Alumni Fund
The Alumni Fund impacts the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ experience every day.
The Fund bolsters all areas of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾’s annual operating budget, and unrestricted gifts allow the College to most effectively underwrite teaching and learning.
Please direct your support to the Alumni Fund designation that means the most to you:
Greatest Need
As the last few years have shown, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾’s needs change—sometimes dramatically—from year to year. Your unrestricted gifts are sustainable and forward-looking: they provide the College with the flexibility to meet new needs as they arise, and they offer a vote of confidence in the College’s direction.
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Support the core of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ experience: the rigorous and highly personal education that make the College exceptional. These gifts support teaching, faculty scholarship, student research, classroom technology, and the libraries—and they promote the connection between devoted faculty and talented students that is ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾’s hallmark.
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Arts & Culture
Support the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, as well as the many theater and dance performances, concerts, student exhibitions, and lectures on campus. These gifts provide vibrancy and culture to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ community and offer students the opportunity to express themselves creatively and to appreciate the arts.
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Career Exploration and Development
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ students continue to land amazing opportunities around the world with the committed and personalized support of Career Exploration & Development (CXD). Gifts to this designation ensure that students have access to the resources and opportunities to land their first great job and build a career. These gifts support the peer advising program, skills and values assessments, tools and software for interview practice, and training to gain workplace skills. They also support Treks where students can see the work of organizations in cities across the country and meet alumni in person, and professional development opportunities to ensure CXD staff remain cutting-edge.
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Comprehensive Aid
A critical From Here campaign priority, comprehensive aid recognizes that the cost of a full college experience often goes outside the bounds a student aid package. Gifts to this designation provide academic technology, course materials, internships and fellowships. These gifts support ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ Outing Club trips, study abroad, and other activities. Some students may struggle to afford a new pair of glasses or a warm coat or winter boots; comprehensive aid removes these economic barriers to fully participating in campus life.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
Gifts to this designation affect every student, faculty member, and staff person at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾, and reach every corner of campus. They enable the Center for Multicultural Life to program inclusive student events and bring diverse speakers to campus. They move the campus forward through trainings such as A Groundwater Approach to Racial Equity, conducted by the Racial Equity Institute, and campus-wide initiatives, like DEI Partners, that promote introspection and collaboration.
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Environmental Stewardship
Gifts to this designation help ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ toward its goals of maintaining carbon neutrality, promoting sustainability, and involving students in pro-environmental efforts. These gifts support waste reduction through initiatives that include the Composite and Food Waste Program, Zero Sort Recycling Program, and Give and Go Program, and make it possible for the College to prioritize energy-use reduction by incorporating the LEED or Passive House Design process into all new buildings.
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Financial Aid
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾’s endowment, while impressive, only provides a portion of the funding required for financial aid. Annual gifts to this designation make it possible for ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ to remain one of only seven schools in the US that admit all students on a need-blind basis, and offer no-loan aid that covers full demonstrated need. Annual gifts for financial aid are critically important to enable ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ to keep this core promise of access to students and families.
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Health & Wellness
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾’s residential model prioritizes the health and wellness of all students during their transformative, and sometimes challenging, time on campus. Help students meet those challenges and learn essential skills: when to ask for assistance, how to best support and be supported by others, how to manage the unexpected, when to take a break, and how to tolerate distress. These gifts will also provide for religious and spiritual life; the Counseling Center; the Coe Health Center; gender violence prevention; and peer health and health education.
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Student Life
Help support the rich, varied, and life-changing cocurricular opportunities that define the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ student experience outside the classroom. These gifts provide for over 200 student clubs; many enriching activities such as lectures, intramural sports, and student performances; alternative break service trips and other programs of the McKeen Center for the Common Good; and campus hubs like Sexuality, Women, and Gender Center (SWAG).
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