Fall 2011 - Wheelock College

Five Transformational Firsts
The Campaign for Wheelock
five transformationaL firsts
for WheeLock
Campaign Goals
$10 Million – A New Level for Scholarship Endowments
Financial assistance in the form of scholarships is critical to Wheelock’s ability to attract and retain the best
students who are passionate about the mission and goals of the College. Today, Wheelock is building on pioneering
initiatives such as the Charles and Irene Frail Hamm ’60 $3 million challenge endowment for Urban Teacher
Scholarships — the largest at the College to date — to raise the bar with an eight-figure goal for endowed scholarships.
Achieving this goal will widen access to a Wheelock education, ensure that opportunities such as service
learning are not limited by a student’s ability to pay, and prevent career choices from being restricted by the
amount of loan debt a graduate must carry.
$5 Million – First Endowed Professorships
Funds to support Wheelock’s first endowed professorships, continuing education, professional development, and
Nearly one-third, or $25 million, of the $80 million Campaign goal is designated for faculty
research opportunities for outstanding faculty are long overdue. Investing in the creative energy of faculty who are
responsible and student for the programs quality of education and unrestricted the College gifts offers to in the the Annual years ahead Fund, is essential essential if Wheelock support is which to continue
to be provides a leader in for higher scholarships education and in the its financial core professional flexibility areas. that This allows fund will the provide College sorely to maintain needed support its
for these important efforts.
day-to-day quality of operations and to respond to new opportunities and challenges as
they arise. The remaining amount of the Campaign goal — $55 million — is dedicated to five
first-of-their-kind funds for Wheelock: endowments for Student Scholarships, Professorships,
$5 Million – First Endowed Fund for Innovation
Wheelock has long been known as an innovator in higher education and in the professional fields that it prepares
its students Innovation, to enter. and The Technology College must Enhancement have resources for and programs, Innovation, curriculum and a development, fund for Campus and collaborative
initiatives Facilities if it Projects. is to continue to respond creatively to the ever more complex, rapidly changing needs in higher
education and in society.
$5 Million Purpose – First Endowed Fund for Technology Enhancement and Innovation Goal
Information technology informs education at all levels and in every aspect, and keeping current with first-quality
technology is a basic requirement at colleges and universities everywhere. At Wheelock, a technology endowment
will ensure the ability to continue to advance teaching and learning through technology, to develop and access
the most innovative technology-based curricula, to support excellent IT staff, and to invest in new technologies as
they develop and are needed to continue the work of the College. Wheelock has always been ahead of the curve
in teaching education theory and practice. It must now empower its students to be leaders in using technology to
access and create new teaching and learning resources.
Annual Fund–Unrestricted $ 8 million
Current Use–Restricted $ 17 million
Endowment $ 25 million
• Student Scholarships $ 10 million
$30 Million – First Fund for Facilities and a Sustainable Campus Environment
• Professorships $ 5 million
The effort to maintain, upgrade, and expand facilities and equipment is an ongoing challenge for Wheelock.
Continuing
• Innovation to provide improvements to physical resources will be crucial to $ all 5 million aspects of the College’s future:
attracting • Technology new students Enhancement and sustaining and enrollment; Innovation supporting teaching and $ learning 5 million with modern classrooms,
laboratories, studios, library facilities, and offices; and encouraging a vital sense of community through spaces
for events, activities, and student services. Energy conservation and new initiatives to “green” Wheelock’s buildings
and campus environment are expensive but urgent needs that are in keeping with College values and that will
conserve financial resources in the long run.
Campus Facilities Projects $ 30 million
Total $ 80 million
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