WKU Utilizes Entire Pool Of Third Round
Of Matching Funds Through State
'Bucks For Brains' Program
November 10, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University has once again fully claimed all of its matching funds available through Kentucky's Regional University Excellence Trust Fund, or "Bucks for Brains" program.
Tom Hiles, vice president for Institutional Advancement, announced today that Western has raised gifts to match the $4,759,000 set aside by the 2003 Kentucky General Assembly. This was the third round of the popular endowment matching program.
Hiles said the $4.7 million in matching funds, made available to Western on Oct. 1, 2003, have been matched through 29 private gifts. Western submitted written agreements for all of the donations before Oct. 1.
"We are, for the third time in a row, submitting gifts and pledges to match the entire pool of $4.7 million on the first day that it was available," Hiles said.
WKU President Gary Ransdell said Western has taken a proactive approach to securing the available matching funds.
"Twenty-nine donors have leveraged their personal gifts to build critical endowments across key academic disciplines at Western," Dr. Ransdell said. "I applaud our legislature for its commitment to higher education in Kentucky. We are also grateful to our General Assembly for such a program, and to the alumni and friends who have made gifts allowing us to strengthen the quality of our academic programs and utilize all of our matching money."
Donors who utilized matching gifts with WKU:
BB&T – Visiting Professorship in Business Leadership and Ethics
Nancy and Tom Baird – Faculty Fund for Excellence for Kentucky Library
Bowling Green / Western Symphony Orchestra Foundation and Allan and Susan
Pribble – Faculty Fund for Excellence in Music
Neil Budde and Virginia Edwards – Faculty Fund for Excellence in Journalism
Two Confidential Donors - Scholarships
Commonwealth Health Corporation – Scholarships
Friends of Pat Eubank French - Scholarships
Richard and Janet Frockt - Professorship in History
Joan Garrison – Scholarships
Gildersleeve Family – Faculty Fund for Excellence in Geology
Greenview Regional Hospital – Faculty Fund for Excellence in Nursing
Don and Jennifer Greulich – Faculty Fund for Excellence in Engineering
Graham Hatcher – Lecture Series in Modern Languages
The Humana Foundation – Visiting Professorship in Business Leadership and Ethics
Dorris Hutchinson – Scholarships
Linda Keen and Chris Keen - Scholarships
Laura Goad Turner Charitable Foundation – Faculty Fund for Excellence in Music
Logan Aluminum - Scholarships
Pete and Dixie Mahurin – Professorship in Gifted Studies
Mel and Sue Morris – Faculty Fund for Excellence in Construction Management
Dan Pelino Family – Faculty Fund for Excellence in Corporate and Organizational
Communication
Rafferty's – Faculty Fund for Excellence in Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism management
Walter Scott – Scott Professorship in Biology
Ben and Jill Smith and Paula Smith - Scholarships
Zuheir and Susan Sofia – Visiting International Faculty Fellow
South Central Bank – Endowed Concert Series and Scholarship
Cal and Margaret Turner – Professorship in Journalism
Denny and Carol Wedge – Visiting Professorship in Curriculum and Instruction
For more information, contact Tom Hiles, (270) 745-6208. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
