Ensuring Excellence & Affordability
Affordability is a key driver for enrollment growth and is ranked as one of the most significant concerns of prospective students and their parents. The single greatest need for a thriving Taylor is to ensure that it remains financially manageable for mission-aligned students.
We seek transformational investments in excellence and affordability:
- Reduce student debt through new scholarships and amplified work experiences.
- Grow our endowment to stay true to our Christian mission.
- Highlight the value of a Taylor education and demonstrate the difference a Taylor degree will make for future job prospects and lifelong contributions.
- Renew spaces within existing campus buildings, addressing deferred maintenance issues, and the construction of select facilities that will support Taylor’s growth and development.
- Launch new initiatives with a focus on ventures that will become revenue-generating.
$60.0M
As of April 2024
$120M Goal
10:10 Scholarship Challenge
Advancing Access for Students in All Walks of Life
In Spring 2023, Taylor received a $20 million gift to advance its mission of developing servant-leaders. The gift was the largest single donation in the school’s history and is being used to prioritize student scholarships. Through the 10:10 Scholarship Challenge, Taylor will raise a remarkable $40 million in financial aid. Each gift—from $10 to $10 million—is doubled, funding seven endowed scholarship categories.
- Opportunity: High Financial Need
- Kingdom Diversity: Race, Ethnicity, National Heritage
- Top Scholar: Academically Gifted
- Ministry Service: Families in full-time missions or ministry
- Kesler Legacy: Children, Grandchildren, Siblings of Alumni
- Global: International Diversity
- Athletics: Competitive Excellence
Endowed Scholarships
Investing in the Next Generation of Servant-Leaders
Hundreds of students gain access to the lifelong benefits of a Taylor education through scholarships. Strengthening our affordability and our endowment allows Taylor to provide additional financial aid to all students, attract honors students, ensure a commitment to expanding our globally diverse student body, and be less dependent on state and federal funding.
There are many possibilities for funding scholarships beyond writing a check. Appreciated assets, like publicly traded stock or real estate, are great options, as are other assets like a paid-up whole life insurance policy. Scholarships can also be funded with gifts over ten years or through an estate plan.
President’s Growth Fund
Positioning Taylor for Future Growth
Annual Goal: $1M | Secured: 2023-24: $235,600
Gifts to the President’s Growth Fund provide seed funding to launch innovative ideas that offer creative solutions to the challenges facing higher education. Initiatives funded include digital learning initiatives, academic development research, the inaugural year of the Presidential Fellows Program, and the implementation of new branding.
Roth Center for Missions Computing
Serving the Missions Community through Technology
Goal: $6M | Secured: $6M
A $6 million gift has enhanced the capacity and reach of the Center for Missions Computing, furthering Taylor’s 45-year legacy of engagement in missions technology. Through this transformational investment, Computer Science and Engineering students will develop skills in using technology for God's glory. Through the Center, students will:
- Work with the mission’s community to identify strategic high-value, high-need projects.
- Assist mission agencies with technology, including summer student training modeled on the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates.
- Provide an entrepreneurial mindset in tackling technology issues for the global Church.
Related Initiatives
Expansion of Calling and Career Office
Ensure 100% of undergraduate students participate in an internship, practicum, or relevant field experience for their major.
Good Work Program
An initiative to cut the average student federal debt load while increasing the number of student workers on campus.
Strategic Projects and Initiatives
Projects across campus that draw additional philanthropic dollars to the University while also providing additional draw to the Upland area.
Student Services Center, Zondervan Library
Renovation of the Zondervan Library to balance needs for scholarship, studying, and collaboration among students and faculty.
Campus Safety Initiatives
Increase lighting and other security equipment across campus.
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