President Shirley Ann Jackson announced Wednesday that RPI had surpassed the $1.4 billion Renaissance at Rensselaer capital campaign goal. The news came nine months in advance of the campaign’s target end date of June 30, 2009, and two days before the opening of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.
“On behalf of the Board of Trustees, the Campaign Co-Chairs, and the entire Rensselaer leadership team, I would like to express my deepest, heartfelt gratitude to all of you in the campus community, who have worked so diligently to help achieve this unprecedented milestone in our Institute’s history,” Jackson said in an e-mail to RPI.
The campaign will still continue until its target end date in June; it aims to build the Institute unrestricted endowment, and also seeks funds for endowed scholarships and fellowships, faculty positions, curriculum support, student life programs, and athletics programs and facilities.
