Points of Pride
| Doctorate of ‘diversity’ |
Barry University has been included in three lists ranking its diversity at the national level by Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine. The rankings, published in the July 10, 2008 issue, place Barry at 82nd in the country for the total number of minority master’s graduates, 40th for Hispanic master’s degrees awarded and 45th for Hispanic doctoral degrees awarded.
Barry University is ranked No. 1 in the Campus Ethnic Diversity category for universities in the South offering master’s programs, according to the 2007 U.S. News & World Report college ratings. |
According to Diverse Issues in Higher Education’s annual ranking of “Top 100 Graduate Degree Producers,” Barry University is ranked:
No. 53 – Master’s Degree 2005 – 2006, All Disciplines Combined – African – American Master’s
No. 59 – All Disciplines Combined – Total Minority Master’s
No. 53 – All Disciplines Combined – African-American Master’s
No. 28 – All Disciplines Combined – Hispanic Master’s
No. 1 – Biological & Biomedical Sciences – African-American Master’s
No. 16 – Biological & Biomedical Sciences – Asian American Master’s
No. 1 – Biological & Biomedical Sciences – Hispanic Master’s
No. 13 – Health Professions & Related Clinical Sciences
No. 8 – Health Professions & Related Clinical Sciences |
| Barry was federally designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution in May 2006 (applicable through 2011). |
| Barry is rated one of the Top 25 Graduate Schools for Hispanics by the Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. The University also is included in Hispanic Outlook’s “Top 100 List of U.S. Colleges and Universities Graduating Hispanics.” |
According to Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, in granting degrees to Hispanic students in the United States, Barry ranks:
Number one for first professional degrees in podiatry
Number two for bachelor’s degrees in education
Number two for bachelor’s degrees in public administration
Number six for bachelor’s degrees in computer science
Number nine for bachelor’s degrees in health sciences |
| Student-run |
| The university has replaced its shuttle bus system for commuter students with a battery-powered tram. The tram is the only one of its kind at a university in South Florida, and cuts operating costs from $1.43 to $.10 a mile. The vehicle, which was purchased from Florida Electric and Gas Vehicles, replaces a diesel-powered bus, and is a “zero-emission vehicle.” It will move students the quarter of a mile between the commuter parking lot to Barry’s Student Union, running on an already existing “paved track” that has been optimized for this purpose. |
| The Student Health Center at Barry University was awarded one of five national scholarships towards a new health care management system from Neusoft Technologies in June 2008. The scholarship provides Barry with $15,000 towards the system over the next three years. The software is a web-based tracking system that will offer more efficient and confidential service to Barry students through a scheduling system, analysis of statistical data and immunization and inventory control records. It will assist the health center as they adapt to growing demand, with more than 1,000 Barry students using the Student Health Center as their primary care provider. |
| During Spring Break (March 2-8) more than 15 students travelled from Barry University in Miami Shores to New Orleans, where they helped gut St. Mary’s Academy High School, which was flooded during Hurricane Katrina and is now scheduled to be demolished. The students also volunteered with the Episcopal Diocese of New Orleans helping to clean, and in some cases gut homes scheduled for demolition, in the Lower Ninth Ward. |
| A group of nine Barry University students spent their spring break performing community service in Atlanta, volunteering for two days at the Atlanta Children’s Shelter, which is home to more than 40 children, all under the age of five. Many of these children come from families headed by a single-mother and have become homeless as the result of domestic violence. The shelter assists these families by providing clothing, career assistance and temporary housing. |
| Amy Diaz, a recent Barry University graduate, competed in the Miss USA pageant as Miss Rhode Island in April. Diaz, who is originally from Providence, Rhode Island, has held the title since Sept. 23, 2007 and also held the title of Miss Rhode Island Teen USA in 2001. Diaz holds dual master’s degrees in business administration and sports management from Barry as well as a bachelor’s in broadcast communications. |
| Alums in Action |
| The Alumni Relations Office has officially started their student alumni program with the addition of FAB (Future Alumni of Barry) and the Alumni Ambassadors. The purpose of the two groups is to engage the students to be a part of the Alumni Association while they are still here on campus - to start a lifelong partnership with them before graduation. |
| The Alumni Association has developed the Membership Plus program that provides for increased benefits to alumni who contribute to the Annual Fund. |
| Achievements in Arts and Sciences |
| Barry University opened its contemporary Andy Gato Gallery in September. The 4,100-square-foot gallery is named in honor of the late Andy Gato, co-owner of the Miami-based Farrey’s Lighting, who first became actively involved with the university in 2006. The gallery will house student and faculty exhibitions throughout the school year, with a section of it serving as a student lounge area with around-the-clock access. |
| Dr. Aphrodite Alexandrakis, a professor of philosophy and humanities, received the prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award for her proposed research on “Plato’s Notion of Beauty and Egyptian Painting.” During a four-month stay in Cairo, Alexandrakis will be studying Plato’s references to Egyptian painting and arts in order to analyze and formulate a new theory on Plato’s use of the formal elements and approach to beauty and the arts. She will also give lectures on ancient Greek aesthetics to faculty and students at the University of Helwan in Cairo. |
| Dr. Zuzana Zajickova, assistant professor of physical sciences, received a grant from the Department of Energy. Zajickova’s grant provides funds for her summer appointment at the Molecular Foundry with additional funding for three Barry undergraduates to accompany her. Zajickova and her research students will conduct research on monolithic media for use and application in high performance liquid chromatography. |
| The Barry University choir performed an all-Hispanic production at Carnegie Hall on in April. The performance featured zarzuelas (a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes) from “Maria La O” and “Cecilia Valdes.” The pieces were arranged specifically for the event by Grammy-nominee Alfredo Munar. |
| Dr. Dan Ewing is the recipient of the 2008 Ambassador Jean Wilkowski Fellowship award. The Wilkowski Fellowship award provides support to full-time faculty who conduct research abroad for the primary purpose of including an international dimension to their teaching. Ewing will conduct research in Europe on the Flemish painter Jan de Beer. |
| Six Barry University communication students are spending this semester producing their own public affairs TV show. The show, “Community Crossroads,” airs Saturdays at 6 a.m. on iNetwork [formerly Pax Television]. Barry is the only university with a student-produced program that broadcasts to three major television markets -- Miami, West Palm, and Tampa. With the exception of a faculty member who oversees their work and hosts the show, the students are entirely responsible for the 30-minute public affairs interview show. In the past, topics included child abuse, AIDS awareness, college alcohol-abuse, spirituality, hip-hop as a culture, and civility. |
| For the past three years, the criminology and sociology department has sponsored academic conferences and worked with Santo Tomas, a university in Bogotá, Colombia, to establish a service- learning program. In August of 2006, the Center for Plural Thought opened at Santo Tomas, providing a base to support service-based learning initiatives, such as, a youth-led volunteer recycling effort aimed at cleaning up one of Bogotá’s poorest neighborhoods. In October of 2006, Barry and Santo Tomas formalized an exchange agreement for study abroad programs and continued international conferences and workshops. |
| Best in the ‘Business’ |
The Andreas School of Business at Barry University is ranked No. 3 in business schools that provide the greatest opportunity to minority students in Princeton Review’s “Best 290 Business Schools.” The No. 3 ranking in the 2008 edition of Princeton Review’s annual business school guidebook puts Barry behind only Howard University and the University of Houston –Victoria in schools that afford the greatest opportunity to minority students. It also marks an improvement from last year’s No. 4 ranking.
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| Out of 352 business schools in the United States, Barry University’s Andreas School of Business is ranked No. 47, according to the Social Science Research Network, which bases their finding on the number of downloads from its Web site. The ranking puts Barry in the top 13.4 percent of business schools in the country. Barry ranked higher than other notable universities in Florida, including the University of Miami, Florida International University and Florida Atlantic University. Internationally, BU was ranked No. 61 out of 800 business schools around the world, placing it in the top 7.6 percent of all international schools monitored, along with other notable business schools from around the world, including Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, Columbia University, Cornell University, University of London, University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. |
| The Barry University chapter of the Financial Management Association has earned the Silver NHS Membership Development Award for the 2007 – 2008 academic year. The award is given to fewer than five percent of all FMA chapters worldwide. |
| Education Matters |
| The Adrian Dominican School of Education has been awarded a $677,554 grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for Preparation of Leadership Personnel. Known as project SELECT (Special Education Leaders Ethnically and Culturally Trained,) the four year program is designed to prepare seven successful candidates for faculty (or teacher preparation) positions in Special Education. |
| The seven archdioceses in Florida, known as the Province of Florida, selected Barry University as the only Catholic institution in the state to offer the Catholic Educational Leadership Degree Program. The Province will spend $540,000 over the next five years for Barry to offer the program during the summer at its Miami Shores campus. Approximately 30 graduate students who currently serve as Catholic high school principals or are on their way to becoming principals are taking part in the program, which allows them to earn their master’s or education specialist degree within three summer semesters. |
The College Assistance Migrant Program (C.A.M.P) received a continuation grant for the fifth consecutive year in the amount of $335,000. The C.A.M.P program has served over 100 students of farm worker/migrant background in its four years of operation.
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| The Adrian Dominican School of Education (ADSOE) at Barry University has received a $9,625 grant from the Staples Foundation for Learning. The grant, which is part of a pilot program in collaboration with the Florida Independent College Fund (FICF), implements the MentorFlorida! Project, which train 20 undergraduate students as mentors to serve in math and science programs in elementary and middle schools. |
| For the second consecutive year, the Adrian Dominican School of Education received a Project SUCCEED teacher preparation grant from the state of Florida. The grant in the amount of $381,151 will help increase the number of qualified special education and reading teachers in the state. |
| Legal Eagles |
| The Trial Team won the American Bar Association (ABA) national championship in Chicago in March. |
| Barry Law School graduates earned the highest first-time Florida Bar passage rate in the school’s history (80 percent based on February 2008 results). Barry’s passage rate is four percent above the state average exceeded that of the University of Miami (78.9), Stetson University (76.1), St. Thomas University (73.3), Florida International University (78.9), and Florida A&M University (59.3). |
| For the third consecutive year, the American Bar Association (ABA) has awarded Barry University School of Law its National Law Student Division Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program Award. The IRS recognized the Barry VITA program as the fastest growing in Central Florida and has presented Barry with two Community Service Leadership Awards. In its first year the program had 15 volunteers, served more than 90 low to moderate income taxpayers and was applauded by the IRS for the lowest error rate of any new site in the region. |
| In February, the Law School hosted the Earth Jurisprudence Symposium, the first of its kind in the United States. The symposium titled, “Framing an Earth Jurisprudence for a Planet in Peril” explored the need to re-envision law from an earth-centered perspective, particularly in light of increasing concern about climate change. |
| Dean Leticia Diaz won the inaugural Hispanic Women Who Make the Difference Award. ImpreMedia, which owns the Hispanic newspaper LaPrensa, honored Diaz with the award in the category for “Outstanding 2008 Hispanic Female in the Legal Field.” The Hispanic Women Who Make the Difference Award recognizes the outstanding contributions of Hispanic women in the Central Florida area in their respective fields and their active involvement in the Hispanic community. |
| In March, Barry’s Moot Court Team finish second at the 2008 Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court Competition in Albany, New York. |
| For the first time in the history of Barry’s Moot Court program, the two Barry teams advanced to the sweet 16 of the American Bar Association National Competition held in March in Washington, D.C. |
| In July of 2007, the Dwayne O. Andreas of Law School received a $778,000 three-year grant from the Eckerd Family Foundation to start a Juvenile Justice Center at its campus in Orlando. The Center will train lawyers and law students to represent children accused of crimes in Florida’s juvenile delinquency system. The Juvenile Justice Center, which will be a part of the Law School’s clinical programs, will work with juvenile defenders around the state and provide continuous training and consultations with defender offices to improve the provision of representation of children. |
| Long live learning (Adult and Continuing Education) |
| In February, a group of 12 individuals became the first to graduate from Barry University’s new Emergency Medical Technology Certificate Program, which began in the fall of 2007. The Florida Department of Health’s Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) approved the program, which is offered through Barry’s School of Adult and Continuing Education and gives students the opportunity to earn a certificate as an emergency medical technician (EMT). |
| Barry University’s portfolio program, which has assessed more than 10,000 students since its inception in 1974, recently completed two pilot programs in which students used the e-Portfolio format to document their prior learning for academic credit. Prior learning assessment programs, which have used portfolios to evaluate learning gained outside the college classroom, are just beginning to move from paper to digital format. |
| Medical Marvels |
| Faculty and staff from Barry University’s School of Podiatric Medicine and the Physician Assistant Program moved into the Center for Community Health and Minority in July. The new facility will serve more than 400 health professional students, including students from the College of Health Sciences. With its three-phase development plan, the center will house classroom, research and clinical facilities used to focus on diseases that adversely affect minority and underserved communities. It will also facilitate the development of educational programs for the prevention, treatment and management of these diseases. |
| The amount of charitable care rendered at the Barry University Foot and Ankle Institutes has increased dramatically since 1987. In 1987, charitable care totaled $40,000, in 1996 it equaled $492,156, and in 2006 it reached $1,219,874. The institutes provide vital podiatric primary care to tens of thousands of Miami’s medically underserved residents. |
| Dr. James Stelnicki of New Port Richey, Florida, a past president of the Florida Podiatric Medical Association, donated $100,000 for the establishment of the Stelnicki Scholarship for Excellence in Lower Extremity Vascular Medicine at Barry University's School of Podiatric Medicine. The fund will award one $10,000 scholarship each year to a senior podiatric medical student who has demonstrated excellence in the field of lower extremity vascular medicine during their third-year clinical rotations. |
| In the spirit of the Easter holiday and Holy Week, more than 20 students and podiatric physicians from Barry University’s School of Podiatric Medicine provided foot care and washed the feet of the homeless at the Miami Rescue Mission/Broward Outreach Center’s second annual “Thanksgiving in March” event. More than 1,000 people showed up to the event, which has proven to be enormously popular, according to Marilyn Brummitt, director of community development for Miami Rescue Mission, Inc/Broward Outreach Centers. |
| Fifty-two flights have been made and more than 5,000 crippled children in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico have received medical treatment, including life-altering surgeries as a result of the Yucatan Project at Barry University. More than 75 physicians and 50 residents have volunteered over 20,000 hours to the project, which marked its 10th year of operation in November of 2006 at a celebration in Merida, Mexico. |
| Among the colleges of podiatric medicine, Barry has the highest proportion of degrees awarded to women and the highest proportion of degrees awarded to minorities. Barry’s School of Podiatric Medicine graduates the highest number of Hispanic podiatrists among the nine accredited podiatric colleges in the country. |
| The Barry University Physician Assistant Student Association (BUPASA) was selected as the 2007 Outstanding Student Society in the country by the Student Academy of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. The BUPASA was selected based upon its public service, public education, activism that promotes diversity, and student participation in professional leadership activities at the local, state and national levels. |
| The Barry University Physician Assistant Program (BUPAP) celebrated its 10th anniversary in December at a joint reception at both the Miami Shores and St. Petersburg, Fla., campuses. Since the inception of the program in 1997, the BUPAP has graduated more than 300 physician assistants and has received two three-year Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Professions grants of nearly $1 million for training PA students in medically underserved areas. |
| Go natural (and healthy) |
| BU’s Master of Science in Health Services Administration degree program is the 16th largest program of its kind in the country, according to Modern Healthcare magazine. It is the third consecutive year the program has been included in Modern Healthcare’s annual list ranking the 25 largest Health Administration degrees programs out of more than 300 nationwide. |
| Barry University administrator and faculty member, John McFadden, met one-on-one with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in March 2008 to discuss issues in both health care and higher education. Crist, who is the program administrator for Barry’s Master of Science in Anesthesiology program, was invited to speak with the Governor through his role as President of the Florida Association of Nurse Anesthetists, a position he has held since October 2007. They discussed the proposed elimination of the Florida Resident Access Grant (FRAG), as well as issues related to Florida residents’ access to care. |
| John McFadden, MSN, MS, CRNA, assistant professor of Anesthesiology and director of the Master of Science in Anesthesiology Program, was recently appointed to a three-year term as a reviewer for the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs. The accreditation program, which awarded accreditation to Barry University's Anesthesiology Program through 2010, is the nation’s sole accrediting agency for institutions and programs of nurse anesthesia at the post-master's certificate, master’s, and doctoral degree levels. |
| Faculty member Steve Clarke was named Outstanding Clinical Instructor of the Year by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. Clarke was nominated by his peers and was the sole recipient of the award. There are 104 nurse anesthesia programs in the country, with several thousand instructors. |
| Faculty member Diana Quinlan was the recipient of the Agatha Hodgins Award by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. The award is presented to one individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the nurse anesthetist profession; Quinlan was recognized for her work on addiction in the anesthesia profession. |
| Nurses Rule |
| The Board of Directors of the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation, Inc. awarded the School of Nursing a $60,000 grant to be used for educational scholarships in BU’s Master of Science in nursing program. The Leadership Scholarships will encourage students to enroll in either the education or administration specialty of the master’s program. The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation is a private grant-making foundation, supporting projects and programs designed to improve, preserve or restore the health and health care of the people in Miami-Dade County. |
| The BU Student Nurses Association is the second largest in the state. Students currently hold three key state offices, including President. |
| A team of three BU nursing faculty were chosen to participate in Duke University’s federally funded Technology Integration Program for Nursing Education and Practice. The BU team shared strategies to incorporate multicultural health in the use of clinical simulation with teams from across the country. |
| Dr. JoAnn Kleier was selected as the winner of the 2006-2007 Urologic Nursing Novice Literary Excellence Award for an article she published on prostate health in Jamaican and Haitian men. |
| Dr. Jessie Colin was awarded a certificate for service in Florida’s International Volunteer Corps by Gov. Charlie Christ for service to the people of Haiti. She serves on a board that is establishing a school of nursing in that country. |
One-third of Barry’s School of Nursing enrollees are from low-income households, 60 percent are non-traditional students, and 41 percent of the schools’ total undergraduate and graduate students are minorities.
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| The School of Nursing received $450,965 from the Florida Department of Education to fund the second year of its SUCCEED Project, Partnerships to Create Nursing Faculty for Florida. The project is a partnership between Barry University, Nova Southeastern University and Broward Community College. |
| School of Social Work: it works |
| The School of Social Work operates the Office of the Public Guardian in Broward County. Public guardians are appointed by the court to individuals in need of assistance who do not have anyone to care or make decisions for them and who lack the financial means to pay someone, such as an attorney, to help them do so. There are 16 local public guardian programs in 23 of Florida’s 67 counties, but the Broward office is the only one in the state and one of two in the country to be run by a school of social work at a university. Staff members and interns from the School of Social Work currently serve more than 200 indigent and vulnerable adults in Broward County. |
| The Office of the Public Guardian was recently awarded $132,421 in additional funding from the Foundation for Indigent Guardianship, Inc. The funding will allow the office to add another master’s level staff member, and thus serve 40 additional vulnerable and indigent clients in Broward County. |
| The School of Social Work’s neighborhood technical assistance program provides aid to six local communities in need. With centers in Homestead, Little Havana, Little Haiti, Gladeview, Sweetwater and North Miami, the program focuses on providing resources and assistance to collaborating members of these communities, including businesses, organizations and residents. |
| Pierre Ceinor, a Master of Social Work student was recognized by the Broward County School Social Workers Association as the School Social Work Intern of the year for 2008. It is the second consecutive year a Barry graduate has won this honor. |
| For six years, students from the School of Social Work have been delivering Thanksgiving baskets to homebound seniors in the community surrounding Barry’s Miami Shores campus. The students work in partnership with the Greater North Miami Chamber of Commerce through the North Miami Foundation for Senior Citizens to identify seniors in need. Students then buy food, assemble baskets and distribute them to elderly clients in their homes |
| Sports Beat |
| Barry’s intercollegiate athletic teams have won seven NCAA championships: women’s soccer (1989, 1992, and 1993) and women’s volleyball (1995, 2001, and 2004) and men’s golf (2007). |
| Spring 2008 was the 5th consecutive year with the Team Spring term GPA averages at 3.1 or greater -- The average spring 2008 term GPA for all teams was 3.144. 61.5 percent of all student-athletes had a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher following the spring, 2008 term. Women’s Tennis led the way for all teams with a term GPA of 3.669. Men’s Tennis led the way for men’s teams with a term GPA of 3.236. The average cumulative team GPA was 3.160, with 10 of 12 teams topping 3.0. Women’s tennis was the top squad at 3.652, while the men’s tennis team led the men at 3.260. |
| Barry University has had six NCAA Women of the Year finalists, which is the most of any NCAA Division II Institutions and second most overall in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III history. |
| Barry has also produced 176 All-Americans, 171 Scholar All-Americans and two NCAA Walter Byers Scholarship Award winners. Only two institutions in the country have two Byers Scholarship recipients – Barry University and the University of Georgia. |
| Barry has made 104 NCAA Division II National Tournament appearances with 54 appearances in the NCAA Division II National Finals. |
| Barry athletic teams have won five Sunshine State Conference women’s Mayor’s Cup Championships and one men’s Mayor’s Cup Championship. Barry teams have also won 38 Sunshine State Conference Team Championships. |
| Two former Buccaneers, Jenny Nilsson-Tecklenberg ’01 (soccer/rowing), Christian Witt ’01(tennis), were inducted as part of the 2008 class of the Sunshine State Conference Hall of Fame. Twelve former student-athletes, coaches and administrators have been honored. |
| Baseball alumnus, Henry Owens ‘01 became the first Barry Buccaneer to make the Major Leagues playing for the New York Mets and Florida Marlins. |
| Amanda Mageean, exercise science major and women’s basketball student-athlete was co-recipient of the 2008 St. Catherine Medal Award. |
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