Peace College will unveil a $30 million capital campaign this morning that will focus largely on raising funds for expansion and renovation to its facilities.
The small women's college was a junior college until just 13 years ago, and a campus official told me this week it is still trying to get its infrastructure in line with the needs of a modern, four-year institution.
A $30 million campaign would top the college’s previous best, a $15 million effort that concluded in 2000. The college has been in a silent fundraising phase for more than four years now and is alreadly two-thirds the way to its goal.
The campaign’s top priority is a $3.7 million renovation and expansion of the Lucy Cooper Finch Library. The library project will add 2,200 square feet and a technology revolution of sorts with the addition of a “learning commons” with computer stations and other workspace.
Peace will also offer, for the first time, a bachelor’s in science degree next year and is updating science laboratories in preparation. In all, more than half the $30 million Peace hopes to raise will be spent on renovation and new construction.
“This campaign is a lot about bricks and mortar and refreshing our campus,” said Michael Magoon, Peace College's vice president for development and alumnae affairs.
Read more about the campaign in today's News & Observer.
