CSU capital campaign concludes

Columbus State
University (CSU) recently completed its First Choice Comprehensive Capital
Campaign, raising roughly $120 million from 8,000 alumni and community donors
since the campaign began in 2012. Nearly 40 percent of donors were alumni who
gave more than $17 million and 52 percent were non-alumni individuals who
contributed more than $55 million. Corporations and foundations accounted for 8
percent of the donors and contributed approximately $44 million. Among the
corporate supporters were Synovus, TSYS, Pezold Management Group and W.C. Bradley Co.

Highlights of the campaign’s impact on students and the
community include:

• 42 new endowed scholarships
• Nine capital projects including the Bo Bartlett Center, a
  multidisciplinary teaching and research facility for the arts located in Uptown
  Columbus; Frank
  D. Brown Hall, which houses CSU’s education and nursing programs, also
  Uptown; the John W. Walden
  Tennis Center, home of CSU’s nationally ranked tennis teams; the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity;
  the Sanders Center for Laboratory
  Sciences; and major renovations or additions to Pasaquan, the Burger
  King Stadium and the Synovus
  Center for Commerce and Technology.
• Creation of three new endowed faculty chairs and
  10 new endowed program funds

The campaign is also estimated to make a $295 million annual
economic impact on the regional community.

Photo, from left,
Emory J. Alexander, M.D., chair of the CSU Foundation Board of Trustees; Phil
Tomlinson, chair of the First Choice Campaign; and CSU President Chris Markwood

Photo provided by CSU.

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