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President Connie Ledoux Book announced alumni Priscilla Awkard ’95, Christian Wiggins ’03, Maity Interiano ’07 and Jack McMackin ’08 as the new co-chairs of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ LEADS Campaign, sending a powerful message about the importance of alumni leading Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s future.

Josh Norris '11 and his father, Robert, have created an endowment to provide scholarship assistance to make internships possible for students in Â鶹ÊÓƵ's School of Communications.

The generous commitment brings fundraising for phase one of the project to more than $1.5 million as part of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ LEADS Campaign. The renovations will transform Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s baseball facility and one of the university’s most successful athletics programs.

The James P. Elder Lecture series was first endowed by former students of the popular professor and mentor who has now ensured that the series named for him will endure for future generations.

The largest endowment gift in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s history will name the university’s School of Education in honor of Vice President Emerita Jo Watts Williams ’55.

The generous gift from Christian Wiggins ’03 will provide scholarships for students from his hometown of western North Carolina as part of A Will to Lead, a special initiative of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ LEADS Campaign to inspire donors to include Â鶹ÊÓƵ in their estate plans.

The Odyssey Scholarship Program offers opportunities for students like Jewel Tillman ’21 to become leaders on campus and after graduation. Growing the number of scholarships to produce graduates the world needs is the top priority of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ LEADS campaign.

Giving students real-world experiences led Â鶹ÊÓƵ parents Scott Bakal and Beth Solomon P’21 to endow the Bakal Family Internship Scholarship. Support for scholarships and increasing access to internships and other Â鶹ÊÓƵ Experiences programs are top priorities of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ LEADS Campaign.

As the first Doherty Odyssey Scholar to graduate from Â鶹ÊÓƵ, Jubitza Figueroa ’21 is ready to make her mark on the world. Ed and Joan Doherty P’07 endowed eight Odyssey Program scholarships as part of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ LEADS Campaign to make an Â鶹ÊÓƵ education possible for top students with high financial need.

A generous endowment gift from Â鶹ÊÓƵ parents Paul and Renee Armstrong ’22 will establish a scholarship to support engagement interns who will connect first-year Catholic students with the university’s Catholic Campus Ministry program. Growing endowed scholarships is the top priority of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ LEADS Campaign.