Current Tally: $122.7 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, $200 million 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.
WKU Receives Gift For Honors Professorship
Western Kentucky University today announced a gift of $500,000 from John and Jacque Hughes Jarve of Atherton, Calif., to create the University’s first endowed professorship in Honors. (07/17/08) - READ MORE
WKU Announces Burchett Legacy Commitment For Business; Gift Is Third Largest One-Time Commitment To WKU
Western Kentucky University today announced a $7.15 million estate commitment from Dorris (D.B) and Lula Burchett of Germantown, Tenn. This is the third largest one-time gift in the school’s history. (06/26/08) - READ MORE
Jessie Ball Dupont Fund Makes $150,000 Commitment To WKU-Housing Authority Of Bowling Green Partnership
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. (05/23/08) - READ MORE
Eatons Make New Commitment For Hilltopper Basketball
An Atlanta couple who has made several leadership gifts to Western Kentucky University’s Hilltopper Basketball Program has made a new commitment of $375,000 to the program. . (05/23/08) - READ MORE