Your Gift Fuels our
Continued Promise to

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Prepare our Students
to be leaders in our community and the world
Distinctive Academic Programs
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Preserve & Create Facilities
where future members of The Long Blue Line will learn, play and prosper
A Student Center for Our Time
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Invest in our Faculty
so that they can further develop their expertise and make more meaningful investments in students
Faculty Development
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Increase Opportunities
for underrepresented audiences and diverse populations
Endowed Scholarships
Campaign Progress
$100 Million Goal
Progress $99 M as of May 1, 2023
Highlights
8357
Donors
50
U.S. States
18
Endowed Programs
41
Endowed Scholarhips
3
Endowed Professorships

PIONEER PRIORITIES

THIS IS THE TIME is a historic $100 million multi-year campaign to thrust our college forward through a rejuvenated commitment to our students, a continued promise to transform lives for the better, and a desire to make the world a better place.

More Forthcoming

Data presented on this page will be regularly updated and does not include currently undesignated gifts.

Progress $20.9 M as of May 1, 2023

The Marietta Fund

$13 MILLION

The Marietta Fund, and other annual gifts, which support the overall Marietta experience, will grow each year of the campaign.

Progress $12.3 M as of May 1, 2023

Distinctive Academic Programs

$15 MILLION

  • Maximizing the Reach of the Bernard P. McDonough Center for Leadership and Business
  • Faculty and Student Collaboration
  • The Center for Health Care and Caring Fields
Progress $0.74 M as of May 1, 2023

Marietta Pride

$4 MILLION

  • Campus Accessibility
  • Campus Beautification and Wayfinding
Progress $8 M as of May 1, 2023

A Campus and Community Center
for Our Time

$20 MILLION

A hub for career services,
collaboration, and creative
collisions between all members
of the College community

Progress $3.5 M as of May 1, 2023

Faculty Development

$10 MILLION

  • Professorship Endowments
  • Visiting Professor Endowments
  • Professional Development
Progress $11.5 M as of May 1, 2023

Student Engagement

$3 MILLION

  • Student Mental Health and Wellness
  • Career Center and World of Work
  • Academic Resource Center
Progress $21.8 M as of May 1, 2023

Endowed Scholarships

$35 MILLION

  • Merit-based Scholarships
  • Institutional Need-based Aid

Meet Your

STEERING COMMITTEE

 

HONORARY CHAIRPERSONS

ROBERT DYSON ’68
Millbrook, New York

LAURA BAUDO SILLERMAN ’68
New York, New York

CHAIRPERSONS

DONALD RITTER ’81 AND LESLIE STRAUB RITTER ’85
Farmers Branch, Texas

MEMBERS

BARBARA PERRY FITZGERALD ’73
Carefree, Arizona

KEVIN O’NEILL '87, ’12
Wakefield, Rhode Island

RONALD RINARD ’72
Dallas, Texas

DR. BILL RUUD
Marietta, Ohio

MICHAEL SALVINO ’87
Charlotte, North Carolina

CHARLES SULERZYSKI
Marietta, Ohio

DALE WARTLUFT ’63
Dunwoody, Georgia

JO ELLEN DIEHL YEARY ’76
Charleston, West Virginia

Transformative Gifts

We invite those who care about Marietta College into a special partnership and to consider how we, together, can best move this bold campaign forward.

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SECURE OUR FUTURE

As one of the Nation’s Finest Small, Liberal Art Colleges

Enhance the Marietta Experience

Your gifts immediately support or enhance core programs, student scholarships, new academic resources and keep our campus beautiful, safe and accessible.

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