Category: Funding and gifts
Gift from Kyle Greene ’15 and his family highlighted in Wall Street Journal article
Kyle Greene ’15 of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a featured example in an article about donations with specific restrictions being made to colleges. “How College Alumni Donors Can Get What They Pay For” was published today in The Wall Street Journal. “When it comes to donating money to their college alma maters, more alumni are attaching […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding and gifts.
#OneDayRally giving day engagement soars beyond expectations
After just 18 hours and 51 minutes and thousands of social media shares on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, Ripon College’s first-ever #OneDayRally giving day campaign came in 221 percent ahead of goal, raising a total of $656,626 from 940 donors. Highlights from #OneDayRally Top 3 classes for total donors 1978: 48 donors 2018: 39 donors […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding, Funding and gifts, Special Event, Uncategorized.
Honorary Life Trustee Donald Anderson ’42 dies at age 97
Ripon College Honorary Life Trustee and prominent Wisconsin philanthropist Donald Anderson ’42 of Middleton, Wisconsin, died April 12, 2018, at the age of 97. Anderson, an economics major at Ripon, founded two insurance agencies and owned a share of a title company in Wisconsin. He served on Ripon’s Board of Trustees from 1984 to 1993 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding and gifts.
Ripon receives $800,000 grant from Andrew W. Mellon foundation for new curriculum
Ripon College has received a four-year, $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the implementation of the College’s new core curriculum, Catalyst. Catalyst, which launches with the class entering in fall 2016, places at the center of a Ripon education the continuous development of the intellectual and practical skills valued by employers […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Faculty, Funding and gifts.
Kohler Foundation grant supports upcoming 314 programming
The Kohler Foundation has awarded a $2,000 grant to support programming at 314: Ripon College Project Space in downtown Ripon for the next academic year. Ripon College opened the 314 Project Space last September with support from the James S. Kemper Foundation to bolster the community’s artistic opportunities and to help the downtown business district […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Funding and gifts.
Ripon College ready to break ground on new athletic and wellness facility
Ripon College will host a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday, April 21, at 11 a.m. on a multi-million project to renovate and expand the J.M. Storzer Center athletic, health and wellness facilities. The target completion date for the project is fall of 2017 and it is expected to cost around $20 million. “We are thrilled to put […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Athletics News, Funding and gifts, Special Event.
Russo Family Endowed Scholarship aims to reduce student debt
“I attribute much of my success to the liberal arts education I received at Ripon,” says Richard Russo ’76 of East Grand Rapids, Michigan, a member of the Ripon College Alumni Board of Directors. Russo and his wife, Kathy, (who did not attend Ripon), have been giving back to the College for more than 30 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Ripon College receives grant for new chemistry instrument
The Ripon College Department of Chemistry has received a $10,000 Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grant to purchase a digital polarimeter. This instrument will allow up to 150 students each year to perform lab experiments involving the study of mixtures of optically active molecules. “The new polarimeter will allow students in a variety of chemistry […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Funding and gifts.
President Messitte and Dean Wingenbach host Telephone Town Hall
President Zach Messitte and Vice President and Dean of Faculty Ed Wingenbach simultaneously called about 8,000 alumni and friends Oct. 13 to share updates on the state of Ripon College, the curriculum review process currently underway, and the campaign to renovate and expand the College’s health and wellness facilities. The pair took calls from numerous […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Faculty, Funding and gifts, Special Event.
Ripon College celebrates historic $67 million Imagine Tomorrow campaign
On Saturday, Oct. 3, alumni and friends who supported Ripon College’s five-year Imagine Tomorrow comprehensive campaign gathered at the College to celebrate the campaign’s successful conclusion. More than $67.3 million was committed over the five years to be directed toward building up the College’s endowment, scholarships, faculty and student research and travel, capital projects, new […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Funding and gifts, Special Event.
Ripon College Receives $3.1 Million Estate for Faculty Professorship and More
Ripon College announced that it received a $3,187,515 from the estate of Patricia Parker Francis, a longtime friend and supporter of the College. “The Francis family loved Ripon College and Green Lake and cared deeply about our campus community throughout their lives,” said Ripon College President Zach Messitte. “The gift will benefit our faculty, staff, […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Funding and gifts.
Newly established fund helps student doing summer research
While they were students at Ripon College, both Mark Franzen ’83 and Janice Heinz Franzen ’83 conducted research and found the experience to be positive. “We think research can be an important part of a liberal arts education,” Mark Franzen says. “Janice and I both had wonderful relationships with our professors when we were at […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding, Funding and gifts, Research, Student.
Kohler Foundation gifts works of art to Ripon College
From the Kohler Foundation’s Gifts of Art program, Ripon College has received works by three artists for its permanent collection: Jean Stamsta, Schomer Lichtner and Ruth Grotenrath. The Kohler Foundation has a legacy of supporting the arts and education that reaches back to the 1940s. Much of the work that the foundation does benefits the […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Fine Arts, Funding and gifts.
Ripon College Awarded Arthur Vining Davis Grant for Curriculum
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation awarded Ripon College a $50,000 grant to use toward the Ripon College Curriculum Planning and Review. Faculty have been working this past year reviewing and revising the curriculum and will continue the process this fall under Dr. Ed Wingenbach, the new vice president and dean of faculty. “Ripon College consistently […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Funding and gifts, Uncategorized.
Ripon College faculty receive funding from ACM
Ripon College faculty are involved in two of the six projects that received funding in the Fall 2014 cycle of Faculty Career Enhancement Program of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Preference was given to projects that best leverage opportunities for incorporating technology-enabled teaching techniques — such as online courses, blended learning strategies, and other […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Funding, Funding and gifts.