Information on this page reflects the Dickinson Fund status as of Dec. 31, 2016.
Access: Financial Aid and Scholarships
Your gifts help make Dickinson possible for more than 1,600 students who depend on scholarships and financial aid. This year, Dickinson will invest $49.6 million to ensure that the best students can become Dickinsonians and learn to live purposefully and make an impact regardless of their financial means. That would be impossible without your gifts to the Dickinson Fund.
ATHLETICS
The McAndrews Fund for Athletics fuels Red Devil success on and off the field. Your McAndrews gifts are helping purchase vital equipment like the new basketball and volleyball floor installed this past summer. Additionally, your gifts this year have helped teams travel for preseason preparation and service trips as well as hire the best coaches for today’s Red Devils.
Campus and Facilities
New smart-classroom technologies and studentsupport resources like the Quantitative Reasoning Center, renovations to residence halls, and new equipment for student clubs were all made possible this year thanks to your gifts. By supporting the Dickininson Fund, you’re helping to ensure that Dickinson students benefit from the best resources inside and outside the classroom.
Sustainability
From energy efficiency measures that mitigated 986 MTCO2e to a new beekeeping cooperative and sustainability-related courses, your gifts are helping Dickinson secure and enhance its position as a leader in sustainability education. Thanks to your gifts, the college earned the highest score on the Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll and was once again named a “Cool School” by Sierra magazine.
Student Life
Our small, close-knit campus filled with cocurricular and extracurricular activities depends on your support through the Dickinson Fund. Thus far this year, your gifts have helped stage Mermaid Players productions, a cappella performances, lectures from visiting experts, an innovation competition and dozens of Orientation activities introducing new Dickinsonians to campus.
Academic Programs and Faculty Support
Thanks to your gifts, Dickinson is able to develop new interdisciplinary programs like the Food Studies Certificate Program launched this fall. Additionally, your gifts help hire new faculty, allowing Dickinson to secure the 9-to-1 studentfaculty ratio and 13-student average class size that form the foundation of the college’s personalized approach to liberal-arts learning.
Global Education
Your gifts helped Dickinson maintain its standing as a top 5 institution for long-term study abroad according to the Institute of International Education. This year, gifts to the Dickinson Fund are supporting 38 abroad programs in 24 countries and on six continents. Additionally, Dickinson Fund gifts helped students engage in hands-on international research on disaster response in Japan through the college’s distinctive Mosaic program.
470 John Dickinson Society Members
The John Dickinson Society is Dickinson’s premier donor group, honoring those who have made a Dickinson Fund gift of $2,500 or more. Alumni who graduated within the last five years qualify with a gift of $500; alumni who graduated in the last 10 years qualify with a gift of $1,000.
Mermaid Society Members: 3,118
The Mermaid Society recognizes donors who have supported the college consistently for the past three or more years.
Information on this page reflects giving society membership levels as of Dec. 31, 2016.
Small Gifts Make a Big Impact
1,472 gifts under $50 are helping Dickinson by supporting initiatives across campus and around the workd, including:
- innovative approaches to sustainability and global studies in programs like interdisciplinary field-research courses probing disaster recovery in Japan and climate change in Greenland
- the new externship program, which provided nearly 40 students a firsthand look at careers at the Department of State, the National Gallery of Art, UBS Financial, Twitter and more than 30 other job sites during winter break
- student-faculty research bridging neuroscience, psychology, biology, Africana studies and sociology to better understand ocean acidification, sustainable water purification, bug-borne diseases, Native American history and much more
- more than 10 student concerts and performances ranging from a capella and jazz to music theatre and dance.