Brief updates on campaign priorities

On October 26, 2018, Carleton College announced the launch of Every Carl for Carleton, a $400 million comprehensive campaign—the most ambitious in Carleton’s history.

Attracting talented, diverse, engaged students takes resources. So does our pledge to meet their full demonstrated financial need. Carleton will expand its annual financial aid budget to continue enrolling outstanding new Carls from a wide range of backgrounds.

Carleton’s gifted scholars, scientists, artists, and researchers deserve facilities that reflect the advances in their respective fields. Truly outstanding teaching also requires career-long support for our faculty members, fostering innovation and collaboration in the classroom and beyond.

Internships, externships, research, and community-based learning give our students valuable perspective and open avenues to future careers. We want all students to have access to these learning opportunities regardless of financial status. Robust support for the Career Center, advising, experiential learning off campus, and faculty-student research helps all students explore their possible futures throughout their four years at Carleton.

Even as we build for the future, we must support Carleton’s most pressing needs today. Every year the annual fund provides a critical 6 percent of the college’s operating budget which helps make Carleton distinctively Carleton. The annual fund represents a collective sense of ownership and responsibility for Carleton among our community of alumni, parents, and friends.

Before Every Carl for Carleton, there was “every trustee for Carleton.”

You can support Carleton in three ways: through annual fund gifts, capital and endowment gifts, and planned gifts.

Financing a college education has always been a challenge. Paul Thiboutot, vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid, knows this firsthand. He was a first-generation college student at Boston College and later helped pay his daughter’s way through Carleton. Neither of their degrees would have been possible without financial aid.

Your gift to financial aid makes Carleton possible for students from all walks of life—removing barriers for outstanding students who deserve a place at Carleton, regardless of family income.

Like many Carls, Bill Freedman ’68 has been investing in Carleton through gifts to the Alumni Annual Fund for decades. And he believes the best way to protect that investment is by joining the Heywood Society to ensure the college remains distinctive and true to its mission for generations to come.

Brooks Wallin ’78 is passionate about discovery and innovation. He embraces it every day in his role as president of Organic Stories SAS, a Paris-based manufacturer and marketer of organic food products.

It’s a testament to Carleton’s liberal arts mission that two of the most generous alumni donors to science education are an English major and a history major.

Distinguished scientists plan a legacy of stellar support