2023 State of the College

Excite. Engage. Empower. Excel.

Paul College 2023 State of the College

Mission Statement

Who are we?

Why are we here? What do we do?

Alumni

Business/Community/

Human Capital Excellence – Faculty

Human Capital Excellence - Staff

UNH Strategic Priorities

Academic Performance Metrics updated 2023

Graduation Rate

•2023 RANK: 42 • PERCENT GRADUATING ON TIME: 78.2%

•2022 RANK: 48 • PERCENT GRADUATING ON TIME: 76.6%

Participation in High-Impact Educational Practices

•2023 RANK: 21 • TOTAL: 75%

•2022 RANK: 36 • TOTAL: 75%

Graduation Rate for Pell Grant Students

•2023 RANK: 48 • PERCENT GRADUATING ON TIME: 74.0%

•2022 RANK: 61 • PERCENT GRADUATING ON TIME: 70.0%

Best Value

•2023 RANK: 9

•2022 RANK: 10

Percentage Loan Repayment

•2022 RANK: 35 • PAID ON TIME: 55.8% (2023 TBA)

Ratio of Administrative to Instructional

Expenses and Academic Support

•2023 RANK: 100 • RATIO: 17.5%

•2022 RANK: 114 • RATIO: 17.4%

UNH Strategic Initiatives

President’s 4 Strategic Groups

Faculty Senate Strategic Initiatives

Honors College

Data-Informed Decisions

• Bruce Pfeiffer

Creating Streamlined Technology-enabled Processes

Discovery Reimagined

Strengthening our Talent

• Audrey Ashton-Savage

• Andrew Seal

Setting Clear Priorities

Excite. Engage. Empower. Excel.

‘22-’23 Highlights

FACULTY RESEARCH productivity, IMPACT, and RECOGNITION

Conflict Management

Most Influential Article Award

Public Interest

Best Paper Award of the 2023 Accounting Information Systems midyear meeting of the American Accounting Association

2023 UNH Award for Excellence in Research

Best Paper Award for Healthcare Management Track at 2023 Academy of Management

Best Paper Award for Empirical Finance track at 2022 Southern Finance Association Conference

$1.07 Million Grant

U.S. Army Research Institute Grant for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

2023 Paul College Outstanding Researcher Award

Shuili Du

Loris Rubini

Rachel Campagna

Yunshil Cha

Zhaozhao He Mike Kukenberger

Lucy Gilson

Societal Impact

Center For Business Analytics Overview

• Industry driven mentorship

• Skill and talent development

• Access to technology

• Data for research

• Support for grants

Students Industry Faculty/ Research

• Financial support

Center for Business Analytics

• UNH research

• Multidisciplinary talent

• Partner ecosystem

• Established: 2021

• Funded: Part of $6M gift from Peter T. Paul

• Focus: Industry engagement, Technology enablement and Research environment

Paul College Strategic Objectives

OBJECTIVE 1: Enhance academic reputation and visibility

OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen research productivity, impact, and dissemination

OBJECTIVE 3: Enhance undergraduate student outcomes and success

OBJECTIVE 4: Grow, diversify, and elevate stature of graduate programs

OBJECTIVE 5: Foster a collaborative, inclusive, engaged, and aspirational culture

OBJECTIVE 6: Engage robustly with the business community regionally and nationally

OBJECTIVE 7: Ensure financial health and sustainability

OBJECTIVE 1: Enhance ACADEMIC REPUTATION and visibility

• UNH Paul College becomes the highest ranked public business school in New England

• UNH Online MBA Program Achieves Highest-Ever National Ranking at #37

• Poets and Quants ranked Paul CaPs at #48 among business colleges in terms of career outcomes

• MS Economics ranked at #33 nationally by TFE Times

• UN PRME – Submitted 1st Sustainability Report

OBJECTIVE 1: Enhance ACADEMIC REPUTATION and visibility

Accounting & Finance Bretton Woods Ski Conference

• Total 232 submissions

• 20 papers accepted - 66 participants

Harvard University, University of Chicago, MIT, Duke, Texas A&M, Washington U

St. Louis, Indiana University, Ohio State, University of Minnesota, BU

Arizona State University, Notre Dame, Iowa State, UMass, BC

Workshop on Economic Dynamics

• 21 Participants

• 4 Presentation/Workshops

Swarthmore, UConn, Amherst, Williams, Wellesley, Colby, Middlebury

Keynote: Andrew Lo, MIT.

OBJECTIVE 1: Enhance academic reputation and VISIBILITY

Total followers: 30,643 (UP 9.74%)

Total impressions: 5,197,753 (DOWN 27.78% - mostly due to Meta platforms)

Total reach: 2,299,659 (DOWN 7.56%)

Total engagements: 263,134 (UP 43.82%)

Total post link clicks: 138,324 (UP 51.04%)

Total video views: 728,935 (UP 80.79%)

Paul “Barbie ” College

• 1543 likes

• 30 comments

• 893 shares

• 47 saves

• Reached 8,191 individual accounts

• Inspired 500 accounts to go to profile and 25 new followers

OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY, IMPACT, and DISSEMINATION

Ø Goal: Increase publications in high quality, high impact, journals

Ø 37 (41%) faculty published 41 A* & A* journal articles

Ø 8 articles published in FT50 journals

A*-Level Journal Acceptances/Publications, AY22-23*

European Accounting Review (J. Nash)

Industrial Marketing Management (B. Akdeniz;)

Industrial Marketing Management (C. Satornino

Industrial Marketing Management (G. Yalcinkaya)

Journal of Applied Psychology (N. Awasty) FT50

Journal of Applied Psychology (E. Frank) FT50

Journal of Management (J. Chen) FT50

Journal of Management Studies (J. Chen) FT50

Journal of Service Research (A. LaBrecque)

Research Policy (H. Lee) FT50

Strategic Management Journal (H. Lee) FT50

*Australian Business Deans Council list, 2023

9 Faculty

11 Articles

8 Journals

A-Level Journal Acceptances/Publications, AY22-23*

28 Faculty, 30 Articles, 26 Journals

• Advances in Accounting (Y. Cha)

• Agricultural and Resources Economics Review (J. Huang, S. Lemos)

• Computers and Operations Research (A. Chen)

• Economics and Human Biology (K. Conway)

• Economic Inquiry (Y. Germaschewski)

• Empirical Economics (S. Du)

• Group & Organization Management (R. Campagna)

• International Business Review (G. Yalcinkaya)

• International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (V. Kalargyrou)

• International Journal of Managerial Finance (V. Staneva)

• Internet Research (I. Kim)

• Issues in Accounting Education (C. Plante)

• Journal of Business Ethics (S. Du x 2) FT50

• Journal of Business Research (S. Du)

• Journal of Business Research (D. Dutta)

• Journal of Business Research (C. Satornino)Articles

• Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics (S. Hossain)

• Journal of Empirical Finance (Z. He, M. Miletkov, V. Staneva)

• Journal of International Marketing (G. Yalcinkaya)

• Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (S. Du)

• Leisure Sciences (M. Schuckert)

• Managerial Auditing Journal (S. Ciccone, H. Li, E. Xu)

• Managerial Auditing Journal (J. Nash)

• Organizational Dynamics (L. Gilson)

• Organizational Psychology Review (N. Awasty)

• Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (D. Ozabaci)

• Psychology & Marketing (B. Pfeiffer)

• Small Business Economics (D. Dutta)

• Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (J. Chen) FT50

OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY, IMPACT, and DISSEMINATION

OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen RESEARCH productivity, impact & dissemination

• Ludwig Bstieler: Board of Directors, Product Development and Management Association

• Steve Ciccone: Director, Northeast Business and Economics Association

• Lu Echazu : Vice Chair for AACSB Responsible Management Education Affinity Group

• Lucy Gilson: Board of Governors of the Academy of Management

• John Hasseldine: Editor, Advances in Taxation

• Jun Li: Chair, Northeast Chapter of the Academy of International Business

• Jon Nash: Board member, NH Society of CPAs

• Linda Ragland: 2023 AAA Government and Nonprofit Section (GNP) Research Program Chair and Annual Meeting Program Committee Chair

• Jing Wang: Conference Chair, New England Association of Information Systems

• Ermira Zifla: New England Association of Information Systems Conference Program Chair

OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen research productivity, impact & dissemination

EXTERNAL PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT

• Nihkil Awasty : Organizing committee, Asian Americans in Business Academia

• Yunshil Cha : Government and Nonprofit Section (GNP) Coordinator, AAA Northeast Region

• Ahmad Etebari : Executive Director, Northeast Business and Economics Association

• Mihail Miletkov : ESG Track Chair, 2022 SFA Annual Conference

• G T. Ozer: Secretary/Treasurer: INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS)

• Svetlana Petrova : Executive Committee Member and Investments/FinTech Area Track Chair, 2022 EFA Meeting

• Goksel Yalcinkaya : Co - Chair Global Marketing SIG Conference

EDITOR APPOINTMENTS

• Billur Akdeniz : Associate Editor, Journal of Business Research (A)

• Ludwig Bstieler : Associate Editor, Journal of Product Innovation Management (A*)

• Jianhong Chen : Associate Editor, Group & Organization Management(A)

• Steve Ciccone : Action Editor, Journal of Business and Economic Studies

• Shuili Du : Section Editor, Journal of Business Ethics (A)

• Jun Li : Associate Editor, New England Journal of Entrepreneurship

• Yixin Liu : Associate Editor, Advanced Business and Finance

• G T. Ozer: Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

• Cinthia Satornino : Associate Editor, Journal of Business Research (A)

• Emily Xu : Associate Editor, Advances in Accounting

OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen

research

productivity, impact & dissemination

The Data Spanners podcast officially launched with the goal to demonstrate how the same data science concepts can be applied across seemingly unrelated fields.

• 10,000 impressions

• 100 unique listeners in the first two weeks

• 5-Star reviews on Spotify

HealthDay and US News & World Report: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-08-21/great-step-for-baby-walkable-neighborhoods-linked-to-safer-pregnancies https://consumer.healthday.com/pregnancy-exercise-2664048719.html

News Medical: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230817/Pregnant-women-living-in-walkable-communities-more-likely-to-experience-favorable-birth-outcomes.aspx

Medical Xpress https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-walkable-communities-healthier-mom-baby.html

UNH Today story: https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2023/08/healthy-steps-motherhood-paul-college-professor-co-authors-new-research

OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY, impact & dissemination

• Stephanie Brockmann: Great Lakes Fishery Commission, $295,841. Assessing Welfare of Nutrient Targets and Alternate Policies on Lake Erie’s Ecosystem and Economy.

• Stephanie Brockmann: New Hampshire Water Resources Research Center, USGS Water Resources ; A Hedonic Analysis of the Impact of PFAS Contamination on New Hampshire Municipal Water Supplies on House Prices; $24,211

• Brad Herring: National Cancer Institute, $250,000, Effects of a hospital payment reform on healthcare received by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

• Mike Kukenberger: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. $1.07 million.

“Understanding Dynamic Team Composition: Exploring Within and Between Team Member Changes.”

OBJECTIVE 3: Enhance Undergraduate academic SUCCESS & OUTCOMES

Yield

• Applications down by 3% (3,893) - Deposits up by 3%

• UG Retention ~93% (UNH ~87%)

• Focus on Open House and Admitted Students Visit Day(s)

• Paul Scholars (4.2 GPA)

• 26 deposits (16 female, 14 from NH)

• Global/International

• 106 students studied abroad

Fall ‘23 = 20%

Fall ‘22 = 19%

Fall ‘21 = 18%

Fall ‘20 = 18%

Fall ‘19 = 19%

OBJECTIVE 3: Enhance undergraduate student academic SUCCESS & outcomes

•80% of students believe FIRE helped them succeed academically (prior 75%)

•70% of students believe FIRE helped them be more involved (prior 56%)

•72% of students believe FIRE was a worthwhile experience (prior 69%)

•UNH Student Government Leadership

Special cohort programs

OBJECTIVE 3: Enhance undergraduate student academic success & OUTCOMES

Career Outcomes Highlights – 2022 UG Graduates

• 95% success rate (employed or grad school)

• $60,629 Average UG starting Salary

• 81% held at least 1 internship

• 81% engaged with CaPS in some way

• 89% satisfied with career services support

• 31 students continued onto UNH master’s

During AY 22-23, 1,458 students received one-on-one CaPS appointment, with 100% satisfaction rate

• Summer 2023: 27 Intern Opportunity Fund awards

• NH, MA, CT, NY, NJ, SC, CA

• Pepsi, PwC, BlackRock, JP Morgan Chase, Ogunquit Playhouse

Business in Practice (BiP)

Through experiential learning and hands-on projects, students work directly with industry leaders and companies, and learn by doing. The program empowers them to acquire a deeper grasp of competencies by providing real business experience and responsibilities, giving students tools, skills and know-how to launch a successful and meaningful business career.

OBJECTIVE 3: Enhance undergraduate student academic SUCCESS & OUTCOMES

BiP offered 73 courses from 43 industry professionals

OBJECTIVE 3: Enhance undergraduate student academic SUCCESS & OUTCOMES

Congratulations to faculty recognized for teaching excellence

Graduate Teaching Excellence Awards Student Nominated

• Russ Miles (FT MBA)

• James Kibler (O/P MBA)

• Andrew Earle (FT MBA)

• John Colliander (MSA)

• Burcu Eke Rubini (MSBA)

• Yixin Liu (MSF)

• Michael Goldberg (ECON)

• Stephanie Brockmann (ECON PhD)

2023 Excellence in Teaching Awards

Roger Grinde (DS), Scott Lemos (MGMT), and Russell Miles (DS) –

UNH Brierley Award

OBJECTIVE 4: GROW, diversify, and ELEVATE STATURE of graduate programs

OBJECTIVE 4: GROW DIVERSIFY, and ELEVATE STATURE of graduate programs

Corporate partnerships (NECU, NH Bankers, NHSCPA, etc.) Healthcare added as option to PT/O

MBA

Financial Leadership pathway to MSA

Test Drive MBA offering to increase PT/OL MBA enrollments

Graduate Program Ambassadors

RISE Programing (Resources for the International Student Experience)

4 Graduates (Holy Cross, Emerson, Brown (Post-Doc), FAA)

PhD Program Success

10 Conference Presentations (22-23)

Will Pettinico: Graduate School Dissertation Year Fellowship for AY 2023-24

OBJECTIVE 5: Foster a COLLABORATIVE ENGAGED INCLUSIVE & ASPIRATIONAL culture that supports all community members to thrive

• The 4th annual new student DEI event offered to all first-year and transfer students - Paul

Inclusive Community Orientation

• 25 student leaders from all Paul student organizations completed a half-day Allyship training led by Paul alumni

• First DEI conference, Cultivating Community, attracted over 185 students, faculty, staff, and business community members

• The DEI 603 campaign funding challenge met

• The DEI committee developed a Paul Inclusion & Belongingness survey, to be shared fall 2023

OBJECTIVE 5: Foster a COLLABORATIVE ENGAGED INCLUSIVE & ASPIRATIONAL culture that supports all community members to thrive

UNH Sustainability Institute Campus Awards

Ju-Chin Huang

Lifetime Achievement Award

Jennifer Griffith

Campus and Community Engagement Award

Cinthia Satornino

New Curriculum Award

Paul DEI Committee

Campus Community Engagement Award

OBJECTIVE 5: Foster a COLLABORATIVE ENGAGED INCLUSIVE & ASPIRATIONAL culture that supports all community members to thrive

Staff Engagement in Paul Community

o SAC Highlights

o International Education Week

o Fuel for Finals

o Cookie decorating (Holiday/Valentines)

o Spring food drive

o Swaggin-Wagon + Buddy lunches

o $500 Staff Professional Development Fund

Sherri Cannon, Dean’s Office

Andrea Levesque, ABM Housekeeping

2023 Staff Excellence & Paul Pride Awardees

OBJECTIVE 6: Engage robustly with the BUSINESS COMMUNITY regionally & nationally

• Engage with over 200 privately held businesses

• Presented 6 CEO Speaker Series Events

• Facilitated 6 Family Enterprise workshops

• Ran 3 CEO Peer groups per month

• Bi-weekly e-newsletter

• Sponsors

• Baker, Newman and Noyes CPA

• Checkmate Payroll Services

• Enterprise Bank

• The Guyton Group/Forge Wealth Management

• Mass Mutual

• Moitoza Consulting

• Orr & Reno Law Firm

• Sprague Energy and Natural Resources

• Vigilant Wealth Management

• Sprague Energy

• TD Bank

Provided direct one-on-one advising to 1,458 small businesses and entrepreneurs

Increased biennial budget allocation by 28% to $500,000/year

1,716 Training & workshop attendees

Assisted clients in:

• Starting 71 new businesses

• Creating and Saving 707 jobs

• Obtaining over $25.9 million in capital

• Growing sales by over $28.3 million

Launched Inclusivity

Commitment focused with a goal of serving more BIPOC and New American businesses.

Partnered with NH Tech Alliance to create a Cybersecurity Initiative that provides a web-based training program.

10 MBA SBDC student projects

9 SBDC clients working with VoiceZ

NH Small Business Development Center (NH SBDC) Economic Impact

NH SBDC is the state’s leading resource for business advising and education. For 39 years, we have proudly supported entrepreneurs from every walk of life, helping them start, grow, create jobs, and be resilient. SBDC’s dedicated team of professional business advisors delivers highly individualized, confidential advising at no charge to enterprises across New Hampshire.

Over the last 10 years, SBDC helped 35,000+ clients

§ Access $278 Million in new capital (loans, grants, angel and VC financing)

§ Increase client sales by $143 Million

§ Start 600+ new businesses

§ Create and retain 6,600+ jobs.

SBDC’s economic impact in 2022 was $207.3 million. That accounts for a $60 million increase in four short years.

SBDC’s total annual economic impact, prepared by UNH Peter T. Paul College Economist, is calculated using SBDC validated impact (10 year averages of Jobs Created, Jobs Retained, Client Sales Increases, and Capital Infusion), average NH employee wage data, and the most recent New Hampshire Employment Multiplier.

OBJECTIVE 6: Engage robustly with the BUSINESS COMMUNITY regionally & nationally

Executive Ed

BAE Systems –Finance for ES leaders

Network4Health –Leadership program

New Hampshire Medical Society – 2-year program

Next Level Leadership Consortium: Custom program

New Hampshire Department of HHS: Custom program

Upcoming Events –

OBJECTIVE 7 : Ensure financial health and sustainability

Paul College Development – FY23

Campaign Progress

• $29.3M in revenue raised to date towards a pro-forma goal of $50M

FY23 Overview

• $3.57M raised overall in FY23 vs a goal of $3M

• $1.84M current use

• $1.74M endowed

• $2.7M towards student support

• $883K towards program support

• 1,797 donors to Paul College, up 17% from FY22

• 8.8% Paul College Alumni Participation Rate

• (603) Challenge $326K up 15% from FY22

• Annual Fund $1,051,652, up 32% from FY22 and Paul College’s first-time surpassing $1M in Annual Fund

• Development team completed 915 donor visits

• New Donors Acquired: 278, 15% of total FY23 donor count

• Top/Notable Gifts:

• $1M to support Paul Scholars Program

• $560K to support Paul Scholars Program

• $500K newly created fund to alleviate the financial burden for Paul College students