October 30, 2008

Lives of Consequence: $425 million campaign launched

At last weekend’s Family Weekend event, President Marx unveiled a new $425 million fundraising campaign for Amherst’s future called “Lives of Consequence.” The campaign

will support the critically important role of financial aid, just as student need for aid is increasing. To strengthen teaching and student learning, the campaign will support investments in the size and scope of the faculty. And to better inform and inspire Amherst’s undergraduates, Lives of Consequence will support student research and service experiences, as well as the updating of academic facilities, including laboratories and the library.

As we noted nearly a year and a half ago, Amherst replaced all loans with scholarships in the summer of 2007, one of the first of many schools to make such a move in the last two years. This new campaign is an effort to “maintain Amherst’s commitment that all of our students—regardless of their ability to pay—have the opportunity to receive a top-notch liberal arts education.”

President Marx’s Message to the Amherst Community about the campaign is available online:

I write as our nation and our world face unprecedented social and economic challenges. This is a time of urgent needs, one that reminds us what a liberal arts college of Amherst’s caliber must provide: citizens who can and will work to improve society, thoughtfully, in whatever endeavor they choose. Nothing could be more important now. No social investment could have a larger multiplying effect than the preparation of such leaders.

Visit the Campaign website to find more information, including profiles of some “Lives of Consequence” (Robert Frost, Calvin Coolidge, Amy Rosenzweig, and others) and to see how the campaign is faring relative to its end goal; the chart currently reads $216 million out of $425 million.

Brian Meacham '97 | October 30, 2008 11:21 AM | Administration

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