HOWARD UNIVERSITY: A RESEARCH UNIVERSITY FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM: NEW IMPERATIVES, NEW CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES SELF-STUDY DESIGN REPORT Institutional Overview Description <strong>Howard</strong> <strong>University</strong> is one of the nation’s leading research universities dedicated to educating exceptionally accomplished students, with a particular focus on African American students and students from all racial and ethnic groups from around the world. <strong>Howard</strong>’s current student body includes students from every state (except South Dakota), the District of Columbia, and 102 countries. Its total operating budget is approximately $750 million, and its current endowment is $482 million. In addition, the <strong>University</strong> recently completed a capital campaign raising more than $250 million in cash and commitments. <strong>Howard</strong> is one of 278 research universities nationwide, among the nation’s more than 4,500 universities. Among this group, it is the largest, with a predominantly African-American student body offering a full array of graduate and professional degree programs, including, but not limited to, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.), Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.), Doctor of Pharmacy, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), and Master of Social Work (M.S.W.). <strong>Howard</strong> grants undergraduate degrees in 80 disciplines, master’s degrees in 75 majors, and doctoral degrees in 31 areas, as well as professional certification in five areas. During the 2006–2007 academic year, the <strong>University</strong> granted 2,358 graduate and undergraduate degrees. Since its founding in 1867 by Major General Oliver Otis <strong>Howard</strong>, a Civil War hero and Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau, <strong>Howard</strong> has awarded more than 100,000 diplomas in the professions, the arts, the sciences, and the humanities. <strong>Howard</strong>’s graduates are racially and ethnically diverse. <strong>Howard</strong> produces a high percentage of the nation’s African-American professionals in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, engineering, nursing, architecture, divinity, law, music, social work, and education and a significant number of terminal-degree recipients in a broad range of disciplines. <strong>Howard</strong> also graduates the largest number of on-campus African American Ph.D.s., many of whom currently populate the nation’s professorate. It has produced Rhodes Scholars, two in the last decade; Fulbright, Marshall, and Presidential Scholars. It is a leader in enrolling National Achievement Scholars (outstanding and scholastically talented African-American high school students). During the last 5 years, the <strong>University</strong> has enrolled more National Achievement Scholars than any other historically black college or university (HBCU), and more than any other national university in 2003. A full- and part-time faculty of 1,641 and a staff of approximately 2,000 serve about 11,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at the <strong>University</strong>. <strong>Howard</strong>’s faculty is a collection of distinguished racially, ethnically, and gender diverse scholars from around the world. Among the <strong>University</strong>’s faculty, 84 percent have earned doctorate degrees (including the J.D., M.D., and D.D.S. degrees). Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 present a snapshot of <strong>Howard</strong>’s faculty 1
ased on rank, gender, ethnicity, and their distribution among the <strong>University</strong>’s schools and colleges. As shown in Figure 1, 58 percent of <strong>Howard</strong> <strong>University</strong> faculty is male and 42 percent female. As seen in Figure 4, the College of Medicine has the highest number of faculty and the College of Arts and Sciences has the second highest number. <strong>Howard</strong> <strong>University</strong> Faculty (FT & PT) by Gender, Fall 2007 686, (42%) 955, (58%) Male Female TOTAL=1,641 Figure 1, <strong>Howard</strong> <strong>University</strong> Faculty by Gender, Fall 2007 2