Philanthropy and the Future
For 150 years, giving has transformed the College of Liberal Arts. Donors have supported our most ambitious projects and our students’ greatest achievements. Together, donors have made 239,566 gifts to CLA totaling $343 million. Their vision and generosity enrich every aspect of the CLA experience.
Here are just some of the ways donors have made a difference:
Secured Minnesota’s place among top destinations for the arts when they created the Barbara Barker Center for Dance, the Regis Center for Art, and Ted Mann Concert Hall
Amplified Minnesota’s reputation for producing frontier economic research by establishing the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute, which honors the legacies of Nobel Prize-winning faculty Leonid Hurwicz and Walter Heller
Introduced Scholars of the College to inspire and reward innovative, field- shaping research that pushes the boundaries of knowledge and artistic practice
Increased scholarships for internships by 1466% (not a typo!), from a pool of $300,000 in July 2011 to a scholarship pool of $4.7 million today
Recognized exemplary teaching with the annual Arthur “Red” and Helene B. Motley Exemplary Teaching Awards
The late Myrtle and Charles Stroud gave the largest gift in the college’s history — $14 million — to establish the Charles and Myrtle Stroud Scholarship, changing the lives of nearly 200 students each year
Campaign by the numbers
138 million dollars raised to date
- 59 new funds to support graduate students
- 110 funds to support undergraduate students
- 67 new funds to support faculty research and community engagement
- 1,100 scholarships awarded for the 2018-19 academic year totaling nearly $4 million — double what we awarded just 10 years ago