BELIEVE The Campaign for Juniata College
Believe Juniata College
is worthy of your support
as we make
the most significant investment
in the student experience
in our history.
I knew when I came to Juniata that our community on campus and around the world was entrusting me with something special. I spend each day challenging our students, staff, and faculty to live up to the best of what this College represents. James A. Troha, Ph.D. President 814-641-3101 trohaj@juniata.edu @juniataprztroha
It is immensely gratifying to view Juniata with an eye toward aspiration. On our campus and amid our ranks of alumni and friends who know us best, a palpable momentum is building. We are telling our story in a more proud and compelling way. Our students continue to excel and achieve at the highest levels. Our faculty grapple with making a stronger curriculum while delivering the positive and immersive educational experience for which students seek us. We are in a period of positive restlessness, with much in motion and grand plans to strengthen Juniata.
Amid this activity, and against the challenges we know we will overcome, I believe Juniata will be better known and stronger in its ability to deliver on our mission. I know as we partner with students to magnify their interests, we become a profound part of who they are. Finally, I know we can count on you as we build the Juniata of tomorrow with the help of those who know us best.
This book describes for you our broad vision and goals. The materials also included describe the opportunities you have to support and enliven that vision through giving. I believe in Juniata and I believe you will help us.
Dr. James A. Troha President
We believe Juniata’s best days are ahead and will be advanced by a collective effort of those who value the distinctive educational and community experience for which this College will be better known.
We believe in this place on the planet seemingly reserved for and transformation, and that the values learned here they take Juniata with them.
discovery, exploration, stay with people as
As they have for generations, our faculty partner with the students who come here and entrust us with their futures. Faculty help students magnify their interests and talents and navigate the global community so they may design lives of meaning and happiness. For a scholar, to choose to teach at Juniata means committing to more than a discipline, more than a specific mode of inquiry. It means meeting students with zeal for their aspirations and challenge for their convictions. We seek to empower the people who have committed to what we do at Juniata. The presence of endowed professorships and chairs conveys the seriousness we have for intellectual inquiry. Funding for faculty professional development and to recruit for greater faculty diversity ensures our professors keep current with the world and reflective of the people who choose to study here. Because our strengths are predicated upon educational practices that engage the hands and minds of students on projects, we seek greater funding for mentored undergraduate research with faculty and learning through service in different communities.
We believe there is no better place for students of fierce curiosity, unpretentious intelligence, and an abiding desire to serve the world than Juniata College. Our campus serves as a crucible where intelligence and curiosity meet opportunity. We do not build buildings at
We seek to transform Beeghly Library
into the Statton Learning Commons and make it a campus-wide nerve center for
Juniata. We create spaces for opportunity.
student success services, learning spaces,
Those opportunities and our flexibility
research materials, and special collections.
have created the distinctive educational
All faculty, staff, and students use Beeghly
and community experience that our
Library. Among the BELIEVE Campaign’s
students, families, and alumni know. Our
priorities, a forward-looking library and
library, student meeting and work spaces,
learning commons is the one project that
advising and guidance programs—the
will affect every Juniata student, faculty
elements faculty and students use to
member, and staff member.
coordinate the learning enterprise—are well-used but also well-worn. The tools
Music is a keystone of the College’s history,
we provide in support of student
heritage, and community. The Barry J. and
learning must evolve.
Marlene M. Halbritter Music Building will support the passions and interests of a wide swath of students, and also will provide space for additional academic options. With up to one-third of Juniata
students involved in music programs, it is Statton Learning Commons
the only extracurricular experience to rival varsity athletics in participation.
Our music ensembles, particularly choir,
campus life and appearance. The facility
also take Juniata and our students to other
is key to helping Juniata attract students,
communities and nations.
signaling the quality of our programs, and providing an impressive northwest
The Winton Hill Athletics Complex is
gateway to our campus. Finding
our conference’s finest venue for soccer,
additional financial investment to support
lacrosse, and tennis. It already has earned
the project and Juniata student-athletes
accolades for its quality and its impact on
remains a critical, on-going effort.
We believe the strength of our community is built on the contributions of all—students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends—who come here from across the United States and around the world to engage in intellectual and personal growth in an environment of both challenge and support.
Individuals have long provided strong support for the annual fund—
those gifts made year-in and year-out, to the Juniata Scholarship Fund or to support athletics, the library, the arts, or other areas of personal interest. The loyal support of our community—by alumni, parents of our students, and friends—indicates they value what we do and shows their commitment
to the Juniata promise. Such gifts—with their regularity, increases over the years, and combined power—are a show of faith in the direction of this great College. They make others take notice of what we do, and they provide the infusion of support that recreates opportunity every year.
We believe in the exceptional power our plan to strengthen
of a Juniata education and the inherent values therein, and that the ability to deliver on our mission is worthy of your support.
Taken collectively, the goals we pursue are connected to Juniata’s strategic plan, and ultimately to the very mission of the College. We have always held our focus on students and what it takes to provide the necessary challenge and experiences to prepare them for pursuing not only an education, but preparation for a meaningful life. We will also increase our ability to make the wondrous opportunity of a Juniata education available to all with the drive and potential to make the most of it.
We believe in you—who know make the most
We are not raising money simply for buildings. We are asking people to support spaces wherein students and faculty pursue opportunities. We are asking, as well, to help our faculty, those who value our distinctive place, the individuals who create it and nurture it every day. We know you believe in what we do, so we ask you to partner with us to create a learning environment focused on success for our students. We believe in the importance of this effort, and that you recognize the bright future ahead.
and value Juniata—to help us significant investment in the student experience in the College’s history.
We ask you to believe in Juniata’s effort to raise $115 million to support and enhance our learning environment.
Over the next several years, Juniata will ask our alumni, friends, parents of our students, community partners, and others to give in support of the greatest investment in the student experience in our history. Everyone will have an opportunity to play a part in strengthening this unique place.
Our goal is to attract gifts that support our people, enhance our place, and strengthen our effect on students.
PEOPLE
$52 million
Building Faculty Strength
PLACE $12 million
$14 million
Learning Spaces
We seek gifts to build endowments in support of faculty positions, professional development, and curricular innovation. Additionally, funding for faculty to develop and lead hands-on learning experiences for students builds on a tradition of engaged learning at Juniata.
We seek gifts to complete a transformation of Beeghly Library, create a new music facility, complete the Winton Hill Athletics Complex, and invest in other learning spaces to make contemporary learning environments for our faculty and students.
Enhance Student Resources and Support
Statton Learning Commons
$7.5 million
Winton Hill Athletics Complex
$1.5 million
$40 million
From scholarships to funding for research, internships, service, and international study, we seek gifts to enhance resources for student access and learning. Once we have worked with a student to make Juniata accessible financially, that student should have the ability to maximize experiences while earning a Juniata degree.
Barry J. and Marlene M. Halbritter Music Building
$4 million
Other Facilities
$1 million
EFFECT
$49 million
Unrestricted Giving
$35 million
To prepare students for all that is essential requires flexibility, particularly given the pace of change in both higher education and nearly every profession. We seek gifts that invest in our future, where donors make no restrictions on the use of the gift.
Annual Fund
$14 million
Whether gifts to the Juniata Scholarship Fund, athletics, campus organizations for the arts, the museum, or the environment, your regular giving provides resources that enable us to respond to opportunity, support initiative, and serve students.
This serves as a general outline of goals. More detail is available on the initiatives that comprise this effort. For more information, please contact: James R. Watt Vice President for Advancement
Juniata College 1700 Moore Street Huntingdon, PA 16652 814-641-3110
wattj@juniata.edu
We believe this effort will result in the strongest Juniata in our history. Now, we ask you to believe. To believe in our potential, in our mission, and in all that Juniata will build to provide an intellectual crucible for the students of tomorrow. We ask you to become a part of this campaign. Volunteer in an alumni group, at Career Day, at a regional event. Get to know better the Juniata of today, and become invigorated with the positive restlessness that will move us forward. Most importantly, become a part of this effort and support Juniata in this campaign. We ask you to build this place. For our vision to become a reality, it will require gifts of significance and meaning, gifts of all sizes that reflect the commitment and the belief of all who know and value the distinctive experience Juniata provides. We ask you to give in ways that you have not yet done, to build courage, to back your belief in Juniata. Our staff, faculty, numerous volunteers, senior leaders, and our president will travel the United States and the world in support of this historic effort. We welcome a chance to talk with you about your gift and how you will show the world that you BELIEVE.
believe.juniata.edu
We believe.
And we ask you to believe.