{"id":25716,"date":"2012-06-21T07:21:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=25716"},"modified":"2012-06-22T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T11:15:09","slug":"wright-state-president-makes-report-to-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/06\/21\/wright-state-president-makes-report-to-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State president speaks in Van Wert"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wright State University President David Hopkins speaks during the university's annual "report to the community" held at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wright State University President David Hopkins, the university\u2019s self-admitted \u201cbiggest cheerleader,\u201d had a lot to cheer about when he and Lake Campus Dean Bonnie Mathies presented the university\u2019s Annual Report to the Community during a luncheon held Wednesday in the Grand Lobby of the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio.<\/p>\n

Hopkins talked about Wright State\u2019s accomplishments and also recognized Mathies and the success of the Lake Campus, which has seen significant growth and success over the past year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer Lake Campus is thriving and that\u2019s not by accident,\u201d Hopkins said, also noting that Wright State is one of the models among four-year universities in coming up with collaboration opportunities with other institutions of higher education, including four-year colleges and universities, community colleges and career centers, such as Vantage Career Center, which offers a number of Wright State classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of things we also try to be at Wright State is a good partner,\u201d the Wright State president said. \u201cWhat it really takes is all of us working together in higher education, at all the levels \u2026 everyone has to work together to meet the needs of this great state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hopkins also praised statewide efforts to avoid duplication and to make articulation and transfer more seamless.<\/p>\n

\u201cOhio is the envy of the nation,\u201d Hopkins said, adding that the state is No.1 in such efforts.<\/p>\n

Closer to home, the Wright State president lauded the Lake Campus\u2019 success, noting that the Celina-based campus now has seven bachelor\u2019s degree programs, including a highly-successful mechanical engineering degree program.<\/p>\n

Mathies noted after the program that the engineering program has far exceeded expectations, with more than 60 students in that program, when only 25 were planned.<\/p>\n

The Lake Campus dean also noted that the campus was \u201cgrowing by leaps and bounds,\u201d adding that finding space at the lakeside campus for the growing number of students is becoming one of her major challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re out of space,\u201d Mathies said. \u201cThat\u2019s a good thing, I guess, because it means we are very successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Appropriately, with the luncheon held at the NPAC, Hopkins talked about Wright State\u2019s recent selection as a Center of Excellence for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n

Hopkins also said efforts need to increase in bringing higher education to more Ohio students. Noting that Ohio is one of the most \u201cundereducated\u201d states in the nation, Hopkins said there were many reasons for that, including the high number of well-paid jobs available decades ago to those without a college degree.<\/p>\n

Hopkins said that, while Ohio has a large number of college graduates, the state also has a problem with the \u201cout-migration\u201d of many of those graduates, while \u201cin-migration\u201d of other state\u2019s college grads needs to be increased.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to provide more academic programs that would allow young people, and adults going back to school, to really have a choice that they don\u2019t have to go far away to get a high-quality education,\u201d he said. \u201cWright State is committed to being an affordable, high-quality institution; we continue to (have) \u2026 the second-lowest tuition of all the four-year public universities in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hopkins said that has resulted in Wright State being the second-fastest growing educational institution in the state, while also adding that the recent economic downturn has resulted in more students choosing public colleges and universities over more expensive private schools.<\/p>\n

The Wright State president said he was also proud of the school\u2019s community engagement, noting that the school has been ranked in the top 100 of the nation\u2019s 6,000 educational institutions in student community service.<\/p>\n

He closed by touting Wright State’s community involvement. “That’s the heart of Wright State; we’re all about how we serve the needs of our community,” Hopkins said, adding that the school has accomplished much in its relatively brief 45-year existence.<\/p>\n

Also speaking during the luncheon was Pete Prichard, Vantage Adult Education director, and Stacy Hohman, nursing coordinator at Northwest State Community College, who both praised the collaborative efforts between their entities and Wright State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Wright State University President David Hopkins, the university\u2019s self-admitted \u201cbiggest cheerleader,\u201d had a lot to cheer about when he and Lake Campus Dean Bonnie Mathies presented the university\u2019s Annual Report to the Community during a luncheon held Wednesday in the Grand Lobby of the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio. Hopkins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 15:56:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}