THANK YOU to all of our fiscal year 2015 donors! Illinois Wesleyan University‘s alumni participation rate has increased for the third year in a row thanks to the generosity of donors like you! Your support helps to ensure IWU is stronger and more affordable for current and future generations of Titans. You’ve done well, and you’ve done good! Go Titans!

Young Alumni Challenge:  If our class reaches 24% participation, an additional gift of $2,500 will be made in honor of our class. Let’s move the Tommymometer to the top!

Without alumni support, IWU simply wouldn’t be the same.  Time is running out to make a difference this fiscal year.  Help to keep IWU moving forward and show your Titan Pride by making a gift before this Friday, July 31!

Only 33 more donors are needed to reach 24% giving for our Class by July 31.

Every Gift Counts!

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Young alumni challenge:

• A trustee has agreed to make a $2,500 gift for every young alumni class(1999-2014) who reaches 24% or better before July 31.
• This means that for every class that hits 24%, IWU will be able to award an additional $2,500 scholarship to a deserving student.
• Also, an additional $2,500 gift will be made for any class that reaches 30%.
• All gifts count! Find out how your class stacks up by visiting https://www.iwu.edu/giving/youngalumni.html

On April 9, Titans of all generations pulled together and showed their pride on the third annual All In For Wesleyan. More than 1,800 gifts of all sizes from 49 states and 17 countries totaled over $500,000 in support of Illinois Wesleyan University and our students. Our collective philanthropy served as an inspiration to the next generation as All In For Wesleyan firmly established itself as an Illinois Wesleyan tradition, both on campus and off. The class of 2009 had 46 donors on April 9th and donations totaling $2,168.09.

Thank you 2009 Alumni for being “all in” all the time, and for continuing to make Illinois Wesleyan one of your giving priorities. If you have already made your gift this year, thank you! If you have not made your gift this year, I hope that you will join me as a donor and put us one more gift closer to our participation goal. You can make your gift by visiting iwu.edu/give. It is your support that keeps Illinois Wesleyan strong, and develops the next generation of leaders.

Your partner in support,

Van Miller ‘04

Director of Annual Giving

On Monday, April 13, 2015, Derrick successfully defended his doctoral dissertation to earn a PhD in Higher Education and Student Affairs from The Ohio State University. His dissertation is titled, “Sexual Identity Label Adoption and Disclosure Narratives of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer (GLBQ) College Students of Color: An Intersectional Grounded Theory Study.” and he will participate in commencement on Sunday, May 10, 2015.

Additional great news – Derrick’s fourth book chapter was published. The full citation is:
Tillman-Kelly, D. L., Kitchen, J. A. & Strayhorn, T. L. (2015). Socialization matters: A mixed-methods study of U.S. college admissions counselors. In V. Stead (Ed.), International Perspectives on Higher Education Admission Policy: A Reader (pp. 379-387). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.

Enjoy a good challenge?

Here’s one for you – make a gift at iwu.edu/challenge today to support the things we love about Illinois Wesleyan. As an added bonus, this year, you could win the naming rights for the hot spot, WESN mic and more! What piece of the IWU campus would you name? #IWUNameIt