and purpose.

No one in the University is “just a number.” Yet the numbers do add up, like links in a chain. Together, we lift and pull and climb.

Together, we are One.

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Numbers Don't LieToday Louisiana Tech clearly stands alone as the flagship of North Louisiana universities. If there was ever a question, it’s been answered in the past three years, among the most trying periods of our state’s higher education history.

But instead of losing ground or standing still, our University gave back and is moving forward. This 2011 Tech Report highlights a few of the ways we did it.

Numbers tell a story, and not always a happy one. As you are well aware, the University lost more than $15 million in budget money for the coming year, including $13 million in stimulus money alone. But other sources were tapped; other opportunities were seized. Revenue has come from performance-based funding – the largest amount of all public universities in the state – from extreme management of the University’s prior budget, from cuts, and from additions of outside income, including our new and promising relationship with Murphy Oil. And you have risen to the occasion, not only with your encouragement, but also with your financial support.

The result is a very good “standstill budget,” maybe a good two-year budget with no reductions, no furloughs and no classroom, administrative or staff cuts.

Tech is moving forward. Our people – the Tech family – have picked up the slack.

Numbers don’t lie. Even through recent trying times and unavoidable problems, our freshman enrollment has increased, as have our building projects and expansions, our land acquisitions for Enterprise Campus, our nationwide recognition and the contributions, much acclaimed, from each of the five colleges.

In late summer we received more proof that the nation is taking notice of the quality and performance of Louisiana Tech. According to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges list released in mid-September, Louisiana Tech has achieved a First Tier ranking among “National Universities.” Tech is achieving at the highest levels and positioning itself among the top institutions in the country.

The reasons include purpose, service and vision, and the will to want it more than others.

But maybe we’re best fueled by our belief in and execution of this guiding tenet: the way to move forward is to give back. Louisiana Tech is doing both. We’ve sacrificed, and by doing so in the toughest of times, we’ve survived and thrived. Now we move forward with renewed vigor, with optimism and with hope.

President, Louisiana Tech University

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Hours of volunteerism per person, per year averaged by Louisiana Tech students, faculty and staff.56.5

“Universities have cultures. This University has a culture of caring and class.”President Dan Reneau

A Tech Family AffairA nursing student hustles to meet local firefighters for disaster training.

A committee of Pi Kapps plans a Wheelchair Basketball Tournament fundraiser for Push America.

Door-to-door, the National Society of Black Engineers distributes information on educational options.

Kappa Delta mentors an area Girl Scout troop, Sigma Kappa competes in a “Kickin’ Grass to Cure Alzheimer’s” Kickball Tournament, Phi Mu is on the streets for its “March for Babies,” and Alpha Chi Omega raises funds and awareness for DART.

This is the education behind the education, these service-learning projects central to the mission of the University. Learn by engaging. Gain by giving back. Help all by helping one at a time.

Faculty. Greeks. Student-athletes. Religious organizations, campus clubs, honors and pre-professional societies. When it comes to giving back, Louisiana Tech makes it a family affair. A Tech Family affair.

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It’s Sort of a Big DealTech donates one Saturday each April to helping Ruston with its spring cleaning.

The Big Event. It’s Tech’s most visible community effort, it’s sponsored by the Student Government Association, and it’s a big difference maker.

Imagine: more than 1,200 Tech students, faculty and staff meet at Joe Aillet Stadium, receive their assignments and head out to an average of more than 80 locations, helping organizations and individuals who have signed up for help.

This concentrated effort results in dozens of thank-you cards, but it’s really just one of the many ways Tech says “Thank You!” to Ruston.

$19,000 Amount donated by University faculty and staff last winter to United Way

$15,000 Amount raised by Kappa Delta last year in service-oriented projects

$6,000 Amount raised for DART (Domestic Abuse Resistance Team) by the Lady Techster softball team through its charity game against Fresno State

250 Number of fans who participated in the inaugural Fun Fair Soccer Fest, a free event of games and instruction, last spring

72 Consecutive hours of see-sawing by Kappa Alphas to raise $2,500 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association

36 Total hours of a Scaffold Sit by Pi Kapps to raise money and awareness for Push America to benefit people with mental and/or physical disabilities

18 Consecutive Big Events sponsored by SGA

10 Consecutive number of annual golf tournaments held by Phi Mu to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network

6 Number of organizations The Student Nurses Association (SNA) is involved in helping, and the number is growing; the SNA works to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the March of Dimes, Relay for Life, the American Heart Association and Red Cross

5 Kilometers run in the third annual SOCA Spring 5K, an event headed by the School of Architecture to improve the impoverished neighborhood south of California Avenue (SOCA)

2 Number of organizations The Society of Honors Scholars and the La Tech Shooting Sports Club that combined to benefit 4PAWS, a non-profit dedicated to the wellbeing of Lincoln Parish’s stray, abandoned and neglected dogs and cats

2 Area donor programs the Lady Techster basketball team participated in to support the National Marrow Donor Program

1 Days participating students went without shoes, a part of the SGA-hosted ECO Week to promote healthier living, environmental actions and community service

1 Number of “Swamp Ball” mud volleyball tournaments held last spring by Greek Academy to benefit United Worldwide and the victims of the Japanese tsunami disasters

“We benefit from Louisiana Tech students in life-changing ways.”Eldonta’ Osborne, Chief Professional Officer, local Boys & Girls Clubs

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President’s Award, AgainLouisiana Tech is again the only public university in north Louisiana and one of just three public institutions in the state to earn the national distinction of being named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

And Tech was recognized in May by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) for its leadership among institutions of higher education in Louisiana in supporting volunteerism, service-learning and civic engagement.

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“This recognition is a reflection of the continued commitment of our faculty, staff and students to educating Tech students for life. The identified projects exemplify how best to involve students from academic disciplines, athletics and service organizations to provide meaningful learning and service to our community and our children.” Kenneth Rea, Vice President for Academic Affairs

Number of Tech community service projects honored with special recognition by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Submitted by a diverse group of faculty from various disciplines, the entries were chosen by CNCS because of their scope and innovation and because of the measurable community outcomes as a result of the projects.6

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Hi Neighbor!Who doesn’t want a good neighbor? Louisiana Tech IS one, to Ruston, to Lincoln Parish, to north Louisiana, to the global community.

Some of Tech’s vibe is intangible: the infusion into the community of youth, of new ideas, of vitality. And some of the University’s payoff to its neighbors of more than a century can be measured in dollars and cents.

Either way, grateful to be a thriving partner in a welcoming community, Tech pulls its weight and then some.

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$462.5 million Tech’s annual statewide spending impact

4,745 Non-university jobs resulting from Tech’s annual statewide impact

600 Approximate number of community jobs outside of Tech which exist as a result of University operating expenditures

11 On-campus construction projects between 2001-08, which had an annual impact of $29 million - with nearly 300 non-university jobs tied to those construction projects each year

$7.73 Amount Tech returns on investment for every dollar it receives in state funding

1 A.E. Phillips, only Louisiana non-magnet elementary school to earn an A+ rating

"Louisiana Tech is the biggest driver of economic development in Lincoln Parish. They are a wonderful community partner and we look forward to many future successes."Kyle Edmiston, President/CEO, Ruston-Lincoln Parish Convention & Visitors Bureau

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Sandy Johnson: President/owner of Barrios Technology in Houston; earned NASA’s highest award – the George M. Low Award for Quality and Excellence, won twice – and in 2004 received NASA’s highest honor, the Distinguished Public Service Medal.

Karl Malone: Two-time NBA MVP, Ruston-area businessman, member of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, second-leading scorer in NBA history

Michael McCallister: Chairman of the Board/CEO of Humana, Inc., which employs 30,000 nationwide and has revenues of $33 billion

Eddie McGough: Senior Vice President for Alcon Laboratories, a global medical company specializing in eye care products

Hilton Nicholson: CEO of Sixnet, member of FCC Advisory Board

Mervin Parker: Corporate Forestry Manager of Hunt Forest Products, a privately held company with more than 65,000 acres of timberland owned and managed and more than 700 employees in the state of Louisiana

Scott Poole: Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Roy O. Martin Lumber Company, one of the largest independently owned forest products companies in the South

Glen Post, III: Chief Executive Officer and President of CenturyLink, which employs nearly 48,000, has operating revenues of $4.596 billion on a consolidated basis and is the third largest telecommunications company in America

Max Watson, Jr.: Founder and President of BMC Software, Inc.; named by Forbes Magazine in Top 15 of 200 Best Small Companies

Teresa Weatherspoon: Named one of the top 15 players in WNBA history, Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer, coach of the Lady Techsters basketball team, Olympic gold medalist and Wade Trophy winner

Sam Wyly: Co-founder of Green Mountain Energy, Maverick Capital, Ranger Capital Group, Michaels Stores, and Sterling Software, Inc.

Louisiana Tech continues to give back on a global level in every profession and every day, either on center stage or behind the scenes. Tech alums seize the opportunity on campus to make a difference off it; because of you, the University’s influence spreads, now more than ever.

Leon Barmore: Best winning percentage of any other coach in history of NCAA women’s basketball, five-time Hall of Famer

Albert Bourland: Retired President of Daimler-Benz Washington, Inc., manufacturer of Mercedes Benz

Terry Bradshaw: Member of FOX NFL Sunday, NFL Hall of Fame, No. 1 pick in the 1970 NFL draft, winner of four Super Bowls

Kix Brooks: Songwriter, guitar player, entertainer, Tech fan, host of American Country Music Countdown

John D. Caruthers, Jr.: President of the Seven States I-69 Mid-Continent Highway Coalition

Tara Collins: Developer of the MediKin Hematology Teaching Vein, a “hands on” way of understanding blood disorders and diseases, especially HIV/AIDS

James Davison: Developer of Squire Creek Country Club, Board of Directors for Genesis Energy, former Chairman of the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System

Benny Denny: CEO of Bank of Ruston, President of Louisiana Tech University Foundation

Rosemary Ellis: Editor of Good Housekeeping Magazine

A.C. Hollins, Jr.: Vice-President/Director of Operations & Infrastructure for National Security Technologies, LLC (NSTec), Las Vegas

Emily Howell and Julie Bartlett Stephenson: Back-to-back recipients of “Teacher of the Year” award in Louisiana, high school division, in 2012 and 2011; Jenny Marie Blalock was 2011 Louisiana Elementary School Teacher of the Year

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Do You See What We See?Without vision, Louisiana Tech wouldn’t even be a dream.

But more than 100 years ago, something grand began. One building. Six professors. A handful of students.

Now national leaders. National champions. National difference makers.

Tech is international businessmen and entertainers, soldiers and teachers, graduates who make policy, who make things happen, who help make our world go ’round.

But it all began with vision, caught and captured more than a century ago. It grows on, expanding for today’s students, and for tomorrow’s.

$15,442,000 Total reduction in annual budget last year which Tech was able to withstand – with ingenuity and without furloughs or classroom, administrative or staff changes

3,100,000 Dollars pledged in private funding to the “Campaign for a New Integrated Engineering and Science Building”

42,000 Square footage of the building the College of Business will soon call home on the east edge of campus

1 Louisiana Tech’s newest student housing community, “Park Place,” earned South Central Construction’s Best of 2010 Award of Merit in the higher education/research category

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EDA Awards Grant for LA_i6Louisiana Tech in mid-October received a highly competitive grant that will help strengthen the production and promotion of 'Green' technologies coming out of the University and into the marketplace.

The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded Tech a $1.1 million i6 Green Challenge grant to establish the LA_i6 Proof of Concept Center, making Tech’s one of only six proposals in the nation to be selected.

The LA_i6 will partner with companies along the I-20 innovation corridor in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas to support and expedite the introduction of “green” technology innovations into the market and to optimize the environmental and economic impacts of those technologies.

The i6 Green Challenge is a multi-agency, national competition focused on accelerating high-growth entrepreneurship in the United States.

A patent application of special note: the works of Dr. Erez Allouche in developing geopolymer concrete. Tech has already established a number of partnerships, is deploying products to test under real field conditions and expects a Louisiana manufacturing operation of this sort during the next two years. This work has been receiving global attention as a way to produce useful products from an industrial waste product that would normally occupy space in a landfill.

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“This award from EDA and their partner federal agencies is recognition that the economic development mission of Louisiana Tech is innovative and impactful, and it holds great promise for the future of our region and for the nation. The new LA_i6 will generate tremendous opportunities for sustainable, high quality economic growth right here in north Louisiana.”Dave Norris, Director of Louisiana Tech’s Enterprise Center

Amount of 'Green Challenge' grant, 1 of only 6 awarded nationwide$1.1million

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More than Meets the EyeSometimes, what you don’t necessarily see is what Tech gets. In the often painstaking securing of patents and grants, the University flies under the radar of the masses but far, far above the average of other research universities involved in similar projects.

$80 million Amount Tech faculty currently has in active grants

40 Percentage of Tech faculty active as investigators in sponsored research projects

5 Patents awarded this year to one inventor, Dr. Vir Phoha, each in the cyber security area

1 Number of times faculty member Marie Bukowski of the School of Art has invented something. Her “Dielectric Nanopartical Paint and Microfluidic System to Enhance the Economics of Variable Matrix Printmaking” was the result of her interdisciplinary collaborations that were fostered during her fellowship as an Institute for Micromanufacturing associate

“At our Inventors’ Recognition Event in October, I was thrilled that the honorees included inventors from four different colleges. And even though the College of Business did not generate any inventions, their faculty played some crucial roles in helping the inventors in the commercialization process as well as in exploring entrepreneurial activities related to their inventions.”Les Guice, Vice President for Research and Development

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Believing is SeeingLouisiana Tech administration and faculty, even its students, continue a strong, tangible commitment to making the University one of the top research and discovery institutions in the country.

Imagination meets collaboration meets perspiration. And then, invention. All because of a vision.

Believing is seeing.

$8,000 Amount the Roadster’s inventors, a team of engineering students, took home in prizes from the Eco-Marathon, more than any other U.S. university

646.7 Miles per gallon managed by Tech’s Urban Concept vehicle, “Roadster,” to win first-place in its class at the 2011 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas

4x The amount Tech’s license/option activity has increased during the past five years. In a word: quadrupled

4 The national average of ROIs (reports of invention) per $10 million in research expenditures; Tech averages between 12 and 23 ROIs

From January of 2006 through December of 2010, Louisiana Tech has achieved the following:

132 Reports of invention (ROI)

76 Patent applications

25 Patents issued

25 Licenses and options executed

23 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Awards with partner companies

9 Surviving start-up companies (since 2003)

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“Innovation provides motivation - the opportunity to improve and change, the challenge to grow and expand, and the excitement that drives persistence and accomplishment. Our students and faculty believe they can make a difference, in education, in energy, in environment, in infrastructure, in healthcare, and in many other arenas, and so they see solutions that work.”Dr. Stan Napper, Dean, College of Engineering and Science

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Building the Future TodayThe University continues to make improvements and enhancements to create new environments for advancement.

$1,613,000 Amount of a grant benefitting Tech and managed by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources’ “Lead by Example in State Buildings” program through the 2009American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Funding was distributed by a competitive application process for projects that reduce energy consumption and have a positive impact upon the environment. Air conditioning chillers serving the Student Center and the Lambright Sports Center were replaced with funding through this program

$45,000,000-plus Investment in Louisiana Tech Research Park to date, including Enterprise Campus and improvements to Homer, Texas and Louisiana streets

19 Acres of land acquired and developed for Enterprise Campus at Louisiana Tech Research Park, now nearing completion of the first phase with the opening of Tech Pointe, a multi-tenant facility that will support the demands of ’round-the-clock high-tech companies

$12.4 Cost in millions of capital outlay from the state to help fund the new College of Business Building; other funding has come from private contributions from some of the College’s most generous and active alums

4 Length of Enterprise Campus in city blocks, from the original site of the Tech campus east to historic downtown Ruston. University Hall, originally Prescott Library and then the Visual Arts Building, is the anchor to the main Enterprise Campus. Tech Pointe and the under-construction Business Building are the first buildings constructed in the Enterprise Campus

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“Our strategic growth - evidenced by our evolving environments for academics, research, outreach and economic development - has placed us in the top tier, in the state and in the nation.Dr. Terry McConathy, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School

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Educational Double VisionThe University’s outreach and engagement with public and private partners is stronger than ever.

Tech teams with other regional brands and companies for a variety of reasons, all mutually beneficial. It’s simple: if the University and its partners grow stronger, the Tech student body, the community and north Louisiana grow stronger.

The relationship between the region’s only doctoral-level public research university and the region’s largest corporate entity is now a year old. Murphy USA, a Fortune 125 company, continues to put into place components needed to ensure that their employees pursue their education through Louisiana Tech. With the partnership comes potential for educational impact, civic culture enrichment, research, and economic and workforce development.

Tech’s Graduate Certificate program for Advanced Communications Systems is being co-taught by faculty in Engineering and Computer Information Systems at CenturyLink headquarters in Monroe, where approximately 60 employees are taking courses. The College of Business offers an Executive MBA there as well. The University has organized the Clarke M. Williams Distinguished Seminar program for CenturyLink employees and brought in two national-level speakers in the fall. (The speakers – former Research Director of the National Security Agency and former Executive V.P. of Disney Imagineering Eric Haseltine, and Google Chief Technology Officer Michele Weslander Quaid – came to campus for round-table discussions with faculty and staff as well.)

Tech works in each of these partnerships, including ones with Cyber Innovation Center in Bossier City and with regional companies involved in the EDA i6 Grant, to build the pipeline to support their future workforce needs.

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'Little' Things Mean a LotIt’s the little things that make the biggest difference. Success really is in the details.

People are doing things daily to make Louisiana Tech better. There are always long-term plans, but in the meantime, there are small steps that equal big strides. Add those daily doses up and what you get is a vision constantly expanded, one good deed, one good plan executed at a time.

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers and McAlister’s Deli celebrated grand openings on the campus in 2011. New retail and food services are always a plus from students, faculty and staff, but corporate partners like Barnes & Noble and McAlister's offer opportunity for the people of Ruston, too.

Revenues generated from these companies are reinvested back into the University. And by joining with corporate partners such as these, ones who share the same organizational philosophies and commitment to excellence, Tech is redefining customer service and specialized services across its campus.

Tech Connects: The University welcomed its 25,000th Facebook “fan” this year – a virtual population size exceeded only by LSU among public universities in the state. With an additional 2,000 Twitter “followers” – as well as “Flickr” and “YouTube” sites – the University is using social networks to communicate everything from academic to athletic accomplishments to emergency messages to school closures.

Lagniappe Ladies is one of Tech’s stealthy supporters. This group of Tech alumnae and friends pools financial resources, then awards grants to campus organizations, teams, projects and initiatives that it deems would make the most significant positive impact on the University and community.

This giving circle awarded 10 campus groups in 2011; the grants totaled $35,704.67.

$4,500 Louisiana Tech Professional Aviation Department

$4,500 Louisiana Tech University Speech and Hearing Center

$4,500 The School of Art

$4,500 Prescott Memorial Library

$4,500 Louisiana Tech University Early Childhood Education Center

$4,018 Department of Music

$3,885 SciTEC’s IDEA Place Math and Science Discovery Center

$3,000 School of Architecture’s Community Design Activism Center (CDAC)

$1,651.67 Department of Kinesiology’s Adult Fitness Program

$700 Louisiana Tech Amateur Radio Club

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“We want everyone to know they are welcome to shop and eat on our campus. These strategic partnerships can bring enhanced services to faculty, staff, students and the Ruston community.” Dickie Crawford, Dean of Student Life and Auxiliary Services

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Moving ForwardLouisiana Tech’s top priority is its students.

The University fails in all areas if it misses the mark in only this one.

And so, Louisiana Tech daily goes about the business of educating and challenging and developing its students in a safe and supportive way, in a technology-rich, interdisciplinary learning and research environment.

We are a community. We are a family. We set goals, meet demands, climb the mountains together as students, staff and faculty.

Higher. Deeper. Wider. Powered by each other and by true purpose, we continue to cut new paths in performance.

90 Percent of first-year and senior Tech students who rated their entire educational experience at the University as “good or excellent"

83.5 Tech’s freshman retention rate, highest in the University of Louisiana System (ULS)

82 Percent of Tech’s first-time, full-time Louisiana-resident students who are TOPS scholars

53.2 Tech’s graduation rate percentage, highest in the ULS

23.8 Average ACT score of Tech freshmen, highest in the ULS

4.7 Tech’s time to completion in years for first-time baccalaureates, fastest in the ULS

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National RankingsSure and steady, the University is succeeding in its quest to become a research institution second to none. Numbers, recognition and testimony continue to attest to the Tech faculty’s commitment and accomplishments, in and outside the classroom.

• Louisiana Tech was ranked as a Tier One National University in U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 Best Colleges Report.

• Louisiana Tech is north Louisiana’s only Carnegie RU/H “High Research” and SREB Four-Year Doc 2 Research University.

• Louisiana Tech has ranked in the Top Ten in the nation for graduating students with the least amount of debt, for three consecutive years (2010, 2011, 2012 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Lists).

• Louisiana Tech was ranked as the top university in the state for mid-career median pay for graduates, according to the 2011-12 College Salary Report from PayScale.com. In addition to its top spot in the state, Louisiana Tech was ranked among the top 30 of all universities in the southern United States.

• Louisiana Tech was ranked as one of the 100 Best Values in Public Colleges in the nation by Kiplinger’s Magazine (2009 and 2010).

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“As we know, universities and research, in particular, drive economic development. (Recent recognition) reinforces Tech’s impact on Louisiana’s economy and affirms their place among the country’s leading universities.” Randy Moffett, President of the University of Louisiana System

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Good SportsLouisiana Tech’s athletic history is rich and respected.

All-Americans. NCAA Champions. Banners and trophies and legends.

The Bulldogs and Lady Techsters are about winning, and winning the right way.

Now that history and those traditions are expanding in a very tangible way. The Campaign for Louisiana Tech athletics – Quest For Excellence – continues to pay dividends, and the payoff will be a multi-million dollar facility to rival that of any other mid-major in America. The multipurpose facility will stand as another testimony to the University’s purpose of academic and athletic excellence.

72 Tech’s student-athlete graduate percentage rate, best in the state of Louisiana among football-playing schools

8 Number of Tech’s athletic programs (of 16) that recorded their highest multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) score ever

6 Where Tech Athletics placed nationally in the 2011 Texas A&M Sports Management Institute’s Excellence in Sports Management Cup, recognizing the most efficient and successful athletics programs in the country

3 Tech athletic programs that recorded a perfect APR score of 1,000

1 Tech’s finish in the 2010 Turnkey PRISM Award, given by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Sport Management Program and recognizing managerial excellence in collegiate sports marketing/branding, fan development, community relations, and customer/client service

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No. 1 HitsThe University is proud of a storied heritage earned on the courts, the fields and the diamonds, in arenas and parks and stadiums. This fall, the University inducted its most recent class of stars into The Hall, the 13th class inducted into this prestigious group. Many of Tech’s rich athletics traditions are built upon the accomplishments of these former student-athletes.

Matt Stover: His 57-yard field goal against Texas A&M is a Tech record; selected in 12th round of ’90 draft and kicked for 20 years in the NFL, winning Super Bowls with Baltimore and Indianapolis; two-time Pro Bowler; retired as the fourth-leading scorer in league history with 2,004 points

T.J. Soto: Rewrote Tech baseball’s record book ’97-‘00; four-time All-Sun Belt Conference and Bulldogs leader in homers (72), runs scored (202), total bases (555), RBI (220), games played (221), hits (269) and doubles (58)

Paul Millsap: First player in Division 1 basketball history to lead the nation in rebounding three straight seasons; three-time All-WAC; Utah Jazz forward since ’06

David Lee: Lettered in football and baseball; 14-year NFL veteran; punter on Baltimore Colts Silver Anniversary Team; Super Bowl V champ

Matt Dunigan: All-American quarterback, Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Year, ’82; Canadian Football League Hall of Famer; two-time Grey Cup champion

Mike McConathy: One of only two players to score 2,000 points in Bulldog basketball history; Southland Conference Player of the Year and AP honorable mention All-American as a junior in ’76; coaches Northwestern State’s Demons

Dave Nitz: “Voice of Tech Athletics” who has called more than 2,000 Bulldog and Lady Techster games since ’74; “Freeway Dave” was named the Louisiana Sportscaster of the Year in 2010 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association

Venus Lacy: National Player of the Year and Kodak All-American, ’90; Helped Lady Techsters win NCAA national title in ’88; three-straight Final Four appearances

82 Number in Louisiana Tech Athletics Hall of Fame

27 Number of trips basketball’s Lady Techsters have made to the NCAA Tournament

16 Number of sports in which Tech competes in the NCAA’s Division I

3 Number of former student-athletes in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

2 Number of former student-athletes in the NFL Hall of Fame

“Louisiana Tech is honored to induct such a distinguished group whose achievements leave a lasting legacy.” Bruce Van De Velde, Tech Athletics Director

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Tech 2020Daily, Tech uses a roadmap that leads from being a very good institution to a great one: we call it Tech 2020.

It involves recruiting and retaining a model student body and University community; integrating learning, discovery and development for an unparalleled education; and elevating Tech’s research and graduate program to national prominence and expanding our engine for economic growth.

The plan is solid, the progress sure and steady.

Onward…

Tech 2020 Goals:• Graduation rates of 70%• First-year retention rates of 85%• 25% of first-time freshmen in the top 10% of their high school class• 20-25% graduate students• Triple our research productivity• 10 patents granted per year• 20 active tenants and five graduates per year from the Technology Incubator• Research Park with six tenant companies• Triple our endowment

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“Great faculty enable Tech to compete nationally for funding to support our research and doctoral programs. At Louisiana Tech, we encourage students to become involved in research even as undergraduates, and we plan to expand these opportunities.”Dr. Terry McConathy, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School.

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In Their HonorThis fall, the University honored a few of its heroes and most distinguished ambassadors in a most special way. Now students of tomorrow will come to know about these dedicated servants and visionaries who’ve gone before.

Four facilities now have new names:

The Garland Gregory Hideaway Park, in memory of Tech’s beloved first football All-American and father of Tech’s intramural program.

The Robert H. Rawle Enterprise Center, in recognition of Rawle’s contributions to advancing the University’s intellectual property, business development and entrepreneurship programs.

The Dr. F. Jay Taylor Visual Arts Building, in memory of Tech’s 12th President, 1962-’87, a senior statesman and point guard in the Tech family.

The Dr. Virgil Orr Bookstore Atrium, an humble nod to a man who has received every other award Tech has come up with, and who still graces the campus often as the school’s Vice President Emeritus.

’94, ’95, ’96 Years, consecutively, Vigil Orr received Tech’s Tower Medallion, Distinguished Service Award and Alumnus of the Year awards

25 Years (1962-87) Dr. F. Jay Taylor, the first fan of the Lady Techsters, was president of Louisiana Tech

2 Number of times Garland Gregory, the College of Education Distinguished Alumnus in ’04, was All-Pro for the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers

0 Number of fraternities that were better than Sigma Nu, according to ’04 Alumnus of the Year Bobby Rawle

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EnrollmentIn early September, Tech welcomed its largest freshman class since 2006 and realized increases in both transfer and undergraduate students.

As is always the case, good students want to attend good schools. Tech’s incoming students recognize that Louisiana Tech is a University where they’ll receive an outstanding education at a fair price, one that will repay over and over again.

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11,581 Tech’s total enrollment

1,632 Freshman enrollment, Fall of ’11

21.1 Percent of total Tech population who are graduate students

12.8 Percent increase in transfer student enrollment, to 423

2 Percent increase in freshman enrollment

1.5 Percent increase in undergraduate enrollment, to 9,137

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10,500 ____________________________________________

10,000 ____________________________________________

fall ‘07 fall ‘08

10,60710,950

Source: Louisiana Board of Regents

11,289

11,80411,581

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We've Got Your NumberIn the classroom, in the lab and on the playing field, Louisiana Tech continues to enhance its reputation for discovery, for innovation, for capitalizing on opportunities it receives or creates.

These numbers illustrate the value of seizing those opportunities, creating new ones, working as either a team or as individuals to excel, to perform, to post a number Tech can be proud of.

1.8 million Dollars in external funds generated by the College of Education’s Science and Technology Center (SciTEC)

24,000-plus Participants hosted by the IDEA Place

15,000 Students in P-12 served by SciTEC

10,891 Graduate students enrolled in off-campus professional development courses sponsored through the College of Education in the past 10 years

5000-plus Hours of service provided by Tech’s master’s level Guidance and Counseling students

2,550 Educators and attorneys who have attended Tech’s College of Education School Law Institute in the past 14 years

160-plus Student organizations and clubs available to Tech students, who can also invent their own

100 Percent employment of Tech’s Geographic Information Science graduates

100 Percent of the spring’s Family and Consumer Sciences Education Graduates employed as first-time teachers in Fall 2011

57 Years the Teacher Education programs have been continuously accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)

40 Percent of 2010-11 Family Science graduates attending graduate school

32 Years the Adult Fitness program has been offered

26.5 Hours per week math tutoring is available through Bulldog Achievement Resource Center

26 Times Tech’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society has won national Best Chapter honors since 1980

24 Scholarships Tech School of Forestry students received from the Louisiana Forestry Foundation for Fall 2011

21 Rate of growth in percentage of students in the Kinesiology undergrad program from 2006-’09

7 Consecutive Western Athletic Conference (WAC) outdoor track and field championships won by the Lady Techsters

6 Hours of credit received for a Study Abroad trip to Berlin

5 Habitat for Humanity Houses built in Ruston by the School of Architecture as part of its graduating seniors' year-long studio project

3 Where “The Tech Talk,” Tech’s student newspaper, ranked in the 2011 Best of the South Top Ten college newspaper competition by the Southeast Journalism Conference; “The Tech Talk” ranked 2nd in the Louisiana/Mississippi Associated Press Managing Editors college competition

2 National “Educator of the Year” awards in the field of blindness possessed by faculty of Louisiana Tech’s Institute on Blindness

2 Number of Grand Challenges Scholars from Tech out of only 14 nationally as named by the National Academy of Engineering

1 Where Tech’s Lady Techsters finished in the 2010-’11 regular season WAC basketball race

1 The number of undergraduate degree programs in the field of nanoengineering to receive accreditation from the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); that degree is a Bachelor of Science in Nanosystems Engineering, and it’s only at Tech

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No. 1 in FoundationThe highest priority of Louisiana Tech, its most important component and purpose for being, is its students.

This will always be the case at the University. And this will always be the No. 1 purpose of the Louisiana Tech Foundation.

Students.

In the past three years, the Foundation’s direct support of the University has topped $10 million, and perhaps the most important part of that has been scholarship support, direct support of today’s Tech students.

Last year, 13 percent of Tech’s alumni contributed to the University, support that increased access and opportunity for talented students and enabled Tech to recruit and retain world-class faculty.

With purpose and vision, the Foundation serves.

“An amazingly consistent factor throughout Tech’s storied history is the support of the alumni and friends. Another record year in fund raising is a reflection of the ever-growing pride and enthusiasm of those who continue this tradition. Our donors know that their gifts are used wisely and for the purposes they specify, and these generous people are providing the Edge of Excellence for this University.” Corre A. Stegall, Vice President for University Advancement

$3,384,192 Support provided directly to Louisiana Tech University by the Foundation in 2010-11

$70,350 Amount awarded in grants to University entities by the Lagniappe Ladies, the Foundation’s ladies-only giving society established in 2009

10,525 Alumni donors in 2010-11

4,020 Alumni Association (AA) members in 2010-11

1,211 LTAC members

782 Lifetime AA members

74 New Lifetime AA members in 2010-11

66 Alumni and friends who serve on the University Foundation Board of Directors

33 Alumni and friends who serve on the AA Board of Directors

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number of donors

11,000 ____________________________________________

10,000 ____________________________________________

9,000 ____________________________________________

8,000 ____________________________________________

7,000 ____________________________________________

6,000 ____________________________________________

5,000 ____________________________________________

4,000 ____________________________________________

3,000 ____________________________________________

2,000 ____________________________________________

1,000 ____________________________________________

0 ____________________________________________

fY 06-07 fY 07-08 fY 08-09 fY 09-10 fY 10-11

4,106 4,146 3,866

5,488

10,525

louisiana tech universitY foundation inc. – gifts

average gift

$2,000 ____________________________________________

$1,000 ____________________________________________

$0 ____________________________________________

fY 06-07 fY 07-08 fY 08-09 fY 09-10 fY 10-11

1,357 1,094 1,283 949 1,111

number of gifts

10,000 ____________________________________________

9,000 ____________________________________________

8,000 ____________________________________________

7,000 ____________________________________________

6,000 ____________________________________________

5,000 ____________________________________________

4,000 ____________________________________________

3,000 ____________________________________________

2,000 ____________________________________________

1,000 ____________________________________________

0 ____________________________________________

fY 06-07 fY 07-08 fY 08-09 fY 09-10 fY 10-11

5,170 5,273 5,319

8,2739,206

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louisiana tech universitY foundation inc. – total assets

$90,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$80,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$70,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$60,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$50,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$40,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$30,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$20,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$10,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$0 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

39,010,712 42,540,28647,371,359

59,080,920 63,637,44067,516,136

80,315,054

2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2011

at end of fiscal Year

louisiana tech universitY foundation inc. – contributions (ten-year comparison)

$11,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$10,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$9,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$8,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$7,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$6,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$5,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$4,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$3,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$2,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$1,000,000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

$0 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________fY 01-02

$2,140,418fY 02-03

$2,260,552fY 03-04

$3,030,873fY 04-05

$4,887,715fY 05-06

$7,629,793fY 06-07

$7,015,289fY 07-08

$5,771,064fY 08-09

$6,826,827fY 09-10

$7,848,855

555,814

1,132,218

452,386

1,393,221

582,755

284,576

1,193,550

1,694,858

142,465

3,544,896

815,340

527,479

1,929,894

5,502,668

197,231

3,519,217

3,311,269

184,803

4,612,771

1,062,267

96,026

4,820,490

111,692

2,916,673

9,448,627

180,469

598,172

fY 10-11$10,227,268

■ unrestricted ■ restricted ■ endowment

4,676,285

102,563

2,047,979

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FRIENDS AND FAMILY: Bulldog baseball letter winner Gary Patterson (with President Dr. Dan Reneau) is one of Tech’s many supporters; in April, the Ruston businessman made a $1 million gift to the Quest for Excellence, the most ambitious athletics capital campaign in the University’s history.

Reason Number OneToday’s students stand on many shoulders. Yesterday works with today for tomorrow.

The Louisiana Tech University faithful understand that. Education is a team effort, a combination of devotion and awareness and passion.

Without support and help of friends and alumni, Louisiana Tech would not be making headlines as a “Tier One” University, a “Top Colleges List” selection, a “National University.”

Every gift of time and finances makes a difference, makes THE difference. Always has and always will. The University will continue to thrive as long as its alumni, family and friends invest in its mission, which is an investment in each other.

Scan with mobile device to visit Louisiana Tech University Foundation website.

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Our MissionAs a selective-admissions, comprehensive public university, Louisiana Tech is committed to quality in teaching, research, creative activity, public service and economic development. Louisiana Tech maintains as its highest priority the education and development of its students in a challenging, yet safe and supportive, community of learners. Louisiana Tech provides a technology-rich, interdisciplinary teaching, learning and research environment to ensure student and faculty success.

Officers of the Administration

Daniel D. ReneauPresident

Leslie K. GuiceVice President for Research and Development and Director of Information Technology

James M. KingVice President for Student Affairs

Terry M. McConathyExecutive Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School

Kenneth W. ReaVice President for Academic Affairs

Corre A. StegallVice President for University Advancement

Joseph R. Thomas, Jr.Vice President for Administrative and Financial Services

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