TELLING THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON STORY

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TELLING THE STORY:
A LEADER IN
HIGHER EDUCATION
U.S. News & World Report
featured the University of
Dayton as a school “going
above and beyond their
competitors” in persuading
admitted students to enroll.
Sundar Kumarasamy, vice
president for enrollment
management, said: “We
don’t want to manage
success reactively, we
want to manage it
proactively, before the
students come here.”
On Aug. 17, The
Chronicle of Higher
Education featured
the University of
Dayton’s new “drop
and go” service for
incoming students in
a story about “The
Methodical Madness
of Move-In Day.”
The St. Louis Post-
Dispatch picked up the story. “The last thing you want
to do is exhaust them or make them sore,” said Karinza
Akin, a student who helped coordinate the move-in
process. “You want to put them in a happy place.”
The University’s renewable energy program was
noted by An EnvironmentalLeader.com story titled “As
Colleges Add Green Majors and Minors, Classes Fill
Up.”
The AASHE Bulletin, a weekly e-newsletter from the
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in
Higher Education, posted news of the University’s
composting and sustainability efforts.
The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned the
Dayton Early College Academy, operated by they
University of Dayton, in an article about funding cuts
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for early college high schools.
Catalyst Ohio carried an opinion
piece by DECA Principal Judy
Hennessey.
The University of Dayton School
of Law’s innovative curricula and
programs were mentioned in stories
by The Washington Post, National
Law Journal, The Daily Business
Review, National Jurist, Inside
Higher Education and USA Today.
The Ohio News Network talked to
Jay Janney, associate professor of
management, about why a recession
is a good time to start a business. Training
magazine talked to Dean McFarlin,
chair of the management and marketing
department and the NCR Professor of
Global Leadership Development, about
how business plan competitions help
technical people take great ideas to the
marketplace.
Rob Durkle, assistant vice president and
dean of admission, gave advice to U.S. News & World
Report about what prospective students can do to
increase their chances of acceptance.
‘
I would encourage
them to be more
authentic and more
courageous about
their experiences.
... Transformative
moments are those experiences
that take you to a new place, to a
new reality. They are more final
and deeper.’
— Sundar Kumarasamy, vice president for
enrollment management, about application essays
to The Washington Post
The launch of the School of Business Administration’s
new Center for Professional Selling was covered by the
Dayton Daily News, the Dayton Business Journal and
Dayton television news outlets.
The Associated Press wrote Jan. 29 about a $250,000
state grant to seed development of the state’s first Ohio
Hub of Innovation and Opportunity. The (Cleveland)
Plain Dealer, websites of two Cleveland television stations
and several other Ohio newspapers picked up the story.
In a Jan. 31 column, “UD Can Thank Its Faculty and
Students for Curran,” Dayton Daily News editorial writer
Scott Elliott recalled that faculty and students played an
important role in hiring President Daniel J. Curran
in 2002.
When Curran’s contract was extended through 2015 by
the board of trustees, the news garnered considerable
local coverage. Hundreds of media outlets nationwide
including Entrepreneur, MSN Money and Fox Business
picked up a news release announcing the extension. The
Bizjournals wire and its journals in Boston, Phoenix, San
Antonio and Nashville also picked up the story.
Curran talked to
The Chronicle of
Higher Education
about the University’s
campuswide rebranding
efforts blending the
University’s Catholic,
Marianist identity with
a bold, new style. The
podcast interview with
Curran began running
Feb. 11.
The University’s new MBA curriculum in cybersecurity
management drew national attention from online
outlets including USA Today, MSN Money, FIND MBA
and BigMBA after local outlets the Dayton Daily News,
WHIO-TV and the Dayton Business Journal wrote about
the new courses. Govinfosecurity.com, Infosecurity.com
‘
The University of Dayton deserves
immense credit for bringing
so many people and groups
together. Its Rivers Institute has
used a leadership vacuum as
an opportunity to challenge its
students to organize the
grown-ups.’
— A Dayton Daily News editorial
and Bankinfosecurity.com interviewed Dave Salisbury,
associate professor of management information systems.
The Columbus Dispatch mentioned the University’s
use of e-textbooks in a March 23 story about a state
bill calling for e-textbooks at Ohio
universities.
School of Business Administration Dean
Matthew Shank talked about the 10th
anniversary of the RISE Global Student
Investment Forum to the Dayton Daily
News, the Dayton Business Journal,
WHIO-TV, WDTN-TV, WHIO radio and
regional powerhouse WLW-AM.
Bloomberg News reporter Jeff Kearns
spoke to students at RISE about careers
in financial journalism and interviewed
BlackRock investment Vice President Robert Doll for a
story that ran March 19.
In a story about the success of student-managed
portfolios on March 22, Investment News discussed the
Davis Center for Portfolio Management.
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