LMU 2014 Highlights

3“Best Regional Universities in the West” by U.S. News & World Report, 2015

New Dean Selected to Head Bellarmine College Robbin D. Crabtree, Ph.D., has been named dean of LMU’s Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. She joined the university on Aug. 1. Crabtree, formerly dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Fairfield University in Connecticut, is an accomplished teacher and scholar, widely published in gender studies, intercultural communication and international service learning.

George A.V. Dunning Receives Honorary Doctorate Philanthropist and arts patron George A.V. Dunning received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from LMU for his work on the Board of Trustees and Board of Regents, and his leadership as chair of the Dean’s Council for the College of Communication and Fine Arts. He also was recognized for his contributions to many scholarships, including the creation of the George A.V. Dunning Annual Scholarship in music and the endowed George A.V. Dunning Music Scholarship.

Major Forum ‘Forecast LA’ LMU Students Conduct Opinion Survey The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles hosted its first “Forecast LA,” an annual event in partnership with Beacon Economics, LLC. The half-day campus event combined an economic forecast with an opinion survey of Angelenos and a survey of elected leaders conducted by LMU students.

LMU 2014 HighlightsSchool of Film and Television Ranked No. 8 Nationally The Hollywood Reporter ranked LMU’s School of Film and Television the eighth-best film school in the U.S., up one spot from 2013. Since its first graduating class in 2005, more than 400 SFTV alums have gone on to work for major studios, Sundance and other top entertainment industry employers.

LMU Magazine Honored with National Awards LMU Magazine earned several awards in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s annual competition for college publications. CASE announced its 2014 Circle of Excellence Awards, honoring LMU Magazine with the gold award for general excellence in college and university magazines (circulation 30,000 to 74,999). Jon Rou, LMU’s university photographer, won a silver award for Photographer of the Year. LMU Magazine also won a silver award in cover design for the winter 2013 issue (“A Fish Tale”).

LMU magazine winter 2013 cover, “A Fish Tale”

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Dana Gioia’s keynote talk, “Why Beauty Matters . . . And Not Just in Art,” explored the role art and beauty play in religion and in life as the embodiment of truth. Gioia served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003-09.

Acclaimed Poet Dana Gioia Keynotes Mission Day at Sacred Heart Chapel.

L.A. Archdiocese Holds Technology Conference at LMU Open to leaders from parishes and schools in the L. A. Archdiocese, this four-day conference provided professional development and training in all areas of technology integration. Archbishop José H. Gomez celebrated Mass for the first time in Sacred Heart Chapel, while the keynote address was delivered by Msgr. Paul Tighe, the Vatican’s secretary to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

SFTV Alumna Hayley Foster Wins 2014 Student Academy Award SFTV alumna Hayley Foster ’13 won a Student Academy Award in the animation category for her short film “Yamashita,” the story of a young Japanese-American girl who struggles with discovering her identity, heritage and the loss of her connection to her past in the context of the Japanese-American internment of World War II.

William H. Hannon Library Among Nation’s Best The Princeton Review’s guide to “The Best 378 Colleges” rated the William H. Hannon Library among the 20 best in the country in 2014, and called LMU “a fun, beautiful, Jesuit institution, with a top-tier teaching staff.” LMU also placed in the top 20 for quality of life and happiest students.

LMU Creates Binational Partnership With Mexico City’s Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México An innovative program to educate undergraduates on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border commenced this summer, thanks to a new partnership between LMU and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. A select group of LMU students will culminate their studies on the politics of the United States and Mexico with a weeklong immersion in Mexico City, where they will be exposed to the business, government and cultural institutions in that city. Meanwhile, a cohort of students from ITAM will travel north for a similar experience this year.

Mike Dunlap Named New Basketball Coach Mike Dunlap, a 1980 graduate of LMU, has been hired as the 26th head coach of the men’s basketball program. Dunlap returns to the Westchester campus with more than 30 years of college and NBA coaching experience. Dunlap was most recently head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats for the 2012-13 season, where he became the first coach in NBA history to win three times as many games as the year before. He also spent time as an assistant with the NBA’s Denver Nuggets and collegiately at Arizona, Oregon and St. John’s.

Judith Royer Recognized with Lifetime Achievement Award Judith Royer, C.S.J., has been honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for her 40-year career dedicated to developing and fostering the talents of theatre students. Royer is a theatre arts professor.

Teach For America Founder Wendy Kopp Receives Honorary Degree LMU recognized Wendy Kopp with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree for her service to education; she founded Teach For America in 1990 and co-founded the global Teach For All network in 2007. Today, 11,000 Teach For America corps members are in the midst of two-year teaching commitments in the nation’s highest-need urban and rural regions. As Teach For America’s exclusive university partner in California, the LMU School of Education provides graduate training, mentoring and support for corps members throughout the state.

A scene from “Yamashita”by Hayley Foster ’13

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LMU by the numbers

Enrollment Undergraduate 6,087Graduate 2,220Law School 1,236Total 9,543

Total AlumniUndergraduate 48,047Graduate 18,082Law School 16,861

Undergraduate DiversityAmerican Indian/Alaska Native: 0.2%African-American: 5.6%Asian: 10.5%Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 0.1%Hispanic/Latino: 22.1%White/Non-Hispanic: 49.0%Multi-race: 7.3%

Part-Time M.B.A. Program in the nation by Bloomberg Businessweek

6NO.Western Water Polo Association championship for the LMU women’s water polo team

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Record number of applications for the class of 2018

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87% California bar pass rate by Loyola Law School

League record for the West Coast Conference-winning men’s soccer team

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