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Endowment & Scholarships
98 percent
The overwhelming percentage of Naz students who receive grants or scholarships to pay for college. In fiscal year 2010, only $800,0000 in endowed scholarship funds were available.
40 percent
Naz students who come from families with annual incomes below $75,000
150
Number of endowed scholarships that change the lives of students
4
Number of endowed professorships at Nazareth
$10 million
Campaign goal for the endowment, bringing it to $65 million to invest for the good of Nazareth students
$19 million
Funds from the College's own operating funds that went toward scholarship support
12.1 percent
Return on the endowment in 2010. Nazareth beat the average return of nearly 800 institutions with endowments under $1 billion.
The Integrated Center for Math and Science
74,000
gross square feet
20 labs
to serve biology, chemistry, physics, math, computing, and ecology
8 classrooms
and lab lecture rooms offer state-of-the-art technology, including smartboards
4 floors
devoted to learning spaces
LEED green building
certification at the silver or potentially gold level
Reaching Out
Space is designed to encourage collaboration among students and faculty, including open areas for group study and reference materials adjacent to faculty offices
Two “green roof” gardens continue Naz’s environmental initiatives
A greenhouse features three environments — desert, sub-tropical, and temperate. It will grow plants for study and research, for community outreach, and for showing teachers how to use plants to enrich a math/science curriculum.
One of 20 buildings on the 150-acre Nazareth campus
Cost: $32 million
Naming opportunities range from $10,000 to $7.5 million
Spring 2011
Groundbreaking
Fall 2012
Projected completion
Part of the Campaign for College and Community. Funding from the campaign has already renovated the Nazareth College Arts Center; other initiatives include the arts and music, scholarships, the endowment, and The Nazareth Fund.
The Arts
$10.5 million
Funds raised as part of the Campaign for College and Community that supported the renovation of the Nazareth College Arts Center
42 years
The age of the Callahan Theater before renovations
900 seats
Available for productions and performances open to the Rochester region
75,000 people
Yearly attendance at the Arts Center
$4.5 million
The estimated economic impact of Arts Center events
Nazareth is featured in The Best 373 Colleges: 2011 Edition, and this year's edition ranks the Nazareth College Arts Center as one of the Best College Theaters at #10.
Nazareth College
3,000+ students, 90% of whom come from New York
480 students enrolled in entering class for fall 2010
17 states and territories represented in that class, including California, Minnesota, Ohio, the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as New York and the greater Northeast
30% are in the top 10% of their class
16% are students of color
69% of alumni are in the Rochester region
97 “Quality of life” score students give Nazareth in The Princeton Review’s Best 371 Colleges
91% of Nazareth students volunteer with service organizations across the region
84% of 2006 grads are employedor enrolled in graduate programs
12 consecutive years ranked as a “top tier” Northern college in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Colleges