College launches $500M campaign
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Published: October 11, 2007
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College is launching a five-year campaign to raise $500 million, the school has announced.
College officials said a goal of the fund-raising campaign — the Middlebury Initiative — is to extend and expand the opportunities available to students. College president Ronald D. Liebowitz outlined the campaign's goals, based on Middlebury's recently adopted strategic plan.
The funds raised will:
The campaign, which college officials said is the largest ever launched by a liberal arts college, is designed to support leadership in liberal arts and international education.
"The Middlebury Initiative will strengthen our position as the global liberal arts college for the 21st century," Liebowitz said. "Middlebury combines a human-intensive education with an expansive global perspective and an international network of educational resources that no other liberal arts college can offer. These unique resources include the Middlebury College Language Schools, C.V. Starr — Middlebury Schools Abroad, the Bread Loaf School of English, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and our recent affiliate, the Monterey Institute of International Studies."
The campaign involves alumni, parents and friends of the college. Frederick M. Fritz, chairman of the college's board of trustees and a 1968 Middlebury College graduate, said the campaign will have a profound impact on the future of the college. Fritz also is the parent of Middlebury College graduates from the classes of 1995, 1997 and 2000.
"The success of this effort will help Middlebury further define its leadership as a unique liberal arts institution with an international perspective," Fritz said.
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