Summer 2004
The promise of tomorrow:
135 years and counting…
Photo by Leo Kim
Mark your calendar for CLA's anniversary celebration the evening of Friday, October 22, 2004!
As this issue of the magazine goes to press, CLA is embarking on its 135th anniversary year. That's 135 years of educating students, reaching out into communities, and creating knowledge for a better world. It's 135 years of helping students and communities to fulfill their promise.
At this moment, roughly 105,000 CLA alumni have taken or are taking their place in the world–teaching, solving problems, writing books, creating art, building industries, improving lives, and otherwise contributing to their communities and making the world a better place.
Some of tomorrow's leaders and scholars are members of the Class of 2004, just graduated; or the Class of 2008, just arriving on campus this fall. Others are now in cribs and car seats, in preschool, and in K-12 schools across the nation. The CLA Class of 2025 is still in diapers.
We want all of these people to have a chance to fulfill their potential, to one day fill the shoes of those who are leading today's communities and finding creative ways to live, work, solve problems, and build our state's, our nation's, and the world's future.
The Promise of Tomorrow
As we launch our year of celebration, the University of Minnesota is launching a system-wide multi-year scholarship drive, "The Promise of Tomorrow." The goal is to increase by 50 percent the number of talented students who will receive private scholarship support for a University of Minnesota education. The President's Scholarship Match will double the impact of gifts for new endowed scholarships (gifts of $25,000 or more)!
The new scholarships will open the University's doors to students destined to be tomorrow's leaders. They will bring students of promise to the U to be educated not only in Minnesota but for Minnesota.
135 for 135
For CLA's anniversary year, the College of Liberal Arts has set a first-year start-up goal of 135 endowed scholarships and fellowships for 135 years of growth. At year's end, we hope to be able to open CLA's doors to 135 more students!
And that's just one of the ways we will deliver on our promise of education for a lifetime of leadership and a strong future for Minnesota.
Fall semester, we will be hosting a series of high-powered "critical conversations" on some of today's hot topics. The conversations will feature accomplished alumni, people who have made their mark in the worlds of business, government and public policy, public service, media, the arts and entertainment, health care, education, technology…
Watch your mailbox for details, and for announcements of other programs over the coming year that will celebrate CLA's 135 years… and counting!
Meanwhile, if you are considering making a scholarship gift, please contact Mary Hicks at (612) 625-5031, or hicks002@umn.edu.