2014-15 University Report
2014 University Report 1
Campbell
University
On Jan. 5, 1887, James Archibald
Campbell, a 26-year-old Baptist minister,
welcomed 16 students to a small church
in Buies Creek, North Carolina, for the first
day of classes for the school he founded:
Buies Creek Academy. By the end of the
first term, there were 92 students.
Since then, Buies Creek Academy has
evolved to become Campbell Junior
College (1926), Campbell College
(1961), and Campbell University (1979).
Throughout these transformations, the
university has remained true to its founding
principles to address the most pressing
needs of North Carolina and to educate
men and women for Christian service
around the world.
A testimony to how these founding
principles still guide Campbell University
today is the establishment of three new
schools in the last two years. Campbell
launched the School of Osteopathic
Medicine — North Carolina’s first new
medical school in over 35 years — in
2013. In 2016, it will open the doors to
its eighth and ninth schools, nursing and
engineering.
They join Campbell’s other established
schools — College of Arts & Sciences, the
Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
(1976), the Lundy-Fetterman School of
Business (1983), the School of Education
(1985), the College of Pharmacy & Health
Sciences (1985) and the Divinity School
(1996). In addition to its main campus in
Buies Creek, Campbell University has
extended campuses in the Research
Triangle Park, Camp Lejeune, Fort Bragg/
Pope Air Force Base, and Raleigh, where
the law school relocated to in 2009.
Today, Campbell University enrolls nearly
6,500 students, including more than 4,500
undergraduate and graduate students on
its main campus. They’re studying across
nearly 100 disciplines in the liberal arts,
health sciences and professions — and
continuing the university’s tradition of
excellence in faith, learning, and service.
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Historic
transition
for Campbell University
Dynamic organizations remain dynamic through an intentional and strategic willingness
to change with the times and respond to their competition. In my eight years with
Campbell University, I have been blessed to be involved with some of the most exciting and
transformational change ever demonstrated within higher education.
Since assuming the role of president in 2003, Dr. Jerry Wallace has inspired a level of change
and progress at Campbell that is unmatched in the history of the university. During his
presidency, the university has invested in programs, facilities and people at an impressive, some
would say staggering, rate. But to keep Campbell on the forefront as a “destination school” in
North Carolina, every penny raised, every new academic and athletic program, and every new
campus facility has been a strategic investment in Campbell’s future.
This 2015 university report looks back over the past year and highlights new milestones
in university academics, athletics, student achievements, capital investments, community
partnership and other key areas. It also highlights an historic transition for Campbell
University, yet another major change — Jerry Wallace stepped down as university president
as of June 30, 2015, following 12 years of service in this role and 45 years of total service to
Campbell. His successor — and just the fifth president of Campbell since the founding in
1887 — is Dr. J. Bradley Creed.
Building on the vision and legacy of Jerry Wallace, Norman Wiggins, Leslie Campbell, and our
founder, J. A. Campbell, Dr. Creed comes to Campbell from Samford University, in Alabama,
where he served as provost and executive vice president. Founded in 1841, Samford is
Alabama’s flagship private university. The academic reputation of Samford is outstanding, and
Dr. Creed will bring new ideas and vision and will continue to expand Campbell’s forwardthinking and strategic agenda.
Campbell has a history that most colleges and universities would love to possess. The university
has experienced over 128 years of growth, achievement, and recognition, and a list of larger
than life figures including J. A. Campbell, Leslie Campbell, Norman Wiggins, A. R. Burkot
and scores of others have called Buies Creek home. Jerry Wallace now joins the ranks of the
celebrated former leaders. However, what I have learned throughout this season of change is
that these wonderful leaders will come and go — they write their chapter in the Campbell
book — but Campbell University remains constant.
We are deeply grateful to Jerry Wallace and the three presidents who came before him. Each
of them brought survival, growth, and progressive change in Buies Creek. Godspeed to Brad
Creed as the new university president.
May the Lord bless the positive change and vision that he, too, will bring to Campbell
University.
Britt J. Davis
Vice President for Institutional Advancement
& Assistant to the President
Communications Staff
Haven Hottel (’00)
Assistant VP
for Communications
& Marketing
Billy Liggett
Cherry Crayton
Jonathan Bronsink (’05)
Carlos Cano
Director of Publications
Director of Visual Identity
Director of Digital Media
Web Designer / Developer
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THE
YEAR
IN
REVIEW
2014-15
Campbell University’s 201415 academic year was again
historic with the election of our
fifth president in 128 years, the
announced addition of another new
school and the groundbreaking
of the second building on our
new Health Sciences Campus.
Campbell also enjoyed record
enrollment, continued success
both academically and athletically
and national recognition for our
undergraduate and professional
programs. Join us in looking back at
the year that was, and discover why
we continue to be Campbell Proud.
New Online
Degrees
Campbell University expands its online
education offerings, enrolling students in seven
new bachelor’s and master’s degree programs
that can be completed entirely online.
Designed with adult learners in mind, the new,
fully-online degree programs are the Bachelor
of Science in Psychology, Bachelor of Arts in
Criminal Justice, Bachelor of Arts in Religion,
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
Security, Bachelor of Science in Information
Management, Bachelor of Business
Administration, and Master of Science in
Clinical Research.
“Moving to online education is a strategic
decision positioning the university for growth
and the development of new educational
opportunities to meet the evolving needs of
traditional and nontraditional students,” says
John Roberson, dean of Campbell’s Adult and
Online Education program.
“The new reality is almost half of all
undergraduates are older than 22 years and are
nonresidential students. As many nontraditional
students are juggling the responsibilities of
work, marriage, family and school, they prefer
the convenience of online learning. Campbell is
embracing this new reality.”
August
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Katy
Brewer
Med school legacy
Katy Brewer will be a part of history
when she graduates in the charter class
of the Wallace School of Osteopathic
Medicine in 2017. She’ll also be carrying
on a legacy — her great-great uncle really
is in the history books as one of Harnett
County’s first physicians.
Dr. James H. Withers (1856-1928)
spent most of his life in the Leaflet
Community between Lillington and
Sanford and even served as Harnett’s
Clerk of Superior Court from 1901 to
1907. According to the history books,
Withers was a “conscientious doctor
and a friend to all his patients. When
a patient was critically ill, Dr. Withers
would stay in the home with them until
the condition improved. He was one of
the good, old-fashioned doctors.”
It’s just the kind of doctor Brewer — a
native of Sanford and graduate of Wake
Forest University — hopes to one day be.
“It means a lot to me to follow in
footsteps like that,” she says. “I want to
be the kind of doctor who’s well-loved
and respected in their community. It
made sense to me to choose a school
where the goal is to train physicians to
serve in rural and underserved areas.”
Much has changed in medicine in the
last 100 years, yet many communities in
North Carolina lack quality physicians
and health care even now. Brewer and
her classmates, who began Year 2 in July,
are out to change that.
“My intent all along was to stay in North
Carolina for my training, and I fell in
love with Campbell,” Brewer says. “I love
helping people, and I love science and
learning why things happen to our mind
and our bodies.”
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BEST
WEEK
EVER
Campbell’s 128th academic year
kicked off with the “Best Week Ever,”
more commonly known in Buies Creek
as Welcome Week. The festivities
began with a concert in the Academic
Circle, freshman medallion ceremony,
the second Running of the Camels 5K,
the annual Street Fair and the 2014
Football Fan Fest. They ended with
mud volleyball and more in Saylor Park
that Friday and a Saturday beach trip
… the last chances for fun before the
“work” began.
More North Carolinians than any
other private university ...
Over the past five years, Campbell University has enrolled more
undergraduate students from North Carolina than any of the 36
private colleges and universities in the state, according to the
North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities’ 20132014 Statistical Report released in August. Campbell enrolled
4,440 undergraduate students from North Carolina during fall
2013. Only one other private college or university in North Carolina enrolled more than 2,000
in-state undergraduate students during fall 2013, according to the NCICU report.
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A RECORD CLASS
Campbell began the 2014-15 academic year
with 1,185 new undergraduate students, the
largest entering cohort in the University’s 127year history and a 10-percent increase from the
prior year.
sciences, and professions over the past several
years,” Campbell President Jerry Wallace said.
“That pride and excitement is bubbling over,
and it’s reflected in the record number of firstyear undergraduates we have at Campbell.”
“I’ve been at Campbell University for more
than 44 years, and the pride and excitement
on campus has never been higher as we have
opened a medical school and expanded our
academic portfolio across the liberal arts,
Health-related programs were the most popular
majors or tracks for Campbell’s new students.
Nearly a third declared an intention to major in
a pre-professional health-related program to
begin the 2014-15 academic year.
Pre-professional health-related programs
195 100
pre-pharmacy
biology preprofessional
71
nursing
45
pre-physician
assistant
30
pre-physical
therapy
Popular majors and tracks
65
business
administration
36
criminal
justice
42
pre-law
34
athletic
training
42
40
PGA professional trust and wealth
golf management
management
34
homeland
security
29
exercise
science
36
psychology
26
communication
studies
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Chris
Hemeyer
Voice of the Camels
It’s Chris Hemeyer you hear when you
listen to the football or men’s basketball
games on WCLN-FM 107.3 or at
GoCamels.com for wrestling or the
women’s basketball, soccer, volleyball,
lacrosse, softball and baseball games. He
also produces the videos, hosts a weekly
coaches’ show and emcees the annual
athletics banquet — The Cammys —
each spring.
“I love being at Campbell,” Hemeyer
says. “I love the variety. I love the people.
I love working with students.”
He grew up in Columbia, Missouri, the
son of two sports fanatics. He became
one, too. When he realized at age 12 that
he would never make it as a professional
baseball player, he decided to pursue a
career in sports journalism.
As a student in the renowned Missouri
School of Journalism, at the University
of Missouri, in the mid to late 1990s,
he did some television play-by-play for
college sports and was a radio play-byplay announcer for a local A.M. station
in central Missouri, calling high school
sports. He loved the experience because he
felt like he was part of the team, he said.
After a stint at WCTI-TV in New Bern
as a news reporter and eventually fill-in
sports anchor in 2001, Hemeyer became
the radio play-by-play man for the
Kinston Indians minor league baseball
team. That work led Robert Harper,
the then-play-by-play announcer at
Campbell, to call Hemeyer in 2010. “My
color commentator is sick, and I got your
name from somebody who knows you,”
Harper told Hemeyer. “Would you be
interested in doing color commentary for
a Saturday game?”
Hemeyer soon fell in love with Campbell.
When the job came open the next year,
Hemeyer made the move to Buies Creek
full time. “When I was 12, I knew I wanted
to work in sports,” he says. “But as you get
older, you realize there aren’t a lot of jobs in a
very competitive field. So I feel very lucky.”
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White coats for PA’s fourth class
The physician assistant program celebrated the beginning of its fourth academic year by issuing 44 white coats to the students who’ll
make up its Class of 2016. “Your white coat is not just a piece of cloth,” speaker Jeffrey Lamphere of Wake Physician Practices, said at
the ceremony. “It’s the start of your change.”
Medical school
lands cancer
research grant
The School of Osteopathic Medicine has received notification of its
first federal grant award from the National Institutes of Health and the
National Cancer Institute in the amount of $300,000. The three-year
research project, led by primary investigator and faculty member Dr.
Yunbo Li, focuses on the relationship between chemotherapy and
chronic heart failure.
The grant research, entitled “Cruciferous Dithiolethiones for Chronic
Heart Failure: Signaling Mechanisms,” proposes to provide not
only a novel strategy for protecting against cancer chemotherapyinduced chronic heart failure, but also an effective modality for the
intervention of heart failure resulting from other causes, such as
myocardial ischemia.
High-Res Mass
Spectrometer
The College of Pharmacy & Health
Sciences received a $195,960 grant from
the North Carolina Biotechnology Center
to purchase and install a high-resolution
mass spectrometer that will enhance the
ability to perform research related to the
pharmaceutical sciences.
Already installed and located in the
Pharmaceutical Education & Research
Center, the state-of-the-art technology enables
Campbell faculty and students to characterize
both small molecules and large proteins
faster and with higher confidence and allows
them to analyze drugs, metabolites, proteins,
lipids and carbohydrates in complex samples
to address clinically-relevant questions that
otherwise cannot be answered.
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J. Rich Leonard
Campbell Law Dean
Lawyer of
the Year
Campbell Law Dean J. Rich Leonard was
named 2014 Lawyer of the Year by North
Carolina Lawyers Weekly at the Leaders in
the Law awards banquet in Raleigh.
Since he began serving as dean of Campbell
Law in July 2013, Leonard has initiated
a plethora of beneficial and impactful
initiatives — increasing its already generous
scholarship program, performing a top-tobottom review of its curriculum, partnering
with leading local law firms to sponsor
competitive advocacy program student
teams and exploring the expansion of clinical
programs.
Campbell Law also announced its Campbell
Flex admission program, Campbell
Law Connections mentorship program,
Certificate in Patent Law and two advanced
international certificates with the University
of Reading under Leonard’s direction.
Prior to Campbell Law, Leonard served as
a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the
Eastern District of North Carolina since
1992, acting as Chief Judge from 1999
through 2006.
54%
FIRST-YEAR
STUDENT
increase
September
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Home Sweet Home
Campbell Law’s downtown Raleigh campus was tabbed as one of the 55 best law
school facilities in the nation by preLaw magazine. In selecting institutions for
inclusion, the magazine assessed aesthetics, square footage per student on campus,
library hours, number of library seats per student on campus, and amenities —
including dining options, parking, and lockers. Of the seven North Carolina law
schools, Campbell Law is one of only two to make the cut.
Bigger incoming class
Campbell Law ushered in 186 new students with the beginning of its first-year
orientation activities, marking the second-largest incoming class in the history
of the law school. The students — 168 traditional students and 18 studying as
a part of the Campbell Flex program — represented 73 different undergraduate
institutions and 43 majors. The number of incoming students is a sharp incline
from last year, which saw 121 new students on the first day of orientation.
Raising
the Bar
Over the course of the past 25
years, 90.89 percent of Campbell
Law graduates have passed the
summer North Carolina Bar Exam
on their first try. That remarkable
statistic, tops among the seven N.C.
law schools, comes on the heels
of a second-place showing by the
institution’s graduates on the 2014
examination, in which 85.61 percent
(119 of 139) of Campbell Law’s firsttime test-takers passed.
Campbell Law is the only law school
in the state of North Carolina to
place in the top two for first-time test
takers on the summer bar exam in
each of the past four years. This year,
Campbell Law and the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill were
the only two law schools in N.C. to
crack 80-percent or better overall.
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NATALI
JUAREZ
ROTC Senior CADET
South Central Los Angeles is a long way
from Buies Creek. And Natali Juarez has
come a long way since growing up there.
The 27-year-old Campbell University
gradauate earned her degree in May
and plans to enter the Army’s physician
assistant program to pursue a career in
the medical field. It’s a far cry from where
she was 10 year ago — a teen searching
for her identity, working full-time in
a donut shop to support her family
while going to school, and dealing with
a brother involved in drugs and gangs
while doing everything she could to
avoid that lifestyle.
She entered Campbell’s ROTC program
in the fall of 2013 after joining the
Army and serving a short stint in Iraq.
After Campbell, she plans to apply for
the Army’s physician assistant program.
As a commissioned second lieutenant,
she’ll be able to attend PA school and
still be paid as an active duty officer.
After that, she’s ready to go wherever the
Army takes her.
“I want to retire in the military. I’ll work
until they kick me out,” she says. “There’s
security here. There’s structure. There’s
discipline. And most important, it’s a
challenge for me. Not long ago, I saw
myself working at a donut shop for the
rest of my life. Now I can do whatever
I want — the Army is giving me the
opportunity to challenge myself.”
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Campbell ranks
among nation’s
top private schools
for military vets
Campbell was the only four-year private
college or university in North Carolina
ranked in The Military Times’ “Best for Vets:
Colleges 2015,” a list of the 100 best schools
in the U.S. for veterans.
Nationally, Campbell ranked No. 88 among
both public and private schools in the U.S.
and No. 15 among private universities.
A TOP 10 CADET
In his early 30s, Matthew Gooch thought he was too old and too qualified to go back
to school and enter a university ROTC program. He’s been a salvage diver, a military
freefall instructor, a Ranger, a Sapper and a medical sergeant. He’s also been deployed
three times to Iraq, the last two as a Green Beret.
Not only was he a student and a cadet in Campbell University’s ROTC program this
year, Gooch, now 34, was one of the top cadets in the nation. He ranked sixth in the
nation among 5,617 Army ROTC seniors in the national Order of Merit List, which
takes into account grade point average, performance in the Army physical fitness
test, leadership roles in the cadet’s program and his or her performance at the Leader
Development and Assessment Course.
A native of Oklahoma, Gooch was commissioned as a second lieutenant and graduated
in May with a degree in biological sciences, and he is now looking to pursue graduate
studies and a career in medicine. In his military career, Gooch has served in Iraq three
times, the final two with the Army’s Special Forces, known widely as the Green Berets,
a group tasked with unconventional warfare and counter-terrorism, among other
duties. In this role, Gooch helped train Iraqi nationals to fight and took part in several
missions, including enemy searches, cache recovery and improving and rebuilding the
infrastructure of areas hit hard by the war.
“I am proud to be part of Campbell
University, which supports veterans and
their family members and helps them attain
their college education,” said Joy Cox,
director of veteran’s affairs at Campbell.
“We also alleviate some anxiety of funding,
because we participate in the Yellow Ribbon
Program. I am especially proud that our
Veterans Club members now have a specific
place to meet to study, talk and relax with
each other.”
The Military Times, which Gannett
Government Media publishes, evaluated the
schools considered for “Best for Vets” list
on five criteria: university culture, academic
quality, student support, academic policies
and financial aid. The most weight was given
to university culture and student support.
Based on the 2014 enrollment data
submitted to The Military Times, Campbell
enrolls 1,327 students who receive benefits
from the Department of Veterans Affairs and
the Department of Defense.
MILITARY FRIENDLY
For the second year in a row, Victory Media has named
Campbell University to its coveted Military Friendly
Schools® list, which honors the top 15 percent of
colleges, universities and trade schools in the United
States that are doing the most to embrace U.S. military
service members, veterans and spouses and ensure
their success on campus.
Now in its sixth year, the list of Military Friendly Schools®
was compiled through extensive research and a datadriven survey of more than 8,000 schools nationwide that
are approved for Post-9/11 GI Bill funding. The 1,600
schools named to the list, including Campbell, will be
featured in the 2015 “G.I. Jobs Guide to Military Friendly
Schools” and other Victory Media publications.
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‘A Sense of Place’
After Campbell University completed constructing the
Anna Gardner and Robert B. Butler Chapel in 2009, the
university challenged planners and landscape architects
to re-imagine the look of the Academic Circle. Five years
later, during a brief ceremony on Homecoming weekend,
the university formally dedicated the results of that
challenge: D. Rich Commons.
This new campus landmark provides Campbell “with
a memorable sense of place,” said Jim Roberts, the
university’s vice president for business and treasurer. “It’s
a place that provides us with a sense of pride and with an
opportunity to continue new Campbell traditions.”
Over the summer, the university transformed the Academic
Circle near the entrances to Taylor Hall and D. Rich
Memorial Hall — one of the most trafficked areas on
campus. New sitting walls were installed; areas were
leveled and smoothed; new shrubs were planted; bricks
were replaced; the entrance to D. Rich Memorial Hall was
extended; and a blue stone area was added to serve as
host for a new bronzed university seal.
Measuring eight feet across, the seal is the largest
medallion that Gemini, Inc. has casted since its founding in
1947, Roberts said. It features Campbell’s motto “Ad Astra
Per Aspera,” or “to the stars through difficulties,” which
“expresses the dreams and determination that Campbell
friends hold for all those who pass their way,” Roberts
said. It also includes an open Bible with a cross rising
above it. This symbolizes “the source of all truth” and “the
great sacrifice of Jesus who saves us and a way of life that
we hope attracts all students,” Roberts said.
In all, 67,000 pavers were used to rebuild the
16,750-square-foot area that’s home to the seal and
that’s named for D. Rich. A former secretary and director
of the J.R. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Rich was one
of the earliest benefactors to Campbell. He gave the
school $60,000 to construct its original library, Carrie Rich
Memorial Hall, which was named for his first wife, who
died in 1916.
October
14 Campbell University
Attack
of the
Drones
Travis and Megan Boyd Jack (‘03) of
Flyboy Aerial Photography of Raleigh
flew their drones over the Buies Creek
campus and Barker-Lane Stadium on
Homecoming Saturday to capture the
festivities from a birds-eye view. The
resulting photos and videos were among
the most-shared images on Campbell’s
social media platforms this fall.
More than 700 students took part in TAG Day during
Homecoming Week, honoring Campbell’s many donors by
posting photos of themselves on social media with “tagged” items
throughout campus — buildings, offices, musical instruments, lab
equipment, stadiums and campus landmarks such as the camel
statue. The photos, in addition to hand-written notes and studentproduced videos, were the University’s ways to ‘Thank-A-Giver’
for contributing to make Campbell what it is today.
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Jesse
Lockamy
The Perfect Match
Jesse Lockamy was 11 when his
grandmother died from leukemia in 2006.
The two were very close — she lived
just down the road from Jesse’s home in
Willow Springs and made time for lunch
every Sunday with her grandson.
In the final years of his grandmother’s
life, many of those Sundays were spent
in the hospital. Her leukemia diagnosis
came just three years after a lengthy and
successful battle with breast cancer. The
second fight lasted just a few months.
“Cancer is a terrible thing,” says Jesse, a
sophomore at Campbell University. “But
I remember a lot from the experience —
the doctors were not only there for her,
they were there for me and my family.
They talked us through everything, and
I was always grateful for that. I decided
back then that I wanted to be able to do
something like that for someone else one
day. I wanted to give back.”
As a freshman, Jesse signed up to become
a bone marrow or a peripheral blood
stem cell donor. Bone marrow or cord
blood transplants are considered the best
treatment option (or the only potential
cure) for people with leukemia, lymphoma
and several other diseases. He knew going
in his chances of actually donating were
low — only 8 percent of those who are
called back for being a potential match are
actually called on to donate.
Not long after, he was chosen as the donor
for an anonymous leukemia patient a
few states away. While Jesse would like to
meet the person one day, he says it’s not
something he’ll think a lot about unless
it happens. Regardless, he’s happy he was
chosen, and the experience has been a
positive one for both him and his family.
“It’s one of the best experiences I’ve
ever had,” he says. “Knowing that I
potentially saved someone’s life and was
able to give to someone something that
wasn’t available to my grandmother —
it’s a really good feeling.”
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Dr. John Kauffman
Medical School Dean
Educator of
the Year
Dr. John Kauffman, dean of Campbell
University’s Jerry M. Wallace School of
Osteopathic Medicine, is honored as
the American Osteopathic Foundation’s
Educator of the Year at the Osteopathic
Medical Education Conference in Seattle.
Divinity School
reaches out to
Ebola victims
Oju Menjay and his family left Liberia for the United States
to do God’s work for the Liberian Baptist Missionary and
Education Convention. He soon found himself at the forefront
of relief efforts for his home country’s fight to stop the deadly
Ebola virus, which had killed thousands in West Africa by
October.
Menjay spoke to Campbell Divinity School’s Student Advisory
Leadership Team and advised them on the appropriate steps
to send aid to Liberia. He also shared his experiences, having
seen firsthand his friends and fellow pastors contract the virus
from those they were ministering or providing medical care for.
“Just last week, we lost four pastors,” Menjay told members of
SALT during a lunch meeting following the sermon he delivered
in Butler Chapel for that week’s Thursday service. “Just
this morning, I received news that two members of another
pastor’s household were sick as well. This is something I don’t
think anybody can prepare for. It’s even worse in Liberia, a
nation with a very poor health care system that’s been through
40 years of civil war and rebuilding. It’s been very devastating.”
Through mid-October, the Ebola virus had killed more than
2,300 people in Liberia and roughly 4,500 people worldwide.
Marvin Ownley, a Campbell graduate and second-year Master
of Divinity student, said SALT chose to work with Menjay
because the group wanted its foreign mission project this year
to have an immediate impact during a time of crisis.
Given annually, the award “honors and
recognizes osteopathic educators who inspire
greatness and change lives — they shape the
future of the osteopathic profession.”
It’s awarded to an individual who not only
emulates the osteopathic profession’s highest
standards of excellence in teaching, but
one who is passionate about osteopathic
medicine, has made a significant impact on
the academic advancement of osteopathic
students, and has made long-standing
contributions to the profession in the
academic arena.
Occupational
Therapy program
Moves Forward
Campbell’s Board of Trustees’ Executive
Committee approved a proposal to establish
a Doctor of Occupational Therapy program
— adding to the University’s efforts to offer
comprehensive health care education programs.
The proposed program will be housed in
Campbell’s College of Pharmacy & Health
Sciences. Currently, there are only six fullyaccredited doctoral occupational programs
and eight programs progressing through the
accreditation process in the United States.
The program is proposed to begin fall
2016 pending approval by SACSCOC and
ACOTE. It’ll be the sixth doctoral degree
offered by Campbell University.
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Elaine Marshall
N.C. Secretary of State
Distinguished
Alumna (’81 Law)
Marshall was the first woman elected to a
state-wide executive branch office in North
Carolina. She has been the North Carolina
Secretary of State since 1997, and was recently
named president of the National Association
of Secretaries of State.
Before being elected to the position, she was
a state senator, representing N.C. District
15 (1993-94); chair of the Harnett County
Democratic Party; and president of the
Democratic Women of Harnett County. In
the 1970s, she was the national secretary of the
Young Democrats of America.
Charles Ayscue
Mission Health system
Ranked 4TH IN NATION
IN ADMISSIONS
APPLICATIONS GROWTH
According to an independent analysis conducted by Mic, a news site geared toward
the Millennial Generation, Campbell University ranks No. 4 in the United States
based on growth in admissions applications from 2003 to 2013.
Over that period, Campbell had a 289-percent increase in applications. No other
private college or university in North Carolina was ranked on Mic’s list of the Top 25
universities based on gains in applications.
“The nearly 300 percent increase in applications to Campbell University over the
past decade is a strong indicator that Campbell is offering what the young people of
North Carolina and the region are looking for,” says Britt Davis, vice president for
university advancement and assistant to the president.
Distinguished
Alumnus (’73)
Ayscue has served as senior vice president and
chief financial officer of the Mission Health
System since 2007. MHS is the sixth-largest
health system in North Carolina. Before that,
he was the CFO of the UNC Health Care
System for 20 years.
For the past several years, Becker’s Hospital
Review has named Ayscue to its list of the
nation’s top “125 Hospital and Health System
CFOs to Know.” He has served on several
boards, volunteered with many charitable
organizations, and received numerous honors,
including North Carolina’s coveted “Order of
the Long Leaf Pine” in 2013.
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Mic reported that it set out to determine the “most popular colleges in the country”
by looking at the growth in admissions applications since 2003 based on data from
the National Center for Education Statistics.
Liberty University, St. John’s University, Case Western Reserve University, Campbell
and Chapman University were the five universities to see the largest growth, in that
order. Western Carolina University, a public university part of the UNC System, was
the only other university in North Carolina on Mic’s list (ranked at No. 7, with a 270
percent growth in applications between 2003 and 2013).
Coffee, anyone?
Homecoming Saturday began at 7 a.m. sharp with
the opening of Campbell’s first full-service Starbucks
Cafe. The cafe is located on the first floor of Wiggins
Memorial Library and is open seven days a week.
Record-setting win
Dakota Wolf throws for 240 yards in his final home game, Akile Jones runs for 118, and Campbell defeats
Missouri Baptist 66-7 at Barker-Lane Stadium in a game full of school records.
Campbell sets school Division I era (since 2008) team and Barker-Lane Stadium records with 788 yards
of total offense, 521 yards rushing and 40 total first downs. The Camels score on all eight of its red zone
chances, including seven touchdowns.
Campbell would go on to finish the season with a 5-7 record, the second consecutive improvement in
terms of wins since head coach Mike Minter took over the program for the 2013 season. The Camels
would finish with 4-4 mark in the Pioneer Football League.
November
2014 University Report 19
SUE ANN
FORREST
SGA President
Sue Ann Forrest was working the Student
Government Association’s booth during an
orientation this summer when an incoming
student approached her.
“Are you interested in student
government?” Forrest asked her.
“No, not really,” the student answered.
“But aren’t you in Greek life?”
“Yes,” Forrest said. “I’m in Delta Phi
Epsilon.”
“Oh my goodness! That’s the sorority I
want to join.”
The incoming student went on to tell
Forrest that she almost didn’t come to
Campbell because when she started looking
at the university, it didn’t have Greek
life. But when a family member told her
Campbell was adding social sororities and
fraternities, “I sent in my deposit that same
day,” the student said.
The conversation warmed Forrest’s heart,
she said. She, too, had thought about not
coming to Campbell because it didn’t have
social sororities and fraternities. But she
chose to attend Campbell anyway because of
its family atmosphere, and she entered with
the goal to help start the conversation of
adding Greek life to campus.
Her sophomore year she served as secretary
of Campbell’s SGA. During an executive
council meeting with Vice President
for Student Life Dennis Bazemore, she
mentioned she thought Greek life could
help improve Campbell. “You want to
increase more students being involved
on campus. You want to increase student
participation in coming to games. You want
to increase school spirit. Greek life can help.”
In its second year, Campbell’s Greek
life is up to five social organizations. “I
can’t believe it has grown the way it has,”
said Forrest, a double major in English
and communication studies on a prelaw track and executive president of the
Student Government Association. “I
didn’t think it would happen while I was
here; I just thought I would help start the
conversation. I’m still jumping up and
down for joy that Greek life is here.”
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Cary Kolat
Head Wrestling Coach
Olympian joins
Coaching Staff
In a 10-year span from 1990 to 2000, Cary
Kolat went from being the biggest name in
American wrestling to the most cursed.
Christmas Store
proves important
for families in need
Campbell University held its fourth Community Christmas Store in Carter Gym,
where low-income residents in Harnett County could shop for free Christmas
presents for their children or grandchildren.
Each year, the Office of Community Engagement, part of Campus Ministry,
works jointly with organizations it has partnerships with to identify and connect
with families who need assistance during the Christmas season. Families in need
then register during the week before Thanksgiving. Once on campus, parents or
grandparents make their way through a makeshift store in Carter Gym to select up to
three toys for each child or grandchild they have. After that, volunteers gift wrap the
toys as parents or grandparents wait in an area with refreshments.
The toys — free to the families — are donated by the campus community or
purchased by the Office of Community Engagement with monetary contributions.
In its first year, the Community Christmas Store served 70 families and between 150
and 180 children. That number has gone up to nearly 100 families.
A 1992 feature on a then 18-year-old Kolat in
Sports Illustrated deemed him “The Best There
Ever Was” after he tore through Pennsylvania
high school wrestling with a perfect 137-0
record. He won two national titles for Lock
Haven University after going a combined 50-1
in 1996-97 and won silver and bronze medals
at the 1997 and 1998 world championships in
Russia and Iran and three gold medals in the
World Cup from ’98 to 2000.
But Kolat’s goal from the beginning was an
Olympic gold medal. That dream died in his
first match in Sydney, Australia, in 2000, after
his victory was protested and overturned, and
Kolat lost the subsequent rematch. It was the
third time in four years that one of his wins in
a world-level championship was stripped by a
protest from his opponent.
The string of bad luck led U.S. coach Bruce
Barnett to tell reporters in Sydney, “When I
get to Heaven, one of the first things I’m going
to ask is: Why does this keep happening to
Cary Kolat?”
It takes more than 300 volunteers to operate the Community Christmas Store. Those
volunteers include student-athletes, student club members, sorority and fraternity
pledges, Student Government Association representatives, student call team workers,
CUFS classes and faculty and staff from across the campus, among others.
Kolat finished ninth in his only Olympics at
the age of 27. But while it may have felt like it
at the time, his journey didn’t end in Australia.
After leaving wrestling entirely to try his hand
at event marketing and public relations, Kolat
returned to the sport as a coach in 2010.
“When you come to Campbell, we expect you
to be a good player — it’s part of the Campbell
pride and PGA pride.”
Today, he is the head coach of Campbell
University’s wrestling program, a program
that reminds him a lot of his days at Lock
Haven, a small, rural school where wrestling
tops football and basketball as the “high profile
sport.” He’s been tasked with turning around
a struggling program and making Buies Creek
a destination for wrestlers who want to learn
from the best.
— Ken Jones, director of Campbell’s PGA Golf Management University Program,
which became the first program to capture four PGA Jones Cup titles in 2014,
beating Mississippi State (which was also vying for a fourth title)
2014 University Report 21
INNOVATIVE COURSE
SPAWNS 3D PROTEIN
MODELS
Seeing a cell and its protein structure on a flat page in a textbook just isn’t the same
anymore for students in Karen Guzman’s Biology 460 and Honors 350 course —
not after a semester spent building their own computer-generated protein structures
and printing out 3D models of their research.
The students — comprised mostly of sophomores and juniors, many of whom
are eyeing careers as physicians or in medical research — presented their work
during finals week and explained their models and the work that went into them to
department professors and their fellow students. According to Guzman, the projects
will be used as teaching tools for future biology classes at Campbell.
MED SCHOOL
ESTABLISHES 72
NEW RESIDENCY
POSITIONS
The Jerry M. Wallace School of
Osteopathic Medicine works
with partner hospitals in North
Carolina to establish 72 residency
positions in the following
programs and locations:
“The biggest goal and outcome was to develop materials we can use in other classes,”
said Guzman, who got the idea while working with the Center for BioMolecular
Modeling, an instructional materials development lab at the Milwaukee School of
Engineering. “Nuclear protein transport is new to these students, and even for them,
it can be hard to understand. We had to go about a different way of teaching this
material.”
“The Affordable Care Act has brought millions of additional patients
into an already burdened system. I’m confident that PAs can help
address the shortage of trained physicians. We are trained as
generalists and can adapt to specialties as needed.”
— Marc S. Katz, president elect of the N.C. Pharmacy Academy of Physician Assistants,
at the commencement for Campbell’s PA program’s second graduating class.
• Southeastern Health:
Traditional rotating internship
(13 positions)
• Sampson Regional Medical
Center: Traditional rotating
internship (10 positions) and
family medicine (18 positions)
• Harnett Health: Traditional
rotating internship (13
positions)
• Novant Health Huntersville
Medical Center: Family
medicine (18 positions)
“These programs add to our
current lineup of programs to
total 144 newly created residency
positions in North Carolina since
the school first opened in 2013,”
says Dr. Robert Hasty, Associate
Dean of Postgraduate Affairs for
the school of medicine. “We are
thrilled for their approval.”
December
22 Campbell University
Campbell recognized 488 students with associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s,
Juris Doctor and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees earned in August and
December during the main winter commencement ceremony.
Campbell’s founding pharmacy
dean retires after 29 years
“It is really important to me for our students, graduates and health care professionals in general to take a more
active role in educating patients and help them take better care of themselves. If we can better educate individuals
about disease prevention and management, we can change their lives.”
— Ronald Maddox, founding dean, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
2014 University Report 23
CAMPBELL’S
5TH PRESIDENT
Campbell University named only its fifth
president in the school’s 128-year history.
J. Bradley Creed was recommended after a
months-long search to the Board of Trustees
by a committee composed of trustees,
faculty, staff and students. The Board
unanimously elected Creed on Jan. 2.
Meet Dr. Creed
J. Bradley Creed is an accomplished leader and is no
stranger to mission-driven institutions like Campbell.
A nationally-recognized historian of religion, Creed
was most recently provost and executive vice
president at Samford University in Birmingham,
Ala., before accepting the job at Campbell. Before
Samford, he served as dean of The George W. Truett
Seminary at Baylor University.
During his 12 years in Alabama, Creed led multiple
transformational initiatives, including the launch of
Samford’s College of Health Sciences in 2013 and the
addition of more than two-dozen new or upgraded
undergraduate and graduate programs. He also played
a key role in strategic enrollment efforts designed to
increase the size, retention, and academic quality of
the undergraduate student body. Samford achieved
the highest graduation rate of any college or university
in Alabama and saw the average ACT score of its
incoming students increase by a full point.
JANUARY
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THE RIGHT FIT
“Just from his resume and our initial investigation of him, it was
clear he was a strong candidate before we ever met him. We
talked to a number of outstanding candidates, but Dr. Creed
rose to the top initially. Just in those first five minutes during his
first interview, he made everyone feel at ease. I had the sense
in my heart, and I think many others on the committee did as
well, that God led us to the right candidate.”
— Ben Thompson, chairman of the Board of Trustees and
director of the search committee
2014 University Report 25
Jonathan
Bridges
Social Entrepreneur
Just when Jonathan Bridges thought he
would be able to make a contribution to
the Campbell University football team
on the field as a wide receiver, he suffered
another concussion. Doctors told him he
could play and become a vegetable, or he
could stop playing and think for himself.
He quit the team.
“There’s no question of what you are
going to do,” said the senior psychology
major who played on the team in 2011
and 2013. “It’s a question of how you
accept it and deal with it.”
How is he dealing with it? He’s founding
Goal: Striving for a Better Tomorrow, a
social entrepreneurship venture that will
use the arts, academics, and athletics to
encourage children to develop healthy
habits and teach them skills such as
discipline, leadership, and teamwork
while also fostering community and
expanding opportunities.
Bridges had worked with other
Campbell students to start the Social
Entrepreneurship Club, which held its
first meeting in spring 2014.
In addition, he participated in three
of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan
Foundation’s Serve & Social
Entrepreneurship Program retreats,
which teach young men and women
social entrepreneurial skills. He also
worked an internship with Help One
Now, a sponsorship program based in
Raleigh that supports local leaders in
developing countries helping orphans
and children at risk for human trafficking
or who live in extreme poverty.
“I chose to be part of the Campbell
family,” he added. “That decision is
paying off. Every opportunity I have
spurs from being here. I’m pushing
myself to show off the place that has
helped me become who I am.”
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Michael Adams
Dean, College of Pharmacy &
Health Sciences
Leading his
alma Mater
Hanging
up the Hat
Campbell’s 2-time Big South Fan of the Year
Jonathan Boggs will be attending many sporting events after he leaves Campbell. He’ll
just be much harder to find in the crowd.
For the second time, Boggs was named the Big South Conference Fan of the Year in
2015. A fixture at Camel sporting events as the loud one in the front row wearing
a reflective vest and orange soda drinking helmet, Boggs graduated in May with a
degree in sports management.
For the past three years, Boggs has worked in the promotions department for the
NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, and for the past two summers, he’s worked with the
North American Soccer League’s Carolina RailHawks in the team’s marketing
department. His career path is taking him from the arena’s student section to the
business office.
“I will blend in more,” says the Holly Springs native. “I’m going to hang up the
hat and vest. They have earned it and are ready to be retired. I wouldn’t tarnish my
Campbell get-up at any other sporting event. It’s for Campbell only.”
Boggs’ favorite memory as a Camel Crazy was Senior Night, the final men’s home
basketball game where he was recognized by Campbell’s Athletics program with a
framed picture, similar to the ones received by the team’s seniors that night. The
gesture brought a tear to his eye.
Michael L. Adams, formerly the assistant dean
and an associate professor of pharmaceutical
sciences at Campbell, became the second
dean of the Campbell’s College of Pharmacy
& Health Sciences on Jan. 1, succeeding
founding dean Ronald Maddox. He was
also named acting vice president of health
programs.
A 1996 Doctor of Pharmacy summa cum
laude graduate of Campbell, Adams returned
to the pharmacy school as an assistant
professor of pharmaceutical sciences in 2005.
In 2009, he became the school’s director
of Science Education Outreach and served
in that position through 2012, when he
was named assistant dean for graduate and
interprofessional education.
As dean, Adams is responsible for the oversight
and administration of Campbell’s pharmacy,
physician assistant, doctor of physical therapy,
nursing, clinical research and pharmaceutical
sciences programs.
“I remember making the decision to apply
to Campbell when I was a senior in high
school, and I knew that decision would have
a significant impact on my life,” said Adams.
“Now I have been given the opportunity to
give back and make an impact on the future
of my alma mater. It’s truly a humbling
experience.”
An All-Steinway School
A generous gift from Ester Howard (’44) pushed the university’s Music Department over the $10,000 mark it
needed to meet the Steinway Grant Challenge. As an All-Steinway School, Campbell’s music students would
have access to Steinway pianos in all the university’s practice rooms and concert halls. Campbell’s Music
Department offers courses of study leading to degrees in performance, pedagogy, teaching, composition and
church music. All courses of study require extensive work with the piano.
2014 University Report 27
Nick Wilder
Senior economics major
$67.7
$341.4
Operations
Spending
Alumni
Spending
MILLION
Presidential
Heritage Award
Nick Wilder was presented with the
university’s first Presidential Heritage Award
during the Connections’ Founders Week
service during Founders Week. The award
honors an undergraduate student who
embodies Campbell pride and who carries
on the vision of Founding President J.A.
Campbell through leadership and service.
Wilder is involved with SGA, Fellowship for
Christian Athletes, and Campus Outreach,
a campus ministry organization. He also is a
School of Business mentor, voluntarily tutors
other business and economics students, and is
the founding president of the newly-formed
Financial and Investing Club.
Lt. John Arroyo
U.S. Army, Fort Hood
2013 Campbell ROTC graduate
Survivor shares
his testimony
Lt. John Arroyo (’13), one of 16 wounded
in a mass shooting that killed three at Fort
Hood Army base in Texas in 2014, returned
to Campbell University 10 months after his
injury to share his story and his testimony at
the Founders Week Campus Connections
assembly in Turner Auditorium. Shot in the
front of the neck and left for dead on April
2, 2014, Arroyo survived the incident with
limited use of his right arm. He says the
tragedy strengthened his relationship with his
family and with God.
February
28 Campbell University
$23.8
MILLION
Student
Spending
MILLION
$452.4
MILLION TOTAL IMPACT
$10.7
MILLION
Construction
Spending
$8.7
MILLION
Visitor
Spending
Our Economic
Impact
Campbell University significantly increases the
employability and lifetime income of its students
and alumni, as well as adds income, opportunities
and social savings that greatly benefit the region
and North Carolina, according to a comprehensive
analysis of the economic impact of higher education
in North Carolina released in February.
During the 2012-13 fiscal year, Campbell had an
impact of $452.4 million in the seven counties in
central North Carolina it most directly serves: Harnett,
Wake, Johnston, Cumberland, Lee, Durham and
Chatham. That impact includes payroll, operations,
the purchase of goods and services, start-up
companies, and spending generated by students and
alumni. Campbell’s total impact is the equivalent of
creating 7,055 new jobs.
“Campbell University is one of the largest private
employers in Harnett County,” said Campbell
President Jerry Wallace. “With more than 700 fulltime employees, 6,000 students on our campuses,
and nearly 30,000 alumni in North Carolina, we knew
we had an impact, but this study validates our value
locally and across the state.”
Kendra
Erickson
A Passion for history
The picturesque setting for a lazy late spring
day — college friends running through the
fields, listening to music, lying in the shade
without a care in the world — Kivett’s
Mill was where Kendra Erickson (’06) first
decided she wanted to dive in to the history
of Campbell University and learn more
about the school she called home.
Erickson, an English major who started her
college career at 16, decided to make the
mill her senior project. Her 40-page report
told the story of Hendricks Kivett, son of
Kivett Hall architect Z.T. Kivett, and the
mill he built in the early 1900s to provide
lumber for the ever-growing Buies Creek
Academy. Nine years after her project and
graduation, Erickson, now coordinator
of Campbell’s Study Abroad program,
was asked to help plan an event to honor
perhaps the most historical of all events
in the University’s history — the school’s
founding in 1887.
For Campbell’s first Founders Week,
Erickson served as historical advisor and
led the creation of the history room — a
temporary museum of early-day Campbell
artifacts including founder J.A. Campbell’s
diary, his wife Cornelia Pearson Campbell’s
bell used to signal the beginning and end
of classes and several rarely seen photos
from the late 1800s. Erickson’s dream
for Campbell is to see the creation of a
university archivist or historian position,
someone dedicated to centralizing historical
documents, photos and videos for future
generations.
“Campbell is growing so fast and
producing so much material, it should
probably be archived in some manner in a
central location, like a museum,” Erickson
said. “The founding of the medical school,
the upcoming engineering program, the
law school moving to Raleigh — it’s all
so huge. If we’re not careful, we’ll lose an
opportunity to create a foundation for
future Campbell history.”
2014 University Report 29
30 Campbell University
Founders
WEEK
Feb. 2-6 marked Campbell University’s
first Founders Week, celebrating the
people who made tiny Buies Creek
Academy into the school it is today. Those
people include, most notably, founding
President James Archibald Campbell.
Throughout the week, Campbell honored
its heritage with the Campbell history
museum, a J.A. Campbell look-alike
contest for the students, a gathering of
family and descendants of Dr. Campbell
and the unveiling of the new bronze statue
of the founder in the Academic Circle.
JIM ARCH IN BRONZE
Campbell University capped off its inaugural Founders Week with the unveiling of a 7-foot,
500-pound bronze statue of James Archibald “J.A.” Campbell, who founded the school in 1887
and served as its president until his death in 1934.
The 15-minute ceremony drew nearly 500 students, faculty, staff and alumni, as well as at least
a dozen members of the Campbell family. Tom Campbell, the great-grandson of J.A. Campbell,
spoke on behalf of the family during the ceremony.
“Thank you for honoring our family,” said Tom Campbell, executive producer and moderator of
NC Spin. “More than that, you honor also those who have taught here and who have given their
time and talents and resources to make this a great university.”
2014 University Report 31
George
Braswell
World religions
When George Braswell Jr., senior professor
of world religions at the Campbell Divinity
School, returned to the United States
in 1974 after serving as the first Baptist
missionary in Iran with his wife, Joan, he
was struck by the changing demographics.
There were more and more immigrants
from around the world arriving to the
United States, and there were burgeoning
movements by religious and ethnic
minority groups, says Braswell, who grew
up in Emporia, Virginia, and joined
the faculty at the Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary, in Wake Forest,
North Carolina, after spending parts of
the 1960s and 1970s teaching English
and world religions to Muslim clergy and
students in Iran. “The U.S. was drastically
changing because of religion pluralism.”
But Braswell also saw many Christian
leaders who weren’t acknowledging the
shifting dynamics. He began pondering:
“What are we as Christian leaders going
to encounter? How can we better prepare
for it? And how can we better serve our
congregations and neighbors?”
A theological accrediting agency began
“to perk up” in the late 1970s, he says,
and awarded him a grant to develop a
practicum in world religions that would
help Christian leaders better understand
religion pluralism. Since 1980, several
thousand seminary and divinity students
have joined Braswell as he has visited
various houses of worships and met
with people of other religions, including
Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews,
Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Today, this intensive, one-week, 3-credithour course, Practicum in World Religions,
is organized through the World Religions
and Global Cultures Center, which
Braswell founded at Campbell University
in 2007. More than 100 students have
graduated from Campbell Divinity with a
certificate in a world religion over the past
eight years.
March
32 Campbell University
National mock trial Champions
South Texas Challenge Campbell Law student advocates collected the national championship at the prestigious South Texas Mock Trial
Challenge for the second time in three years on March 29. Third-year students Terry Brown Jr., Lauren Fussell, and Kaitlin Rothecker
won every single trial in all seven rounds of the competition, an unprecedented 22 of 23 ballots, on their way to taking home the
winning Treece-O’Quinn Championship Trophy.
Business School
begins construction
on learning center
Lundy-Fetterman School of Business received a $250,000 gift
from First Citizens Bank to support the establishment of a wealth
management center that will expand experiential learning and
research opportunities for students, faculty, and the community.
The Campbell Board of Trustees’ Executive Committee approved the
construction and naming of the First Citizens Wealth Management
Center on March 25. First Citizens Bank provided the lead gift for the
$1 million project.
The new, state-of-the-art center will serve as a learning lab that
simulates an investment firm environment, a trading room and a
trust center. It will be equipped with the latest tools, technology and
data that business leaders, commercial banks and financial advisors
around the world use.
Finance becomes
newest major
The School of Business will offer an
undergraduate major in finance beginning
with the 2015-16 academic year. The new
major will provide students an opportunity
to learn how to analyze and successfully
navigate financial markets. Campbell Business
Dean Keith Faulkner says students who
complete the 124-hour course of study will be
positioned to succeed as leaders in financial
planning, banks, real estate, insurance, credit
and financial analysis, investments and other
leading financial fields.
MBA Student wins
‘business battle’
Campbell Business MBA student Steven
Walther won the inaugural EO Veterans
Business Battle at Rice University in
Houston. One of 15 national participants,
Walther’s reimagined toothbrush project
took the top prize. An inventor and
entrepreneur, Walther is also a combat
veteran and Green Beret.
2014 University Report 33
SCHOOL OF
NURSING
March saw the birth of the Catherine W.
Wood School of Nursing — Campbell’s
ninth school — and the groundbreaking
ceremony for the Tracey F. Smith
Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences.
Campbell’s Bachelor of Science
in Nursing students will share
the new state-of-the-art facility
with its Doctor of Physical
Therapy and occupational
therapy programs, as
well as its new medical
research program. The
building is expected to
open in fall of 2016.
34 Campbell University
New facility
motivates
future nurses
With only 50 seats open when Campbell
University’s new Bachelor of Science in Nursing
program goes into effect in fall of 2016, the
stakes are high for the approximately 114
freshmen and sophomores who have declared
pre-nursing as their major.
For the sizeable group of those nursing
hopefuls, the formal dedication ceremony of
the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing and
groundbreaking ceremony for the Tracey F.
Smith Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences offered
a glimpse of what those students can expect
should they make the cut.
And undoubtedly, they liked what they saw.
“Being here motivates me even more to work
harder,” said freshman and pre-nursing major
Meghan Brady of Robbins, North Carolina. “I
know the competition is tough, and that’s why
I’ve gotten as involved as possible. But being out
here today, it’s exciting. Hearing the speakers
has only confirmed that this is what I want to do.
I’m in the right spot.”
2014 University Report 35
Jenna Carpenter
Dean, School of Engineering
Leader in
STEM education
Jenna P. Carpenter, a highly-regarded national
figure in STEM education, will be the founding
dean of Campbell University’s proposed School
of Engineering launching in 2016.
Carpenter is a professor, associate dean for
undergraduate studies and director of the
Office for Women in Science and Engineering
at Louisiana Tech University’s College of
Engineering and Science. She also holds key
leadership positions in several prestigious
national engineering organizations, including
serving as chair of the National Academy
of Engineering’s Grand Challenge Scholars
Program. She is a 2013 American Society for
Engineering Education Fellow and a national
evaluator for the ABET accreditation program.
“I am looking forward to working together to
build an outstanding engineering school in the
Campbell tradition of excellence,” Carpenter
said. “I have been truly impressed by the clear
vision, wise leadership and solid planning
behind this endeavor. This foundation, along
with Campbell’s values, dedicated faculty
and staff, and strong students, are really what
attracted me to the campus.”
A Corsicana, Texas, native, Carpenter earned her
bachelor’s in mathematics from Louisiana Tech
and her master’s and Ph.D. in mathematics
from Louisiana State University, where she was
an Alumni Federation Fellow. She joined the
Louisiana Tech faculty in 1989 and quickly rose
to hold critical leadership positions.
Carpenter’s research focuses on integrated
STEM curricula and improving the number
and success of women in engineering. Projects
supported by National Science Foundation
grants she has worked on as the principal or
co-principal investigator include “Creating a
Culture of Success for Women in Engineering
and Science” and “A Women in Engineering
Knowledge Center: Informing Research,
Practice, and Institutional Change.”
April
36 Campbell University
BigSURS symposium
comes to campbell
Campbell University’s first foray into hosting the Big South
Undergraduate Research Symposium was an indisputable success
with 16 students or teams receiving first-place honors and one
Camel taking home the top honor for best overall presentation.
Megan Lenaghan, a junior mathematics major from Norwell, Mass.,
and her oral presentation on the historic chain of events that led
to what we know today as modern statistics was named the top
overall presentation for the 7th annual BigSURS event, a two-day
event showcasing the best and brightest student researchers from
the Big South and other regional schools.
More than 260 students from 19 schools took part in this year’s
symposium, showcasing their work through oral and poster
presentations, as well as an intercollegiate juried art exhibit held in
the Fine Arts Building during the Friday evening dessert reception.
Campbell history professor and BigSURS Undergraduate Research
Committee Co-Chairman Salvatore Mercogliano said Campbell’s
efforts to host its first large-scale symposium was two years in the
making after the 2013 event at High Point University. He said the
University’s goal, aside from making it a success, was to promote
the “scope and scale of undergraduate research” at Campbell.
“BigSURS promotes an interdisciplinary and intercollegiate
approach to promoting undergraduate research,” Mercogliano
said. “As we continue to grow and develop, research is an area that
we will need to promote and facilitate in the years to come as our
graduate programs continue to grow and develop.”
BigSURS was also Campbell’s time to shine for many first-time
visitors from rival schools. Oral sessions were held in both D. Rich
and the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business, poster presentations
took place in the Pope Convocation Center and Taylor Bott Rogers
Fine Arts Center hosted the art show, forcing guests to see entire
campus during their two-day stay.
Paige
Phillips
Fighting for the bees
Over the past 20 years, the world’s honeybees
have declined both suddenly and mysteriously.
Their loss, should the trend continue, would be
catastrophic — a third of the food we eat relies on
pollinating insects, and a world without bees would
also mean a world without flowers and honey.
Health sciences junior Paige Phillips joined the
fight to save bee-kind years ago when she and
her husband raised their own hives containing
more than 300,000 bees. Phillips, along with
Campbell biology professors Sharon Mason and
John Bartlett, are heading Campbell’s BEE (Back
it, Educate it, Enrich it) Project and are taking the
fight to Buies Creek. In researching honeybees
and the effects of pesticides, the trio have secured
the purchase of three hives that will find a home
on Kivett Road just north of campus.
Phillips presented her research at this year’s
BigSURS event. Her oral presentation, “A
frightening world without bees; what will we
do?” focused on pesticides and how scientists
believe they’re leading to the decline in
population and pollen production. Her research
was born from a lifelong interest in bees, which
became a passion when she and her husband
purchased a hive and beekeeping equipment
from a farmer who had lost all but one of his
hives to Colony Collapse Disorder.
"That hive survived and did very well, with
many bees to follow,” Phillips said. "That made
me very curious about CCD, so my research
began from there. If you’ve ever watched bees
work, you’d see what amazing creatures they are.
They are really fascinating to watch.” CCD is the
most important potential environmental disaster
that nobody’s talking about, Phillips said. There
has been a 40-percent decline in commercial
honeybees in the United States since 2006,
according to Greenpeace.
“When the bees start dying, it is clearly an alarm
that our environment is not stable,” Phillips said.
“Sure, we can eat food that is not pollinated, but
I prefer to have a variety of fruits, vegetables and
nuts in my diet, as well as food with color. One
day, these may not be available. Or if they are,
they may be created in a lab or sold through a
window, with some unknown ingredients. No
thank you ... not for me and my family."
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AN ELITE
PROGRAM
For the second consecutive year,
Campbell’s women’s golf team
earned a spot in the elite 24-team
NCAA Championship held this
year in Bradenton, Fla. Seniors
Lisbeth Brooks and Brooke
Bellomy joined underclassmen
Louise Latorre, Tahnia
Ravnjak and Nadine White
to compete against the
top programs in the
nation. Coached by
John Crooks and Ryan
Ashburn, the group
was one of only 15
schools to make it
to the finals two
consecutive
years.
MAY
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Among giants
Of the 24 teams that qualified for nationals, Campbell was the smallest
school, with an enrollment of about 6,400 students. Campbell’s team
was also one of just four from a non-Power 5 conference at nationals.
The 23 other teams in this year’s tournament had an average total
enrollment of 33,300 students, more than five times that of Campbell’s.
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Stellar run on ‘500 questions’
It was billed as one of the most difficult game shows in television history — one for the “hardcore” trivia buffs — but Campbell librarian
Steve Bahnaman made the primetime ABC game show “500 Questions” look easy for four consecutive nights. Bahnaman had the most
impressive run of the seven-night event, reaching Question No. 168 and winning a total of $110,000 in the process.
Edward Fubara
Associate Professor of Business
Reaching out
to Haiti
“This kind of work is very consistent with our
vision of developing students who have a
commitment to service, strong ethical standards
and a global mindset. It also has the potential to
provide students with valuable learning, service
learning and research experiences. Of course
this is also consistent with Campbell’s vision of
graduating students who are the salt of the earth
and the light of the world.”
— Edward Fubara, associate professor of business
and MBA program director, on a recent trip
to Haiti with the Hope for Haiti Foundation.
Fubara explored new opportunities for business
students to travel abroad and learn while serving
others in the process.
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Lawrence Kipkoech became Campbell’s first qualifier to reach the
NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships since 2010 with a
seventh-place finish in the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA East Regional
in Jacksonville, Fla. Kipkoech, the 2015 Big South Outdoor Male
Freshman of the Year, outperformed his pre-race seeding of 17th and
fell within the Top 12 spots needed to advance to the Championships
in Eugene, Ore. Kipkoech finished 10th in Oregon, becoming the first
Campbell second-team track All-American in over 30 years.
Juli Osborne
Big South Woman of the Year
Big honors for
senior athlete
Campbell University senior basketball standout
Juli Osborne was named the Big South
Conference Woman of the Year for 2015, and
at her commencement ceremony in May, she
was one of two students to earn the Algernon
Sydney Sullivan Award for her “spirit of love
for and helpfulness to other men and women.”
Osborne was active in the community during
her time at Campbell, which culminated in
her service as president of the Student-Athlete
Advisory Committee in 2014-15. She also
served on the Big South’s SAAC board and as
the conference’s national SAAC representative
this year.
Sal Mercogliano
2015 Professor of the Year
another top
Faculty honor
GRAD SEASON
Campbell University conferred nearly 1,000 degrees over five spring
commencement ceremonies in early may. The main campus graduation
ceremony was the last presided by President Jerry Wallace, who served
as commencement speaker. In his final thoughts, Wallace told the
graduates, “I’m going to be watching you … so put your [orange and
black] on. Don’t walk on the beach without your Campbell hat. When
I’m out there, I’ll see you. And I’ll be so proud of you. I love you.”
For the second time in four years, history
professor Salvatore Mercogliano was named
Campbell’s Professor of the Year at the Senior
& Faculty Awards Banquet this spring. He
was also the D.P. Russ Jr. and Walter Jones Sr.
Alumni Award winner for Research Excellence
in 2014, and won the Dean’s Award in the
College of Arts & Sciences for teaching this
year.
Mercogliano, who teaches courses in U.S.
history and western civilization, is also author
of “Sealift: The Evolution of American Military
Sea Transportation.”
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THANK YOU,
DR. WALLACE
Jerry M. Wallace led Campbell University
to unprecedented growth and transformed
the university into a destination for leading
health education and other key programs
during his 12 years as president. He
officially stepped down on June 30, leaving
behind a legacy that includes the Jerry M.
Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine,
North Carolina’s first medical school in 35
years when it launched in 2013. Wallace,
whose career at Campbell spans 45 years,
will return to the honorary role and title of
university chancellor in July 2016.
“There are some things I personally want to do with the hope the
Lord will give me more bonus years to enjoy. But more than all of
that, the university is at a stage where it needs new and enthusiastic
leadership. It’s very unlikely the university will select a 68-year-old
person to become president again. But I hope we will look back on my
years as president and say it was right for the university. It certainly
has been right for me.”
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our Mission
The mission of Campbell University is to
graduate students with exemplary academic
and professional skills who are prepared for
purposeful lives and meaningful service.
our Motto
Ad astra per aspera
(To the stars through difficulty)
Jan. 5, 1887
Founding Date
128th
Academic Year
6,435
ENROLLMENT
Undergraduate: 3,008
Graduate: 1,855
Extended Campus: 1,572
2014-15 Academic Year
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Giving
REPORT
Campbell received
more than $17.3
million in total gifts
and pledges in the
2014-15 fiscal year.
$124,957
Religious Groups
Construction on the Tracey F. Smith Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences began in
May on Campbell University’s Health Sciences Campus. The facility, which will
house the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing and three other programs, is
expected to open in the fall of 2016.
General
Information
• Founded on Jan. 5, 1887, as Buies
Creek Academy by the Reverend James
Archibald Campbell.
• Campbell University is a private
university with strong Baptist roots.
• Campbell is home to seven schools —
College of Arts & Sciences, LundyFetterman School of Business, Norman
A. Wiggins School of Law, Divinity
School, College of Pharmacy &
Health Sciences, School of Education
and the Jerry M. Wallace School of
Osteopathic Medicine. The University
announced the Catherine W. Wood
School of Nursing and the School of
Engineering, both to launch in 2016.
• Both in and out of the classroom,
the University endeavors to present
Christian principles to students and to
foster their application to daily life.
• Students hail from 94 N.C. counties,
46 states and approximately 40
countries.
• Enrolls more in-state undergraduate
students than any other private school
in North Carolina.
• Undergraduate tuition for 2014-15:
$25,300 per year
• Provides generous merit scholarship
and grant programs.
• Hosts a nationally recognized and
award-winning Army ROTC program.
• Offers extended campus programs
in Research Triangle Park (RTP),
Raleigh, Fort Bragg/Pope and Camp
Lejeune and a degree program in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Participates in NCAA Div. I athletics:
11 male sports (baseball, basketball,
cheerleading, cross country, football,
golf, soccer, tennis, indoor track &
field, outdoor track & field, wrestling);
and 12 female sports (basketball,
cheerleading, cross country, golf,
lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming,
tennis, indoor track & field, outdoor
track & field, volleyball).
• Athletic affiliations: Big South
Conference, Pioneer Football League,
Coastal Collegiate Swimming
Association and Southern Conference
(Wrestling)
$6,853,322
Parents & Friends
$2,376,074
Corporations
$293,161
Organizations
$2,050,832
Foundations
$4,799,965
Alumni
$3,613,031
Trustees &
Presidential Advisors
$227,523
University Employees
$510,899
Estates & Trust
• Athletic nickname: The Fighting
Camels
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$210m
endowment
Accreditation
• Campbell University is accredited by the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Commission on Colleges to award Associate,
Baccalaureate, Masters, Education Specialist,
and Doctorate degrees. Contact the
Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern
Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call
(404) 679-4500 for questions about the
accreditation of Campbell University. The
Commission should be contacted only if
there is evidence that appears to support
the University’s significant non-compliance
with an accreditation requirement or
standard. Normal inquiries about Campbell
University, such as admission requirements,
financial aid, educational programs,
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etc., should be addressed directly to the
appropriate office of the University and not
to the Commission’s office.
• Campbell‘s Professional Education programs
are accredited by the National Council for the
Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
and approved by the North Carolina
Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI).
• The Social Work program is accredited by the
Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
• The School of Law is accredited by the
American Bar Association.
• The College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
is accredited by the American Council on
Pharmaceutical Education.
• The Physician Assistant Program is accredited
by the Review Commission on Education for
the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA).
• The School of Osteopathic Medicine
is accredited by the Commission on
Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA).
• The Divinity School is accredited by the
Association of Theological Schools (ATS).
• The business programs offered by the LundyFetterman School of Business are accredited
by the Accreditation Council for Business
Schools and Programs.
• The Professional Golf Management program
is accredited by the Professional Golf
Association of America.
• The Athletic Training program is accredited
by the Commission on Accreditation of
Athletic Training Education (CAATE), the
Athletic Training Education Program (ATEP).
• The Master of Public Health program is an
applicant for accreditation by the Council on
Education for Public Health.
• Campbell University was granted Candidate
for Accreditation status in 2013 by the
Commission on Accreditation in Physical
Therapy Education.
16:1
Student/faculty
ratio
• The Bachelor of Science in Nursing program
received Initial Approval Status from the
North Carolina Board of Nursing (NCBON)
in January 2014. The NCBON will return for
a second site survey and determine whether
the program is in compliance with all rules
for nursing programs. We anticipate that the
Campbell University Department of Nursing
will be receiving “Full Approval Status” in the
spring of 2018.
Memberships/
Affiliations
• North Carolina Association of Colleges and
Universities
• North Carolina Association of Independent
Colleges and Universities
• National Association of Independent Colleges
and Universities
• Association of Baptist Colleges and Schools
• Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
• American Association of Colleges of Teacher
Education
Academic Information
• In addition to a range of bachelor’s and
master’s degrees, the University offers five
professional doctorates: Law (JD), Pharmacy
(PharmD), Divinity (D.Min), Medical (DO)
and Physical Therapy (DPT).
• Main Campus full-time faculty: 216
• Percent of full-time faculty with terminal
credentials: 88%
• Ratio of students to faculty: 16:1
• Joint degree partnerships with North
Carolina State University: JD (Campbell with
Master of Public Administration or Master of
Business Administration (N.C. State).
Accolades
• Recognized by US News & World Report
as one of “America’s Best Colleges.”
• Consistently named one of the “Best
Colleges in the Southeast” by Princeton
Review.
• Named “One of America’s 100 Best
College Buys” by Institutional Research &
Evaluation, Inc.
• Named among the Top 20 percent of
“Military Friendly” universities by Victory
Media and one of the “best universities
for veterans” by the Military Times from
2013-15.
• Ranked top Christian university in
North Carolina (19th in nation) by
CollegeChoice.com in 2015.
Executive Officers
J. Bradly Creed
President (as of July 1, 2015)
Jerry M. Wallace
President (through June 30, 2015)
Michael L. Adams
Acting Vice President for Health
Programs and Dean, College of
Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Mark L. Hammond
Vice President for Academic Affairs
& Provost
Dennis N. Bazemore
Vice President for Student Life
Britt J. Davis
Vice President for Institutional
Advancement & Assistant to the
President
Student Life
Deans
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•
•
•
•
Michael L. Adams
Acting Vice President for Health
Programs and Dean, College of
Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Number of residence halls: 17
Residence facilities capacity: 2,148
Number of clubs: 36
Honor societies: 17
Social fraternities, sororities: 5
Alumni
• More than 48,850 living alumni
University Assets
•
•
•
•
Endowment: $210,101,498
Acreage: 850
Number of buildings: 134
Square footage of buildings: 1,653,726
Advancement
• Gifts, Pledges and Payments from
alumni and other donors
Year
Total Gifts Total Amount
2014-15:8,971 $17,351,638
2013-14:7,764 $17,476,742
2012-13:6,920 $17,253,464
2011-12:7,111 $23,193,976
2010-11:6,979 $16,591,829
• Alumni Donations
Year
Total Gifts
2014-15:2,302
2013-14:2,141
2012-13:1,779
2011-12:1,725
2010-11:1,716
James O. Roberts
Vice President for Business &
Treasurer
Jenna P. Carpenter
School of Engineering
B. Keith Faulkner
Lundy-Fetterman School of
Business
John M. Kauffman, Jr.
Jerry M. Wallace School of
Osteopathic Medicine
Borree Kwok
Wiggins Memorial Library
J. Rich Leonard
Norman Adrian Wiggins School of
Law
Karen P. Nery
School of Education
John T. Roberson
Adult & Online Education
Andrew H. Wakefield
Divinity School
Trustees
J. Charles Allard
Joann Anderson
Robert J. Barker, Sr.
Guilford W. Bass
William E. Byrd
R. Henry Capps, Jr.
Rogers Clark
Allison C. Cobb
Suzanne Cook
James H. Crossingham
Michael Cummings
Helen Currin
Leah Devlin
Donald C. Evans
Annabelle L. Fetterman
Dexter Floyd
Corey D. Furman
Gregory S. Gore
David J. Hailey
Oscar N. Harris
Ester Howard
Glenn Infinger
Jimmy Jackson
Thomas J. Keith
Anna Drew Kirk
Hugh Gordon Maxwell III
Carlie C. McLamb
Bernard F. McLeod, Jr.
Karen McNeil-Miller
John A. (Sandy)
McNeill, Jr.
Vance Neal
Sadie Neel
Sandy Greene
Patterson
William Pully
Robert Ransdell
Willard D. Small
Henry L. Smith
Luther D. Starling, Jr.
L. Stuart Surles
Frederick H. Taylor
Frederick L. Taylor II
Benjamin Thompson
Lisa Vaughn
Barbara Walker
William Irvin Warren
Robert P. Wellons
Fred Whitfield
Melba L. Williams
Luby E. Wood
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