UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

MARK HARLAN ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Since assuming the helm of USF Athletics in March of 2014, Mark Harlan has energized the Bulls Nation, implementing a five-year strategic plan and establishing a winning mentality that emphasizes achievement in competition, the classroom and the community across USF s 19 sports programs. A Los Angeles native with more than 20 years of athletics administration experience at four universities, Harlan has focused on providing an extraordinary experience for all USF student-athletes and pushing the department beyond its limits. Harlan has streamlined the Athletic Department s structure and operations, while implementing five key values commitment, community, excellence, innovation and integrity to elevate every sports program. USF LEADERSHIP BRIAN LAMB CHAIR, USF BOARD OF TRUSTEES DR. JUDY GENSHAFT USF SYSTEM PRESIDENT Dr. Judy Genshaft serves as University of South Florida System President and President of the University of South Florida, one of the nation s largest and most comprehensive metropolitan research universities. In 2010, President Genshaft made history when she became the first woman to chair the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Board. She is also a past chair of the American Athletic Conference (formerly Big East) Council of Presidents. As Chief Executive Officer of the USF System, she oversees a system serving more than 48,000 students, including a major academic medical center at the main doctoral research university in Tampa and two regional campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee. Dr. Genshaft is responsible for the management of all units of the USF System, a $1.8 billion operating budget that includes $488.6 million in total annual research expenditures. She has received the Dr. Claire Van Unmersen Presidential Leadership Award, sponsored by NACWAA & the NCAA, for demonstrated leadership and promotion of women s opportunities in athletics administration or coaching. Dr. Genshaft has held numerous leadership positions, including on the Tampa Bay Partnership s Executive Committee and Council of Governors, the High Tech Corridor Council, and the Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute s Board of Directors. Statewide, she is active in the Florida Council of 100 s Board of Directors and Business/Higher Education Partnership Committee. Nationally, Dr. Genshaft has served as Chair for the American Council on Education and is a member of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities Board of Directors. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Brian D. Lamb, Chair Jordan B. Zimmerman, Vice Chair Mike Carrere Stephanie Goforth Christopher Griffin Scott L. Hopes Stanley I. Levy Harold W. Mullis, Esq. John B. Ramil Byron E. Shinn James Stikeleather Gregory B. Teague Nancy H. Watkins Brian Lamb is the regional president for Fifth Third Bank (North Florida), which includes over $5.4 billion in deposits, 98 banking centers, 120,000 consumer and business households and over 700 employees. He is the Chair of the USF Board of Trustees and his workgroup assignments include chair of the Finance and Audit workgroup and member of the Collective Bargaining team. Lamb has received numerous recognitions, including recently being inducted into the Tampa Bay Business Hall of Fame. He earned his bachelor s degree in accounting from USF, where he was a successful member of the men s basketball team from 1994 to 1998, and is also a graduate of the Stonier Graduate Banking School at the University of Pennsylvania. USF SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Judy Genshaft, President Ralph Wilcox, Provost and Executive Vice President John Long, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Charles Lockwood, Senior Vice President for USF Health Paul Sanberg, Senior Vice President for Research, Innovation and Economic Development Joel Momberg, Senior Vice President for University Advancement and Alumni Affairs Sophia Wisniewska, Regional Chancellor, USF St. Petersburg Sandra Stone, Regional Chancellor, USF Sarasota-Manatee CONTENTS TAMPA BAY 4 ATHLETICS 8 ACADEMICS 10 RESEARCH 14 2 3

TAMPA BAY: CITY FOR CHAMPIONS Tampa will host the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship Game and has also hosted the NCAA basketball tournament for men s and women s basketball, the NCAA Frozen Four in ice hockey, international soccer exhibitions, two annual college bowl games and four NFL Super Bowls. Eleventh largest media market, with six major television networks and the Southeast s largest newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times. Named the Best City in the Southeast by Money Magazine in 2015. Home to two of the country s most vital U.S. military joint commands, U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command, at MacDill Air Force Base. Professional sports teams include the NFL Buccaneers, the MLB Rays at Tropicana Field, the NHL Lightning at Amalie Arena in downtown Tampa and the NASL Rowdies in Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg. Tampa Bay s population is expected to increase by 5.5 percent in the next five years, outpacing the national growth average of 3.96 percent. Served by three international airports, including Tampa International Airport nationally rated highest in traveler satisfaction and named second-best airport in the country by Travel and Leisure. Tampa Bay is an emerging amateur and youth sports hotbed, led by IMG Academy in Bradenton. 4 5

# 1 # 1 # 2 # 4 5 # 11 # 19 20 Tampa Bay was named Best City in the Southeast by Money Magazine Tampa Bay is home to the No. 1 beach in the U.S., according to Trip Advisor Florida was named the second Best State for Business from Chief Executive Tampa Bay is the fourthlargest metropolitan area in the Southeast after Atlanta and Miami Five Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Tampa Bay: Publix Supermarkets, Tech Data, Jabil, WellCare, Raymond James Financial Tampa Bay has the 11th largest media market in the country Tampa Bay is the 19th largest economy in the U.S. Tampa is ranked as a top 20 best place to live from Livability 6 7

USF ATHLETICS: COMPETITIVE GREATNESS Lee Roy Selmon, the father of USF football USF Athletics serves 500 student athletes in 19 men s and women s teams. Guided by the legacy of former USF Athletics Director and NFL Hall of Fame inductee Lee Roy Selmon, called the father of USF football, the Bulls have risen to national excellence in the span of just 20 years. In the past academic year, USF student-athletes posted an 83 percent NCAA graduation success rate and a combined grade-point average of 3.085. The USF Lee Roy Selmon Athletic Center includes state-of-the art space for academic advising, life skills, mentoring and team-building. USF became the fastest team in the modern era of college football to go from inception to being ranked in the AP Top 25 Poll, Top 10, and eventually the Top 5. Over the past 10 seasons, victories over the University of Notre Dame, Florida State, Auburn, Clemson, Miami (FL), and West Virginia, serve as evidence that Selmon s DNA is still embedded in this football program. In the past six years, USF has invested $70 million in renovating and maintaining its athletic facilities. Under USF Athletic Director Mark Harlan, the new Athletics Strategic Plan articulates five areas of emphasis: (1) student-athlete academic excellence; (2) competitive greatness; (3) marketing, branding and communication; (4) expanded and diversified revenue and resources; (5) facilities renovation and construction. 8 9

TAMPA BAY WILL HOST THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN 2017 83 % 6 # 2 $ 70M 8 40,405 In the past academic year, our student-athletes posted an 83 percent NCAA graduation success rate and a combined grade-point average of 3.085 In the past year, six of our athletics programs achieved a top 25 ranking USF ranked second in 2016 in the final Learfield Directors Cup Standings for overall performance USF has invested $70 million in its athletics facilities since 2010, and more are planned in the near future USF has won eight American Athletic Conference championships in just 3 years The average of fans per game in 69 USF home games since 2005. 10 11

MARLON MACK Two-time First-team All-Conference Set school record with 1,381 yards in 2015 JACKIE SIMPSON 2015 Conference Defensive Player of the Year All-Region Selection ROBERTO SID Three-time Conference Player of the Year Two-time ITA All-American JIMMY HERGET Drafted after junior season by Cincinnati Reds Two-time first-team All-Conference pitcher ANA ROMAN DOMINQUEZ 2016 Conference Freshman of the Year First-team All-Conference MATT O NEAL Six-time All-American Six-time Conference Champion COURTNEY WILLIAMS 2016 WBCA All-American Selected 8th overall in 2016 WNBA Draft ERICA NUNN 2016 Conference Pitcher of the Year NFCA All-American

USF ACADEMICS: ASCENSION TO PREEMINENCE Designated as a Research 1 university as classified by the Carnegie Foundation. USF s faculty includes eight National Academy members. Thirty percent of USF s first-time-in-college (FTIC) students come from the top 10 percent of their high school classes. One of the fastest-growing research universities according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. In the past five years, student awards included the Gates-Cambridge Scholarship, the Marshall Scholarship, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, and Fulbright Scholarship. USF was the top producer of Fulbright awards in 2011-12 for student awards, and in 2015-16 for faculty awards. USF s faculty hold hundreds of national and international fellowships, honors and awards recognized by the Association of American Universities (AAU), Top American Research Universities (TARU), National Research Council (NRC), National Academies of Sciences, Medicine and Engineering and others. USF ranked 4th worldwide for organizations with the most Fellows elected in 2016 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an AAU-recognized award. HOME TO MORE THAN 48,000 STUDENTS FROM MORE THAN 130 NATIONS, ACROSS THREE CAMPUSES 14 15

A VIBRANT RESIDENTIAL CAMPUS, USF HOUSES MORE THAN 6,500 STUDENTS 4.1 1223 34 $ 936M 50 # 14 300K # 2 Average USF Student High School GPA Average USF freshman SAT score Average USF medical student MCAT score the highest in the state of Florida The USF: Unstoppable $1 billion campaign continues to break giving records, now at $936 million USF had 50 national scholarship winners last year USF was ranked 14th as an up and coming university by U.S. News & World Report With 300,000 alumni, USF has one of the fastest growing alumni associations in the nation No. 2 most veteran-friendly university by Military Times 16 17

308,000 USF ALUMNI LIVE IN MORE THAN 145 COUNTRIES Baccalaureate Degrees Awarded Graduate Degrees Awarded International Students STEM Degrees 9,470 3,764 +101% +92% +296% 1,961 4,701 1,369 4,054 1,357 3,000 +121% 2000 18 2000/01 2014/15 2000/01 2014/15 2000/01 2014/15 2000/01 2014/15 19

USF RESEARCH: DRIVEN BY INNOVATION USF is among the top 25 public universities for research productivity, according to the National Science Foundation now with more than $488.6 million in total annual research expenditures. USF s has 300 postdoctoral appointees. This is an increase of more than 400 percent since 2000. Designated as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities in 2015. Designated an Emerging Preeminent Research University by the Florida Legislature and Board of Governors in 2016. No. 9 among public universities nationwide for U.S. Patents granted, with 90 patents granted last year alone. The National Academy of Inventors, founded in 2010 at USF, now boasts nearly 200 top research universities and nonprofit research institutes across the country as members. USF s new Research Strategic Plan outlines five key areas of distinction, tied together by an emphasis on research translation: (1) brain and spinal cord; (2) data science and analytics; (3) heart research and care; (4) human security; and (5) water sustainability. USF IS AMONG THE TOP 25 PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH FUNDING 20 21

USF WAS GRANTED ONE OF 12 OIL SPILL RESEARCH CENTERS WORLDWIDE, FUNDED AT MORE THAN $20 MILLION BY BRITISH PETROLEUM # 25 $ 488M $ 4.4B 5,900 3,000 # 9 USF is ranked No. 25 public research university by the National Science Foundation USF s total research expenditures now exceed $488 million USF has an annual economic impact of $4.4 billion USF supports an estimated 5,900 jobs in the local economic region USF is the founder and home of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a non-profit member organization with over 3,000 members USF is ranked No. 9 among public universities nationwide for U.S. patents granted 22 23

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