Adler University 2022 Annual Report

Advancing social justice, supporting students, and engaging communities.

A letter from the president.

Serving Adler University as president during this important and successful year has been a great honor Over my nearly two decades in this role, working with our many faculty, staff, students, alums, and community partners has been a joy. I am pleased to share highlights of our collective accomplishments from this past year in our 2022 Annual Report.

Over the past year, the U.S. and Canada continued to navigate the ongoing pandemic – and our learning community persevered. Students remained steadfast in their dedication to their education at our three campuses, and our faculty and staff maintained their commitment to our mission by providing a world-class education to the next generation of socially responsible practitioners.

In recent years, we’ve witnessed the amplification of social justice issues, including those related to health equity, mental health, racial disparities, and economic challenges. Adler is making strides to address these issues on and off our campuses. We have continued work to build an anti-racist university through training, education, and reworked structures and practices. We are supporting students through new scholarships and new curricula. We are advancing health in our communities in work with more than 1,700 partners.

I am inspired by our collective achievement this year. The continued contributions of our students, staff, faculty, alums, and supporters allow the University to live its mission daily on our Vancouver, Chicago, and Online campuses and communities across the globe. I am eager to see what this year holds and look forward to broadening our success together.

Record of

students enrolled in Fall 2021.

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in scholarships to make programs more accessible to socio-economically diverse students.

revenue growth over the past 19 years.

graduation rate for 2020-21 academic year.

direct service hours provided by students to people in communities.

of alumni surveyed report they work with underserved communities.

community partners.

Meet the people, programs, and partners putting social justice into practice.

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View the goals we met and set.

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This year, we:

Welcomed a new leader for our Center for Diversity and Inclusion.
Began implementing the first strategies of the University’s Anti-racism and Inclusion Plan (ARI) and working to create strategic alignment of this plan with other campus documents.
Broadened campus involvement with the ARI and launched opportunities to further develop affinity groups.
Required training for all employees, Cabinet members, and Trustees.
Secured funding to support continued work around the University’s multi-year curricular transformation initiative.

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of students who identify as BIPOC across all three campuses. This is more than a 10% increase from three years ago.

0.0%

Retention rate of BIPOC-identified students.

of senior management identifies as BIPOC.

0 of 17

Board of Trustee members identify as BIPOC.

Supporting the next generation of social justice practitioners.

Our students’ commitment to their education and creating healthier communities is made possible through supporters and foundations who believe in Adler University’s mission and vision.

Our Supporters

This year, we reached new heights in our fundraising efforts. Adler named the University’s first program, the Joy McPhail Master of Public Policy and Administration, established a first-of-its-kind scholarship, created new programming to strengthen educational outcomes across Adler’s 27 master’s and Ph.D. programs, and provided much-needed community support.

Adler University Honours Joy MacPhail

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Adler University Receives Grant from Healthy Communities Foundation

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Adler University Receives Grant from Cigna Foundation

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Excelling in the classroom and beyond.

Whether it is publishing original work, presenting to professional peers, or joining community boards, every year, our students, faculty, staff, and alums continue their commitment to voicing the need for social change and advancing their respective fields.

Changing the Narrative for Immigrant Women

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Finding Solutions for Environmental and Social Issues

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Kevin Osten-Garner Appointed to the Southern Regional Behavioral Health Policy Board

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Innovation in learning and engagement.

We strive to continuously raise standards for student success, manage quality growth throughout all planning and execution, and cultivate continuous quality improvement in all University processes.

This year:

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incoming average emerging GPA.

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average students per section.

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students per faculty member ratio.

Achieved reaccreditation from the Higher Education Learning Commission through 2032.

Improved in-classroom technology to strengthen hybrid learning environments.
Charged every department with defining anti-racism efforts to support both bottom-up and top-down anti-racism initiatives.
Implemented a new data governance charter, policy, and responsibility matrix.
Health and Wellness @ Adler launched focusing on financial wellness. Additionally, the supervisor training initiative relaunched after a hiatus due to COVID-19.

departments/offices identified anti-racism initiatives.

of supervisors completed the financial wellness training.