ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT TO BENEFIT THE UNIVERSITY

Tuskegee wins $80,000 in Home Depot’s “Retool Your School”

Tuskegee’s grant well be used is to expand the student social hub’s pavilions and install high intensity lighting strategically around campus to enhance campus security.

Tuskegee University has won $380,000 in grants since the Retool Your Campus program’s 2009 inception. The 11 grants have been used to renovate 30 bathrooms; renovate five labs and six classrooms; refurbish and repair the athletic tennis courts; construct a student social hub including pavilions, picnic benches, lightning, and eco-friendly landscaping; improve security lighting around Luther Foster Hall; place 20 outdoor seating tables and umbrellas around campus; and build the base of and landscaping around the Tuskegee University Golden Tiger Statue.

Tuskegee’s success in winning the grants has been due to the support and innovation of Tuskegee National Alumni Association members, its local clubs and professional organizations that have galvanized votes through forming voting teams of family, church members, local Greek organizations and friends; encouraging organizational members to participate during the voting period; identifying super voters (who produce hundreds of daily votes); and hosting young alumni voting parties.