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Jon North, vice president for university advancement, announced today that MidAmerica Nazarene University is the recipient of a 7.5 million dollar gift. This unrestricted cash donation is the largest one-time gift the university has received in its 43-year history. North says the gift represents the culmination of many months of work and is evidence of the donor’s confidence in MNU.
“Our donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, has a heart for Christian higher education,” North says, “and considers it a tremendous responsibility to practice good stewardship of what God has provided.”
The gift adds to the many positive developments that have occurred at MNU this past year. The university is seeing the benefit of its efforts to allocate resources into high growth areas. University officials say that these decisions have allowed MNU to make progress toward achieving goals stated in the university’s 2010 five-year strategic plan. They cite positive indicators from this fall such as:
· traditional undergraduate enrollment 5% higher than projected,
· 25% increase in graduate and adult revenues,
· undergraduate applications up 11% from last year,
· support from Nazarene churches up 5%,
· Regional Nazarene churches partnering with MNU for a three-year, $7 million Pioneering the Future campaign for scholarships for Nazarene students, and
· net income and cash flow from operations significantly up from last year. [Read more . . . ]
MNU is reaching for a new alumni giving record this year. It started with a competition among all Nazarene universities to see which can improve alumni giving the most by 2012. The University Fund is the foundation of giving at MNU, providing unrestricted funds for the university’s most pressing needs, including scholarships. Through the U X 2 challenge match, all first-time alumni donations and increased alumni donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar, doubling the impact of the donor’s generosity. [Read more . . . ]
Pioneering the Future is an initiative among individual donors and Nazarene churches to establish student scholarship endowments for each district on MNU’s educational region. The goal is to ensure MNU remains affordable for Nazarene students from the Iowa, Joplin, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Nebraska and Prairie Lakes Districts for years to come. The campaign culminates in October of each year with a special local church offering to fund scholarship endowments in each district. This initiative provides a tangible way for individual donors and Nazarene congregations from across the region to jointly and simultaneously pull together by providing an extra measure of support for MNU and our students. Most importantly, Pioneering the Future is also a campaign to express our thanks. How would MNU exist without the support of our regional churches and faithful supporters within these congregations? From the university’s founding through today, you have believed in and supported our mission – to transform the individual through intellectual, spiritual, and personal development for a life of service to God, the church, the nation, and the world. [Read more . . . ]
MidAmerica Nazarene University is one of only 150 institutions worldwide to receive an in-kind grant of 224 volumes from the International Society of Science and Religion Library Project (ISSR) at St. Edmunds College, Cambridge, U.K. According to the ISSR, the collection is a remarkable ‘core’ group of books on science and spirituality from many perspectives. They include the sciences, social sciences, history, philosophy and the environment. [Read more . . . ]
For the third year in a row, the School of Nursing and Health Science at MidAmerica Nazarene University has been selected as a grant recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program (NCIN). During the 2011-2012 academic year, MNU will receive $50,000 to support students in the school's accelerated bachelor of science in nursing program who are traditionally underrepresented in nursing. With this grant the NCIN program will have supported 25 students in three years at MNU, and will continue to develop culturally competent health professionals and future leaders of the profession. [Read more . . . ]
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MNU Launches Pioneering the Future Campaign (September 2011)
MNU Receives Collection of Science and Religion Texts (September 2011)
MNU School of Nursing Re-Awarded Scholarships through RWJF New Careers in Nursing Program
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