Fall 2011 - Wheelock College

The Campaign for Wheelock
off to a fabuLous start!
Campaign Goals
Five Transformational Firsts
The Campaign for Wheelock kickoff event, held at WGBH studios
on Oct. 12, was informative—in typical Wheelock fashion—as
well as fun. Community energy and good vibrations fairly bounced
off the walls as guests, students, and faculty alike shared their enthusiasm
$10 Million – A New Level for Scholarship Endowments
Financial for Wheelock’s assistance in the goals form and of scholarships accomplishments—past, is critical to Wheelock’s present, ability and to attract future. and retain the best
students who are passionate about the mission and goals of the College. Today, Wheelock is building on pioneerin
initiatives such as the Charles and Irene Frail Hamm ’60 $3 million challenge endowment for Urban Teacher
Scholarships “ Our — the alumni largest are at the a diverse College group to date in many, — to raise many the ways, bar but with the an common eight-figure goal for endowed scholar
ships. Achieving thread this I goal see in will them widen again access and to again a Wheelock is their dedication education, to ensure actively that do opportunities such as service
learning are not their limited part to by improve a student’s society. ability Whether to pay, they and are prevent teaching career in schools choices or from being restricted by the
Nearly amount one-third, of loan serving or debt $25 on a graduate million, school committees, must of the carry. $80 running million a service Campaign agency or goal volunteering is designated for faculty
and student programs at community and unrestricted programs where gifts they to live, the they Annual put their Fund, Wheelock essential values support which
provides
$5 Million
for scholarships
– First Endowed Professorships
and educations and to the work financial benefiting flexibility children, that families, allows and the communities, College to maintain its
Funds to support Wheelock’s first endowed professorships, continuing education, professional development, and
day-to-day quality
research opportunities which of are operations
for the outstanding heart of and a healthy to respond
faculty society. to
are long We new
overdue. need opportunities more Investing Wheelock in gradu- and challenges as
the creative energy of faculty who ar
they responsible arise. The for remaining ates the out quality there amount of using education their of skills the the Campaign and College educations offers goal in to the — make years $55 a million difference.” ahead is — essential is dedicated if Wheelock to five is to continu
first-of-their-kind to be a leader in higher funds education for Wheelock: and in endowments its core — Judy professional Parks for anderson Student areas. This Scholarships, ’62, fund trustee will provide Professorships,
sorely needed support
Innovation, for these important and Technology efforts. Enhancement and Innovation, and a fund for Campus
Facilities Projects.
$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 to enter. The College must have resources for programs, curriculum development, and collaborative
Purpose Goal
initiatives if it is to continue to respond creatively to the ever more complex, rapidly changing needs in higher
education and in society.
Annual Fund–Unrestricted $ 8 million
$5 Million – First Endowed Fund for Technology Enhancement and Innovation
Current Information Use–Restricted technology informs education at all levels and in every aspect, and keeping current $ 17 million with first-quality
technology is a basic requirement at colleges and universities everywhere. At Wheelock, a technology endowment
Endowment will ensure the ability to continue to advance teaching and learning through technology, to $ develop 25 million and access
the most innovative technology-based curricula, to support excellent IT staff, and to invest in new technologies as
• Student Scholarships $ 10 million
they develop and are needed to continue the work of the College. Wheelock has always been ahead of the curve
• Professorships
in teaching education theory and practice. It must now empower
$
its
5
students
million
to be leaders in using technology to
• Innovation access and create new teaching and learning resources. $ 5 million
• Technology Enhancement and Innovation $ 5 million
$30 Million – First Fund for Facilities and a Sustainable President Campus Jackie Environment
Jenkins-Scott (middle)
Campus The effort Facilities to maintain, Projects upgrade, and expand facilities and equipment leads the is an applause ongoing for Wheelock’s challenge $ 30 two for million Wheelock.
fabulous Campaign co-chairs, Robert A.
Continuing to provide improvements to physical resources will be Lincoln crucial and to A. all Keena aspects Dunn of Clifford the College’s ’68. future:
Total attracting new students and sustaining enrollment; supporting teaching and learning with modern $ 80 million 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 Wheelock’s Magazine 5building
and campus environment are expensive but urgent needs that are in keeping with College values and that will