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The Davies family of Houston has made possible the establishment of TCU’s Davies School
of Communication Sciences & Disorders. Their transformative $5 million gift is elevating an
already exceptional program to school status.
Morgan Davies graduated in 2012 with a degree in Habilitation of the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing and is now earning a doctorate in audiology at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Morgan’s mother, Marilyn Davies, became passionate about the Habilitation of the Deaf
and Hard of Hearing program as well. Last year, she was invited to join the Harris College
of Nursing & Health Sciences Board of Visitors.
Marilyn and Morgan Davies made possible the Davies Graduate Workspace in the
Miller Speech & Hearing Clinic with a previous gift. Their latest contribution brings many
additional opportunities. Communication sciences and disorders majors will benefit
from new experiences with hearing impaired populations. Faculty will gain new funding
for research, which in turn will provide opportunities for students to have scholarly
experiences. Individuals with communication disorders will be better served because of
additional support for the Miller Speech & Hearing Clinic.
“The School of Communication Sciences & Disorders is forever changing, improving,
and striving to new heights,” said Mrs. Davies at the dedication of the Davies Graduate
Workspace. “From the Davies Family — thank you from the bottom of our hearts for letting
us be part of the plan.”
TCU’s Davies School of Communication Sciences & Disorders has a remarkable platform to
build upon:
• Students in the Habilitation of the Deaf & Hard of Hearing program have a 100
percent pass rate on state certification exams and a 100 percent employment rate
after graduation.
• U.S. News & World Report
ranks TCU among the top 15 masters-only Speech-
Language Pathology programs in the country.
• TCU’s is the first and only Deaf Education collegiate program in the state that provides
graduates with a dual certification teaching degree.
• Communication Sciences & Disorders at TCU houses the first federally funded
bilingual training program for Speech-Language Pathologists, one of only a handful of
such programs in the nation.
• The University provides more than 10,000 hours of clinical service annually to children
and adults with communication disorders.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees Clarence Scharbauer III and Chancellor Victor J.
Boschini, Jr., comment on TCU’s progress and assess what the future might bring.
WHAT ARE SOME OF TCU’S RECENT
ACHIEVEMENTS?
Chairman Scharbauer:
Rankings are a very public way to measure
progress, and we are encouraged by a number of recognitions.
Here is one especially positive achievement. In
U.S. News & World
Report
’s 2015 ranking of national universities, TCU moved to No.
76. This is a 37-point improvement in only six years.
WHAT OTHER MEASURES ARE IMPORTANT?
Chancellor Boschini:
Admission and retention statistics clearly
mirror our rise in the rankings. Our freshman class of 1,892 was
chosen from 17,000 applicants. This again places our admission
rate in the “highly selective” category. The retention rate from
freshman to sophomore year is 90 percent. This tells us that
incoming students and their families are satisfied with their choice.
Total enrollment has grown to 10,033 and our student-faculty ratio remains about 13:1.
This ensures that our students continue to have a personalized university experience.
WHAT’S BEHIND THESE NUMBERS?
Chancellor Boschini:
What propels us is simple: the generosity of our alumni and friends
and our comprehensive strategic plan,
Vision in Action
: The Academy of Tomorrow. We are
midway in our journey to ensure TCU’s future. In 2012, the University launched the second
phase of the strategic plan with three key goals:
1.
Raising TCU’s academic profile and reputation
2.
Fine-tuning the size and balance of the student body
3.
Creating the optimal campus environment
We are intent on preserving our shared values, heritage and traditions while ensuring that
TCU adapts to new ways of thinking and an always changing, complex global environment.
WHAT IS ON THE AGENDA?
Chairman Scharbauer:
The most important thing we can do now is to make even greater
investments in our academic profile and reputation by directing even more effort and
resources to our people and programs. Then imagine how those investments in students,
faculty and academic offerings can grow exponentially over decades though the power of
endowment. The cumulative effect on this University will be nothing short of profound.
Chancellor Boschini:
New endowed scholarships are essential. They will bring the best
and brightest students to TCU — and they will do so in perpetuity. We are also placing an
emphasis on establishing new endowed positions, such as chairs and professorships. They
help us to retain our best faculty, hire rising academic stars and entice some of the most
distinguished professors in the world to TCU. To honor faculty who have exemplified the
best of the teacher/scholar model throughout their careers, we are developing two new
career capstone faculty ranks: “Distinguished University Professor” and “Master Teacher.”
We intend to provide all our programs with support that befits a world-class, values-
centered institution. Let me give you one example. The John V. Roach Honors College is
a TCU flagship, and it was targeted through our strategic planning process as an area of
increased focus. Robust external and internal assessment of the college is under way to
examine undergraduate research, faculty course development and study abroad grants,
among other topics. The Honors College attracts the highest achieving students to TCU, as
do generous scholarships. You can be assured that the competition for them is fierce.
Chairman Scharbauer:
We are committed to realizing TCU’s vision: to be a world-class,
values-centered university. If we are going to gain the competitive advantage and financial
and academic strength needed to achieve this vision, we will have to significantly grow the
endowment — in fact, double it.
During
The Campaign for TCU
from 2005 to 2012, Texas Christian University’s alumni and
friends contributed more than $434 million to support
Vision in Action
, TCU’s strategic
plan. Since the end of that historic campaign, those who believe in the University have
made gifts of $196.8 million to underwrite the next phase of the strategic plan,
Vision in
Action
: The Academy of Tomorrow.
Without a doubt, TCU is moving forward. Its commitment to a collective vision — to
be a world-class, values-centered university — is unswerving. Recently,
U.S. News &
World Report
,
Forbes
,
The Economist
and others have taken notice of the University’s
accomplishments. Potential students and their families continue to respond to TCU’s good
news with increased applications and retention. Support from alumni and friends gives
proof that they believe in our vision.
The most visible result of TCU’s strategic plan has been the changing physical campus. As
TCU moves forward, fund-raising efforts focus on people and programs, particularly gifts in
the form of endowment that will strengthen the University now and in perpetuity. Here are
highlights of such support over the last two years:
• $5 million from the Davies family of Houston endows and names the Davies School
of Communication Sciences & Disorders.
• The TCU Institute of Child Development receives a $20 million gift from The Rees-
Jones Foundation.
• TCU’s pre-eminent fine arts financial aid award, the Nordan Scholarship, grows by
$8 million in new funding.
• Two new endowed positions bring further prestige to the Neeley School: The
Kleinheinz Family Endowment Chair in International Finance and Investments and the
BNSF Railway Endowed Professorship in Leadership.
• The Benjamin Schmidt Memorial Scholarship in AddRan College supports graduate
education, while The Lance Cpl. Benjamin Whetstone Schmidt Professorship in
History benefits both graduates and undergraduates.
• A $1.5 million bequest from Dr. Paul Boller supports the TCU Press.
• For the third consecutive year, the Council for Advancement and Support of
Education (CASE) has recognized TCU with a Circle of Excellence Award for its
exemplary fund-raising program.
• Alumni and friends have provided more than $160 million in donor-funded
scholarship support over the past 10 years.
• The Annual Faculty/Staff Campaign had a participation rate of 80 percent in 2014,
among the highest in post-secondary education.
SUSTAINED MOMENTUM
________
PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT SINCE THE END OF
THE CAMPAIGN FOR TCU
TOTALS $196.8 MILLION
WHAT DONORS HAVE CONTRIBUTED,
JUNE 2012-OCT. 2014: $196.8 MILLION
WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED,
JUNE 2012-OCT. 2014: $196.8 MILLION
FUND-RAISING HIGHLIGHTS
WHAT’S NEXT?
NEW OPPORTUNITIES
________
THE DAVIES SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION SCIENCES & DISORDERS
IS ESTABLISHED WITH A $5 MILLION GIFT
With support from The Rees-Jones Foundation, the TCU Institute of Child Development is transforming the lives of children from “hard places” and influencing child welfare policy around the world.
Announcement of the Davies School of Communication Sciences & Disorders and the dedication of the Davies Graduate Workspace in the Miller Speech & Hearing Clinic made for a particularly festive event. Before the unveil-
ing of a new sign for the Miller Speech & Hearing Clinic, Chancellor Victor J. Boschini and Board Chairman Clarence Scharbauer III chat with the Davies family: daughter Morgan ’12, Mrs. Marilyn Davies and son Taylor.
Giving by Initiative
June 1, 2012 to September 30, 2014
11/5/14
Giving by Source
June 1, 2012 to September 30, 2014
11/5/14
Facilities
$90.5 million 46%
Faculty
$7.6 million 4%
Academic Programs
$34.7 million 18%
Restricted & Endowed Scholarships
$27.5 million 14%
Other Designated Gifts
$9.1 million 4%
Annual Giving
$27.4 million 14%
Foundations
$69.5 million 35%
Corporations/Corporate Foundations
$13.8 million 7%
Friends
$19.5 million 10%
Parents
$15.1 million 8%
Alumni
$77.1 million 39%
Other Organizations
$1.8 million 1%