2025 Prescott College Project Portfolio

2025 Project Portfolio Current Priorities

Invest in Futures This year, our faculty and Pavel Cenkl, Ph.D, the Dean of Academic Affairs have reimagined the curriculum to create even more opportunities for students to effect positive change in the world. Prescott College has always been at the forefront of experiential and collaborative learning.

This curriculum regeneration strengthens our commitment to providing an education that is dynamic and responsive to the world’s most pressing challenges. Our commitment to social justice around the world is an underpinning of our core values and will continue as we move into a new era.

Your support through our annual appeals is critical. Only together can we ensure that today’s students have the same base that has allowed you to be successful in your endeavors. Paying it forward is the hallmark of our college.

Thank you for your help!

- President Morris -

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Program Updates

Counseling

Adventure Education

Funds for students and faculty to jointly present at regional and national conferences and colloquia is a critical need. The American Counseling Association would be a great place to get students more involved through registration and travel stipends. Funding support for the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) to include wellknown guest speakers in our colloquium and bring additional events to campus.

Ultimately, funds for an endowed chair and a clinical training Wellness Center.

For over fifty years we’ve been a leader in adventure education by teaching technical skills, leadership, communication, expedition logistics and environmental and social awareness. It takes tremendous resources to transport our students to remote areas for the necessary hands-on learning and supply them with all of the safety and emergency gear. Equipment is needed to accomododate diverse students and curricular needs. This year, the focus is on updating our ski’s, bindings; poles; 16 foot metal rafting frame, and 10 canoes.

Annual Goal: $25K

Annual Goal: $30K

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Centers

Center of Nature and Place - Tucson The Center was established to support and expand student research, training for early childhood educators, pre-service teachers, administrators, and program directors in developmentally appropriate nature and place-based pedagogy. A traveling program has recently been created to visit rural communities. While the van has been purchased, there is an urgent need for support for travel costs to reach underserved communities

Annual Goal: $15K

Green Mountain Center for Sustainability - Prescott The Green Mountain Center for Sustainability serves students, alumni, staff, neighbors, and an online audience by promoting solutions-based learning about living more sustainably, from the personal to the global scale.

One of our most important projects is to help fund innovative student projects that foster more environmentally, socially, or economically sustainable practices.

Annual Goal: $15K

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Centers

Kino Bay Center - Mexico This bi-national field station is dedicated to experiential education and communitybased environmental conservation. Our integrated programs are all grounded in constant presence in the region of Kino, Mexico. Each year Kino Bay hosts over 1000 researchers, students, faculty, community members and community groups from Mexico, the U.S. and other parts of the world.

Annual Goal: $180K

Dopoi Center - Kenya Africa represents a setting that is conducive to interdisciplinary opportunities for students. Students support Maasai community priorities and study wildlife conservation, help create programs for better hygiene and medical care, design culturally-supportive education programs for youth, and research indigenous people’s land right issues.

Annual Goal: $180K

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Campus Updating Our on-site campus programs continue to thrive. Built largely through private donations, the Crossroads Center has proven to be a wonderful centerpiece. Recently the completion of the Anne Sterling Dorman, James Stuckey and Betsy Bolding Centers, the studentcentric hub of campus, clearly expresses the president’s desires to place students at the heart of our campus. An exciting facelift project is in progress to give our campus an overall update. These projects are the key priorities for the next couple years and naming opportunities are available.

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Building Updates

Residence Halls

Ironwood

Students deserve a well-functioning, comfortable place to reside on campus.

Our living spaces need some infrastructure work and updating. We are actively seeking support to complete this work.

The remodel of Ironwood will update classroom space and house some administrative staff to support students.

Naming opportunities exist.

The cottage remodels are largely done and well-received. Cholla is the final cottage that needs major renovation and is our next project.

Goal: $100K

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Goal: $500K

Landscaping Landscaping, trees, fountains, lighting, seating, and shade covers or structures, along with better signage and a sound wall, is the current plan. The landscaping on campus has been neglected for many years, so replacing invasive species, replanting, and designing better outside spaces that are conducive to weather challenges is key for our students.

Leave your legacy on campus. Some naming opportunities that are currently available include: benches ($1000 each) and trees ($100-$1000).

Goal: $300K

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Student Support Scholarships Scholarships, internships, student travel & conference fees, stipends for student teachers in rural schools and fellowships for our graduate programs are a continual need.

Annual Goal: $250K

Study Abroad Fund This fund will create more access for low-income students to participate in our off campus centers by providing travel and living expenses while attending courses with our global partners and Centers.

Annual Goal: $25K

The No Barriers Course Fee Award The No Barriers Course Fee Award will create more access to transformative field courses for traditionally minoritized and/or low-income students through this award.

Endowment Annual Goal: $20K

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Student Support

Justice Scholars

USA Cycling Team

Aligning with Prescott College’s ethic of social justice and inclusivity, the Justice Scholars Program seeks to recruit 10 students yearly into the Critical Social Justice and Solidarity degree and 10 students yearly into the Environmental Humanities degree with the goal of creating renowned programming to better support, recruit and retain students of color and other minoritized identities and communities.

We are super excited to share a project in which we seek donations to enhance the Roadrunner USA Cycling Team. This great activity is a great way to attract additional students and embody the active spirit of our College.

Prescott College is in the Southwest Cycling Conference, allowing incoming students to participate in nationally sanctioned collegiate events through the USA Cycling organization.

Annual Goal: $30K

Our goal is to raise $60,000 towards equipment and scholarships.

Annual Goal: $60K

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Thank you Thank you for exploring a gift to Prescott College.

We are very grateful you are here and would love to help you make that perfect gift to support the College as a whole, scholarships or a particular program or center that has captured your heart.

Below are some ways to explore giving to match your financial and tax goals.

Outright gifts of cash and securities Appreciated securities:

Such as stocks and bonds and IRA’s

Donor Advised Funds Real Estate Equipment and supplies

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Planned Giving

Planned gifts allow you to provide for us in the future when it may not be practical today.

We are here to help you make a gift that matches your goals and desires to give back to Prescott College.

Contact information: Jane Ratzlaff VP for Advancement & Alumni Relations jane.ratzlaff@prescott.edu 406-871-0601