Current Tally: $111.9 Million
As a nationally prominent university, WKU is engaged internationally in acclaimed, technologically driven academic programs. An inspiring and talented faculty promotes a high level of scholarship and an entrepreneurial attitude leading to success for all within WKU’s reach.
The WKU experience occurs on a unique campus and through a spirit which attracts an intellectually exciting and diverse family of the nation’s best students.
A New Century of Spirit, a five-year campaign, was publicly announced in September 2007. By 2012, private philanthropic investments will provide the means to affect profound attitudinal, intellectual, financial, and physical changes in the campus.
The campus-wide initiatives and entrepreneurial spirit created through the New Century of Spirit Campaign will position WKU to become the intellectual heartbeat of Kentucky. By 2012, the University will fully deliver on its promise of a lasting transformation.
Former WKU Baseball Player Makes Lead Gift For New Baseball Clubhouse
Former baseball student-athlete Paul Orberson has made a commitment of $500,000 as a lead gift toward construction of a Baseball Clubhouse at Western Kentucky University. (04/22/08) - READ MORE
Elevator Chat Leads To $2.25 Million For Clinical Education Complex At WKU; WKU To Name CEC In Honor Of Visionary Suzanne Vitale
Western Kentucky University today announced a new $1.5 million gift to the Clinical Education Complex at WKU from The Center for Special Needs Trust Administration Inc., based in Clearwater, Fla. (04/18/08) - READ MORE
Budde And Edwards Make Gift To Student Publications Building
Neil Budde and his wife, Virginia (Ginny) Edwards, of Washington, D.C., recently made a $150,000 gift in support of the Adams-Whitaker Student Publications Building at Western Kentucky University. (03/17/08) - READ MORE
WKU Names Early Childhood Center In Honor Of Renshaws
Western Kentucky University announced today that it will name the Early Childhood Centerof the Clinical Education Complex (CEC) in honor of long-time supporters Dan and Vickie Renshaw of Bowling Green. (03/04/08) - READ MORE