Thank you for turning knowledge into action.

THANK YOU for leading and inspiring.

Our purpose can be stated simply: Willamette exists to provide its graduates, through education in the liberal arts and professional practice, the skills and capacities they need to be active and effective participants in the common project of building stronger communities and a better world.

And while the same could be said of many higher education institutions, what sets us apart are our three commitments — to service, to action and to access. They are intrinsic to who we are and what we do, and it is what you are investing in here at Willamette.

YOU’RE HELPING WILLAMETTE EXTEND ITS REACH.

Thanks to you, Willamette can build innovative programs at the nexus of the arts, humanities, design, law, management, and computer and data science. Because of you, Willamette recently announced the creation of a new School of Computing and Information Sciences. The new school will create pathways for even more of the interdisciplinary opportunities that Willamette is known for. As we are striving to develop a technology workforce trained to think ethically and creatively, we now have groundbreaking undergraduate and graduate programs in data science and computer science that will begin to shape future careers, industries and ideas in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

As a direct result of the merger with the Pacifc Northwest College of Art (PNCA), you’ve also ensured that students on campuses in Portland and Salem have broader access to enriching courses and interdisciplinary faculty outside of their academic and artistic concentrations.

Thank you for helping Willamette advance its position as an intellectual, cultural, social and economic driver for the Northwest. You help us do what Willamette does best: connecting liberal arts education to real-world practice to ensure that our students have the multidisciplinary knowledge to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges.

YOU’RE CHANGING LIVES — AND OUR STUDENTS SAY “THANK YOU.”

Because of you, today’s Willamette students will become tomorrow’s entrepreneurs, educators, artists, authors and leaders around the world. In this report, you’ll meet a few whose lives have been changed forever by the experiences you’ve provided.

You’ll meet a data science student who is sharpening his skills and fnding community as a tutor; a frst-generation college student who hopes to take her business acumen to Hollywood; a student who is thriving at the College of Law with the help of a faculty mentor; a student who continued their Willamette education after some life challenges interrupted their studies; and an artist who had a formative learning experience abroad. There are thousands more stories like these at Willamette, all made possible by you.

Thank you for sharing your gifts with Willamette to provide access and opportunity to students who will lead the way in building a better world.