[Vision2020] What is a Flagship University?

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From: Moscow Cares moscowcares at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:30:48 -0800
To: Moscow Vision 2020 Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] What is a Flagship University?

> Courtesy of the University of Idaho at:
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> http://www.uidaho.edu/newsevents/item?id=46711&preview=1
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> What is a Flagship University?
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> Tuesday, February 21
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> Media Contact:
> Judd Wilson, University Communications-Moscow, (208) 885-7725, judd at uidaho.edu
> Ysabel Bilbao, University Communications-Boise, (208) 334-2252, ybilbao at uidaho.edu 
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> What is a Flagship University?
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> MOSCOW, Idaho – "Flagship university" is used to refer to the first established public research university in a given state. A state’s flagship university is typically research-intensive, grants doctoral degrees, and competes in NCAA Division I athletics. In his speech "The Future of Flagship Universities" in 1998, former University of California, Berkeley chancellor Robert M. Berdahl said of flagship universities, “The term applies, in all the cases I can think of, to the fully mature public universities serving most of states.”
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> Berdahl listed the following three attributes of flagship universities:
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> “These institutions formed the core of the public systems of higher education in their respective states.”
> The University of Idaho was established to serve the entire state under the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act.
> The University of Idaho has 70 locations across Idaho.
> The University of Idaho reaches over 400,000 people a year through its offices in 42 of Idaho’s counties.
> 80 percent of freshmen stay for their sophomore year -- the highest percentage of any public institution in the state.
> University of Idaho students graduate at nearly twice the rate of any other Idaho public institution.
> The University of Idaho contributes to our state through research that ranges from agricultural to water, climate and natural resources management.
> Newsweek magazine ranks the University of Idaho as the third most affordable university in the nation in its "Best Colleges 2012."
> “In most cases, these institutions were the first public universities to be established in their states.”
> While Idaho was still a Territory, the 1889 Territorial Legislature established the University of Idaho.
> When Idaho became a State, the University of Idaho was written into the original Idaho Constitution.
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> “They became the centers for research and graduate education and they developed an array of professional schools that added to their size, scope, and preeminence.”
> The economic impact of the University of Idaho on our state totals nearly $1 billion dollars annually.
> 74 percent of all research funding to Idaho institutions is received by the University of Idaho. 
> Last year the University of Idaho reported to the National Science Foundation research receipts and expenditures of almost $100 million.
> The Northwest’s #1 destination for new National Merit Scholars this year is the University of Idaho.
> The University of Idaho is #1 in Idaho for total National Merit Scholars  more than all other Idaho institutions combined.
> The University of Idaho produces more than half of all the STEM bachelors degrees in the state.
> National Jurist magazine ranked our accredited College of Law as 13th in the nation for clinical opportunities among 200 American Bar Association-approved law schools. By comparison, Harvard ranked 20th. 
> Washington Monthly magazine's College Guide ranks the University of Idaho in the top 100 universities for social mobility, research and service.
> Forbes Magazine ranks the University of Idaho in the top 20 percent of all undergraduate institutions in the nation in its issue of "America's Top Colleges" for 2012.
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> Seeya later, Moscow.
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> Tom Hansen
> Post Falls, Idaho
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> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
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> - Unknown
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