The Endowment
By endowing people, programs, and facilities, we will position St. Lawrence for future generations of teaching, learning, and discovery.
Endowment Supports Our Foundation of Innovative Learning
A liberal arts education requires breadth, depth, and integration in learning. It demands the cultivation of those habits of intellectual and moral self-discipline that distinguishes a mature individual. This approach to learning empowers our students to successfully navigate complex environments and enables them to take part in solving global challenges.
Today, we must increase our endowment in order to extend our tradition of providing life-changing education and experiences for the next generation of St. Lawrence students. We must raise our available endowment dollars per student to match—or exceed—our peer institutions. Every Laurentian is called upon to help sustain and advance the St. Lawrence experience.
Endowment Opportunities
Endowed professorships are crucial for bringing the best scholars, researchers, and innovators to St. Lawrence. An endowed professorship exists in perpetuity at St. Lawrence, supporting salaries and providing an annual research stipend to stimulate new teaching and learning opportunities. Our goal is to raise the number of endowed professorships.
Today, more than 90 percent of our students participated in high school athletics, and one-third of them play on a varsity team. By endowing coaching positions, you recognize the importance of leadership on and off the field. Your support enhances our competitive advantage, elevates our programs’ reputations, and provides an educational environment that embraces a campus-wide approach to wellness. Program director positions outside of athletics can also be endowed. A recent example includes the endowing of the director of Health and Counseling Services position.
To attract promising academic talent, we must stay competitive with our financial aid. We remain committed to providing access to all students, regardless of their economic status.
From internships and student-faculty research, to travel abroad and community service, endowed funds can be established to support experiential learning.
Endowed Professorships
Endowment Supports Our Intellectual Heroes
Endowed professorships are crucial for bringing the best scholars, researchers, and innovators to St. Lawrence. An endowed professorship is bestowed on a faculty member who has earned great respect in their discipline. An endowed department chair exists in perpetuity at St. Lawrence, supporting salaries and providing an annual research stipend to stimulate new teaching and learning opportunities.
Your gift both provides students the opportunity to study with some of the foremost experts in their fields, and it honors the exceptional educators who have made a profound difference in your life.
Endowed Student Scholarships
Endowment Supports the Cultivation of Academic Talent
To attract promising academic talent, we must stay competitive with our financial aid. We remain committed to providing access to all students, regardless of their socioeconomic status. They might be first-generation students or a part of a family legacy. They may hail from the North Country or Northern California, from Kenya or Kyoto.
Regardless of background, we know that Every Laurentian arrives in Canton with different needs. Our values and our traditions—combined with our financial assistance—make it possible for new generations of students to engage with the St. Lawrence experience.
Endowed Travel and Research Funds
Endowment Supports Learning Around the World
Laurentians believe that learning is a lifelong pursuit. For over 50 years, St. Lawrence students have studied abroad, striving to become global problem solvers through research while being immersed in new cultures.
From travel abroad and student-faculty research, to internships and community service, endowed funds can be established to support experiential learning.
Endowed Coaches and Staff Positions
Endowment Supports Our Competitive Advantage
Athletics is important to St. Lawrence students. Today, more than 90 percent of them participated in high school athletics, and now one- third play on a varsity team. The student-athlete experience prepares them for the challenges they will face in the classroom, in competition, and following graduation.
By endowing coaching positions, you recognize the importance of leadership on and off the fields. Your support also goes toward enhancing our competitive advantage, elevating our programs’ reputations, and providing an educational environment that embraces a campus-wide approach to wellness. Program director positions outside of athletics can also be endowed.
Endowment Supports the Liberal Arts in Action
Endowment Supports the Liberal Arts in Action
While St. Lawrence remains competitive among liberal arts institutions and has made significant strides toward being recognized as more selective, there remains much more to do. We must endow our future starting with what we already do so well. St. Lawrence is known for innovations in curricular structure and flexibility, particularly in cross-linking the liberal arts disciplines. This approach to learning empowers students to deal with complexity and enables them to take part in solving global challenges. Recognizing this approach as an institutional distinction, we need to sustain and advance it.
Distinctly St. Lawrence programs like the New York City Semester, Business in the Liberal Arts, SLU Connect, the Adirondack Semester and Sustainability Program need endowment resources to guarantee their existence well into the future.