Giant Steps Campaign: Grants, Foundations, and Corporate Support Wabash continues to be well supported by grants, corporations, and foundations. Foundation and Corporate Awards— $6,674,913
Lilly Endowment Inc.— $28,727,178
(reimbursable grants not included in Giant Steps totals) During the Giant Steps Campaign, a focus on giant minds and giant ideas supported Wabash faculty and students with an expanded emphasis on stimulating academic undergraduate research. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Institutes of Health, the College has consistently grown our average dollars-per-award and annual submissions to federal entities. This focus on academic rigor and scientific curiosity has drawn new and talented faculty to the College and has set up our students for successful careers in numerous STEM fields backed by experiential learning.
Student support services, co-curricular Wabash X programming, Lilly Library resources, and faculty pedagogical development have all benefited from local, state, and national foundation support. With these grant dollars, we have seen the growth of the Wabash Liberal Arts Immersion Program (WLAIP), Wabash Democracy and Public Discourse initiative (WDPD), and our highly regarded Visiting Artists Series. We have fostered deep relationships with funders who help us to sustain immersion learning experiences and increase the availability of student scholarships.
(not included in Giant Steps totals) Our partnership with Lilly Endowment has supported efforts to increase student access and belonging through programs like WLAIP and strategic collaborations with both academic and student groups. Lilly Endowment has supported intentional recruitment pipeline development in order to increase enrollment and graduation rates. These efforts have launched summer programming like Pathways to Your Future and Liberal Arts at Play. They have been instrumental in their encouragement of Wabash to open our spaces in an effort to promote Restoring Hope, Restoring Trust in our community. We continue this work to leverage our people, programs, and places for a stronger Wabash College and broader community. Finally, Lilly Endowment has been a sustaining funder of the Pastoral Leadership Program and our prominent Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, which builds on our College’s national reputation and outreach efforts near and far.
photo by Anna Tiplick
State and Federal Awards— $1,875,954
The Class of 2027 Wabash Liberal Arts Immersion Program (WLAIP) cohort WABASH.EDU
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