Providing technology resources for students is one of the areas of the Tusculum Fund.
You may have seen the Tusculum Fund mentioned in a magazine or other communication from the College and wondered what it is.
The Tusculum Fund is very important to the success of the College and provides resources to the College to meet its mission of providing a quality education to your student.
The Tusculum Fund is the primary fund through which alumni and friends provide unrestricted support to the College, allowing Tusculum to use the funds where they are most urgently needed while at the same time supplementing the overall operating budget.
This support benefits current students in continuing to reach their educational goals and serves as a benchmark of the involvement of our alumni with their Alma Mater for funding decisions made by foundations and corporations.
Areas of the Tusculum Fund include scholarships, academic programs, technology, the library, Pioneer Club (athletics) and area sof greatest need.
Every gift to the Tusculum Fund matters. Participation in the Tusculum Fund, no matter the size of the gift, is viewed as a measure of alumni satisfaction, demonstrating alumni loyalty, which influences the College’s ability to secure grants from corporations and foundations.
Gifts of ANY and ALL sizes from alumni, parents and friends of the College are critical to Tusculum’s current and future success as a renown liberal arts college. Colleges that achieve a higher percent in alumni giving participation are, in general, more highly respected and receive more funding opportunities.
There are annual campaigns that reach different constituencies of the College. The Phonathan focuses on alumni and the annual Faculty and Staff Campaign involves current employees of the College. The Senior Class Gift Campaign involves current students, who give for a specific project on campus. Recent Senior Class Gift campaigns have resulted in refurbished campus entrance signs, new lamps for the Arch, a case to display academic awards and a sidewalk from Katherine Hall to Shiloh Road.
The Parent Campaign invites current students to go above and beyond tuition and enhance the everyday and immediate needs faced by Tusculum. The Tusculum Fund allows parents to designate their gift to a particular program, providing Pioneer parents with another opportunity to directly impact the quality of their child’s education today and to ensure the continued growth of Tusculum College in the future.
To learn more, visit the Tusculum Fund page on the Tusculum website.