RESOLUTION TO COMMENCE WINTHROP UNIVERSITY'S CAPITAL CAMPAIGN

WHEREAS, Winthrop University is committed to its mandate, unique among South Carolina’s public institutions of higher learning: to provide students with a “first-class” higher education, adding features and programs “as the progress of the times may require”; and

WHEREAS, Winthrop University is committed to meeting the needs of today’s students and preparing the university and its transformational educational experience for the challenges and opportunities of the futures; and

WHEREAS, Winthrop University seeks to ensure sustainable funding to build the endowment and annual gifts to provide immediate support and sustain a profound life-enhancing educational experience for generation to come; and

WHEREAS, a comprehensive capital fundraising campaign will enable Winthrop University to make substantial and significant progress towards meeting those objectives; and

WHEREAS, a comprehensive capital fundraising campaign in conjunction with the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Winthrop Training School in 1886 will be an appropriate milestone for celebrating the history and the future of the University; and

WHEREAS, the purpose of the Winthrop University Foundation is to support and benefit Winthrop University;

THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED BY THE WINTHROP UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS that a comprehensive capital fundraising campaign be undertaken for the benefit of Winthrop University; and

LET IT BE FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE WINTHROP UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS that all gifts, pledges, and commitments in support of the campaign be recognized and counted toward the overall goal amount; and

LET IT BE FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE WINTHROP UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS that the overall goal amount for the campaign will be determined by the Winthrop University Foundation Board of Directors upon the completion of a comprehensive feasibility study.

APPROVED, this the (9th day of September 2008).

Winthrop University Foundation
Phone: 803 / 323-2229
Fax: 803 / 323-4550

302 Tillman Hall
Rock Hill, SC 29733, USA