2018-19 Donor Report

2018-19

A YEAR OF

IMPACT Report to Donors

TIME + GENEROSITY = IMPACT Donors come in many forms.

Our donors made it possible for our Imagine Unlimited Campaign to reach 83 percent of our $75-million goal at the end of our fiscal year, on June 30, 2019. You’ll see in this report that, because donors—you—are passionate about creating a better world through the power of education, IUP students will be better prepared in science and mathematics, will gain new perspective through eyeopening experiences, and will learn the lessons of leadership through competition. Everyone at IUP is grateful for your support.

I also applaud and thank all who give the gift of time through volunteer service. Having access to your ideas, your advice, and your connections is a different kind of resource, but it is a powerful one that has a lasting effect.

You are our advocates and champions.

All combined, these gifts of time and treasure you give enable IUP to be innovative, to be flexible and evolve with a changing world, and to expose and prepare our students to the world they’ll lead after they graduate.

Together, we are making a positive impact on communities around the globe.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Michael Driscoll President

Alumni and friends who volunteer to help advance IUP were honored at the inaugural volunteer appreciation breakfast last spring.

INVOLVEMENT A CREATES IMPACT

lumni and friends who lend their time and talent to IUP greatly improve the student experience—and everyone at IUP appreciates your help. Getting involved is easy!

Find options at: IUP.edu/imagine-unlimited/get-involved

BESTOWING LEARNING’S JOY B

ecause IUP provided him with diversity in knowledge—diversity that he wants all students to experience—Richard Michael ’76 made his first gift to IUP to the Archaeological Services Support Fund. The fund provides budding archaeologists with hands-on experience in excavation, survey methodology, lab processing, and artifact analysis. His aim was to instill a joy of learning.

“We were thrilled when Rick reconnected with our department,” said Ben Ford, chair of the Anthropology Department. “His generosity is going a long way to support student research as well as increasing our department’s profile.”

SUPPORTING CREATIVITY D

ecades of alumni remember the annual spring musical theater productions called Swing Out, which were planned and executed by the late Charlie Davis ’34 and Bob Ensley. Ensley’s daughter, Barbara “Peach” Ensley Mack ’68, grew up watching the productions unfold and knows firsthand the impact her father and Davis had on their students. That drove her to work to establish the Charles Davis and Robert Ensley Memorial Scholarship.

Aspiring professional performer Adrian Williams, who received the Davis-Ensley Scholarship, knew he had found his college home when, during his audition for admission to the Music Department, he forgot the words to the song. The interviewing professor jumped in to sing with him.

“I knew I could explore and make mistakes and still find support,” he said.

Williams spent the summer at Cumberland Theater in Maryland and plans to pursue a career in film.

IUP Alumni Association President Tracy Settle ’80 with Matthew Conjelko and Jenna Kradel.

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hen you enroll at IUP, you join a family for life. The IUP Alumni Association has made possible two scholarships for students, but they came about in different ways.

The IUP Alumni Legacy Scholarship, which funds freshman-year tuition for 10 children or grandchildren of IUP alumni, has benefited Matthew Conjelko. The son of Matthew Conjelko ’86, M’91 and Mary-Margaret Wiker Conjelko M’95, he is pursuing degrees in economics and Spanish.

HONORING HERITAGE

Years ago, the Mattern family designated an estate gift that placed in the hands of the IUP Alumni Association Board of Directors the power to create more impact. The board honored the family by using the gift to support initiatives and scholarships in the College of Education and Communications through what is now known as the Roy and Erma J. Mattern Memorial Fund. Jenna Kradel, a first-generation college student, received the scholarship.

GIVING THEIR ALL

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ene Schmidt ’64 credits his great aunt for pressing him to get his degree, but it was a chance meeting through his friend Bob Bulas ’58 that Schmidt met coach Regis “Peck” McKnight ’30 and then enrolled at IUP and joined the basketball team. Hard work in basketball carried over to hard work in the classroom, and Schmidt found his way to a fulfilling career as one of 11 Pennsylvania State Education Association field directors. With a deep desire to improve lives, he established a fund—the Gene Schmidt and Norma Altemus Scholarship—to benefit members of IUP’s men’s basketball team and honor his great aunt.

Malik Miller gravitated to IUP because of academic programs and the team culture he found under men’s basketball coach Joe Lombardi. A beneficiary of the scholarship Schmidt created, Miller is a first-generation student enrolled in the communications media and sport management programs.

“I am tremendously grateful for the opportunities,” he said. “It’s hard work, but I would not be where I am today without my scholarship.”

WHO GIVES TO IUP?

Annual Fund $187 Average gift amount

Alumni Corporation/Foundation Friends Faculty/Staff/Retirees Parents *This total reflects gifts received during the 2018-19 fiscal year. Commitments of planned gifts and pledges that extend beyond the fiscal year are not included in the total.

$3,071,951 $1,910,588 $572,035 $418,570 $40,432 *$6,013,576

HOW YOUR GIFTS SUPPORT IUP

3,078 Loyalty Society donors 640 Leadership Society donors 8,590 All donors During the 2018-19 fiscal year, the Foundation for IUP has supported the university as follows:

$2,891,998 Total programmatic support in scholarships awarded $4,413,959 Total in 2018-19 academic year 1,883 in 2018-19 academic year presented 2,460 Awards in 2018-19 academic year

Students who received scholarships

Academic Excellence $2,920,803 The Future of Science and Mathematics $740,506 Student Success and Engagement $1,090,186 Leadership through Athletics Competition $1,262,082 $6,013,576

ADVANCING CULINARY ARTS

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s dean of the College of Health and Human Services in the late 1980s, Hal Wingard was among those who led the establishment of the IUP Academy of Culinary Arts in Punxsutawney.

“It was a dream come true to prepare graduates to meet the challenges in the culinary field with great skills, hardworking attitudes, and a sense of accountability that serves their businesses well,” he said.

To honor that accomplishment, Wingard and his wife, Betty, made a significant commitment to a new culinary facility.

“Because of the Wingards, we have taken a big step forward to reach our goal of constructing a state-of-the-art instructional facility that will house our world-class programs. The Wingards’ support enables us to contribute more to the university and to the culinary field,” said Chef Lynn Pike ’04, M’06, the academy’s director.

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The Imagine Unlimited Campaign will set IUP on a course that ensures students are academically successful and fully engaged in a university community that reflects the diverse world in which we live and work. Students will become purposeful and insightful leaders of their workplaces and their communities and will be able to conquer challenges and create a better life for everyone.

IUP.edu/imagine-unlimited To see a full list of donors at the Leadership Society level for the period of July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019, please visit IUP.edu/SupportIUP/giving19.

On the cover: Philanthropic gifts create life-changing experiences.

Thanks to John Kopchick ’72, M’75 and Char Kopchick ’73, an IUP science student benefits each year from a research internship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Morgan Glasser, an aspiring physician, was selected for the internship and focused on pain treatment for cancer patients.