University Heritage Collections as a Corporate Business Asset: a Sustainability Cycle Rachael Egan, Heritage Engagement Officer, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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