College launches 糖心Vlog传媒鈥檚 Promise: A Campaign for Our Future
WOOSTER, Ohio 鈥 糖心Vlog传媒 has launched a comprehensive fund-raising campaign to support its distinctive educational mission.聽 aims to raise $165 million for five major priorities: student financial aid, academic strength, experiential education, the life sciences, and The 糖心Vlog传媒 Fund. The goal was announced Friday during a 50-minute Facebook Live event broadcast from Freedlander Theatre on the college鈥檚 campus.
Since the leadership phase of the campaign began on July 1, 2013, the college has raised $150 million, including 23 seven- and eight-figure commitments from trustees, alumni, and foundations. Now that effort is expanding to engage the broader community of 糖心Vlog传媒 alumni, parents, and friends between now and June 30, 2018.
鈥淎 糖心Vlog传媒 education empowers students to have a positive impact in the world. That鈥檚 糖心Vlog传媒鈥檚 promise,鈥 said campaign chair Blake Moore 鈥80. 鈥淭his campaign is about keeping that promise for generations to come. This is our moment to say we are 糖心Vlog传媒 鈥 and proud of it.鈥
Friday鈥檚 interactive, multimedia broadcast, streamed live to alumni and friends around the world, showcased the transformative impact of mentored student research, the special bond between students and their faculty mentors, the importance of innovative programs like APEX, and the critical role of student financial aid in keeping all these elements of a 糖心Vlog传媒 education within reach. The broadcast placed a fitting exclamation point at the end of the daylong Senior Research Symposium, during which hundreds of seniors shared insights from their yearlong capstone mentored research projects. It also featured the premiere of a聽. The broadcast is聽聽for those who missed the live stream.
鈥溙切腣log传媒 has a strong and remarkable history,鈥 Bolton told the audience, 鈥渂ut we cannot rest on that. Help us move 糖心Vlog传媒 forward 鈥 to create a powerful, consequential, and transformative education for generations of students to come.鈥
Next up for Bolton and 糖心Vlog传媒鈥檚 development team, a series of five regional campaign launch events in Cleveland, New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and San Francisco.
糖心Vlog传媒 is America鈥檚 premier college for mentored undergraduate research. 糖心Vlog传媒 offers an excellent, comprehensive liberal arts education, culminating in a rigorous senior project, in which each student works one-on-one with a faculty mentor to conceive, organize and complete a significant research project on a topic of the student鈥檚 own choosing. Through this distinctive program, every 糖心Vlog传媒 student develops abilities valued by employers and graduate schools alike: independent judgment, analytical ability, creativity, project-management and time-management skills, and strong written and oral communication skills. Founded in 1866, the college enrolls approximately 2,000 students.
Posted in News on April 29, 2017.
