Current Projects
Teacher Endowment Challenge
This matching grant challenge is part of a $1.7 million grant made available by a Title III grant from the United States Department of Education, which the College received in September 2004. The grant includes $125,000 for a challenge match to create an endowment of $250,000. The purpose of the matching challenge is to build endowed scholarship funds for Sterling students in the Education Department.
The Challenge requires that Sterling College raise up to $25,000 each year for five years, which will be placed in a permanent endowment and matched dollar for dollar with Title III funds each year for a five year period. If less than $25,000 is raised each year, whatever is not raised will not be matched and therefore lost. The deadline for each year is September 30.
In an effort to reach each of the five year goals, the College has challenged more than 1,400 Education Department alumni to provide $100 a year for five years. Those who do will be identified as "Sterling Teachers" and their names will be placed on a plaque in the Education Department.
If you are interested in becoming a "Sterling Teacher", please contact Don Reed, Vice President for Institutional Advancement:
Don Reed
125 W. Cooper
Sterling, KS 67579
dreed@sterling.edu
800.346.1017
2005 Update
With it's first year deadline of September 30, 2005 arriving quickly, the College received a wonderful gift to make the goal. A combined gift of $25,000 from sisters Shirley '58 and Phyllis '69 Crouse of Beverly, Kentucky pushed the gift total toward the fund well past the $25,000 goal. The funds over the goal are allowed to carry forward into this 05-06 year. With the Crouse gift, the College was able to transfer $25,000 into the Endowment fund for student scholarships in the Education Department and the Director of the Title III Program, Dr. Troy Peters, also transferred $25,000 into the fund. So Sterling now has $50,000 in the Endowment at the end of the first year of this Challenge.
Shirley and Phyllis stated in making their gift, "we have been thinking that we wanted to do something for the College because of what we felt that we received by way of a quality education there. When we read of this challenge and how we could double our gift, this just seemed like the right thing to do." Shirley and Phyllis both have worked for the Red Bird Mission school in Kentucky for many years.
In receiving the gift, Dr. Bruce Douglas, president of SC said, "the sacrificial giving of Shirley and Phyllis towards this matching challenge helped us meet the challenge deadline and resulted in the full amount of grant monies available to the College for the first year. I am grateful to these dear alumni and to all the many alumni who have given to this challenge to start us on a good beginning in this 05-06 year. This challenge opportunity is simply too good to let go by. Our alumni are responding."
The College was needing 250 people that it will identify as "Sterling Teachers" if they provide $500 which can be given between now and September 30, 2009. Their names will be placed on a "Teachers Hall of Fame" plaque in the Education Department.
Campus Beautification
Sterling College sign with new landscapingThat first impression of Sterling College when visitors drive up to the campus is a huge factor in creating an open mind with good feelings about the organization. A beautiful campus says so much. It conveys to people many things about who Sterling College really is and what type of school they are visiting.
A beautiful, well-groomed campus says that Sterling cares about excellence, the little things matter, and quality is important in every area of the College. It encourages visitors to look deeper into the institution and let’s them know right away that this is a college that has organization, carefully thought out plans, and attends to the details.
Detailed list of needs - Coming Soon!