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of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. announced his plans to retire on June 30, 2011. He has served as chancellor of the system’s 35 colleges and universities since February 2006. During his tenure, the system has seen a jump in enrollment from 259,945 students in fall 2006 to 310,361 students in fall 2010, an increase of 50,416 students. The USG’s annual economic impact on Georgia has grown from $10.4 billion in FY06 to $12.7 bil- lion in FY09, and the amount of dollars generated from research, grants and con- tracts has increased $75.5 million, from $831 million in FY06 to $906.5 million in FY08. Efforts to increase the numbers of students enrolling in STEM were ramped up and the USG was cited for its achieve- ments in increasing the numbers of K-12, particularly minority, teachers it produces. Chancellor Davis has also established a system-level human resources function that has addressed rising health benefit costs and established an executive leader- ship institute to identify and train emerg- ing leaders within the system. Issues such as philanthropic giving, campus safety and emergency planning and response and energy conservation have all been addressed through special presidential task forces cre- ated under his leadership. He is the 1988 Black Engineer of the Year.
Previously, he had served as chairman of the board of Alliant Energy Cor- poration–an energy holding company with $8.3 billion in
ergy, Mr. Davis served as president and CEO of WPL Holdings, from 1990 to 1998. From 1978 to 1990, he rose through the senior management ranks at Wisconsin Power and Light Company, starting as vice president of finance and ending as CEO and president. Mr. Davis’ higher-education experi- ence includes serving as a member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents from 1987 to 1994, and as a former chairman of the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University, of which he is a life member. Mr. Davis earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineer- ing from Carnegie Mellon University in 1965, and his M.B.A. in finance from the University of Chicago in 1967. He is a member of the board of directors of General Motors and Union Pacific Corp., and serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy along with numerous professional associations and civic organizations.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Board of Trustees Appoint Shirley Ann Jackson for 10 More Years The Rensselaer Board
Shirley Ann Jackson President Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute
total assets and annual operating revenues of $3 billion at that time–since 2000. Mr. Davis joined Alliant in 1998 as president and chief executive officer. He retired from his dual roles in July 2005, and re- tained the chairman’s post until his move to the university system. Prior to the creation of Alliant En-
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of Trustees voted unani- mously in June of 2010 to invite Shirley Ann Jackson to continue as president for another 10 years. In an- nouncing the decision, the board noted the remarkable range of her accomplish- ments over the last 11 years, ranging from research to student life to higher educa- tion to Institute business.
Under President Jackson’s tenure
and The Rensselaer Plan, the Institute invested $700 million in new construction as well as making significant renovations and improvements to existing buildings. The Institute has also seen a rise in its rankings as a top-tier research university in the United States and the world, and an
increase in research awards and expen- ditures from $37 million 10 years ago to $90 million today. Research awards and expenditures are continuing to grow at a rate of nearly 10 percent annually, and include a focus on important areas such as biotechnology and the Web.
Also seeing an increase is the amount of financial aid available to students. More than 13,460 high school students applied to Rensselaer for a place in the fall 2010 freshman class—up 8.8 percent from the previous year. Overall, applications are up 140 percent since 2005. President Jackson became the 18th president of Rensselaer in 1999. She is the 2001 Black Engineer of the Year.
1987 Black Engineer of the Year Joins the Viterbi Faculty Dr. John Brooks Slaughter joined USC as professor of engineering and edu- cation in January 2010. In his new posi- tion, he will be looking at the intersection between engineering and education, with a focus on what has become his lifelong quest of increasing underrepresented minority participation in the STEM fields.
A Crowning Moment in His Career Rodney O’Neal, president and CEO
of Delphi Automotive LLP since October 2009, knows what receiving it means. He calls it “a crowning moment in my career.” The it is the Black Engineer of the
Year award, bestowed annually for 25 years by US Black Engineer & Informa- tion Technology magazine to recognize the achievements of black engineers, scien- tists, diversity advocates and executives of technical companies. Career Communica- tions Group Inc. created the award as a means of bringing individual recognition to African Americans at a time when such attention was lacking.
O’Neal, only among a select handful of African American chief executives
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