DePauw lands $200M in gifts to support strategic plan
The funding includes $150 million from a single donor, marking the largest gift ever given to the university.
The funding includes $150 million from a single donor, marking the largest gift ever given to the university.
The university first announced plans for the business school in March as part of the five-year “DePauw’s Bold & Gold 2027” strategic plan.
The new business school is included in a five-year strategic plan the Greencastle-based university unveiled this week called “Bold & Gold 2027.”
The University of Notre Dame rated among the top 20 national universities in the annual college rankings, while Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology finished top of its class for the 22nd straight year.
For most of the school year, the DePauw Investment Group oversaw only about $160,000. But the stakes skyrocketed in April when DePauw’s board of trustees added $1 million from the university’s $731 million endowment.
The campaign was launched in 2014. A cornerstone was support for student access and financial aid.
DePauw President D. Mark McCoy and Board of Trustees Chairwoman Kathy Patterson Vrabeck said university officials decided employment levels at the college were not financially sustainable.
DePauw University has received a $20 million donation from 1968 graduates Steve and Karen Sanger to create a leadership program, the school announced Thursday.
A top Indy chef posted about a great restaurant an hour away. So I hopped in the car.
The donation was given to the Campaign for DePauw, bringing the fundraising effort at the 2,200-student college in Greencastle within $14 million of its goal of $300 million.
D. Mark McCoy will become the 20th president in the private, liberal arts college's 179-year history July 1.
The university in Greencastle said an 18-member committee has been named to work with a national executive search firm to seek a replacement for President Brian Casey.
Brian W. Casey plans to step down as president of DePauw University after the 2015-16 academic year to take the same position at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, DePauw officials announced Thursday.
With the gift, commitments to the DePauw Trust, which focuses on making the university affordable for students of all income levels, have surpassed $56 million.
The Greencastle university said it already has raised more than $200 million toward the goal. About $100 million of the total will go toward a new endowment for need-based financial aid.
Finances are increasingly challenging for small, private schools, causing many to do whatever is necessary to attract students, particularly students who can afford tuition ranging from $25,000 to $45,000 annually.
Alumni Judson and Joyce Green earmarked the funds for helping develop professional musicians.
The founder of Lincoln Capital Management and his wife have donated $20 million to DePauw University to provide financial aid to students, part of $31 million in donations announced by the school in central Indiana.
Colleges are experimenting with business models at a time when the ability of students and their families to pay are dropping dramatically, and endowments and scholarship funds remain depressed.
A Colorado couple who both graduated from DePauw University have donated $25 million to the private liberal arts college to build a new dining hall and to endow need-based scholarships.