Building the New Learning Environment

• In order to attract and retain the best faculty and students, we desire to create endowed professorships and graduate fellowships for all of our departments and programs.
  
• The need for skilled graduates in computer sciences and allied fields such as bioinformatics is growing faster than state schools can produce. We need an endowment to support the high technological operation needs of these programs.
  
• The College has many areas on campus in need of renovations and repair. We need support for this type of work so that we can continue to train and entertain students in our Fine Arts Theatre, conduct research in our geology/geography building, and expand our physics and marine sciences programs.

Maximizing Research Opportunities

• Our work with cancer research, tropical and emerging global diseases, cellular biology, complex carbohydrates, and microbiology in conjunction with other institutions on and off campus, has the capacity to achieve major strides in critical biomedical research. Our goal is to obtain support for program endowment, research funding, and endowed professorships for biomedical initiatives.
  
• Our students need access to and experience with hands-on research. We need endowed support for our biology and chemistry learning labs, the mathematics pre-calculus learning labs, the Museum of Natural History and the computer animation program.

Competing in the Global Economy

• In order for every student to have the opportunity to experience and appreciate another culture, we need endowed support for student scholarships, internships, and faculty for our studies abroad programs. Support for expansion of our programs as well as rental/purchase of educational facilities abroad and the development of new programs is also needed.
  
• To reinforce the traditional role of inter-national and inter-cultural studies as part of all College degree programs, the College needs to add new faculty positions in carefully selected inter-national areas such as African Studies, Latin and Central American Studies, and East and South Asian Studies