Letter from Advancement

The cover story of this issue of ETSU Today shared the exciting news: Another successful campaign for this institution has entered the history books.

You – our alumni, faculty, staff, and friends – made The Campaign for ETSU the institution’s most successful comprehensive capital campaign ever. Thanks to you, funds have been raised to create new opportunities for our amazing students, such as scholarships, travel abroad study, graduate student stipends, and more. New centers have been established through donor support, providing faculty with opportunities to enhance their research and public service activities. Plus, the presence of these innovative centers has positioned ETSU to attract world-renowned scholars to our campus. In addition to paving the way for new academic and student service programs, support from The Campaign for ETSU has also transformed the presence of our campus by helping fund building renovations, new projects, and other campus enhancements.

Now, we start the next chapter, and what an unprecedented one it will be! For nearly all of our undergraduate students, their ETSU experience begins in an Arts and Sciences classroom. For many of you, it was courses like freshman composition, probability and statistics, or general speech. The experience of our current students has been transformed for our students in music, theater, and dance through the recent completion of the Martin Center for the Arts. And, for the first time in ETSU’s history, the College of Arts and Sciences has two new academic building projects that are now in the design phase.

These include a new $62.5 million Academic Building that will sit in the heart of campus adjacent to the Quad where the Campus Center Building now stands. Inside this new building will be state-of-the-art classrooms that will be filled with hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students each week. In addition to the Academic Building, a major $93.6 million renovation to the north side of Brown Hall – home to our biological sciences, chemistry, physics, and astronomy programs – is planned. As our alumni know, students in these programs as well as our pre-health professions majors, spend many long days (and evenings) in Brown Hall classrooms and research labs, and this building has long been in need of important updates and enhancements. This is the first phase of the renovation of Brown Hall, and we are working to secure funding for the second phase.

In addition, state funding has also been authorized for a $43.9 million Integrated Health Services building that will provide clinical care and teaching space for the Quillen College of Medicine and the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences. While state funding will cover the majority of the costs for these three projects, private support from donors will also be necessary to meet the matching fund requirements set forth by the state, which for these three initiatives totals approximately $10.7 million.

Raising the necessary funds for these exciting building projects is one of our top priorities, and we invite you to be part of this journey to transform our campus with these new facilities.

Again, we are grateful for the role you played in The Campaign for ETSU. We look forward to the new chapters of the ETSU story that are ahead.

Sincerely,

Pamela S. Ritter Vice President for University Advancement President/CEO of the ETSU Foundation