Category: Funding
Celebrating Ripon College! Rally Days 2024 surpasses goal
Ripon College’s loyal supporters from around the world came together again for Rally Days 2024, the seventh annual spring giving event, held April 3-5. The multi-day celebration of the College garnered spirited campus engagement and online fundraising in support of the Forever Ripon campaign. Last spring, Ripon College publicly launched the Forever Ripon capital campaign […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Funding, Funding and gifts, Special Event.
Othon, Willoughby among collaborators receiving major National Science Foundation grant
A National Science Foundation grant worth more than $259,000 over four years has been awarded for an interdisciplinary research study led by Associate Professor of Physics Christina Othon, and her collaborators Associate Professor of Chemistry Patrick Willoughby and Erika Taylor, associate professor of chemistry at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. The study was recommended for funding […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Funding, Research.
Support for the College comes in strongly during Ripon Rally Days giving experience
Ripon Rally Days, a spring online giving experience, was held April 20-23 during Inauguration Week. Donors could choose from 14 ways to support Ripon College in honor of President Victoria N. Folse, the institution’s 14th and newly inaugurated president. The 14 ways included the Ripon Fund, Franzen Science Center, Hopp Stadium, residence halls, Friends of […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Ripon receives $150,000 NEH grant to strengthen humanities throughout the region
A project to strengthen the humanities at Ripon College through regional collaboration has received a $150,000 Humanities Initiatives for Colleges and Universities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will fund a three-year effort to reimagine humanistic study for the 21st century and support a plan to bolster humanities education by connecting […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Celebrating Ripon College! #OneDayRally 2022 reaches new highs
Following the most successful fundraising year in Ripon College’s history, loyal supporters from around the world came through once again with record-breaking totals for the fifth annual #OneDayRally giving day, Wednesday, April 27. The online campaign garnered a spirited show of support to sustain the Ripon Fund, Red Hawks Club in athletics and Friends of […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Alumni, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Join us when #OneDayRally returns April 27!
Join us April 27, 2022, for the fifth annual #OneDayRally of support for Ripon College. The day is meant to bring everyone together as a community to celebrate an institution that has shaped the lives of so many in unique and similar ways. Help us reach our most ambitious goal yet of 2400 donors in […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Alumni, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Join us when #OneDayRally returns April 28
Join us April 28 for the fourth annual #OneDayRally of support for Ripon College. The day is meant to bring everyone together as a community to celebrate an institution that has shaped the lives of so many in unique and similar ways. Help us reach our goal of 2,021 donors in 20 hours and 21 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Ripon’s endowment surpasses $100 million, securing our future
Ripon College’s endowment fund crossed above the $100 million mark in March for the first time, a significant milestone in the Wisconsin school’s 170-year history. The growth of the College’s endowment is an indicator of Ripon’s financial foundation and the commitment of its alumni and friends to its future. “Colleges traditionally draw their revenues from […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Administration, Funding.
Robert L. Wallace receives four-year research grant from NSF
Robert L. Wallace, professor emeritus of biology and the former Patricia and Philip McCullough 1969 Professor in Biology has received a four-year research grant from the National Science Foundation of more than $100,000 to study aspects of the ecology and evolution of rotifers. This research is a collaborative effort with colleagues from the University of […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Funding.
Dietrich family establishes funding resources of more than $2 million
An entire family’s love and commitment to higher education have culminated in two funding resources for Ripon College with a combined value of more than $2 million. The Richard V. and Frances S. Dietrich Trust Scholarship and the Richard V. and Frances S. Dietrich Faculty Development Fund have been established in the name of the […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Student Support Services awarded new $1.4 million grant
A new five-year grant of $1.4 million has been awarded to the Student Support Services program at Ripon College by the U.S. Department of Education, TRIO division. The goals of the Student Support Services program are to increase the retention and graduation of first-generation students, whose parents/guardians did not receive a four-year college degree; students […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Academics, Funding, Funding and gifts.
‘Touchable art’ collection will teach museum studies students new perspectives
A collection of touchable art to promote and teach about the creation of art for the visually impaired is being assembled by Travis Nygard, associate professor of art and director of the Caestecker Gallery in C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Funds from a Kohler Foundation grant recently were re-allocated to the art department to […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Academics, Faculty, Fine Arts, Funding.
Grant from National Science Foundation advancing chemistry research
A grant of $400,400 has been awarded to a program of the Midwestern Undergraduate Computational Chemistry Consortium (MU3C), of which Ripon College is a part. The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and Chemistry divisions awarded the grant through its Major Research Instrumentation Program. Joe Scanlon, associate professor of chemistry at Ripon and a […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Academics, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Ripon receives National Science Foundation grant to study quantitative reasoning
A team of Ripon College faculty has received a National Science Foundation grant of $297,715 for the project “Building Capacity for Interdisciplinary Quantitative Reasoning Instruction.” The grant award, number DUE-1822414, is funded through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources solicitation. Principal investigators of the project are Andrea Young, special assistant to the […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Academics, Faculty, Funding.
#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.
Steve Martin earns grant to develop new course focusing on the First Amendment
A new course, offering a critical look into what the First Amendment really is, is being developed by Associate Professor of Communications Steve Martin, thanks to a $1,000 grant from the Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation (CSII). “The center sent out a call for proposals for research projects that advance our understanding […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Funding.
Grant money received to support student travel in Germany
A total of $12,000 dollars in grant money was awarded for the Bonn Program and support for student travel to and in Germany. The Max Kade Foundation in New York awarded Bonn Program participants travel grants of $1,000 each to nine students participating in the program this spring. Six of the students are Ripon College […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Funding, Student.
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 Awarded Low Interest Loan from USDA Rural Development for Athletics, Health and Wellness Facilities
Ripon College announced today that it is the recipient of a $14,300,000, fixed-rate low interest loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development division to help finance the cost of renovating and expanding the J.M. Storzer Athletics, Health and Wellness Center. The funds, provided through the Community Facilities Direct Loan program, are designed […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Athletics News, Funding, Uncategorized.
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.