PRESIDENT’S LETTER RISE UP, THERE’S MORE.

In the fall of 2020, amid the global COVID pandemic, quarantines, masks, loss of taste and loss of life, Greenville University not only continued to hold in-person classes, but also completed construction of the innovative SMART Center on Greenville’s town square.

But this isn’t the first time that the people of Greenville University, believing God was already doing the next good thing, answered the call to RISE UP.

• In 1932, creative thinkers installed printing and manufacturing enterprises on campus to employ students during the Great Depression.

• Students produced and directed the first Agape Christian music festival in 1978.

• Greenville College’s Contemporary Christian music major launched in the late 1980s, just as the Christian Music industry took off.

• In 1999, Greenville College became the first college in the nation to go wireless.

Greenville University has always been a place for people with faith in God to RISE UP to face the doubt, adversity, or fear the world brings.

Of course, no one knows the future. At the launch of the RISE UP campaign in 2019, we made a commitment to strengthen and revitalize our support of Greenville University and the students it serves through a major fundraising effort. I believe the same imagination, faith, and perseverance that inspired men and women throughout GU’s 133 years is in you. We are ready to RISE UP again to the MORE God has in store.

I see Greenville University living into our 130+ year legacy of...

• Equipping students to influence by building skills and character and helping them to grow spiritually.

• Empowering students to lead by creating spaces where students practice servant leadership and grow in intellect and faith.

• Inspiring students to serve by unlocking experiences that expand what it means to “learn by doing.”

Will you join us and RISE UP to the call to live into that future now and continue GU’s good work?

Suzanne Allison Davis ’00 President, Greenville University