LEAVE YOUR MARKThe Campaign for Wilmington College

Leave Your Mark: The Campaign for Wilmington College

The Leave Your Mark Campaign

In the life of every institution, there are defining moments. They do not come often, but when handled correctly they can change the trajectory of an institution. This is such a moment for Wilmington College (WC). Our alumni, faculty, staff, students and donors are leading a powerful resurgence that is creating new instructional spaces, enhancing our distinctive educational foundation and opening up new worlds of opportunity for today’s students. Through these efforts, our students graduate with a unique understanding of the world that they live in and how they can become an agent for positive change, regardless of their chosen career path.

The College places students at the center of the learning experience and provides them with an educational environment that fosters active hands-on learning, passionate engagement in service and leadership, and intentional encounters with the values of peace, social justice and global citizenship.

Our alumni are in demand and are on the front lines of resolving large, complex problems like “Feeding the 9 Billion,” educating our future leaders for tomorrow’s jobs, leading the field in robotics surgery or providing exemplary care to professional-level athletes as they compete and win at the highest levels. Their success is enhancing our reputation and increasing the value of a Wilmington College degree.

Today we are joining together in support of the College’s historic $21.2 million fundraising campaign, titled Leave Your Mark. This campaign is specifically engineered to strengthen the campus infrastructure, broaden access to a Wilmington College education, enhance our academic programing and provide life-changing experiences that will position our students for success. To date more than $16.2 million has been raised towards our goal of $21.2 million. These gifts come in many sizes - from $5 to a very special $1 million challenge that is doubling every gift received between now and the end of the campaign in December 2017!

This document is designed to give you a deeper understanding of this critical moment — this defining moment — in the life of Wilmington College and provide a starting point for future dreams. The following pages are designed to introduce the priorities of the campaign.

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Facilities - $15 M• Center for the Sciences and Agriculture• Center for Sport Sciences

People and Programs - $2.2M• Study Trips• Student Scholarships• Faculty Excellence

Annual Fund - $4 M

Our Philanthropic Priorities

$21.2 M

“This campaign provides a defining moment for Wilmington College as a student-centered institution with a hallmark for hands-on learning. Its success will help place the College in a position of strength well into the 21st century.”

Jim ReynoldsPresident

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$4M

People and Programs

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State-of-the-Art Facilities

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$15M

$2.2M

Annual Fund

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Facilities

State-of-the-Art Facilities

Wilmington College is enhancing its reputation for educational excellence. Our signature programs in agriculture, the sciences and athletic training challenge students to expand their boundaries both intellectually and experientially. Two new buildings are expressly designed for these academic areas, while complementing interests across the campus.

The Center for Sport Sciences is a flagship facility not only for those students in the sport sciences (athletic training, sport management, exercise science and coaching), but it also offers numerous co-curricular applications with recreational and athletics amenities. The Center for the Sciences and Agriculture will literally touch every student on the main campus, however, those in the sciences and agriculture will benefit exponentially from modern classrooms, laboratories and other learning centers designed for teaching and learning the modern applications of these time-honored disciplines.

Our graduates are in demand and thriving in their careers. Wilmington College alumni are making their mark on society with significant contributions throughout their fields and communities. Our alumni are utilizing their Wilmington College experience as a foundation for serving their communities, their country and, indeed, the world. It’s what we call “hands-on living.”

Wilmington College has developed a vibrant, caring and unique learning community with outstanding students, faculty and staff — now it is time for our facilities to reflect those qualities. To this effort, the Leave Your Mark Campaign will build facilities that not only provide state-of-the-art educational space but also foster learning and outreach to the greater Wilmington community.

Center for Sport Sciences (CSS)

• 41,000 square-foot facility• Accessible to WC’s 21 sports teams• 6,500 square-foot athletic training facility• 15,000 square-foot training facility

Center for the Sciences and Agriculture (CSA)

• 13,500 square-foot addition• Complete renovation of Kettering Hall• LEED Certified

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Facilities

The Center for the Sciences and Agriculture

The new Center for the Sciences and Agriculture (CSA) is currently under construction and, when complete, will transform the teaching of the sciences at Wilmington College. This 13,500 square foot addition and complete renovation of the former Kettering Hall will take teaching to new levels and provide special emphasis upon opportunities for hands-on learning, including student research and other student/faculty interaction. This facility will provide much needed laboratories and research space to house the agriculture and science programs, two of the fastest growing programs on campus. The CSA has been designed to achieve a silver LEED certification as an environmentally friendly “green” building in its design, construction, operation and maintenance.

The facility will accommodate the record numbers of agriculture and science students enrolling at the College. Wilmington College is known for having excellent students and faculty in these areas, as

well as up-to-date instrumentation. Now, WC will have a facility to match these outstanding individuals in the sciences and agriculture. This direct benefit to WC’s students will, in turn, result in graduates that are better able to attain good jobs and excel in their fields, enroll in graduate and professional schools, and embark upon successful and self-actualizing careers.

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Facilities

Center for Sport Sciences

The College’s new Center for Sport Sciences (CSS) has made an immediate impact upon four of the institution’s major areas: academics, athletics, recreation and community outreach. The 41,000 square-foot facility is not only home to WC’s nationally prominent athletic training program, but accommodates training for essentially all of the College’s 20 sports teams.

The CSS features a corporate-private partnership that is distinct on collegiate campuses and creates a center of medical excellence for the area’s sports medicine needs. The partnership features a world class orthopaedic and sports medicine group, physical therapy institute, chiropractic clinic and hospital imaging services all contained under one roof — available to both the campus and greater community. Additionally, this partnership provides clinical and internship opportunities for Wilmington College’s athletic training majors without ever having to leave campus. The 6,500 square-foot, athletic training facility features state-of-the-art classrooms and labs — and provides space for this marque program to grow. The facility, located within easy access of WC’s contiguous sports venues, offers such amenities as two in-ground hydrotherapy pools, electrical muscle stimulators, and cryo-compression and ultrasound units.

The Center’s 15,000 square-foot sport training facility contains an all-indoor, artificial turf playing surface, which opens to an outdoor, lighted training field with an artificial turf surface for multiple sports and intramurals. The facility opened in fall of 2015.

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People and Programs

Study Trips

Wilmington College believes that transforming the lives of our students into leaders ready to serve the pressing needs of society requires an understanding of the world and their place in it. Among the ways that the College accomplishes this is providing opportunities for students to experience diverse and, at times, challenging perspectives through domestic and international travel. These experiences ideally connect what is learned in the classroom with practical, hands-on learning opportunities.

This student experience is wide-ranging and impressive. They’ve lobbied Congress in Washington, DC, pressed sugarcane while studying the agriculture in Costa Rica and presented their scientific research with peers in Ecuador and the Philippines. Hundreds of students have made the world their classroom as they worked with Native American populations in South Dakota, assisted at schools in Kenya and interacted within the distinct cultures of locales ranging from Peru and New Zealand to Spain, Germany, China, Israel and Palestine.

Travel opportunities enrich the learning experience, promote better understanding among peoples and make the world a smaller place.

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People and Programs

Student Scholarships

Having a support system is important. But here, support is just the beginning. We mentor. We challenge. We hold our students to high expectations because we know they can meet them. With the ideal combination of empowerment and motivation, students can stand taller, push harder and gain the confidence they need to succeed in any career. In order to provide this transformative experience to students, we need to make the cost of attending Wilmington College an attainable reality to them. Currently over 99 percent of our students receive some form of financial aid. The Leave Your Mark Campaign will support student scholarships to worthy students as we endeavor to close the gap between what students can afford and the actual price of tuition. WC historically has attracted many first generation students and others that find the cost of higher education daunting. Funding scholarships will attract and retain talented and motivated students that may not otherwise be able to afford college.

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Faculty Excellence

A supportive and motivating faculty and staff is one of the hallmarks of a Wilmington College education. Their influence transcends simply imparting knowledge but also achieves the level of mentorship and assisting students in developing the confidence required for successful careers. Highly qualified faculty members possessing deep, industry-specific knowledge permeate classrooms and laboratories across the campus. Faculty mentors challenge their students and hold them to high expectations. The Leave Your Mark Campaign will support Endowed Department Chairs and Professorships in order to continue to attract outstanding professional educators to the College that are experts in their fields.

In order to continue to provide this high level of faculty to our students, we must invest in our faculty members. This campaign will support professional development opportunities for the faculty so that they can employ the most cutting edge knowledge and skills when preparing our students to enter and lead in the ever-evolving workplace.

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Annual Fund

At Wilmington College, we believe in educating the whole person through real-world experiences, focused on bettering the community. This commitment to the well-being of others is ever-present in the minds of our alumni and donors who contribute to the Annual Fund each year.

This critical fund for the College is the sustaining force that provides an environment committed to hands-on learning and hands-on living. Annual gifts help provide crucial financial aid to 99 percent of the student body and allow for a wide array of programs and opportunities that shape each individual student’s education and prepare them to enter and lead in the workplace upon graduation. Each year, these gifts send students across the globe, enrich the classroom environment, support campus organizations, provide athletic opportunities and allow us to accomplish key campus initiatives that enhance the overall student experience.

Over the course of the Leave Your Mark Campaign, giving to the Annual Fund will be the way that the majority of donors show their support. This is through thousands of gifts at different levels. In fact, by the end of the campaign, cumulative annual gifts of $150 or less will add up to nearly $1,000,000 in support for various different areas on campus.

Annual Fund

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Ready to Leave YOUR Mark?Visit www.wilmington.edu/alumni/leave-your-mark/ to learn more about how you can make an impact at Wilmington College.

Wilmington College is an independent college in Wilmington, Ohio, with a hallmark for hands-on learning opportunities. Founded in 1870 by Quakers, WC hosts 1,100 students at its main campus and another 200 at two satellite locations in Cincinnati. The College competes in 20 sports as a member of NCAA D-III and the Ohio Athletic Conference.