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St. Olaf College capital campaign aims high

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November 29, 2000

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? Proceeds from St. Olaf College?s $125-million Fram! Fram! Forward St. Olaf! capital campaign will enhance the college in eight ways:

It will improve the college?s academic distinction by creating new ways to seek out and educate young people. Primary to this goal are a $10-million Fram! Fram! Forward St. Olaf! Scholarship Fund, which will endow scholarships and other forms of student aid, and a $10-million endowed Community Diversity Fund, which will support scholarships, retention programs and academic resources for students of diverse backgrounds.

It will strengthen academic, interdisciplinary and co-curricular programs to better develop all students? potential, to meet their needs as individuals, and to deepen their world experiences.

It will enhance the college?s leadership in the liberal arts through a $5 million Center for Innovation In the Liberal Arts, to promote faculty creativity in the application of liberal learning.

It will focus attention on the relationship between the college and the church, through a $1 million endowment for the St. Olaf Forum, for discussion of faith and learning, and through two new regents chairs.

It will ensure that St. Olaf students have opportunities to engage in global, ethnic and cultural diversity issues. A new, $10 million International and Off-Campus Studies Fund will support current and new global studies initiatives.

It will strengthen the college?s residential community environment through the new Buntrock Commons with state-of-the-art spaces where students, faculty, staff and alumni can come together.

It will invest in human resources by developing the talents of college employees as teachers, scholars and leaders.

It will improve services and resource management by providing tools for applying the best professional practices.

Those who wish to learn more about the St. Olaf campaign may visit the St. Olaf College website at www.stolaf.edu.

St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty of approximately 250. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.