LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Dear Alumni and Friends:

On behalf of Cameron University, thank you for your support of our students and our institution this year. Whether you are an alumnus, employee, friend or community leader, we appreciate your support and your gifts. Together we increased student opportunities through outstanding learning experiences at an exceptional value.

Enhancing the student learning experience with highly qualified and well supported faculty and staff as well as modern learning facilities is in the forefront of our efforts at Cameron. Cameron University is the least expensive university in Oklahoma, but meeting our goal of affordability for all students in southwest Oklahoma relies on your continued support. Your gifts assist our efforts to increase the number and value of scholarships available to our students so they may take advantage of learning opportunities.

Know that your gifts do more than create affordability for Cameron students. Your support of the Endowed Faculty program allows us to hire, retain, and provide professional development opportunities for the wonderful educators who make the Cameron experience special. Other gifts support the creation and renovation of effective learning and activity spaces. With the help of supporters like yourself we’ve recently completed renovation work to our Library, which has added to our collaboration spaces for students, improved technology, and provided an atrium with additional study space as well as our newest campus coffee shop, Books and Brew. Please consider this my invitation to you to stop by the library for some fresh coffee. A new library and study space at the Duncan campus is nearly complete and will allow our Duncan students improved access to information, resources, and assistance.

Experiential learning opportunities continue to add value to the student experience. With donor support, construction has been completed on learning greenhouses, located directly west of the Science Complex. These greenhouses offer our students space and opportunity to put their classroom learning into action. The recently completed Esports Arena in the Academic Commons continues to provide new opportunities for student outreach and support, and our Esports team, the Pickaxes, is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with in competition.

We strive to be effective stewards of your gifts and the other resources provided to Cameron University or the Cameron University Foundation. I hope you will find evidence of our stewardship in the reports that follow. Thank you for providing the means to assure Cameron’s continuing commitment to the educational, cultural, and economic advancement of the communities we serve.

Sincerely,

John M. McArthur, Ph.D. President