Campus Currents 
$18 Million, One Dollar at a Time
Just nine months to go. With the Faith in the Vision campaign in its final phase, growing ranks of alumni donors are saying “yes” to phone and mail appeals. From Jan. 28 through March 10 alone, more than 1,480 alumni agreed to support the campus renewal project.
“We are delighted to see that once again, our alumni support their college,” says Dan Matthews, campaign co-chair. “We are grateful for these gifts.”
Among the alumni who have given or pledged to the campaign, 341 are alumni whose gifts are first to the college.
As an added incentive to give, every dollar received during 2004 will be matched by 50 cents, up to $1 million. In January, the Peterson Family Foundation presented this $1 million challenge grant to encourage alumni to give to the campaign (see story).
In addition to alumni gifts, current students, faculty, and
staff have responded. A campus campaign kicked off last fall raised $64,715.
As fundraising carries on, architects are working on the final plans for the
new administration building and social work building. Construction on a new
administration building is projected to begin in the spring of 2005.
Three other projects that were also part of the Faith in the
Vision project are now completed and in use by students and faculty.
In the fall, the Department of Communications moved into its new location
in the Canaday Technology Center. The new facility includes a television studio,
black box theater, radio station, and department headquarters.
A renovated Bowers Hall is now the interim location for the School of Theology and the Department of History.
A new cafeteria and new cabins at the Rosario Marine Station were completed in 2002. W