Gayle D. Beebe, Ph.D.
Gayle D. Beebe became °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp’s eighth president in 2007 after serving as president of Spring Arbor University in Michigan for seven years. His inauguration in 2008 featured speeches by Steve Forbes, chief executive officer of Forbes, and Steve Sample, former president of the University of Southern California. Read more about the President.
What do you dream of doing in the next decade? How far will you go? At °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp, we’re excited about the future, and we’re building on many accomplishments and momentum from the past 10 years highlighted below.
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°µÍø±¬ÁÏapp celebrates the completion of the °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp Observatory, which houses the powerful Keck Telescope; Thorrington Field, home of the men’s and women’s soccer teams; the state-of-the-art °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp Track and Field Complex; and the renovated Russ Carr Field for the baseball team. |
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°µÍø±¬ÁÏapp inaugurates the and installs Jeff Schloss, distinguished professor of biology at °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp, as the first recipient. |
°µÍø±¬ÁÏapp opens and dedicates the impressive Winter Hall, which provides offices and labs for the engineering, mathematics, psychology and physics departments and classrooms for many academic departments. The °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp Music Department moves into the specially renovated Music Building. |
Adams Center for the Visual Arts, which includes the °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp Ridley-Tree Museum of Art and many well-designed art studios, provides a new home for the Art Department.
°µÍø±¬ÁÏapp launches the Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture to promote spiritual formation and the Dallas Willard Center to provide access to the books and papers of the late Christian philosopher. |
°µÍø±¬ÁÏapp raises $85 million through the Bright Hope for Today capital campaign, which funded Winter Hall for Mathematics and Science, Adams Center for the Visual Arts, the °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp Observatory and renovated athletic fields. The beautifully remodeled °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp Dining Commons opens its doors to students. |
The first annual Lead Where You Stand Leadership Conference features a wide range of speakers providing key insights about leading businesses, organizations and government agencies. |
°µÍø±¬ÁÏapp Downtown, a new, semester-long academic program focusing on capital and social entrepreneurship, enrolls its first students in downtown Santa Barbara in the Hutton Parker Foundation Building. |
°µÍø±¬ÁÏapp completes the $153 million , the largest in college history. It raised funds for the Global Leadership Center and five new innovative centers: Mosher Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership; Eaton Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Hughes Center for Neuroscience and Leadership; Goble Center for Global Learning; and the Montecito Institute for Executive Education. |
°µÍø±¬ÁÏapp offers scholarships worth 85 percent of tuition to the first class of Augustinian Scholars. The new provides two full-ride scholarships each year for two graduates of Michaelhouse, a Christian boarding school for boys in KwaZulu-Natal. °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp opens its own chapter of and enrolls one or two Rwandan students each year as part of the Augustinian Scholars program. |
°µÍø±¬ÁÏapp adds a new data analytics major that includes professors from mathematics, computer science, and economics and business departments working together in an interdisciplinary program. |
Thanks to a $2 million gift, °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp begins establishing a Center for Student Success to help all students succeed. |
°µÍø±¬ÁÏapp launches a new Summer Session in Singapore that features study of international trade and finance, an internship and travel in Asia. |
The first °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp in Cairo semester immerses students in a developing world megalopolis. |
°µÍø±¬ÁÏapp welcomes its first engineering majors, who will earn a Bachelor of Science in engineering with an emphasis on mechanical engineering.Other new programs include a new Bachelor of Music (BM) degree in performance with a concentration in voice, orchestral instruments and piano, plus new minors in writing, film and environmental studies.
We made college history with our largest, most diverse incoming new class for fall 2019. New Warrior teams, men’s and women’s golf and women’s swimming, begin competing. °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp Downtown expands to a second floor and dedicates the latest of its five centers and initiatives: the Center for Applied Technology. These innovative programs contribute to the Santa Barbara community and help prepare our students for rewarding careers. Learn more about our centers and initiatives:
We celebrate these accomplishments and the momentum they provide as we plan for the future. We continue to embrace the value of the liberal arts, which prepare students for a life worth living– and provide them with a significant return on investment, as this recent describes. In the coming months, we’ll share some of the exciting things we’re doing to deepen the mission of the college while expanding the impact of °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp around the world. Happy New Year! Gayle D. Beebe, Ph.D. |