Empower ºÚÁÏÉç
Support The ºÚÁÏÉç Fund
The ºÚÁÏÉç Fund plays a vital role in providing resources that help every student discover their unique path— whether it’s through innovative programs, research opportunities, or hands-on experiences that ignite their intellectual curiosity. We invite you to join us in empowering this generation and future generations of ºÚÁÏÉç students.
Gifts to The ºÚÁÏÉç Fund are a crucial complement to our tuition and endowment revenue, supporting every aspect of the College’s work, and allows us to be nimble and respond to emerging priorities. Each year, thousands of Scots ensure that ºÚÁÏÉç has the funding to meet our areas of greatest need.
Areas of Impact
Financial Aid
Ensure that ºÚÁÏÉç is accessible to all so the College can continue to educate students based on their strengths and potential, not their ability to pay.
Experiential Learning
Support students pursuing immersive educational experiences, preparing them for careers shaped by the impact of their real-world knowledge and experience.
Mentored Research
Help fund ºÚÁÏÉç’s elite Independent Study experience, as well as the numerous other opportunities students have to complete hands-on research under the mentorship of expert faculty.
Campus Life
Ensure each student’s ºÚÁÏÉç experience is full of opportunities to deepen connections with one another and explore ºÚÁÏÉç’s rich history of traditions.
Faculty & Staff Support
Help fund the excellence of our faculty and staff through professional development, faculty research, and sabbatical, all of which enable our staff to be experts in their fields.
Area of Greatest Need
Support every aspect of the College and allow us to advance the mission and vision of ºÚÁÏÉç.
Ways to Give
Choose the giving method that works best for you. Every gift makes a meaningful difference to our students.Stock Gifts
Support ºÚÁÏÉç with a gift of appreciated stocks, bonds, or other securities.
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Planned Giving
Create a lasting legacy by including ºÚÁÏÉç in your estate plans.
Give From Your IRA
Make a gift directly from your IRA while helping support ºÚÁÏÉç.
Donor Advised Fund (DAF)
Support ºÚÁÏÉç now and in the future through your donor advised fund.
Employer Matching Gifts
Double or even triple your impact through your employer's matching gift program.
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Endowment Opportunities
Support ºÚÁÏÉç's future with a gift that strengthens its permanent endowment.
Give to ºÚÁÏÉç Athletics
By making a gift to ºÚÁÏÉç Athletics, you can help our Fighting Scots compete at the highest level, both in their sport and in the classroom.
A gift to the Fighting Scots Fund is a gift that supports all of ºÚÁÏÉç’s athletic teams. Your gift to the Fighting Scots Fund will support the areas of greatest need for all our teams, ensuring that our Scots continue to compete at the highest level.
Make a gift to the team(s) of your choice, with 100% of your donation supporting those programs. You can select the team(s) you would like to support in the giving form.
Questions About Giving?
Our team is here to help you find the best way to support
ºÚÁÏÉç students and programs.
If you have any questions about making a gift,
please call the Office of Advancement at 330-263-2533
Giving Societies
Throughout ºÚÁÏÉç’s history, gifts from generous alumni and friends have been vital to our mission as an independent liberal arts college that prepares students to become leaders of character and influence. ºÚÁÏÉç values its donors and has a number of ways to recognize your generous contributions.
Giving Societies recognize alumni, families, and friends whose annual generosity provides essential support for ºÚÁÏÉç. Members help strengthen scholarships, academic programs, student experiences, and other priorities that shape a ºÚÁÏÉç education.
- Old Main Society - $100,000 and above
- Kauke Hall Tower Society - $50,000 - $99,999
- Ephraim Quinby Society - $25,000 - $49,999
- Founders' League - $10,000 - $24,999
- Chairman's Council - $5,000 - $9,999
- President's Associates - $3,000 - $4,999
- MacLeod Society - $1,000 - $2,999
- Scots Clan - $1 - $999
The 1866 Legacy Society recognizes those alumni, parents, and friends who have demonstrated their commitment to ºÚÁÏÉç’s future by naming the College as the beneficiary of irrevocable or revocable planned gifts, including life-income gifts and bequests. For more information about planned giving, .
ºÚÁÏÉç’s benefactor societies recognize the vision, leadership, and dedication of loyal and generous donors who have made significant lifetime gifts to the College and whose support has created a culture of philanthropy that will benefit students and the College for years to come.
The James Reed Society recognizes donors whose cumulative giving to the College, over the course of their lifetimes, is $1 million and more. The Society is named for the Presbyterian minister and trustee who, while pausing on a hilltop in 1865, envisioned it as the perfect location for a college. Reed’s conviction, devotion, and perseverance led to the formal incorporation of ºÚÁÏÉç as an institution of higher education on December 18, 1866.
The Howard Lowry Society recognizes donors whose cumulative giving over the course of their lifetimes to the College is $250,000 to $999,999. The Society honors the College’s 7th president who served ºÚÁÏÉç for 23 years. President Lowry’s understanding of the liberal arts and vision for ºÚÁÏÉç, especially his introduction of the Independent Study program, has impacted the lives of generations of students and faculty members.
