University Heritage Collections as a Corporate Business ...University Heritage Collections as a Corporate Business Asset: a Sustainability Cycle. Rachael Egan, Heritage Engagement

University Heritage Collections as a Corporate Business Asset: a Sustainability Cycle

Rachael Egan, Heritage Engagement Officer, University of Glasgow, Scotland

• The Business of the University

• University Collections as Corporate Assets

• The Path to Sustaining Heritage Collections

• Case Studies

• Next Steps

Talk Outline

Images reproduced with kind permission of Coca Cola Archives

“To bring inspiring people together and create a world-class environment for learning and research, empowering staff and students to discover and share knowledge that can change the world”

The Business of the University

Income and expenditure 2013-14

Income £000 $000Funding body grants 161,213 231,838

Tuition fees and education contracts

132,224 190,149

Research grants & contracts

133,618 192,154

Other income 73,485 105,677

Endowment & investment income

10,801 15,532

Total income 511,341 735,350

Expenditure £000 $000Staff costs 269,680 387,822

Other operating expenses

198,414 285,336

Depreciation 22,433 32,260

Total expenditure 490,527 705,418

£000 $000

Surplus retained 19,721 28,360

The Business of the University

The Business of the University

£1 billion (c.$1½ billion) redevelopment

The Business of the University

University Collections as Corporate Assets

University of Glasgow Archive Services Reading Room

University Collections as Corporate Assets

“form part of the University image, distinguishing the given Alma Mater and its prospective students from others”

Bulotaite, Nijole, ‘University Heritage- An Institutional Tool for Branding and Marketing’, Higher Education in Europe, Vol. XXVIII, No 4., Dec 2003, p1

University Collections as Corporate Assets

University of Glasgow Papal Bull (reference GUA 78194)

Grant of land, income, and bursaries to the University of Glasgow by Mary, Queen of Scots, 1563 (BL 394)

University Collections as Corporate Assets

University of Glasgow Strategic Plan, 2015-2020

University Collections as Corporate Assets

John Logie Baird

• Engineering student at University of Glasgow, 1914-15

• Pioneer of the Television

Image courtesy of the University of Strathclyde Archives (Ref: OP 4/118/7)

University Collections as Corporate Assets

Shu, Chang-Yui

• Born in Shanghai, 1912

• Medical graduate of University of Glasgow, 1938

• Became senior advisor for WHOShu in Medical dinner book

(Ref: DC225/1/35)

The Path to Sustaining the Heritage Collections

www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk

www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk

The Path to Sustaining the Heritage CollectionsThe Path to Sustaining the Heritage Collections

www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk

The Path to Sustaining the Heritage Collections

www.worldchanging.gla.ac.uk

The Path to Sustaining the Heritage Collections

Frederick Soddy, Nobel Prize Winning Chemist, 1921

Lord Boyd Orr, Nobel Prize Winning nutritionist, 1949

The Path to Sustaining the Heritage Collections

www.internationalstory.gla.ac.uk

The Path to Sustaining the Heritage Collections

James McCune Smith, born New York City 1813, Medical graduate, 1835-37

Ada-Priscilla Nzimiro, born Nigeria, 1923, Medical graduate 1950

The Path to Sustaining the Heritage Collections

Olive May Winchester, born in Maine, 1879, first woman to graduate with a divinity degree from Glasgow, 1912

Sustainability Cycle

University of Glasgow Business

Inspirational &

International stories

Heritage Collections

University Strategic

Aims

Heritage Engagement Officer

University partners include:

• Development and Alumni Office

• Marketing, Recruitment and Internationalization Office

• Communications Office

The Path to Sustaining the Heritage Collections

London Female Medics: Inspirational People

Case Study 1

Queen Margaret College and laboratory, 1890s, where women were initially instructed at the UniversityProfessor Anna

Dominiczak

London Female Medics: Inspirational People

Case Study 1

Professor Rona MacKie, Professor of Dermatology 1978

Marion Gilchrist, MBCM 1894

European Association of International Education Conference: Internationalisation

Case Study 2

Case Study 2

Matriculation slip of Virgilio Piñero, 1st Argentine-born graduate of Naval Architecture. BSc 1912 (R8/5/31/6)

Translation of the Old and New Testament into Massachuset, 1663 (SpColl BE6-c.1)

Labels for the export of Glasgow-manufactured cloth to Singapore and Thailand, 1890s (UGD13/7a/8/2&3)

European Association of International Education Conference: Internationalisation

Case Study 2European Association of International Education Conference: Internationalisation

Sustainability Cycle: Next Steps

University of Glasgow Business

Inspirational &

International stories

Heritage Collections

University Strategic

Aims

Thanks for listening!

Rachael Egan, Heritage Engagement Officer, University of Glasgow, Scotland

rachael.egan@glasgow.ac.uk