50th Reunion - Class of 1970

Each year the 50th Reunion Committee selects projects and fundraising goals to accomplish as a part of their reunion. This year the class fundraising goals are $10,000,000 and 50% participation.

Results

Total Giving: $10,446,586

Planned Giving: $8,397,862*
Gifts/Pledges: $2,048,724

Class Projects

1970 Global Research Institute Summer Research Fellowship Endowment: $210,001
1970 Swem Library Endowment: $119,921

Class Participation: 48.6%

Last updated July 16, 2020

Class Projects

Class of 1970 Global Research Institute (GRI) Summer Research Fellowship Endowment

Gifts made to the endowment shall be used to provide support for summer fellowships through William & Mary's Global Research Institute.

The Global Research Institute provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. Past Summer Fellows have hailed from a variety of disciplines, including data science, government, biology, public policy and economics. Successful applicants are paired with W&M faculty and international organizations to conduct research and promote capacity building around the world. Past projects include: creating a dataset on Indonesian electoral outcomes, an evaluation of the Monrovia Football Academy, a white paper on applications of blockchain technology for Korean reunification through reforestation, a set of data governance policies for a new geospatial platform within a UN agency, and a randomized controlled trial on community policing and public trust in Colombia.

• Henry Crossman ’19: Message to the Class of 1970
• Overview of GRI
• 2019 Summer Fellows Cohort
• Summer Fellows in Liberia
• Student Experience: Layla Abi-Falah

The Class of 1970 Swem Library Endowment Fund

The Class of 1970 Swem Library Endowment fund will provide for the most pressing needs of the Earl Gregg Swem Library, the main undergraduate research library for William & Mary. We anticipate allocating monies from the fund to the following three projects:

A collaboration between Swem Library and a group of faculty and students, the multidisciplinary digital scholarship lab on the first floor of Swem Library will have high-end equipment for computing; presentation and collaboration space for experiential learning; and access to people across schools and departments. President Rowe has called this future space a kitchen lab, where new techniques, data sets and applications can be explored and experimented with alongside library professionals, faculty and students.

Located centrally on campus in Swem Library and serving all disciplines, the Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation is a space dedicated to improving teaching and learning experiences for students. Meeting a need currently unmet on campus, the Studio consolidates faculty development efforts, bringing faculty together to generate innovative teaching practices, craft creative research projects and class assignments, and enhance course development. The Studio promotes the university’s values of collaboration and innovation, as well as its commitment to interdisciplinary work.

Q&A with Mark Hofer, Director of the Studio

Library Front Patio
To add beautiful, learning-centered spaces, Swem Library is planning a front porch that overlooks the Mary-Cooke Branch Munford Plaza, the green space that connects Swem Library to the forthcoming Arts Quarter and Integrated Science Center IV. This outside gathering space will provide an outdoors alternative for studying and meeting with classmates.

* For more information about planned giving visit the Gift Planning website or contact Kirsten A. Kellogg ’91, Ph.D., assistant vice president for principal gifts and gift planning, at 757-221-1019 or kakellogg@wm.edu.