President's Report 2011

2011 PRESIDENTS REPORT
Living Our Tradition
Blessing of St. Francis
Blessing of St. Clare
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord show his face to you and be merciful to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Always be lovers of your souls and those of your brothers and sisters. And may you always be eager to observe what you have promised the Lord. May the Lord always be with you and may you always be with the Lord.
TABLE of CONTENTS
Presidents Message Tradition Student Life Athletics Enrollment Academics 2 4 6 9 12 15 School of Liberal Arts School of Science School of Business Undergraduate Research Service Faculty and Staff Facilities and Infrastructure Visibility Development Finance Our Future 18 21 24 27 30 34 36 38 42 45 48
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
Dear Friends of Siena College: As I report to you on the 74th year of Siena College, it is very tting also to acknowledge the 800th anniversary of St. Clare of Assisi as one of the rst followers dedicated to the Franciscan mission. Born to privilege and wealth, St. Clare committed to a life of poverty, prayer and service. Inspired by St. Francis, she made a great personal sacrice to accept and embody his vision. Following his death, St. Clares informed interpretations of St. Francis teachings and ideals settled disputes and had a powerful inuence on the future direction of Franciscan values and living. Her name, meaning clear, and her legacy evoke a wonderful symbolism at this time in Sienas perennial transformation. To that point and before reviewing the past year, Im excited to tell you that, during 2011 Siena College completed the development of our next Strategic Plan. Appropriately called Living Our Tradition, the plan connects from the legacies of St. Francis and St. Clare, through the intentions of our founders and on to our promise for future generations of students. It plots our strategic thinking for the next ve years. Living Our TraditionSiena College Strategic Plan 2011-2016 pursues growth in quality based on four key initiatives: 1. Build on the success of the rst Academic Excellence Plan by implementing a new Academic Excellence Plan focused on student engagement.
siena 2011 presidents report 2. Steward and strengthen the nancial resources, human resources and
physical space of the College.

3. Create a culture of diversity. 4. Expand and leverage investment in Division I athletics to promote the
reputation of the College and enhance student engagement. Im very optimistic about the plan for several reasons. It was created with unprecedented collaboration and extensive campus input. It is not a wish list. The strategies are supported by a series of operational plans and actions backed with funding and managed with accountability. During the process of developing the Strategic Plan, the people of Siena College continued to raise the bar in how we live our tradition. One signicant example is our new Core Curriculum. Every department in all three schools has created courses where instructors teach from a perspective that reects Franciscan concerns. This great leap forward integrates a strong value system with each discipline.
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Siena is blessed as a place where people want to be. The metrics of our incoming class for fall 2011 demonstrate the appeal of the College to highquality students. In addition to rigorous academics, they are attracted to the opportunities we oer outside the classroom. Experiences such as being able to develop an idea and nurture it in the newly formed Siena Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Or, becoming an American Revolution scholar working under the $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded to Sienas Center for Revolutionary Era Studies. They also want to be part of a campus where Je Mello, the new dean in the School of Business, brings fresh thinking to complement a strong program of curriculum and engagement. And, where the former dean, Jim Nolan, found overwhelming support from students, colleagues and friends that is encouraging his recovery from a devastating spinal cord injury. This year provided a special treat as I watched the Class of 2010 graduate and realized they were the rst class Ive experienced through the full four-year cycle. Observing them from their rst anxious days on campus to their departure as responsible citizens and tomorrows hope is a transformation I look forward to every year. As familiar as I was with the College, as an alumnus, former Trustee and former Director of the Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy, it has been a considerable learning experience. Every day is dierent. The perception of the job and its reality are also quite dierent. Ive developed a great appreciation that you cant do it alone. Fortunately, I am surrounded by top people at every level. My pride keeps growing in how well our people respond and deliver multi-dimensional results in all we do. I have learned that, while I must always be looking ahead, our Mission is what keeps us grounded in the present. It provides the clear sense of who we are so that we dont lose our way. We have so much to be thankful for and so much to look forward to. Our new Strategic Plan sets Siena on a path to places weve never been. While our nancial stewardship allows us to support its initial actions with existing resources, the plan will need external funding for continual direct impact. At this momentous time in Sienas history, we are also launching a Comprehensive Campaign that is aligned with the Strategic Plan. The Campaign presents a timely occasion for those who believe that Siena provides The education of a lifetime to help keep the tradition alive. Thank you for your interest and for all that you do to support Siena College. Fraternally,
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Fr. Kevin Mullen 75, O.F.M., Ph.D.
Fr. Kevin Mullen 75, O.F.M., Ph.D. President
Living Our Tradition denes the way we will work, where we want to be and how we will be among the best when we get there. It reinvigorates our mission at a whole new level of excellence.
TRADITION
Hearts open to love, minds open to wisdom.
Franciscan education is an 800-year-old tradition born of the insights of Saints Francis and Clare of Assisi and shaped by the example of their extraordinary lives. The tradition was nourished in the great medieval universities of Paris, Oxford, Cambridge and Cologne by the speculations of St. Bonaventure, Roger Bacon, Blessed John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham. It was transplanted to the Americas by Franciscan missionaries who established the rst institution of higher education in the new world in 1536. It came to
the Capital Region of New York State in 1937 when seven Franciscan friars, at the invitation of Bishop Edmund Gibbons, established a Catholic college for those who otherwise could ill aord private, post-secondary education. The rst sentence of Siena Colleges mission statement succinctly de nes who we are and who we aspire to be. Siena College is a learning community
advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a Franciscan and Catholic institution.
The four identity markers of Siena: learning community

Each word of the rst identity marker is signicant. Siena is a learning community. The College does not dene itself as a teaching community although, to be sure, we strive for quality instruction in our lecture halls, seminar rooms and laboratories. We emphasize learning over teaching not because the latter is insignicant but because the former enshrines the humble recognition that all of us are servants of our respective disciplines, disciplines which we will never master. Furthermore, each of us is called to be open to the perspective on the truth which our colleagues have to oer us. At Siena, everyone is a learner. Siena is also a learning community. Learning takes place within a web of interpersonal relationships between mentor and mentee, professor and student, faculty and sta, peer and peer. These relationships are more than functional exchanges of information. They are human encounters between persons who care about and are respectful of one another. and, for the past 75 years, it has enriched the lives of Sienas students by opening their hearts to love and their minds to wisdom. This 800-year-old tradition has several distinguishing features. Franciscan education at Siena is incarnational. It a rms that the Creator is found in creation, the divine in the human and the spiritual in the material, day-to-day world where we live and work. Franciscan education is personal. It upholds the dignity of the human person and values each individual as a unique gift of priceless worth. Franciscan education is communal. It seeks to build up a welcoming and inclusive community of brothers and sisters who are committed to understanding and sustaining the profound interrelatedness of all creation. Franciscan education is also transformative. It fosters life-long intellectual, moral and spiritual conversion. Finally, Franciscan education at Siena is service-oriented. It strives to instill in our students the conviction that their personal and professional lives are to be lived not for themselves alone, but for their brothers and sisters in the world, especially the poor and marginalized.
liberal arts
Sienas new Strategic Plan, Living Our Tradition puts the liberal arts at the center of the student experience. The plans focus on student engagement will prepare our undergraduates to apply their knowledge to contemporary issues. According to the Association of American Colleges and Universities, liberal education for the 21st century must apply the broadbased knowledge and critical thinking skills of the liberal arts to the concrete problems and choices that face us as a society, a nation, a planet. A new denition of academic excellence calls for a farreaching shift in the focus of schooling from accumulating course credits to building real-world capabilities.* The courses in our core curriculum, as well as the seminars, capstone projects, service learning opportunities and undergraduate research that complement them, seek to make just such vital connections between the desire to know and the need to act in just, reasonable and responsible ways.
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Siena is one of the more than 200 member institutions in the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, institutions that serve over 720,000 students and that seek to encourage and sustain a conversation between contemporary human experience and the Catholic intellectual tradition. That tradition has been home to some of the greatest minds in human history. It has produced men and women of faith who have applied their intelligence and learning to the deepest questions that haunt the human spirit: questions about lifes meaning and purpose; questions about the nature and character of God; questions about what constitutes human happiness and a just society; questions about our obligations to the source of all life and to those with whom we share life in this world. It is a tradition of inquiry that, at its best, has refused to divorce right thinking from right living, theory from practice, reason from faith, theology from spirituality, or pursuing the truth from doing the good and seeing the beautiful.
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The Franciscan tradition continues to inform the missions of 22 colleges and universities across the U.S.,
The LEAP Vision for Learning, aac&u 2011, p. 3.
Fr. Kenneth Paulli 82, O.F.M., Ed.D.

Chief of Staff
Living Our Tradition is historic in its inclusiveness and transparency. Dedicated multi-dimensional thinkers translated extensive campus input into an architecture of strategic thought that focuses on the challenges ahead. It will guide Siena in becoming who we need to be and who we want to be.
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STUDENT LIFE
Skills, competencies and experiences beyond the classroom.

A day in the life of the Siena campus nds a rich combination of social, cultural, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. The student experience is dened by a multi-layered environment of rigorous education in the classroom and labs, along with the development of a worldly perspective and life skills that create critical thinkers and responsible citizens. The Division of Student Aairs continues to expand the resources and services that make the campus welcoming, safe and comfortable for students individually and as a group. Campus life at Siena is lively. Our community of more than 2,500 residential students and 400 plus commuters participates in hundreds of social, recreational, wellness and club programs. The most recent student survey rea rms the positive impact of the Division of Student Aairs in making Siena College a great place to live and learn. The variety of activities available for students to explore and enjoy personal interests is extensive. They can challenge themselves, empower themselves to discover their creative self, or just have fun while meeting and making new friends for life. A new Residence Hall Association has created up to 40 leadership positions where students can gain valuable experience in governance as they help others get the most from living on campus. The hall leaders address student concerns, work for improvements and develop social programs, including competitions among the halls to encourage hall spirit and unity. Settling in for the rst year in the newly-constructed residence hall, students have found the experience transformative. The halls numerous on-site features of dining hall, laundry, tness center, business center and classrooms provide a new model for residential living. In 2010, a new sta position was added to ensure the Colleges compliance with governmental and higher education standards. Likewise, the Oce of Public Safety remains ever vigilant and responsive to constantly changing demands. Public Safety also works closely with the Town of Colonie emergency services groups to complement campus safety. Many student events are designed to support the local community. Led by Bonner program members, 27 clubs and organizations participated in a Halloween Extravaganza. Siena students helped local children with mummy wrapping contests, pumpkin painting, apple pie eating competitions, visiting a haunted house and many other Halloween themed crafts and games. Proceeds beneted Albanys Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless. Two student-directed and cast stage plays were produced during the 2010-11 academic year. The Shape of Things was directed by Alex Walker 11 as his senior capstone project. The Creative Arts department and Stage III production in the spring was HamletIRAN, an adaptation of the classic play that draws on parallels between recent events in Iran and Shakespeares poetry. Several events are traditional at Siena and special aspects of the College. More than 400 students packed
Maryellen Gilroy, Ed.D.

Vice President for Student Affairs
Living and learning in the multi-layered diversity created as a major platform of the Strategic Plan will help Siena students develop the skills, knowledge and behaviors to work in a global world. Through a four-year experience of cultural solidarity, they will learn their success is dependent on the success of others.
STUDENT LIFE
Serra Hall on the eve of nal exams for the Blessing of the Brains prayer service. Sienas sixth annual Constitution Day celebrates and examines our rights and responsibilities as citizens. Albany Law School Associate Dean Patricia Salkin, Esq., spoke at this years event on the topic of property rights, specically eminent domain. Notably, in November, Siena was granted the distinction of Fair Trade College statusthe rst college in New York State, just the third college in the country, the rst Catholic college and the rst private college to receive this important designation. A student-led initiative two years in the making, as a Fair Trade College, Siena is committed to support fair pay and working conditions for vulnerable farmers and producers whenever possible in the purchase of such products as coee, tea, sugar and chocolate. Fair Trade practice upholds childrens rights to security and education and encourages environmental sustainability. The increase in anti-gay bullying and the resulting suicides of gay youth inspired Siena students to take a stand. More than 200 members of the College community gathered around the campus Peace Pole for a vigil to mourn lives lost against all forms of violence,
hatred and bigotry. Likewise, as the September 11 remembrance approached, Siena President Fr. Kevin Mullen 75, O.F.M., Ph.D., reinforced the need for tolerance and understanding for all and reminded the community that Franciscans must always approach other people as their brothers and sisters. The Siena campus welcomed 20 high school students, university students and professors from Colombia, South America as part of the ve-week English as a Second Language and U.S. Culture program. Siena is also collaborating with the North Colonie Central School District to provide a comprehensive program for nearby Shaker High School students with special needs. The students receive support for life activities such as communication, learning for independent living, employment and self-suciency. In the Colleges eort to help graduating students with the daunting task of nding jobs and underclassmen the opportunity to explore careers, the annual Career, Internship and Graduate School Fair is a Siena rite of spring. Students connected with graduate schools and a variety of potential employers from government, non-prot, corporate and start-up companies. In addition, the Career Center and the Bonner Foundation helped Siena students prepare for survival in the competitive job market by hosting a speed interviewing night. Students from all majors interviewed at a rapid pace with employers from various industries and non-prot agencies who also provided feedback.
ATHLETICS
A winning tradition continues.
Competing on the eld of play, excelling in the classroom and contributing to the community, Sienas student athletes continued a long tradition of making a dierence. They dene winning beyond their sports. As individuals and teams, they reect the spirit of Sienas values. In the past year, Sienas athletes and teams enjoyed great success in all aspects. They captured three Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) championships, had three programs represented in NCAA Tournaments and saw two teams earn national rankings for the rst time. Numerous Siena student athletes earned individual honors. For the sixth straight year, they once again ranked among the top Division I institutions for graduation success rates. Even with very busy schedules, they found time to raise many thousands of dollars for community organizations. Womens soccer earned a top-25 national ranking in consecutive weeks after a perfect 12-0 start. They went on to win a program-record 17 wins, won the MAAC championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the rst time. Mens lacrosse won its second MAAC title in three years and nished the season ranked 20th nationally after a program-record 13 victories. The team had two All-American Honorable Mentions, the MAAC Oensive and Defensive Players of the Year, Two North/ South All Stars and one Scholar All-American. Mens lacrosse has posted the sixth highest total victories in the nation since the start of the 2007 season. For the 11th season in a row, the womens golf team won the MAAC championship. Mens golf senior Don DeNyse III 11 won the individual championship at the MAAC Tournament and was invited to the NCAA Regional Tournament. Womens basketball, baseball, mens soccer, womens tennis, womens lacrosse and womens swimming and diving all nished in the topfour in the MAAC and went on to compete in their respective conference championships. Academic success of Sienas athletes is equally impressive. Thanks to the extra eorts and collaboration of coaches, academic advisors and faculty, student athletes won where it also counts, in the classroom. They earned a 95 percent Graduation
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Success Rate (GSR). That ranked Siena with the fth highest rate among all Division I schools. A total of 92 student athletes were named to their respective All-Academic Teams for maintaining a 3.2 or higher cumulative GPA. For the third straight year, 13 of Sienas 18 athletic programs posted a cumulative 3.0 or higher GPA. Eleven individuals achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA during the 2011 spring semester. Five teams received Public Recognition awards from the NCAA for registering multi-year Academic Progress Rates, placing them in the top 10 percent of all teams in their respective sports. Tabitha Tice 11 claimed the womens honor for Siena Student Athlete of the Year after leading the womens soccer program to its rst MAAC Championship and NCAA Womens College Cup. She was named MAAC Tournament MVP and scored the winning goal in overtime in the championship game. She also earned All-MAAC First Team recognition and became the rst player in program history to be named to the NSCCA/Performance Subaru All-Northeast Region First Team.
Completing a successful college basketball career, Ryan Rossiter 11 edged out a worthy eld of candidates to take home the male Student Athlete of the Year Award. Rossiter was named the MAAC Player of the Year after leading the conference in scoring and rebounding. He broke Sienas single-season and career rebounding records. He was selected as an AP Division I All-American Honorable Mention and as a member of the Basketball Times All-District (Northeast), NABC District I and ECAC Second Teams. Rossiter helped the Saints to MAAC championships and NCAA appearances in each of his rst three years with the program. The MAACs Oensive Player of the Year, Bryan Neufeld 12 was the catalyst of a potent attack for the mens lacrosse team. He led the league with 40 goals, ve-game winning goals and ranked 10th nationally with 65 points. Neufeld and teammate Duncan Seale 12, MAAC Defensive Player of the Year, were named All-American Honorable Mentions. Neufeld will enter his senior season leading all active Division I players in career goals scored.
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Ryan Rossiter 11
Don DeNyse III 11
Dan Paolini 12
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Baseballs Dan Paolini 12 became Sienas and the MAACs all-time home run king (57). He became only the second player in MAAC history twice named conference Player of the Year. He was selected by the Seattle Mariners in the 10th round of Major League Baseballs First-Year Player Draft. Paolini was named to College Baseball Lineups Division I All-Star Team, Baseball America Third Team All-American and the American Baseball Coaches Association Division I All-American Third Team. He was one of 36 semi nalists for the 2011 Dick Howser Trophy, presented annually to the nations best collegiate baseball player. Competing in the MAAC championships with a torn ACL, Brittany Pavolko 11 won two conference events while breaking individual records in the 100 and 200 y. She was named to the Capital One Academic All-District Womens At-large Second Team and graduated with a 3.91 GPA. Womens basketball senior Serena Moore 11 scored her 1,000th point and became the 13th player in MAAC history to eclipse 1,000 points, 600 rebounds and 100 blocks. She led the MAAC in scoring and rebounding. Moore was a MAAC First Team selection and was named to the ECAC Second Team. Jannis Opalka 13 led the mens soccer program to a winning season and a second-place nish in the MAAC. Named team captain as a sophomore, Opalka was the MAACs male nominee for the NCAA Student-Athlete Sportsmanship Award. Softball shortstop Shannon Jones 13 played a key role in elevating the program to its second most wins in school history. An All-MAAC First Team choice, Jones led the league with 43 RBI, nished second in batting average (.416), third in hits (57) and fourth in home runs (10). Volleyballs Taylor Akana 14 made an immediate impact earning Second Team All-MAAC honors in her rst year. She led the league and ranked 12th nationally with 4.48 kills per set and a single-season program-record 457 total kills. Akana also tallied a team-best 14 double-doubles.
Swimming and divings Katie Carew 12 was selected as the MAACs female nominee for the 2010-11 NCAA Sportsmanship Award. A rising senior and team captain, Carew is president of the MAACs Student Athlete Advisory Committee representing the conference nationally on the NCAA Division I National SAAC Council. She organized the inaugural Student Athlete Talent Show which raised $1,000 for the Special Olympics. An aspiring industrial psychologist, Carew balances a demanding schedule and boasts an impressive 3.51 GPA. A signicant part of being a Siena student athlete is community involvement. It is one of the ways athletics merges with the Franciscan mission. It is a team bonding experience that also gives back to the community that is so supportive of Siena sports. Athletes and coaches host events, work telethons, assist at food banks, mentor youngsters and raise funds to support several organizations and schools. As just a few examples, the womens basketballs annual Pink Zone game raised a record $20,650 for the Capital Region Action Against Breast Cancer (CRAAB!) group. Mens basketball reads to students as part of Sienas Adopt-A-School program. Several teams worked with Colonie Shooting Stars to help special-needs children learn the value of friendly competition and tness. Womens tennis lent a hand helping stock the Northeast Regional Food Bank warehouse. Mens basketball coach Mitch Buonaguro was one of 10 Division I coaches recognized at Yankee Stadium for his work with Coaches vs. Cancer. He and his wife co-hosted the annual Coaches vs. Cancer BasketBall which raised close to $200,000 for the ght against cancer. A major component of the Athletics Departments overall program is intramural sports. During the 2010-11 academic year, there were 2,500 student participants across all sports. Almost 40 percent of the student community participated in at least one intramural activity.
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John DArgenio
Director of Athletics
Living Our Tradition recognizes the value of athletics and the continued academic and competitive successes of Sienas student athletes and coaches. The plans athletic initiative is designed to benet the College as a whole through recruiting, student and alumni engagement, facilities, community service and visibility.
ENROLLMENT
For the 2011-2012 academic year, most incoming students began their selection and decision process in 2008-2009. By the time they nally enroll, prospective students have discovered, evaluated and applied to several schools. They have attended college fairs, received countless mailings, explored many websites and social media, visited campuses and often attended athletic events. They have also sought input from a variety of family, friends, teachers and counselors. Framed by extraordinarily challenging nancial times, this is the rst major, life-changing decision for many of these students.
A life-changing experience begins.
Siena College again accomplished its enrollment goals in a competitive environment where gaining admission to Siena has become more dicult. Along with the growing appeal of the full Siena experience and its aordability, this continued success is the result of a series of good decisions by the College: to continually re-evaluate outcomes in current conditions, to reallocate recruiting eorts and investment to pursue new markets and to focus on satisfying the interests of prospective students.
George Lopez 15 and Tony Rivera, admissions counselor
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One of the best ways to tell the admissions story at Siena is through the eyes of an incoming student. It reveals how the process is so much more than an application and an interview. The story of George Lopez 15 demonstrates ful llment of the Siena tradition of making a high-quality, private college education accessible to outstanding students who may otherwise not be able to attend. George is a 2011 graduate of Troy High School. He earned a 3.5 GPA and was a member of the Sponsor-a-Scholar Program. He graduated in the top 25 percent of his class and earned 20 college credits along the way. George excelled in mathematics and music, played in the band and worked with the YMCA where he was vice president of the Black-Latino Achievers Program. He interned at Hannaford Supermarkets and the New York State Senate. His father describes him as self-motivated with a drive to learn. Through his high school activities and guidance oce, George was exposed to colleges and universities far and wide. He visited many campuses, attended college fairs, explored websites, applied to and was accepted by several schools. He found the decision process both dicult and stressful. His ultimate selection of Siena was the culmination of a number of events. On an overnight visit to Siena he was able to meet students and learn about their experiences. He relates that his own experiences with the admissions sta showed him how friendly, personal and welcoming the College is. George liked the smaller size of the school and the support system he saw for students. His guidance counselors endorsement of Siena and coincidental contacts with alumni helped, too. During the process, George also became a beneciary of the Siena mission and the generosity of donors who support scholarships for deserving students. Working through the challenges of aordability, Tony Rivera, an admissions counselor, and the nancial aid sta brought to bear all of their resources to ensure that George would be able to attend his rst-choice school.
George will be busy at Siena. He will study liberal arts and he sees the advantages of being able to discover his career goals through Sienas numerous program choices. One goal that is important to George is to give back to his community and to help others like himself nd the same opportunities that he has enjoyed. At Siena, he will be a member of the Bonner Service Leaders Program and will also participate in the Work-Study Program. Siena is excited to welcome George Lopez and his classmates and we expect to report on their successes in future reports. Admission decisions have become increasingly more challenging and selective. In 2011, nearly 10,000 prospective students applied for admission to Siena College. That represented a 10 percent increase in applications from the prior year. Forty-eight percent were admitted to ll just about 784 incoming freshmen seats. That rate continued the recent trend for a lower acceptance percentage than the prior year. Financial pressures are still strong. Even though Siena has maintained a cost that is lower than its top 10 competitors by about 17 percent, 99 percent of Siena students receive nancial aid. The 2010 Best Colleges in the U.S. edition of U.S. News & World Report ranked Siena College seven places higher than last year to position number 114 among more than 250 liberal arts colleges. This national recognition is essential in maintaining Sienas competitiveness in meeting future challenges. One of those is a shrinking pool of applicants for all schools. Siena will continue to rely on its proven approach of blending academics with career preparation. The oering of 27 majors, 47 minors and 1,200 combinations of program choices, along with its relevant and distinctive Franciscan values-based reputation positions Siena to realize high retention and graduation rates. Linking the recruiting plan with Sienas communication and strategic plans will keep the College in the forefront of student rst choices.
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Ned Jones
Vice President for Enrollment Management
For all we do to be the prospective students rst choice, our student-centric Strategic Plan will be the ultimate recruiting tool. It makes undergraduate research a normative experience and continues to enhance the value of our product through increased diversity, resources and student engagement.
The Class of 2015

The prole of the entering class of some 784 incoming Siena freshmen reects strong interest in the College and its tradition of excellence. 50% Presidential Scholars (most highly qualied academically). 59% Freshmen ranked in the top 25 percent of their high school class. More than 70 percent of the incoming students rank in the top one-third of their class. 2 Point increase in overall student SAT scores for the incoming class (1141 for all enrolled). 82 Number of legacy students (42 daughters and sons, 40 siblings). 18.8% Increase in student ethnic diversity. 27% Students from outside New York state a 2 percent increase compared to the prior year.
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ACADEMICS
A degree and an experience.
In the 2010-11 academic year, the Oce of Academic Aairs built an important bridge between the Academic Excellence Plan and the next level of achievement. Several notable events and honors position academics at Siena for continued success. In the U.S. News & World Report annual Best Colleges rankings, Siena improved to 114 in the National Liberal Arts Colleges Tier 1 category, up from 121 last year. Forbes magazine ranked Siena at 231 on its Americas Best Colleges list among 6,600 post-secondary U.S. institutions. Siena was also ranked among the nations top Small Private Schools by the Parade Magazine survey of high school guidance counselors. Fifteen new full-time tenuretrack faculty joined the Siena community across all schools and several were promoted. Je rey Mello, Ph.D., completed his rst year as Dean of the School of Business and Allan Weatherwax, Ph.D., was named the new dean of the School of Science. Also signicant is the recognition of Sienas thriving academic community acknowledged by the accreditation of such organizations as the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
The three-year process rea rmed the Colleges outstanding teacher preparation programs by re-accrediting Siena without conditions for the next seven years. All three schools identied Franciscan concern courses for the new revised core curriculum; the new rst-year seminar has also been developed and will be taught by seasoned faculty members. This will expose incoming students to the top people in their elds as soon as the students begin classes. In the Class of 2011, more than 800 students completed degrees across Sienas 27 majors and 47 minors including an increase in the number of students who graduated with honors. Nearly 150 students were honored for their academic and service learning excellence at the 2011 Academic Celebration.
Given the increasing focus on the role of academic technology in teaching, the Chief Information
Ocer and Information Technology Services departments are now a part of Academic Aairs. The units are working on programs with faculty to help students create an e-portfolio of their four years of activities at Siena. Students will be able to build a more comprehensive resume by tracking and recording their high impact practices in addition to their academic work. A critical component in identifying opportunities and resources for expanding student engagement is being put into place with the establishment of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (CURCA). Led by a new director position, this entity will provide even more emphasis on coordinating the contacts, programs and nontraditional experiences that immerse students in high impact practices. High impact practices take many dierent forms in providing students with active, eective learning that increases rates of student engagement and retention. Survey data from the National Survey of Student Engagement validate that this learning methodology leads to higher retention, graduation, four-year graduation rates, as well as graduate school acceptances.
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ACADEMICS
Siena academics are enhanced outside the classroom through the growing program of undergraduate research and the Summer Scholars program where students partner with faculty members in scholarly inquiry and discovery, including publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals. Campus events add yet another level of intellectual stimulation. Award-winning author of 23 books, poet and playwright Gary Soto was the keynote speaker in this years
Greyfriar Living Literature Series. For the sixth annual Constitution Day lecture, Albany Law School Associate Dean Patricia Salkin, Esq., addressed students and faculty on property rights, specically eminent domain issues. The Siena College ROTC team again proved to be one of the best in the northeast. Twelve cadets competed and placed in top positions for physical and mental toughness, weapons prociency and on a written exam.
With new leadership visions, strong faculty commitment and rigorous academic endeavors, Siena students pique their intellectual curiosity and grow socially and compassionately as they set themselves on a path that oers multifaceted ways of nding their place in life. For example, 55 percent of the Class of 2011 completed an internship and 29 percent plan on attending graduate school.
Faculty Achievement
The pedagogical excellence and leadership of numerous Siena College faculty were honored during the 2011 academic year. MEG WOOLBRIGHT, D.A. Professor of English The Jerome Walton Award for Excellence in Teaching NATON D. LESLIE, Ph.D. Professor of English The Raymond C. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Scholarship SHANNON ONEILL, Ph.D. Director of the Sr. Thea Bowman Center for Women The James Knust Award for Excellence in Administration VERA ECCARIUS-KELLY, Ph.D. Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Political Science The Fr. Matthew T. Conlin, O.F.M. Distinguished Service Award JOHN ONEILL, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Department Chair of Quantitative Business Analysis Awarded the Siena College Hickey Chair in Business
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Linda Richardson, Ph.D.

Vice President for Academic Affairs
The impact of Living Our Tradition in creating experiences outside the classroom will be signicant. Immersion in high impact practices demonstrate proven outcomes in student retention, four-year graduation rates and increased interest in graduate school. Our students will complement their degrees with a portfolio of valuable accomplishments.
Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Ph.D., associate dean of liberal arts and associate professor of political science and Shannon ONeill, Ph.D., director of the Sister Thea Bowman Center for Women
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SCHOOL of LIBERAL ARTS
The cornerstone of the student experience.

The growth of the School of Liberal Arts in 2011 and the excellent work of its faculty and students illustrate the ecacy of practical learning at Siena. How ideas are created, expressed, challenged and put into action cut across traditional boundaries as the work of the arts and humanities at Siena. For the rst time in ve years, the School of Liberal Arts enrolled the largest number of majors and students. The school also successfully completed eight national searches for new and replacement faculty positions. In all cases, Siena was able to recruit its top candidates among the nalists. The continued growth of the school will be supported by a new academic building on campus. With funding approved by the Board of Trustees, the building will house the departments of Social Work, Sociology and Education. It will accommodate 27 faculty oces, eight classrooms, two computer labs and a stateof-the-art media lab. Sienas intent to create a more just, peaceable and humane world is anchored by a commitment to teaching and learning in close interaction with faculty, as well as with the local and global community. Siena subscribes to the premise of the Association of American Colleges and Universities that the liberal education of the 21st century must connect the broad knowledge and critical thinking of the liberal arts to concrete projects of inquiry, choice and action. Besides accumulating credits, Sienas core courses tie to building realworld capabilities through seminars, capstone projects, service learning and undergraduate research. An outstanding example of how the liberal arts at Siena informs solutions to real-world problems is the previously mentioned designation of the College as the rst private and Catholic College to achieve status as a Fair Trade Campus. This initiative was led by a student group with guidance from Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Ph.D., associate dean of liberal arts and associate professor of political science and Shannon ONeill, Ph.D., director of the Sister Thea Bowman Center for Women. Siena continues to expand its eorts to purchase productssuch as coee, sugar and chocolatewhich have been produced under fair working conditions. In the same spirit, a group of Siena College and Albany High School students retraced the route of the 1961 Freedom Riders through the South. The original trip was a test of a Supreme Court decision allowing passengers in interstate travel to use waiting rooms and restrooms without regard to race. Organized as a week-long study tour by Paul Murray, Ph.D., professor of sociology, the students met with former Freedom Riders and learned rst-hand about historic events that changed Americas racial climate permanently. At her internship at the Roarke Center in Troy, Jessica Fama 11 met with several clients of the neighborhood poverty program two days per week. In one particular case, a single mother with six children lived in an apartment infested with bed bugs and was in
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Ralph Blasting, Ph.D.

Dean of the School of Liberal Arts
The Strategic Plans focus on high impact practices that benet every student builds on the work weve done to cut across traditional academic boundaries. Combining faculty who engage students with new centers for inquiry and interesting innovation opportunities moves Siena closer to broader recognition as a national liberal arts college.
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serious need of new mattresses. Fama, a social work major, discussed the problem with her roommates and contacted Chris Burdo, moving and events foreman at Siena College. He arranged for the College to deliver seven mattresses to the family. Following graduation, Fama will attend New York Universitys Masters of Social Work graduate program.
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The Creative Arts Department and Stage III opened an adaptation of a classic play, HamletIRAN, directed by Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, M.F.A., professor of creative arts (theatre). The production draws parallels between the Iranian Green Movement, which followed the 2009 elections in that country, and Shakespeares magnicent story. It portrays how Hamlet seeks to challenge a corrupt government while preserving stability in his beloved country. Upon his return from a year-long Fulbright Fellowship in Israel,
Karimi-Halak also published a book of his own poetry. Faculty and students in psychology, sociology, history, creative arts, English, philosophy and Spanish participated in key conferences for those disciplines during 2011. Several students presented papers at regional and national events. For the second time in the past seven years, the Siena College Moot Court/Mock Trial Team was awarded the Spirit of the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) honor. The award recognizes the most professional team for legal demeanor and character at the associations annual tournament. The team was coached by Siena alumni in the legal eld. For the rst time in AMTA history, the same student, Christine Armstrong 13, political science major, was awarded the best witness and the best attorney trophy for her performance in the regional competition. Armstrong was also selected to attend the prestigious Student Conference on U.S. Aairs, a foreign policy event conducted yearly at the United States Military Academy at West Point. George Tehan 12, received a best paper award for his presentation Fascism in Belgium: The Rexist Movement, at the Phi Alpha
Theta National History Honor Society regional conference at Marist College. Siena students studying United States-Canada relations shared classes and guided live discussions through video conferencing with counterparts from Loyola International College of Concordia University in Montreal. The class culminated when the cohorts met face-to-face for the rst time at the Sixth Annual Globalization Studies Conference, held this year at Siena. Across several departments, guest lecturers brought their special expertise to students in history, globalization studies and Revolutionary era studies. For instance, Sheila Skemp, Ph.D., author, University of Mississippi professor and renowned Benjamin Franklin scholar took students into the past to understand better one of American historys famous leaders. The reaccreditation of the Education department by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) shines a light on one of Sienas premier multidisciplinary programs. NCATE has a rigorous accreditation process with very high standards. The reaccreditation was awarded without conditions for the next seven years and is a positive reection on all of the departments that support Education.
SCHOOL of SCIENCE
An interactive science and technology learning culture.
Across the School of Science, students and faculty continue to receive honors and participate in national and international programs focused on the advancement of science and science education. They work together and challenge one another in a labintensive curriculum. Scholarship and engagement are integral to the schools environment. In 2010-11, the School of Science received more than $400,000 in newly awarded external funds. This brings the total external funding for the school to $8.8 million in the past 10 years. The level and scope of science research at Siena generates notice from peers, supports faculty-student collaborations, makes possible the acquisition of important equipment and validates the schools credentials. In the 2011 Summer Scholars Program, the School of Science
will support a record 53 students, a 20% increase in the number of students involved in research compared to the summer of 2010. Many of the projects will carry forward to the next academic year. Maureen Jeery 13 co-wrote a paper on the theory of von Neumann algebras with Jon Bannon, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics. The paper started as a Siena Summer Scholars project two years ago. It has now been published in Involve: A Journal of Mathematics, produced by the University of California, Berkeley. A paper co-authored by Amanda Paske 11 and Jodi ODonnell, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical. Mathematics majors Lauren Peloso 11, Joe Fava 12, Megan DeRudder 12 and Bridget
DeBardelaben 12 presented their research at the Mathematics Association of America Seaway Section meeting. Kyle Billings 11, chemistry major, and Tim Bright 12, biochemistry major, along with Colleen Kelleher 13, physics major and Kaitlyn Perkins 14, biochemistry major, presented and each team won a Top 10 Poster Award at the American Chemistry Society of Eastern New York. Computer science majors Mike Tanski 12 and Ember Traino 11 presented their research with Jami Cotler, M.S., computer science instructor/ lecturer and Robin Voetterl, Ph.D., education department chair, at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference. As the Siena College Health Professions Advisor, Edward LaRow 59, Ph.D., professor of biology, has provided information
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Allan Weatherwax, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics Newly-appointed Dean of the School of Science
The Strategic Plan puts academics at the forefront. Built to sustain student engagement, it is exciting for faculty who love to work closely with students. The plan places Siena in the national conversation for liberal arts schools that embrace research.
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about careers in the health professions for 40 years. He has created many opportunities for aspiring students by putting in place several articulation agreements with schools oering health profession programs. He assists students in selecting schools, completing applications and achieving their career goals. LaRow is also the director of the Siena College-Albany Medical College Program in Science, Humanities and Medicine. In the past year, his counsel again helped 35 of 38 Siena students succeed in their applications to professional schools. Of those applicants, 30 of 31 were accepted to medical school and the balance will attend dental, optometry and veterinary schools including Albany Medical College, SUNY Bualo and Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. An important articulation agreement was signed in 2011 with the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany. CNSE is a leading global education, research, development and technology resource in nanotechnology. Two students have been accepted
for graduate studies and the agreement also includes students in internships. The agreement creates a path for Siena students pursuing advanced technology and it recognizes the quality of the preparation that science students receive at Siena. The School of Science welcomed 29 new Tech Valley Scholars to its National Science Foundationsponsored scholarship program. The Oce of the Vice President of Academic Aairs provided the funding for many of the laptops for these highly-motivated students. Under the leadership of Katherine Meierdiercks, Ph.D., assistant professor of environmental studies, the Geographic Information System (GIS) Resource Center is used to train students in the use of geospatial mapping to assemble and analyze ecological and cultural data provided by campus and community clients. The center is also conducting campus-wide workshops and providing computer stations in the library to assist other faculty in using the system for their work. Siena science students are also making contributions around the world. Fourteen students who are
in the Siena College-Albany Medical College program are engaged in non-medical work with the disadvantaged in urban areas or developing nations. The students live with other volunteers or local families in places like India, Kenya, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Peru and the Philippines. They assist in caring for people, health education, distributing medications and working in a variety of clinics. Siena biology major, Rhoda Asimeng 13, received national attention for her participation in a summer program at Monteore Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y. She was one of 17 students chosen for the program from 470 applicants. During the intense, six-week program, she attended lectures, learned medical techniques and shadowed physicians in dierent specialties. Asimeng also conducted research and wrote a nal paper on infant mortality rates. She is a member of Sienas Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP), is very active in campus activities and plans to become a physician.
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Karen Quaal, Ph.D.

Dean of the School of Science
Living Our Tradition will institutionalize the innovative teaching techniques and research experiences that have become a hallmark of science at Siena. The opportunities generated will ramp-up science programs and the pathways our students nd in preparing for their next step.
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SCHOOL of BUSINESS
Building on a solid foundation.

The Siena College School of Business has established itself as a place whose graduates hit the ground running. Their education integrates the theoretical, analytical and practical. They receive hands-on learning by using the same resources, tools and technologies that power the engines of global commerce. The school is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), a distinction earned by only eight percent of undergraduateonly programs. In April 2010, Siena named Je rey Mello, Ph.D., as the next leader of the School of Business. Dean Mello brings a wealth of experience and new ideas to build on the schools traditions of scholarship, engagement and service. During his rst year, Dean Mello instituted a complete curriculum review. He also appointed an executive advisory board as a hands-on working group providing counsel, strategy and partnership opportunities for faculty and students. The School of Business developed a comprehensive three-year strategic plan which directly supports the Sienas Living Our Tradition strategic plan. It forties the schools commitment to Franciscan values and presents an ambitious blueprint for continuing to build on the schools solid foundation and past success. In September 2010, the School of Business launched the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship as Sienas new business incubator. The initiative is supported by the school as a college-wide resource open to students in all majors. Michael Hickey 83, executivein-residence, an experienced technology executive, business leader and former president of Pitney Bowes Business Insight heads the centers day-to-day operations. It has launched an alumnus-conceived business, MoveThatBlock.com. The Siena College Entrepreneurship organization is a student club that complements the center. Both initiatives will help the school connect more closely with the business community and will oer students an environment that fosters entrepreneurial thinking. The Department of Marketing and Management has become two separate departments. Both majors have developed to stand on their own, yet still fortify one another. Students will continue to have the exibility to cross over between departments for specic course interests and customizing their degree programs. Just completing its second year, the M.S. in Accounting program continues to experience high demand for its value and its graduates. The program grew nearly 100 percent from 19 students in the rst year to 36 in 2011. As with last years class, 100 percent of this years graduates have secured employment. Achievement for Sienas business students is reected by numerous examples of their intellectual and practical experiences. Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society for AACSBaccredited schools, inducted 41 students this year. More than 100 School of Business students completed internships in a variety of private and publicly-held organizations. Sienas student team advanced to the semi nals for the rst time in the 5th Annual Federal Reserve District Competition. Their challenge was to detail the current
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Jeffrey A. Mello, Ph.D.

Dean of the School of Business
The vision and values of the Strategic Plan inspire us to think about who we are and where we go next. It is a solid foundation to move forward with great congruence and resonance in our expectations for the future impact on the School and our students.
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state of the economy and then propose monetary policy to expert judges. Another group of students met daily for weeks to perfect what would be a critical sales call. They competed in the National Sales Challenge and placed 7th in the competition that included 25 colleges and universities. In calendar year 2010, the studentmanaged David E. Bjorklund Investment Funds stellar performance included a 24.12 percent return compared to the S&P 500s 13.8 percent. Operating as part of a nance class, the funds cumulative return since its inception in 2006 is 10.85 percent versus 1.36 percent for the S&P 500. Thirty-ve student consulting teams in the Senior Capstone course in Strategic Management presented their analyses to a panel of experts to consider Monforte Dairy Company Ltd.s expansion in the artisanal dairy industry. The School of Business Student Leadership Council was formed to serve as a collective voice of the students. Members consist of the presidents or designated representatives of business student organizations. The council will also provide leadership development experiences and allow the various groups to collaborate on initiatives.
A group of marketing and management students undertook several projects and were recognized with the Trustco Bank Award for Excellence for their outstanding service to the community. The classes developed strategic plans for Saint Ambrose School in Latham. They conducted organizational change projects for the Grand Street Community Arts and the Fr. Peter Young Housing, Industries and Treatment organizations. The students also raised more than $1,000 and worked to increase community awareness for the Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless. School of Business faculty infuse students with professional knowledge and skills. They also actively participate in the important organizations that advance the overall state of higher education in business. Collectively, the business faculty published 22 peer-reviewed journal articles and had 29 conference presentations in business, economics, marketing, psychology, brand management, human resources, organizational studies, education, management and more. Paul Thurston, Ph.D., assistant professor of management, and Erik Eddy, Ph.D., associate professor of management, won the Best Applied Paper Award at the 9th
Annual International Academy of Management and Business Conference. Andrea Smith-Hunter, Ph.D., professor of management and sociology, was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Center for Womens Business Research. Matthew Stark 11 and Raj Devasagayam, Ph.D., professor of marketing and management, won the Best Paper award in consumer behavior at the Marketing Management Conference. Stark and Devasagayam also presented their paper on intrapersonal games constructs at the Asia Marketing Conference in Mumbai, India. The uncle-nephew Siena team of Assistant Professor of Marketing and Management Michael Pepe 90, Ph.D., and Michael Pepe 12 co-authored and also presented a paper at the Marketing Management Conference. A paper that resulted from a School of Business faculty-student collaboration was published in Contemporary Issues in Education Research. Joseph Rosetti, M.S., professor of marketing, and Leonard Stokes III, Ph.D., professor of accounting, worked with M.S. in Accounting student, Michelle King 11, to research and write Form Over Substance: Learning Objectives in the Business Core.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
A model for enhancing the student experience.
The growth of undergraduate research at Siena has been considerable and exciting. As a model for student engagement and success, its momentum builds every year. Today, it is institutionalized as an embedded extension of the Siena curriculum. Faculty and students from all three schools collaborate, innovate and learn from one another and the experience. The benets of undergraduate research at Siena are multidimensional. Students expand their practical learning and often develop a passion for their area of inquiry. Faculty receive valuable support in pursuit of scholarly interests. Sponsored grants provide important funding for co-curricular programs. Students, faculty and Siena earn distinction in their specic elds as a result of their work. Performing graduate level research as an undergraduate is a great source of pride and a valuable credential for students, especially for graduate school applications. And, the practice has proven to be a strong tool in recruiting new students. Faculty success with undergraduate research has become contagious. Grant applications have increased nearly 65 percent in the past year. Grants are bigger and more expansive in scope. For the 2009-10 academic year, Siena secured more than $3.1 million in grants, a 36 percent increase in funding from the prior year. This increase was due in part to Recovery Act funding which accounted for 86 percent of the funds procured, primarily from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA. The growth of grants from organizations such as NASA has opened doors to other grant opportunities and put Siena in an advantageous position among small liberal arts colleges. Larry Medsker, Ph.D., professor of computer science, physics and astronomy, has a new role in mentoring faculty who are rsttime grant applicants and teams in identifying and developing proposals. In addition, Siena has appointed Sharon Finnerty as director of grants and sponsored programs. With increasing undergraduate research interest, this new, full-time position augments grant development activities across Sienas schools. The National Academies of Science have named Allan Weatherwax, Ph.D., professor of physics and newly-appointed dean of the school of science to its Polar Research Board. Weatherwax was also recently elected as a board member of the Dudley Observatory based in Albany, N.Y. In addition to the ongoing volume of research activity during the regular school year, the Siena Summer Scholars program Siena Summer Scholars 2007-2011
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provides further opportunity and evidence of the high interest in exploration and discovery among Siena students. Since 2007, the programs student participation has more than quadrupled. The numbers tell only part of the story. Another impressive ingredient is the level of work and the outcomes being generated by students. Student theses, coauthored papers and research results are showcased nationally and internationally and recognized at conferences, competitions and in academic publications. From Loudonville to China to Chile and beyond, student projects span a wide variety of topics. Kyle Turck 12 spent his summer mixing electricity and water together. The project was funded by a National Science Foundation research grant awarded to John Cummings, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, for work on the Daya Bay project in China. The neutrino detection devices they are building will measure water transparency at one of the top ve reactor complexes in the world. Siena sophomore physics major and Tech Valley Scholar, Alissa Earle 13 works closely with Rose Finn, Ph.D., associate professor
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of physics and astronomy. Earle traveled the world this year to pursue her astronomy interests. Her hands-on research locations included Arizona, Puerto Rico and Chile. She also used her training to teach a ve-week series of astronomy classes to local middle school Girl Scout groups. Joseph Shea 11 and Craig Rovito 12, both biology majors, presented a poster on their genetic analysis of the invasive species, Phragmites australis, at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Tom Mottola 11, David Purcell 12 and Zachary Fitzsimmons 12 placed rst in the Consortium for the Computing Sciences in Colleges of the Northeast Regions Programming Contest. Sponsored by the Siena School of Business, the sixth annual Student Conference in Business displayed the work done by students from all majors and class years. The conference was organized and conducted by Cheryl Bu 82, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing and management and Raj Devasagayam, Ph.D., professor of marketing and management, working with student leaders Alexandra Tooulias 11 and Melissa Pugliese 11. Students presented research papers and case studies in accounting, business strategy, economics, nance, marketing and management. Their projects covered
a diverse and interesting set of topics including the Eects of Oshoring on Domestic Wages, Winning in the NHL, Double-Dip Recession, Capital Trend Investments and Consumer Behavior. In his independent study project, Improving Business Ecacy Using Social Media, John Farley 11 took an in-depth look at the various ways businesses use social media and search engine optimization to reach target markets. He interviewed 33 dierent leaders and conducted surveys to compare the rms Facebook and Twitter practices. Across the liberal arts, studentfaculty research probes social, legal, historical, arts, economic and political issues. Cynthia Love, sociology student and Development and External Aairs coordinator of administration, and Sudarat Musikawong, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology and project advisor, presented their co-authored paper at the American Sociology Associations National Conference. The paper described how Barack Obama achieved an online presidency through his digital campaign. The paper evaluated how the campaign used social media to present simultaneous racialized and de-racialized identities to attract dierent audiences. In the Summer Legal Fellows Program, 12 Siena students worked
at six dierent law schools under the supervision of law school professors while undertaking original legal research with second- and third-year law students. Their work has the potential for publication, as well as being the basis for legal action. American Studies major Cameron Green 12 dreamed he would someday work at Colonial Williamsburg. Last fall he participated in a historical farming internship that took him back in time hundreds of years. He conducted research with one of Americas foremost archaeologists in early American history, including excavating at the church where Pocahontas was baptized and later married. The Center for Revolutionary Era Studies (CRES) has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). It is the largest grant in the history of the School of Liberal Arts. The grant will be used to train a new generation of American Revolution scholars by expanding the CRES curriculum and outreach to the community. CRES will establish a digitization center to preserve fragile documents for future research, allowing undergraduate students to perform work primarily done at the graduate level.
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Alfredo Medina, Jr.

Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Government and Foundation Relations
Undergraduate research at Siena has proven to be an effective high impact educational practice that can exist in a traditional liberal arts context. That momentum and the increased focus of Living Our Tradition position Siena to reach yet another level where every student nds a creative place to succeed.
SERVICE
A national model for a campus with heart.

During the past year, the Siena College community contributed more than 20,000 hours to benet nonprot community partners. The bottom-line result saw a measurable value of more than $2.7 million to help educate children, feed the hungry, resettle refugees, build a more sustainable environment, address the disparities caused by poverty and more. More than 1,000 students, faculty and sta mobilized themselves and many others to weave Franciscan values into service work for more than 120 community-based organizations. Thirty Siena faculty incorporated service learning as an actionable component in their courses. In its role as the center of Sienas volunteer community service, the Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy (FCSA) continues to provide valuable help to people in need. From service fairs to blood drives and from fund-raising walks to the Equinox Thanksgiving Dinner and more, FCSA matches hundreds of people and needs with funds and support in the Franciscan spirit of service. The Centers programs engage hundreds of student volunteers in direct relationships, working not just for people, but with them, in numerous activities each year. During the 2011 spring break, nearly 100 Siena College students served the poor and marginalized at eight dierent locations including ve Habitat for Humanity construction sites, Philadelphias St. Francis Inn, Bostons St. Francis House and the Dominican Republic. To capture the spirit, talents and generosity of Siena students during the 2010 spring break, Siena Serves, a video documentary, was produced by the Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy. Siena received the College of the Year and the Heroes awards from the American Red Cross. Through FCSA, the College collected 726 units of blood from students, faculty, sta and administrators
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in four drives during the past year. This amount is calculated to have the potential of saving more than 2,000 lives. Siena is a Platinum Life Share Sponsor and raised $4,000 at the second annual Saints Race for the Red Cross 5K. For 46 years Sienas Mentoring Program has touched thousands of lives and given Albany youth the opportunity for a better childhood. Every Saturday during the school year and during the summer, student volunteers (Bigs) spend one-onone time with their Littles. The approximately 80 children arrive by bus, eat lunch in Serra Dining Hall and participate in a variety of activities. Many of the children have gone on to college after being exposed to an atmosphere that promotes education. Eight high school seniors who entered the program in the second grade have been accepted to college for the fall semester and two will attend Siena. Five of Sienas current Trustees completed the program. John Dawson 68 was a Big for four years and, as part of his generous gift to Siena, $700,000 was allocated for Siena scholarships for Mentoring Program graduates. In the fall and spring, FCSAs Community Service Days invited nearly 30 local agencies to organize projects which were staed and completed by over 100 students each semester. Likewise, the Volunteer Service Fair saw 83 partners introduce themselves and their programs to the FCSAs student volunteers. Each year, graduating students also sign on with agencies to perform full-time volunteer work after they leave Siena. In the summer of 2010, six FCSA student participants volunteered to serve as camp counselors at the Double H Ranch in the Adirondacks, which provides a residential summer experience for critically ill children.
In conjunction with the Habitat Club, FCSA sponsored a service trip for students focused on learning and practicing advocacy. Ten student volunteers went to the state capitol where they learned lobbying techniques and then put their new knowledge to work in petitioning legislators on behalf of the homeless. During the holiday season, the Centers annual Franciscan Giving Tree received requests from 22 local service agencies. More than 2,200 gifts were collected from the Siena community and distributed to 76 families. In 2010-11, one of the major endorsements of Sienas Developing Engaging Educational Partnerships (DEEP) service approach was the awarding of a $500,000 endowment by the Bonner Foundation to continue its partnership with the College. A matching endowment of $500,000 was also donated by John Dawson 68. Siena was awarded the Bonner endowment in the fastest amount of time than any other college. In celebrating the fourth year of Sienas Bonner Program, Ariane Hoy, senior program ocer of the foundation said to the crowd assembled in the Maloney Great Room, We are constantly impressed by the approach you have taken. You have worked strategically to engage all members of the campus community, including faculty, to contribute as an ally to the work of your nonprot community partners and their important aims. The Oce of Academic Community Engagement (ACE) and the Siena Research Institute also collaborate on the Assessment of Service and Civic Engagement study to help Bonner programs move to the next level. They interviewed 12,000 students across 30 campuses in order to understand the dynamics of student and college community engagement. Siena is now a national authority on the topic.
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Six students in the Bonner Summer Program are spending ve weeks in India. There they work with Franciscan Friars and three non-prot partnerships on poverty projects. Siena was the host site for the Bonner Summer Leadership Institute. The national event is a gathering of more than 450 students, faculty and administrators from 87 institutions of higher education. Bonner scholars and leaders facilitated more than 65 workshops exploring numerous strategies for such topics as advocacy, communitybased research and service learning course design. The work of the Bonner Service program members deserves special notice. Many students have distinguished themselves as both scholars and leaders. Michelle Campbell 13 has volunteered and traveled on service trips, served as a resident assistant, attended national conferences, was a writing tutor and interned at the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. April Risley 12 was one of six students
from 87 applicants who interned at the Bonner Foundation. She has been a leader in diversity and mentoring programs, as well as a valued worker at the Boys and Girls Club. Risley is also a Summer Legal Fellow at Pace University. Amanda Simone 11 has been involved for all four years. Along with developing professional and leadership skills and learning important life lessons, she has interned in the Siena Bonner program oce. A Presidents List student, Simone has been accepted to three medical schools. Ruth Scipione, Ph.D., joined the ACE sta in the new position of assistant director and coordinator of academic service learning. Her focus will advance training and support for faculty developing service learning curricula and experiential learning. The Volunteers In Service To America (VISTA) Fellows program at Siena has also been recognized as a model by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Siena recruits, trains and provides a home and management of the network of
VISTAs in the Capital Region. The program continues to growfrom 16 Fellows in 2010 to 32 for 2011-12 to build the capacity and eectiveness of communitybased organizations. Siena sta and students play an active part in the national organizations that guide college community service programs. They attended the Impact Conference, the largest conference of student service leaders held at Stetson University; the National Conference on Service of the Corporation for National and Community Service; and the Institute on Partnerships Conference, to name a few. Matthew Johnson 93, Ph.D., director of academic community engagement and associate professor of sociology and environmental studies, was the keynote speaker at the third annual Asia/Pacic Regional Conference on Service Learning. He was also invited by the U.S. Department of Education to participate in a national roundtable discussion of civic learning and democratic engagement. The big-picture story of Sienas success as a service leader is built by the many examples of individual and team eorts of Siena people helping others. The Student Events Board raised nearly $18,000 for Operation Adopt A Soldier during this years Charity Week. Students held bingo, wine tastings and an auction to help provide supplies for American service men and women ghting overseas. Fifty-six Siena community members, led by Gaelic Society President Tim Quinn 12, had their heads shaved during the annual St. Baldricks Day celebration. The event raised more than $17,000 for pediatric cancer research. For the eighth annual Relay for Life event, Siena students stayed up all night and raised over $36,000 for the American Cancer Society. They listened to
inspirational stories from cancer survivors, watched student performers, had a chicken wing eating contest and played bingo while raising awareness on campus. In addition to their unselsh work, some students are also quite creative in how they help others. Tim Golden 13, environmental studies major, and John DeCirce 11, economics major, work closely with Norm Kvam, general manager of Dining Services to help feed people in need. Dining Services commits surplus food while Golden and DeCirce organize a group of students to make 50 sandwiches during the early evening hours three times a week, which they deliver to the Albany FOCUS Churches food program the following morning. The Sr. Thea Bowman Center for Women organized 100 volunteers to conduct the annual Cinderella Project. The non-prot group provides nancially disadvantaged girls with prom dresses and accessories to grant local girls their desired dream night. More than 1,500 donated, mintcondition dresses were collected over several months by the Womens Center and set up in the Sarazen Student Union. The volunteers served as fashion consultants for the high school-aged shoppers. A dozen Siena students donated time and knowledge for the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program. The accounting majors oered free tax return help to mostly low-income taxpayers in Albany. Sienas service ethic follows students into life. One example is Joe Marotta 80, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon and Siena Athletics team doctor. Inspired by a visiting missionarys talk about the desperate needs of people in Africa, he founded Medicus in Christi (translated to Doctor in Christ) to help. His goal is to establish a treatment, training and rehabilitation center in Ghanas Cape Coast Diocese.
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Fr. Mathius Doyle 55, O.F.M., Ph.D.

Director of Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy
Living Our Tradition represents a concrete demonstration that the College recognizes service work and learning are at the core of a Siena education. The choices made in the plan for enriching student experiences and the resources committed will ensure growth in meaningful student engagement.
FACULTY AND STAFF
Shaping leaders with knowledge and example.

The challenging dynamics of todays and tomorrows world demand more from students graduating from college. Likewise, students are arriving on campuses expecting more from their educational institutions. A highly professional faculty and sta are primary to meeting those expectations. At Siena, virtually everything that happens is the result of a faculty or sta member who is driven to provide the environment and resources to exceed those expectations. Besides professional credentials, the Siena community also brings a character and spirit that is contagious and life changing. The faculty and sta at Siena have a lasting eect on young people who not only learn as students, but develop as leaders. Their relationships with students forge a special union. Their extra eorts in and out of the classroom enrich Siena and the whole student experience. Jon Bannon, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, is typical of the dedication of Siena faculty to student engagement. Over more than two years, he co-wrote a paper with Maureen Jeery 12, a mathematics major. The paper explores the feasibility of using nite matrices to model measurements in quantum mechanics. It started as a Siena Summer Scholars project and was published in Involve: A Journal of Mathematics, produced by the University of California, Berkeley. Br. Brian Belanger, O.F.M., Ph.D., director of international programs and Fr. Bill Beaudin 76, O.F.M., guardian of the friary, have been elected to the Provincial Council of the Holy Name Province as advisors to the Franciscan provincial minister. During the most recent academic year, Siena faculty published some 375 articles in academic journals and publications. Fr. Peter Fiore 49, O.F.M., Ph.D., professor emeritus of English and scholar-in-residence, published his sixth book titled The Gospels Are Now: Timeless Gospel Themes and Life, Literature and the Arts. It examines events of Christs life as they are reected in recent novels, plays, operas, paintings and lms. Margaret Hannay, Ph.D., professor of English, published a book titled Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth. It is an extensive study of the life of Wroth, an English poet of the Renaissance, who was among the rst female British writers to achieve an enduring reputation.
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Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Ph.D., professor of creative arts (art history) and chair of the creative arts department, edited the 106th volume of the Analecta Husserliana. The Netherlands-based publication also features three of her essays on the subjects of originality, intention and communication in art. Trutty-Coohill and her husband, Thomas Coohill, Ph.D., professor of physics, also hosted Sienas three Haitian guest students, who lived with the Coohills during the past year. Joe Zoske, M.S., M.S.W., administrator of the Social Work Program, spoke around the country on his area of expertise, mens health, including at the Centers for Disease Control and for the Texas and Arizona departments of health. Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, M.F.A., professor of creative arts, was featured on the Theatre Communications Group website for his participation in the recent Theatre Without Borders conference. Karen Mahar, Ph.D., associate professor of history, and Paul Thurston, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing and management, received Information Literacy Faculty Development Grants. The awards
are presented to faculty who incorporate information literacy into their curriculum to enhance teaching, learning and assessment. Bernard Bloom, Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Gates of Heaven, was this years recipient of the St. Bernardine of Siena Medal. The award is given to people whose careers and accomplishments reect commitment to Franciscan traditions. Rabbi Bloom has served as leader of Sienas Hayyim H. Kieval Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies and spent more than 20 years as an adjunct professor. The Honorable Larry J. Rosen has been appointed Sienas new Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence. He will advise, mentor and guide students interested in law. He brings to the position a long career as a judge, New York Senate minority counsel and private practice attorney. The faculty project conducting classes at the Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility has oered 13 classes for credit to 65 inmate students, with the average student taking more than three classes. Reecting a true Franciscan outcome, this program has changed the lives and personal expectations of the students.
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FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
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A system of systems for learning and living.
The convenience, comfort, safety and well-being of thousands of students, faculty, sta and visitors to the Siena campus rely on a complex network of facilities, infrastructure and resources. Classrooms, labs, housing, technology, grounds, power, energy and equipment are all expected to perform well every time, every season. To maintain Sienas village requires considerable advance planning and timely response to more than 15,000 annual campus service requests, as well as support for some 2,000 events of all sizes. The success of Sienas facilities and infrastructure management is one of the primary enablers that allow everyone on the campus to focus on doing their own jobs well. From deferred maintenance and such basic repairs as painting and ooring to complete renovations and new construction, from the ability to learn in a comfortable environment to the condence that a wireless connection is available 24/7, the countless things we take for granted are all part of the full scope of keeping the campus working smoothly. Beyond the obvious upgrades and repairs, several major infrastructure projects are underway at any time. In 2010-11, undertakings included emergency power system installations, a storm water system upgrade, a new elevated wetlands walkway and roadway paving, townhouse and classroom renovations and a complete renovation of the Serra Hall kitchen and support spaces. Sienas new residence hall, opened in the fall of 2010, has created a model for new and renovated student housing going forward. The hall has enjoyed a high level of student satisfaction for its living and communal spaces, integrated dining and tness centers, ambiance, conveniences and energy eciency. A sophisticated and ongoing assessment of campus needs is updated yearly through the Backlog of Essential Maintenance And Repair (BEMAR) plan. It identies and compiles a backlog of more than $40 million of maintenance and repair needs.
It helps the College determine proper facilities investment levels and provides a basis for identifying priority capital projects. With the help of a nationally recognized facilities advisor, Siena also benchmarks operational and capital investment performance against those of other comparable colleges and universities. Best practices in energy conservation, environmental sensitivity, recycling and sustainability are an essential part of the Siena College approach to campus operations and are consistent with the schools Franciscan values. Each year for the past several years, recycling achievements have saved tons of paper, thousands of gallons of fuel, hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and pallet loads of end-of-life electronic equipment. With nearly 5,000 electronic and computing devices in use on campus every week, last year saw more than 15,000 pounds of electronics recycled. As with the new residence hall, recycled materials are also playing a role in new construction and major rehabilitations on campus. Signicant reductions in the use of chemical-based cleaning products have lessened the need for storage, exposure and potential liability in favor of green cleaning compounds and techniques. This includes the use of of ionized water for cleaning, which reduces the use of chemicals, as well as their storage and disposal. In conjunction with National Grid, Siena is conducting an energy audit to identify and maximize the projects and associated savings that can be attained to complement the high value already gained through lower energy consumption programs. During the past year, new high-eciency light xtures installed through most of the Marcelle Athletic Complex are saving thousands of dollars in energy costs and providing improved conditions for student athletes. The College is also exploring renewable energy options for future projects that may reduce commercial energy consumption and will highlight our eorts to enhance campus sustainability.
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Mark Frost
Assistant Vice President for Facilities Management
The expectations and actions of Living Our Tradition will touch virtually every area of Sienas facilities and infrastructure classrooms, labs, residential spaces, research, recreation, social facilities, events, energy and technology. The future promises an even better campus for living, learning and working.
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VISIBILITY
Generating broader and deeper understanding.
As the national reputation of Siena continues to evolve, the Colleges audiences and the means of communication to reach them are also expanding seemingly exponentially. Beyond traditional media, new and numerous channels emerge almost daily. At the same time, the competition for attention in the media is intense. As a result, the Siena College outreach approaches to reputation management are diverse. During the past year, Siena College appeared in the media more than 700 times, nearly double that of the prior year. The stories included campus events, community service initiatives, alumni accomplishments and faculty expert analysis on topics including politics, the economy and fair trade status. The national television coverage of Duane Matcha, Ph.D., professor of sociology, featuring his perspective on the ethics of a heart transplant for an incarcerated prisoner achieved more than $350,000 in publicity value. Several Siena faculty provided expert perspective to the media on a variety of issues including the economy, politics, fair trade, the Middle East and September 11th. Stories that have appeared in the media are captured on Siena Scoop, Sienas online newsroom, which is accessible from the Siena website home page. In addition to direct placement with the media, the Oce of Strategic Communications and Integrated Marketing (SCIM) utilized specialized services to place announcements of graduates, Presidents list and Deans list students in their hometown newspapers. SCIM also posted 74 stories on the siena.edu news page and highlighted mission-related stories in the rotating feature on the home page. Many of the stories released on the Siena News link are also viewable as video clips. An important initiative in Sienas quest for maintaining a strong presence in social media was the establishment of a
new position of Associate Director of E-Communication. The position is building the social media audience, establishing a digital assets library and delivering a more interactive experience on the web. The College now has more than 12,000 followers on Facebook (www.facebook. com/sienacollege). Siena was recognized as #1 for the most engaging Facebook page in the Large category dened by number of fans and not number of students by an external college and university rating organization. On Twitter, Siena has more than 1,420 followers who can access the latest information and activity at several @sienacollege lists. In an article in the National Catholic Reporter, Sienas proactive achievement of fair trade status was highlighted as a model which the Franciscan Action Network aspires to apply to all Catholic colleges and universities. Shannon ONeill, Ph.D., director of the Sr. Thea Bowman Center for Women and Sienas sta champion for the fair trade eort was quoted in the article saying, We teach our students that every act they make as a consumer is value-laden and for us, given our Franciscan and Catholic mission, it just made sense to leverage our power as an institutional consumer to value solidarity with the poor and marginalized producers by purchasing fair trade certied products wherever possible. SCIMs paper, The Science of Higher Ed Facebook Pages, on using Facebook eectively for higher education marketing was accepted by the American Marketing Association for their annual symposium.
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Best Four-Year College

For the second consecutive year, Siena received top honors in the Times Union Best of the Capital Region Poll. Siena once again topped the University at Albany, RPI, Union and others in the annual reader survey.
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To view the video, Siena Serves, visit www.youtube.com and keyword search Siena Serves
VISIBILITY
The 2010 Siena College Presidents Report won a national Educational Advertising Gold Award. The awards competition is the largest for colleges, universities and secondary schools in the country. The Siena 10,000 Fans Contest on Facebook was also a Gold Award recipient and the Siena Business Report was cited as a Merit winner. The Presidents Report 2010 and Siena News e-news were also winners in the nationally-judged Albany Ad Club awards. To capture the spirit, talents and generosity of Siena students during the 2010 spring break, Siena Serves, a video documentary, was produced. Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy Associate Director July Dougherty 06, Media Relations Specialist Ken Jubie 04 and Siena College Television Manager David Etzler created the half-hour documentary from the videos taken during the students service trips to St. Francis House homeless shelter in Boston, Mass., the St. Francis Inn soup kitchen in Philadelphia, Pa., and Habitat for Humanity build sites in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Sienas presence in community events like the CDPHP Workforce Team Challenge is yet another source of strength for the Colleges reputation building. In 2011, 88 Siena team members were awarded a plaque for having the second largest education group participation. The 5K Challenge is the largest road race between Utica and New York City and is held as a benet for Albanys Police Athletic League. Through the eorts and guidance of Judy Capano Michaelson 87, former CEO of Rosetta Wishbone, Siena College has embarked on a program to increase awareness of Siena. Capano donated Wishbones time and expertise to help a cross-functional team from Siena to develop its strategy. Through research conducted by SRI and Wishbones creativity, a messaging tagline has been developed for communicating the ultimate benet of Siena: The Education of a Lifetime. That statement fuses the rational with the emotional and captures the essence of Siena. It will drive integrated marketing eorts. It will be featured across Siena communications to help reinforce the Colleges national reputation in student engagement that leads to student achievement and success.
The Siena Research Institute (SRI)

Now in its 30th year, SRI conducts regional, statewide and national surveys and public opinion polls on business, economic, political, voter, social, academic and historical issues. SRI is an ongoing source of media visibility for Siena. The Institutes polls are quoted in local, regional and national media. During the 2010-11 year, SRI conducted numerous election polls and correctly named the winner in eight state senate districts. They called two congressional races within a few percentage points. And, SRI forecasted the governors race more accurately than other academic and publicly disseminated polls.
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Don Levy, Ph.D., director of SRI
The Institutes surveys received national coverage on CNN, NBC, FOX and MSNBC, as well as regional newspapers, radio and the Internet.
Delcy Fox
Director of Strategic Communications and Integrated Marketing
Implementation of the new Strategic Plan will generate numerous new stories to facilitate broader and deeper understanding of Sienas approach to providing The Education of a Lifetime. The outcomes will continue to build on Sienas momentum and will enhance the Colleges reputation in existing markets and new markets.
DEVELOPMENT
The impact of individual and corporate giving on the students at Siena is profound. So many people have had their lives changed by their Siena experience. Their stories are heart-warming. Six hundred Siena students come from Pell-eligible families where the average annual income is less than $30,000. And 200 of those are from poverty-level homes with average annual incomes of less than $9,000. This is not a new trend; it is another long-standing tradition of Siena College to make the dream of a college education accessible to many eager-to-learn students of modest means who might otherwise not be able to attend. During 2011, Siena continued as the beneciary of its major support from the Friars of the Holy Name Province. Tuition also remained the primary source for operating revenue. Total philanthropic contributions from alumni and other donors decreased slightly, but Siena welcomed 3,270 new donors overall. Siena also saw an increase in givingby 41 percent for all reunion classesat the annual Reunion event. When people come back to campus and see the progress of their Siena, they are amazed and moved. They also understand how the College aspires to keep getting better. To share the progress with those who do not get to the campus, through this report, we highlight just some of the many successes of the Siena community.
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Class Projects
Each year at the annual reunion event, class year groups enjoy reconnecting and reminiscing. Many use the occasion to also say Thanks! to Siena and give back so that others may benet. Reunion classes not only increased the amount of their support, but increased the number of donors by 23 percent. Leading the way in reunion giving was the Class of 1981, which doubled their donations, and the Class of 1961 with an 85 percent increase in donations.
To see a video of the Alumni Awards ceremony, visit www.youtube.com and keyword search Siena Alumni Awards
Helping keep dreams alive.
Alumni Achievement
We are also reminded of the value of a Siena degree when we see the success of our alumni. In 2011, the following Siena College alumni distinguished themselves in their chosen career elds. Mae DAgostino 77, Esq., was unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York. ROTC graduate, Chris Gibson 86, M.P.A., Ph.D., a retired Army colonel, was elected to the U.S. Congress from New Yorks 20th District. Bob OConnell 63 received the AARP New Yorks Andrus Award, its most prestigious volunteer honor for community service. Mary Liz Finn 82 was hired as Chief Human Resources Ocer at The Nielsen Company, joining Brian West 91, Chief Financial Ocer, on their leadership team. Thomas Murphy 80 was promoted to President of Glens Falls National Bank. Martin Sullivan 65 was named Director of the Smithsonian Institute National Portrait Gallery. Ed Henry 95 joined Fox News to become Chief White House Correspondent. Kate Gutmann 90 was promoted to President, Worldwide Sales at UPS.
An important ceremony at Reunion is the presentation of the Distinguished Alumni Awards. This year, Shari Golub Schillinger 86 received the Reverend Benjamin Kuhn, O.F.M. Award for Service to the Siena Community; John Genovese 76, Esq., Thomas Baldwin 81 and William Redmond, Jr. 81 were honored with the Professor Joseph Bu Award for Career Achievement; and Thomas Pillsworth 61 was selected for the Professor Egon Plager Award for Humanitarian Eort. In Albany Business Reviews CFO of the Year awards, John Endres 74, senior vice president of nance, CFO and treasurer of the Golub Corp., received the honor in the large private company category and David DeLuca 74, executive vice president and CFO of Pioneer Bank, was honored in the medium private company category. Three other Siena graduates were also nalists: Northeast Parent & Child Society CFO and Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration Richard Marini 74, The Community Hospice Director of Finance Virginia Arbour 83 and Environment One Corp. Vice President of Finance Keith Abatto 93. In the latest 40 Under Forty Awards of the Business Review, recognizing the Capital Regions young professional achievers, six of the winners were Siena College alumni. Fr. Kenneth Paulli 82, O.F.M., Ed.D., chief of sta at Siena College, imagined he would have a business career at a corporate giant. Then he attended Siena as an undergraduate and realized that perhaps God had other plansa journey that would take him back to his alma mater years later as a friar, teacher and administrator. To commemorate his 25th anniversary as a friar and his 20th anniversary as a priest, Fr. Kens friends, colleagues and family established
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David Smith 79
Vice President for Development and External Affairs
The Strategic Plan comes at a great moment in Siena history. It enables us to dream. It highlights how great the College has become and how much more we still can do. The plan and the Comprehensive Campaign will offer numerous, substantive reasons for people to get behind Siena.
DEVELOPMENT
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the Fr. Kenneth P. Paulli 82, O.F.M., Ed.D. Scholarship by raising $243,460. It was dedicated to honor his grandparents whose commitment to education inspired the same value in him. It will make it possible for more young people to receive an education at Siena. The Estate of John Dawson 68 committed $500,000 to match a Bonner Foundation challenge to create a $1 million endowment for the Siena College Bonner Service Leaders Program. The Bonner Foundation has developed a network of more than 87 colleges and universities across the country during the last 20 years committed to access to education, and the opportunity to serve. Siena Colleges Bonner Service Leaders Program will support 60 talented students each year, committed to integrating academics and service, professional development and leadership throughout their collegiate journey. Siena Bonner Service Leaders perform over 1,800 hours of service during a four year period to strengthen our communities. Siena has raised the initial $150,000the rst benchmark of the $500,000 three-for-one challenge grantfor the Center for Revolutionary Era Studies. This has earned the release of $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The 50 for 5 Challenge created by Virginia Darrow 83 and Armand Maldonado 81 encouraged new donors to make a gift to the Siena Annual Fund and have their donation matched up to $50,000. The challenge resulted in 757 new donors for the Annual Fund with $82,170 in new monies raisedan average of $108 for each new gift. The Touhey Family Foundation, the RJBK Foundation and a group of more than 40 alumni, Siena community members and friends of Siena combined resources to fund the Freedom Ride study tour (see page 19) that enabled students from Siena and Albany High School to retrace the Freedom Riders route on the 50th anniversary of their heroic trip.
Siena College was truly blessed to have the Honorable James P. King as a coach, mentor, educator, and most importantly, friend to the students whose lives he enriched. His passing in 2010 compelled many pre-law alumni to contact Siena to do something to honor the man who made such an impact on their lives during his six years of service as the Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence. King was a role model and gave tirelessly as coach to the Moot Court/Mock Trial Teams. Due in no small part to his commitment, the team advanced to the national competition level twice. To preserve his memory and honor his dedication, the Hon. James P. King Siena College Moot Court/Mock Trial Team Endowment was established. Led by Siena College Associate Trustee Jay Girvin 78, Esq., and his law partner, Sal Ferlazzo 77, Esq., a 1:3 challenge was created with the goal of raising $100,000. In six short months the goal was achieved. The endowment will support Siena students by defraying costs of materials, training and travel. From April 2010 to April 2011, 20 donors endowed 14 new scholarships with a value of $462,000 in gifts and pledges. Total scholarship awards for 2010-11 were approximately $2 million. Siena currently has 230 endowed scholarships with a total endowment value of $37 million. As with most vibrant organizations, Siena College must be condent in its ability to meet future demand. Higher quality requires scale and resources that transcend annual operating plans. Based on a feasibility study, it has been determined that a Comprehensive Campaign is needed to advance Living Our Tradition Siena College Strategic Plan 2011-2016. Aligned with the plan, the campaign will roll-out over the next ve years. It will detail how the funds will be used and why those uses are important. It will oer the broader Siena community many opportunities to tailor their support and help the College move to the next level.
FINANCE
While the nations economic recovery has been slow and choppy, the nancial footing of Siena College has continued to strengthen. Like most organizations, Siena did not come through the recent economic turmoil unscathed. And, we did not stand still. At the close of the 2011 academic year, Siena nished with a modest operating surplus and a healthy investment return on the endowment. A number of factors contributed to Sienas continued nancial health and stability. The discipline to balance budgets. Cost-cutting and cost-avoidance initiatives. Ongoing savings of $500,000 in annual energy consumption. A systematic plan for facilities maintenance and repair. Sound leadership from the Budget and Finance and Investment Committees of the Board of Trustees. Numerous actions helped to make a dierence this yeara new lighting system in the Alumni Recreation Center generating $120,000 in annual savings, heating systems upgrades in some buildings, maintaining seasonal temperature protocols and sound management of energy price volatility, to name a few. Moreover, due to energy consumption associated with the 4.5 day summer work week, electricity usage has declined with this June marking the lowest recorded consumption in the past seven years. In June 2005, Siena consumed 1,348,000 kilowatt hours. Since then, the June average is 1,050,000 kilowatt hours. Even with the additions of programs and space, overall kilowatt hour consumption has decreased by approximately 13 percent in the past six years. One of the ndings during the Strategic Plan process was the realization that Sienas conference services are a mechanism to leverage campus facilities and generate signicant revenue. As a result of a full review and benchmarking, an updated rate schedule has been developed to keep the College
A solid base.
competitive while increasing the potential for revenue for internally and externally sponsored events. Sienas commitment to an increased focus on risk assessment and management has become more robust. Working with the Presidents Cabinet and the Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees, a dedicated risk manager is now charged with addressing a wide range of conditions and programs in order to reduce risk and provide compliance assurance. Through the economic meltdown, Sienas endowment has performed better compared to benchmark institutions and continues to recover reasonably well. The endowment returned 20.4 percent for the year ending May 31, 2011 and in total it stood at $131.9 million (up from $112.6 million at May 31, 2010). This performance is vital to the College as a good share of the endowment contributes to student nancial aid. At the same time, Siena College remains able to succeed in its mission of making high-quality higher education accessible with more than 99 percent of Siena students receiving nancial aid. With an A3 debt rating issued by Moodys Investors Service, Moodys related metrics for Siena compared to similarly sized schools continue to be favorable. As important as our nancial performance is to the past year, its implications for the years ahead are perhaps more critical. The nancial resources required by the full scope of the new Strategic Plan will add demand through the expansion of student research, new centers, enhanced facilities, more opportunities for deserving applicants and more services, technology and infrastructure. The Comprehensive Campaigns success will directly inuence positive outcomes for the Strategic Plans initiatives and will result in easing the pressure on the Colleges resources.
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Paul Stec 79, M.B.A., C.P.A.

Vice President for Finance and Administration
The Siena community continually demonstrates the capabilities and discipline to meet and exceed its academic, nancial and mission-centered objectives. The commitment and energy of Siena people is a great source of optimism for achieving the many important goals of the Strategic Plan.
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

May 31, 2011 and 2010
2011 ASSETS Cash and cash equivalents Short-term investments Accounts receivable net Accrued investment income Contributions receivable net Deposits with bond trustees Prepaid expenses and other assets Student loans receivable net Long term investments Land, buildings and equipment net Total Assets LIABILITIES and net assets Liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses Deposits and deferred revenues Annuities payable Postretirement benets Federal student loan funds Asset retirement obligation Long-term debt Total liabilities siena 2011 presidents report Net Assets Unrestricted: Net invested in property, plan and equipment Undesignated Designated by external contracts: Planned giving annuity reserves Designated by Board of Trustees Capital projects and equipment Long-term investments and growth Program support Total unrestricted Temporarily restricted Permanently restricted: Financial aid Academic and student services programs Faculty chairs Facilities Total permanently restricted Net assets Total liabilities and net assets
$ $ 12,596,926 3,000,478 2,162,253 35,319 2,915,347 5,866,809 2,845,148 3,367,346 139,237,449 112,140,668 284,167,743
2010
4,492,218 2,999,912 2,494,217 62,507 3,496,294 22,784,183 2,629,033 3,462,215 119,468,426 105,891,109 267,780,114
11,187,047 3,642,392 1,045,873 12,323,775 3,088,838 3,465,454 60,100,452 94,853,831
14,187,997 2,037,616 1,065,459 9,427,391 3,071,426 3,332,071 63,414,420 96,536,380
59,798,170 26,374,394 892,340 29,375,520 9,398,393 797,490 39,571,402 126,636,307 4,144,397 48,358,869 7,169,344 1,658,009 1,346,986 58,533,208 189,313,912 284,167,743
67,182,528 15,199,953 763,802 25,767,522 8,119,938 656,483 34,543,943 117,690,226 4,180,929 40,894,296 5,848,309 1,441,730 1,188,244 49,372,579 171,243,734 267,780,114
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STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
Year ended May 31, 2011
(With summarized nancial information for the year ended May 31, 2010)
Unrestricted
Temporarily restricted
Permanently restricted
2011 Total
2010 Total
OPERATING REVENUES Tuition, fees, room and board Less: nancial aid Net tuition, fees, room and board Government grants and contributions Private gifts and grants Investment returns Other Net assets released from restrictions Total operating revenues OPERATING EXPENSES Instruction General administration Student services Institutional support Auxiliaries Other Total operating expenses Increase in net assets from operating activities
$ 113,915,966 33,305,859 80,610,107 2,180,999 2,819,889 6,279,806 3,795,333 294,361 95,980,495
113,915,966 33,305,859 80,610,107 2,180,999 3,178,719 6,279,806 3,925,859 96,175,490
103,648,033 30,228,400 73,419,633 1,474,622 3,214,255 6,545,629 3,527,873 88,182,012
358,830 130,526
(294,361)
194,995
39,097,187 7,030,521 16,884,413 10,600,909 21,011,814 33,887 94,658,731 1,321,764 194,995
39,097,187 7,030,521 16,884,413 10,600,909 21,011,814 33,887 94,658,731 1,516,759
36,989,956 6,633,709 16,399,567 9,666,381 17,579,361 81,985 87,350,959 831,053
NON-OPERATING ACTIVITIES Investment return Contributions Actuarial gain (loss) on annuity obligations Postretirement benet obligation changes other than net periodic cost Other-fundraising expense Net assets released from restrictions Increase in net assets from non-operating activities Net increase in net assets Net assets at beginning of year Net assets at end of year
9,360,584 63,978
180,285 224,582 93
7,988,254 1,164,831 (25,818)
17,529,123 1,453,391 (25,725)
8,492,309 4,007,784 (116,103)
(2,118,212) (285,158)
603,125 7,624,317 8,946,080 117,690,226 $ 126,636,307
(2,118,212) (285,158) (636,487) (231,527) (36,532)

4,180,929 4,144,397 33,362 9,160,629 9,160,629 49,372,579 58,533,208 16,553,419 18,070,178 171,243,734 189,313,912
(2,683,238) (319,392)
9,381,360 10,212,413 161,031,321 171,243,734
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2010-11 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Ronald E. Bjorklund 85 J. David Brown Michael Bucci 73 Robert F. Campbell 66 Judy Capano/Michaelson 87 Br. F. Edward Coughlin, O.F.M., Ph. D. Robert M. Curley Robert T. Cushing 77, Chairman Susan Law Dake, Secretary Virginia L. Darrow 83 Scott C. Donnelly Howard S. Foote 74 Sr. Violet T. Grennan, M.F.I.C., D. Min. Robert L. Guido 68 Rev. Kenneth R. Himes 71, O.F.M., Ph. D. Walter T. Kicinski 62 Pamela McCarthy Robert J. McCormick 87 James J. Morrell 66 Very Rev. Kevin J. Mullen 75, O.F.M., Ph. D. John F. Murray 79, First Vice Chair John J. Nigro, Second Vice Chair Very Rev. John F. OConnor, O.F.M. Walter A. Osterman 87 Kenneth M. Raymond, Jr. William E. Redmond, Jr. 81 Mark S. Rose 65 Shari Golub Schillinger 86 Rev. James P. Scullion 75, O.F.M., Ph. D. David M. Stack 73 Christine L. Standish Nimmi M. Trapasso, M.D. 98 Dennis L. Winger 69
OUR FUTURE
A dening statement.
Let us begin again, for up until now we have done nothing.

St. Francis of Assisi
The Franciscan tradition celebrates continuous renewal by appealing to the words of St. Francis who challenged his followers always to begin again. This phrase is never understood as a rejection of past accomplishments, but rather is viewed as a call for a renewed energy to live the mission. In that spirit, over the past two years, the Strategic Plan Steering Committee collected and distilled input from the Siena College community. The group represented a cross-section of people who are immersed in the life of the College. Their experiences, interests and expertise provided a diverse perspective for developing the blueprint for Sienas framework for the future. The new plan builds on the gains achieved under the transformational Academic Excellence Planrecruitment and retention of quality faculty and students; a greater emphasis upon research opportunities for faculty and students; and improved academic facilities. Through extensive campus dialogue, rigorous meetings, challenging debate and an open ow of information, the planning process evolved. It included a comprehensive Board of Trustees retreat devoted to the plan strategies, metrics and funding. The Presidents Cabinet and the Budget and Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees were active contributors throughout the process.
Following the Board of Trustees a rmation of the four key initiatives of the plan, another layer of working teams set out to develop an accompanying set of operational plans. These teams determined the actions that will bring the strategies to life. And, every intended outcome is measurable. While the objectives of Living Our Tradition are yet to be realized, we are excited and condent that it is grounded in expanding the resources and enriching opportunities to increase student engagementalready a Siena strength. With a visionary plan aligned with the goals of the coming Comprehensive Campaign, Sienas future view sees continued growth, not in size, but in substance, relevance and stature. Now the work begins.
Presidents Cabinet
Fr. Kenneth Paulli 82, O.F.M, Ed.D. Chief of Sta Linda Richardson, Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Aairs Maryellen Gilroy, Ed.D. Vice President for Student Aairs Ned Jones Vice President for Enrollment Management David Smith 79 Vice President for Development and External Aairs Paul Stec 79, M.B.A., C.P.A. Vice President for Finance and Administration
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Robert T. Cushing 77
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
The reach of Living Our Tradition is broad and deep. It builds on Sienas successful Academic Excellence Plan and will enable students to learn in a different, experiential way. The plan presents every student with opportunities for a personal transformation to make them more reective, alert and aware of the world and its people.
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2011 PRESIDENTS REPORT

Living Our Tradition

Blessing of St. Francis

Blessing of St. Clare

physical space of the College.

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Fr. Kevin Mullen 75, O.F.M., Ph.D.

Fr. Kevin Mullen 75, O.F.M., Ph.D. President

Hearts open to love, minds open to wisdom.

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The four identity markers of Siena: learning community

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The LEAP Vision for Learning, aac&u 2011, p. 3.

Fr. Kenneth Paulli 82, O.F.M., Ed.D.

Skills, competencies and experiences beyond the classroom.

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Maryellen Gilroy, Ed.D.

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Don DeNyse III 11

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A life-changing experience begins.

George Lopez 15 and Tony Rivera, admissions counselor

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The Class of 2015

A degree and an experience.

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Linda Richardson, Ph.D.

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SCHOOL of LIBERAL ARTS

The cornerstone of the student experience.

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Ralph Blasting, Ph.D.

SCHOOL of LIBERAL ARTS

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Allan Weatherwax, Ph.D.

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Karen Quaal, Ph.D.

Building on a solid foundation.

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Jeffrey A. Mello, Ph.D.

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Alfredo Medina, Jr.

A national model for a campus with heart.

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Fr. Mathius Doyle 55, O.F.M., Ph.D.

FACULTY AND STAFF

Shaping leaders with knowledge and example.

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