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Dr. Robert C. Robbins exemplifies strategic leadership at an AAU university, skillfully advancing goals and the institutional mission, while championing collaborative academic excellence, fostering innovation and groundbreaking research, driving enrollment growth, and securing transformative fundraising and endowments. Fostering student success and enhancing faculty and staff recruitment and retention have been hallmarks of Dr. Robbins’ higher education career.
HIGHER EDUCATION
ADVANCEMENT
During his seven-year tenure, President Robbins, along with his staff, set fundraising records by securing more than $2.8 billion dollars for his beloved University of Arizona. He increased the institutional endowment by 62%, from $741 million to more than $1.2 billion, during presidency and nearly tripled average annual endowment giving.
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
By championing collaborative academic excellence, Dr. Robert C. Robbins fostered an environment where interdisciplinary purpose, partnership and values flourished, equipping students and faculty to tackle their immediate goals and prepare for tomorrow’s complex global challenges.
RESEARCH LEADER
Under Dr. Robert C. Robbins’ guidance, the University of Arizona emerged as a leader in innovation and groundbreaking research, cultivating a culture that encourages creativity and transformative discoveries.
GROWTH & STABILITY
With a strategic focus on enrollment growth and financial stability, Dr. Robert C. Robbins secured transformative fundraising and endowments, ensuring long-term prosperity and support for the university's academic ambitions. Dr. Robbins also enabled construction of numerous major buildings and student-focused facilities on campus and across the region.
BY THE NUMBERS
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53,187 students
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16,699 employees
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$980,000,000 in research expenditures
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11,914 degrees awarded
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87.7% one-year retention rate
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$997,200,000 net tuition revenue
UNIVERSITY
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FY17 - $264,665,714
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FY18 - $316,982,530
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FY19 - $334,000,000
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FY20 - $248,818,108
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FY21 - $345,233,892
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FY22 - $328,466,020
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FY23 - $313,828,454
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FY24 - $279,539,510
FUNDRAISING
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#19 Public School
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FY17 - $622,200
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FY19 - $734,300
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FY21 - $760,975
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FY24 - $1,112,000
RESEARCH
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Integrity
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Compassion
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Exploration
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Adaptation
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Inclusion
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Determination
VALUES
The true measure of momentum is not immediate success; it is persistent success that is reinforced and enhanced over time by process depth and breadth. For example, we do not depend on our usual donors or our strength in space science to pull us through. Our connections and engagements are deeper and richer than ever before and continually growing.
Dr. Robert C. Robbins
MAJOR BUILDINGS & STUDENT- FOCUSED FACILITIES BUILT DURING
DR. ROBERT C. ROBBINS' TENURE
Arts District Facilities Renovation (Redevelopment ongoing)
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