Dickinson Fund Midyear Impact Report

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.