Has someone at SU made a difference in your life? To honor someone at SU with a gift, please go to: http://www.susqu.edu/development/e-mails/inhonor/.

When you have all or some of your estate, life insurance or other planned gifts benefit Susquehanna University, it is not only a great way to reduce estate taxes, it is also a wonderful way to leave a legacy. When you inform Susquehanna University of your future gift, we will enroll you as a member of our Heritage Club so we may honor you now. We will also be able to accept your gift for credit during our Changing Lives, Building Futures campaign allowing you to see the impact that your gift has on the university today and in the future.

To ensure that your wishes are fulfilled it is always helpful to notify a member of Susquehanna University’s Gift Planning Office of your intentions. A member of our office would be pleased to talk about gift designations such as student scholarships, department or program funds, faculty support and more. If you are undecided about what would be most meaningful to you, please keep in mind that unrestricted gifts are often the most valuable since they can be applied to the university’s highest priority at the time. Even if you choose to make your legacy gift as unrestricted, it is helpful if you will make us aware of this so there is no question about your intent.

If you are inclined to make an estate gift to SU, you may find more benefits in a life-income gift. These gifts fund a trust or annuity that can pay you income for the rest of your life, or two lives if you would like to include your spouse or other significant person. Sometimes these gifts can offer a higher rate of return than you may be currently earning with other investment forms. In addition you earn an immediate income tax deduction and can avoid capital gain and estate taxes on the assets you use for the gift. For more information, please contact us:

Douglas C. Seaberg, Assistant Vice President for Gift Planning 570-372-4408 or Seaberg@susqu.edu
Kimberly A. Y. Andretta, Assistant Director for Major Gifts 570-372-4042 or Andretta@susqu.edu
Carolyn Coldren, Assistant Director for Major Gifts 570-372-4787 or Coldren@susqu.edu
Bryan P. Rynearson, Assistant Director for Major Gifts 570-372-4516 or Rynearson@susqu.edu

We deeply appreciate your foresight and generosity in helping to ensure a promising future for Susquehanna University.

Susquehanna University has received a $200,000 grant from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. The grant will help fund construction of a new science facility.

As part of its $70 million capital campaign, Changing Lives, Building Futures, Susquehanna seeks to raise $45 million for a new science building and renovations to the existing Fisher Science Hall. With a projected cost of $33 million dollars, the new state-of-the-art building will house Susquehanna’s “wet sciences” – biology, chemistry, and earth and environmental sciences. The building’s design will place emphasis on flexible space, a sense of community and, where possible, green designs.

Situated on the site now occupied by North Hall Parking Lot and oriented to face Fisher Hall, the new science building will redefine the academic area of the campus. It will provide teaching, research and support space that fosters the practice of faculty teaching science by doing science with students. Integrated learning laboratories will allow students and faculty to move easily between presentation, data collection, analysis and discussion in a setting that utilizes current instrumentation and technology to support teamwork and facilitate investigation. Collaborative research laboratories will allow for long-term projects, iterative problem-solving and intense collaboration so that students are well-prepared for further study, science-based careers and responsible citizenship.

As part of the overall project, Fisher Hall will be renovated to accommodate the growth of other academic programs and departments. In addition, approximately $1.3 million will be invested in new science equipment, allowing students to learn science by doing science. The grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will help facilitate the completion of this project.

From their founding, the Foundations have been strongly committed to the support of private higher education in America. Trustees have concentrated on privately governed and supported four-year, residential, liberal arts institutions that place strong emphasis on teaching and whose students choose majors primarily in the arts and sciences. Support generally is reserved for schools of broadly acknowledged academic excellence and a solid record of financial strength.