In discussing the financing of students, the tuition is $13,400. Yet with aid, the average tuition paid per student is $5,000. Also, 45% of students pay no tuition. UCI is rated in the top 20 for value.
In applications, UCI received 76,000 this year. 11,000 were out of state or foreign applications. 60,000 were for freshmen, the rest for transfers.
In a quote from UC Irvine news: “UC Irvine’s Smart Labs Initiative, which safely reduces energy consumption in both new and retrofitted research laboratories by as much as 60 percent, has been recognized with a 2013 Green California Leadership Award. “ We also have four Leeds platinum and eight Leeds gold certified buildings on campus.
In a worldwide rating of newer universities under 50 years of age, UC Irvine ranked first in the United States, and fourth in the world.
In honors, Wilson Ho of the Department of Physics and Astronomy was just elected to the National Academy of Sciences. (Also, Shaul Mukamel of the Department of Chemistry was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences.)
Our Provost Michael Gottfredson has left to become President of the University of Oregon.
Our greatest sport is Men’s Vollleyball, and we have won three Championships in the last six years. We are now competing in the final four. Our previous coach, John Speraw, departed to coach at UCLA, where he was a player. He has also been chosen as the Olympics coach for 2016.
As an unusual new statistic, the Chancellor pointed out that life expectancy varies by zip code from 73 years to 88 years. The longest expectancy happens to be in Irvine, perhaps partly due to the University.
In answer to a question about online learning, he pointed out that 14% of summer credits for our students are earned online. The students can also review the lecture multiple times. (Actually, classroom lectures are also often taped for students.)
The Chancellor is receiving an award for fostering diversity.
The medical school faculty is lagging in having tenured women because we recruited a young faculty and positions there have been frozen since 1970.
The majority of university graduates are women these days.
(I apologize for any inaccuracies in this account since I am still distracted by typing this into my iPhone while the talk is going on.)
