More than 5,000 alumni showed their support by making a gift to IWU in fiscal year 2014!

And for the second year straight, Illinois Wesleyan alumni have grown our alumni giving percentage. We are now at 23%!

THANK YOU for doing your part to keep IWU strong.  

IWU’s fiscal year ends TODAY – July 31 – Thank you if you’ve already made your annual gift!

Now help us find the 47 additional alumni donors we need to reach our participation goal by today. Organizations view alumni participation as the metric that measures alumni satisfaction. It affects IWU’s ranking, bond rating, and ability to earn grants, so make your gift today at iwu.edu/give to keep IWU strong!  Every donor counts!

Join other IWU supporters by renewing your gift at www.iwu.edu/give.

The Illinois Wesleyan fiscal year is ending quickly on July 31. Have you renewed your support yet this year? *

It’s not too late to be added to the list!

We still need 163 alumni to step forward before July 31 to increase alumni participation 1% over last year.

*Check by visiting http://www.iwu.edu/annualreport/.

Catherine Geehan, former intern at the Scholars at Risk Network at New York University, spoke at the IWU Women’s Council 2014 Summit, Lead Connected, event on Friday, February 28th with Deb Adams ’79, Molly McLay ’06, Ade Olayinka ’11 on campus at the Hansen Student Center on Advocating for Social Justice: Make a Living Working for Change.

Lucas Fletcher performed an organ recital at First Presbyterian Church in Delavan, Illinois on Sunday, May 18th. Lucas’s performance was advertised in the Lincoln Courier, which also noted that “[t]he church’s Hinner’s pipe organ, manufactured in Pekin in 1914, became one of the largest in the region with the addition of components from the Wesleyan University chapel pipe organ in 1962.”

Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic society, is an undergraduate honors organization that recognizes excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.

Rachel Branson and Joe O’Brien both won Liberal Arts Scholar Awards from Phi Beta Kappa this year. These awards recognize student work that engages, translates, and bridges academic disciplines and/or crosses traditional academic boundaries.

In the fall, Rachel and Joe will attend graduate school. Rachel will pursue a Ph.D. program in comparative literature at the University of Oregon, and Joe will pursue a master’s in studio art at Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver, British Columbia.